Mirage - Tag Mirage
Overview
GS Mirage is an exceedingly popular and effective farming build for open world meta event zergs. It features some of the best tagging potential in the game thanks to
and brings mesmer's strong utility skills such as and .This build features two variants, Viper Condition and Berserker Power. The Condition variant features much higher boss damage thanks to its ability to swap to a strong damage set while the power variant can be geared very cheaply but does much, much lower damage to bosses. Both sets use gear that is easily transferable to existing mesmer builds for efficiency's sake, but farm-optimized options are also listed.
It is strongly recommended to use the Viper variant of this build.
Template Code
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Weapon Variants
- Staff can be used in place of Axe/Pistol for the Viper variant.
Skill Variants
- If using the Power variant below, use any utility skills you like.
- If using Swiftness uptime otherwise. as listed in the variants below, always take , as you cannot guarantee
- - reflects and extra tagging; this is absolutely essential in The Mad King's Labyrinth for dealing with The Viscount.
- - mobility tool and stunbreak
- - extra tagging
- - extremely powerful tool used for zerg-wide mobility
- - powerful mass-target invisibility, useful in some zergs.
- - squad support on bosses
Specializations
Condition Variant
Power Variant
- Build Code
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Equipment
Viper / Condition Variant
Use this gear with the primary condition variant. It uses gear similar to existing mirage builds, making it a very flexible set in PVE.
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- - Five of these combined with one Black Diamond can easily replace
Berserker / Power Variant
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- provides significant sustain at the cost of damage.
Other Equipment Options
- when combined with provides very high movement speed at the cost of DPS
- Rabid or Celestial trinkets provide extra defense for the condition variant
- Knight trinkets provide extra defense for the power variant
Consumables
Farming
- Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
- /
- (and variants)
Other options, such as Birthday Cake, Campfire Treats, Spicy Pumpkin Cookie, or other similar food is fine to use. The general goal is to prioritize the following:
- Flat % Experience, like we see on Ascended Food
- % Karma Gain
- % Magic Find
- Experience from kills
- % Gold find
This assumes you are converting Karma and Spirit Shards to gold correctly. If you are not converting Karma or Spirit Shards, prioritize Magic Find.
Usage
This build is extremely easy to play. Dodge and spam
/ on enemies. Use the Tab key to change targets to different groups. Use other Greatsword skills off cooldown. Use to tag missed enemies.Against bosses or when alone, use Axe + Pistol by summoning Build:Mirage_-_Condi_Mirage or Build:Mirage_-_Axe_Mirage.
, dodging, and using auto-attacks. For a full breakdown of how to use Axe/Pistol or Staff, seeCrowd Control
- if running it
Ratings
Comments
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