Mirage - Condi DPS
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Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Raids
Expansions required: 
Overview
A condition DPS Mirage build. This build provides very high single target damage with the ambush skill . It excels against bosses that attack a lot due to a large portion of its damage coming from 
Confusion. It is also highly survivable and can easily avoid boss attacks because it is in for most of its rotation.
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Weapon Variants
- Pistol can replace Staff for a pure axe build. This build deals similar damage and is more flexible. However, the rotation is more difficult, and necessitates a gear change and switching to the Dueling traitline (see below).
- Running a Focus instead of a Torch generates more Confusion if you're able to consistently get the to combo with an ethereal or smoke field. The phantasm will not prioritise your own fields however, so this may be ineffective if your group is dropping a lot of "bad" combo fields (such as light or water fields).
Skill Variants
- over if you need reflects.
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Specializations
Trait Variants
- provides your group with incidental
Might and 
Vigor, and yourself with some 
Stability. Use if your Vigor uptime is low, but be careful on encounters featuring boon corruption, as the Stability can be corrupted into 
Fear. - can be taken for if your
Regeneration uptime is low.
Specialization Variants
If using the axe-only build, you cannot benefit fully from or . This makes Dueling pull ahead of Chaos:
Equipment
Viper
Viper
Viper
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x6
x18
Non-SotO Relics
is generally the best core relic for condi builds, but it won't trigger on encounters where you're not taking damage from the boss. In such cases, you could consider other options:
- - depending on the boss, you might be able to trigger this a lot, and it is theoretically stronger than the recommended relic.
- - Regeneration is important thanks to , so this can help with the uptime somewhat.
Axe Variant
If running Axe with Illusions, you'll need to make up for the lack of expertise from :
- Swap both and to a
- It would be optimal to use 18 Malign infusions and with this setup
- Alternatively, swap both and to a
- It would be optimal to use 18 Malign infusions, and with this setup
Consumables
Food
Utility
- or
Usage
A big part of this rotation is maximising the uptime of Chaos Armor for . This can be applied with , , or by leaping in an ethereal field:
- Ethereal Fields: , and the Lesser Chaos Storm triggered by (via )
- Leap Finishers: and
Rotation
Throughout the rotation, you should use . It's worth using for the damage alone, but the real value is that thanks to , it will generate an extra clone (provided you already have at least one). This can also be used as a source of .
Whenever Shatter is listed, use whichever is available with the following priority:
Opener
Begin on Staff
- , and during the cast
Dodge
Weapon Swap- - make sure not to use it too early and cancel the clone from Lingering Thoughts
- and Dodge during the cast
- and during Lingering Thoughts - always use Cry of Frustration first and you can skip Diversion if you find it easier as it is a very small DPS increase
- and Dodge during the cast
- during Lingering Thoughts
- onto the Mirage Mirror from Crystal Sands
- ⇒
- Dodge
- Weapon Swap
Staff
- and Dodge during the cast
- and during the cast
- Autoattack in place and let the Mirage Mirror from False Oasis trigger another dodge
- Autoattack, and Dodge ⇒ when you have enough endurance (make sure to leave at least two autos in between ambushes to allow your clones time to finish)
- Shatter before the clones from Phantasmal Warlock appear
- Autoattack until Phantasmal Warlock is nearly ready - if you have enough endurance you can Dodge ⇒ as well
- Shatter
- Weapon Swap
Axe
- and Dodge during the cast
- and Shatter during the cast
- ⇒ ⇒
- and Dodge during the cast
- and Shatter during the cast
- and move into the Mirage Mirror from Crystal Sands
- and Dodge during the cast
- and Shatter during the cast
- once the clone from Lingering Thoughts appears
- Weapon Swap
- Return to the start of the Staff section
Dune Cloak Rotation
Throughout the rotation, you should use . It's worth using for the damage alone, but the real value is that thanks to , it will generate an extra clone (provided you already have at least one). This allows you to reliably trigger , and can also be used as a source of .
Opener
Begin on Staff
- , and during the cast
- back into position
- Dodge
- Weapon Swap
Axe
- Shatter - assuming you have three clones, this will grant
Mirage Cloak - after the clone from Lingering Thoughts appears, or if Jaunt is not available
- and Dodge during the cast
- Shatter
- - make sure this skill finishes as it's easy to interrupt
- and move into the Mirage Mirror created by Crystal Sands
- and Dodge during the cast
- Shatter
- - make sure you have at least one clone
- and Dodge during the cast
- Shatter
- Weapon Swap
Staff
- , and during the cast
- Dodge as you run back into position
- Autoattack, and use to generate an extra clone before the clones from Phantasmal Warlock appear - skip if Jaunt isn't available in time
- Shatter - skip if Jaunt wasn't used in the previous step
- Weapon Swap
- Return to start of Axe section
Axe Rotation
Opener
- Dodge and use and
- Weapon Swap
- and
- as soon as the clone from Lingering Thoughts appears
- Dodge and use
- and during Lingering Thoughts - always use Cry of Frustration first and you can skip Distortion if you want as it is a very small DPS increase
- and Dodge
- Dodge and use
- and
- Dodge and use
- Weapon Swap
Rest of the Rotation
After the opener above you want to be dodging as often as you can to trigger . Try to complete an auto-attack chain between each cast of to ensure that all your clones have time to cast it as well as they probably won't have 
Quickness.
- Try to cast off cooldown, and immediately recover three clones. The best way to do this is to shatter during the cast of and immediately follow up with or .
- It is worth slightly delaying skills that generate clones in order to guarantee you can get back to three as soon as possible.
- If is on cooldown, you can instead use provided you can get back three clones immediately.
- Use off cooldown, but make sure you have three clones
- Use , and off cooldown.
- Use off cooldown and be sure to press autoattack immediately to remove your stealth and continue attacking.
- Use off cooldown. Be mindful of your where you place the , as you will want to be able to access them later. The spawns in the center of the skill's AoE marker.
- Keep a charge or two of for mobility or in case you run out of clones for some reason.
General Tips
- Dodge as much as possible while leaving yourself endurance to evade attacks. Be sure to only weapon swap when below 50% endurance so as not to waste any of the endurance gained from .
- Make sure to never break your auto-attack chain that includes: , and .
- Entering Mirage cloak and casting will not interrupt your auto-attack chain
- All your skills other than and shatters will interrupt your auto-attack chain.
- can be cast during other skills' channels.
- Make sure to never use during and as this will create new clones due to the and will cancel the clones attack.
- Make sure to never
Weapon swap during the animation of as this will cancel the Ambush attack.
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