Build:Mirage - Condi Mirage

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on February 04, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condi Staff-Staff Mirage is a very simple yet effective build that revolves around spamming Chaos Vortex to both deal damage and generate boons. The build provides permanent 25 Might, Fury and Alacrity to yourself and nearby allies, while dealing good Torment, Bleeding, and Confusion damage.

While the build has a very prominent lack of burst damage, staff-staff mirage is very simple to play, capable of soloing champions and bosses with ease thanks to its evasiveness, clones tanking for you, and its mobility.

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Skill Bar

Staff

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

This particular build requires two staves to function.

Tagging

If instead of focusing on doing damage and generating boons you need to focus on tagging (quickly attacking enemies to earn kill credit) you can consider swapping one staff for a Greatsword with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Fire and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Stamina. This provides low damage but great tagging potential by spamming Split Surge, but you will need gear with significant Power and Crit, such as Viper or Celestial, to ensure tag credit. Gear such as Trailblazer will not work for this purpose.

Skill Variants

Utility skills

Signet of Midnight and Signet of Domination provide the highest sustained damage through their passive, so you only use them in emergencies. If damage is not a concern, you could sometimes use different utility skills.

• Sand Through Glass - evade, stunbreak, and Mirage Mirror.
• Mantra of Resolve - if conditions are a problem.
• Feedback - to reflect projectiles.
• Mimic - situationally powerful.
• Portal Entre - can be useful, especially when zerging.
• Blink - stunbreak and movement.
• Arcane Thievery - steals boons, sends conditions, gives Quickness, and does some CC through Slow.

Elite skill

• Mass Invisibility - to run past enemies or commune with Hero Points in stealth, use together with Prismatic Understanding for longer stealth, but change the trait afterwards.

Specializations

• Mirage Mantle is essential to generate Alacrity.
• On fights against boses where your clones can stay alive just fine so Deceptive Evasion is wasted, you can instead use Blinding Dissipation + Ineptitude for more Confusion.
• You have great synergy on you traitlines.
  • Critical Infusion provides Vigor for more Chaos Vortex and more condition damage thanks to Nomad's Endurance.
  • Master Fencer + Phantasmal Fury + Sharper Images provide even more Bleeding damage.
  • Deceptive Evasion removes the need for Self-Deception, allowing use of Renewing Oasis which provides superb synergy with Chaotic Persistence.

Equipment

This set uses the same gear as Mirage - Alacrity Support Condi DPS, making it a good option for general PVE. Infusions are not mandatory.

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Staff
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• Note that you require 0% boon duration from your gear to provide permament Alacrity, even with 0 clones. This is because Renewing Oasis provides permanent Regeneration to enable Chaotic Persistence and gain 250 concentration (16.66% boon duration), which is all you need.
• If you don't have access to expansion relics, you will have to resort to using Relic of the Mirage.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• - DPS
• - can be considered while learning the class but, when played optimally, you simply will not be able to spend all of this extra endurance.
• /

Farming

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• /
• (and variants)

Usage

Mirage Cloak

Mirage Cloak is the profession mechanic of the mirage. Whenever you dodge or pick up a Mirage Mirror, you enter Mirage Cloak for 0,75 seconds, dodging incoming attacks. You also gain access to Ambush skills for 1,5 seconds, which replace your first weapon skill. Mirage Cloak does not have a cast time, allowing mirages to dodge at any time, such as when casting a skill, when reviving someone, but cannot be used while under the effects of hard crowd control.

Clone generation

• Phantasms become clones after attacking, so Phantasmal Warlock will summon 2 clones.
• Phase Retreat summons 1 clone, but be mindful of the forced teleport, don't teleport into enemy AoEs.
• Dodging while in combat will summon 1 clone at your location that attacks the nearest target due to Deceptive Evasion, and it will immediately use Chaos Vortex due to Infinite Horizon.
• Since your clones are very important in this build, you can time your dodges to make your clones dodge dangerous attacks thanks to Infinite Horizon. This trait also stunbreaks your clones when you dodge.

Boons

• This build provides permanent 25 Might and Alacrity to yourself and nearby allies through Chaos Vortex. The duration of these boons scales with the number of clones that use this skill (which is only possible thanks to Infinite Horizon), so try to maintain 3 clones up.
• Winds of Chaos will also provide Might and Fury to allies it bounces to. Master Fencer also helps with fury. And the increased critical chance enables Sharper Images.
• Renewing Oasis provides permanent self Regeneration.

Damage

• The vast majority of your damage comes from auto attacking and casting Chaos Vortex with 3 clones up, thanks to Infinite Horizon.
• You should allow yourself and your clones to use one Winds of Chaos inbetween each Chaos Vortex, as it does more damage than spamming Chaos Vortex.
• You should always have 3 clones up. Check the clone generation section above.
• Since clones are so important for your damage, this build only uses Cry of Frustration when you can immediately generate 3 clones again.
• If your target is about to die, you can finish them off with Mind Wrack.
• Weapon swap any time you're under 50% endurance.
• Use Chaos Armor off cooldown in melee range.

Opener

Against bosses and other durable enemies, try to start the fight with this opener.

1. Jaunt
2. Chaos Armor
3. Phase Retreat
4. Dodge ⇒ weapon swap ⇒ Chaos Vortex
5. Crystal Sands but don't consume the mirror yet.
6. Phantasmal Warlock
7. Dodge ⇒ Chaos Vortex
8. Winds of Chaos give your clones time to use it before you shatter them.
9. Cry of Frustration with 3 clones
10. Dodge ⇒ Chaos Vortex with 3 clones
11. Winds of Chaos
12. Consume the Mirage Mirror from Crystal Sands ⇒ Chaos Vortex
13. Winds of Chaos
14. Dodge ⇒ weapon swap ⇒ Chaos Vortex

• By dodging before weapon swapping, you ensure that you never waste any endurance from Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy. This can be done even with autoattack on, but you have to be fast to not interrupt your character automatically using Chaos Vortex.
• Note that this opener only works when you use the trait Deceptive Evasion.
• At step 9 of the opener you shatter 3 clones. But at step 10 you have 3 again: 2 from Phantasmal Warlock and a third from Deceptive Evasion.

Defense

• You can use your dodge Mirage Cloak at any time, even during other actions, but not while under the effects of hard crowd control.
• Use Jaunt to reposition and cleanse 1 condition.
• Abuse your Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy for frequent dodges.
• Sand Through Glass can provide a strong stunbreak.
• You dodge very often, so you'll dodge some attacks without even trying.
• Chaos Armor blinds trash mobs.
• Against enemies with projectiles, hide behind your clones.
• Thanks to Bountiful Disillusionment, your Shatters provide stability. However, do not rely on this as this build wants to have high clone uptime.

Crowd Control

• Chaos Storm - 1 second Daze
• Diversion - 1 second Daze from you AND each clone shattered, so up to 4 seconds of Daze.
• Signet of Domination - 3 seconds of Stun (as a last resort)

Video Examples

Check the description of each video for more details. Note that these videos were recorded in a previous patch, you now generate permanent alacrity and the gear is different, use the updated gear from this written guide.

• Pile of Guanno HP (Vampire Broodmother in Verdant Brink)
• Itzel Belongings HP (Frogs in Verdant Brink)
• Champion Avatar of Balthazar (in Auric Basin)
• Egg Clutch HP (Champion Chak Lobber in Auric Basin)
• Newborn Mushrooms (Champion Mushroom Queen in Rata Novus, Tangled Dephts)