Mirage - Tag Mirage

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Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World and [[|]]

Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds

Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on August 20, 2023 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.

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 Split Surge and brings mesmer's strong utility skills such as Blink and Portal Entre.

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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Skill Bar

Greatsword
Axe/Pistol
Utility

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 Rune of Superior Rune of Speed as listed in the variants below, always take Signet of Inspiration, as you cannot guarantee Swiftness Swiftness uptime otherwise.
  • Feedback - reflects and extra tagging; this is absolutely essential in The Mad King's Labyrinth for dealing with The Viscount.
  • Blink - mobility tool and stunbreak
  • Mantra of Pain - extra tagging
  • Portal Entre - extremely powerful tool used for zerg-wide mobility
  • Mass Invisibility - powerful mass-target invisibility, useful in some zergs.
  • Time Warp - 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.

Head
Viper
Shoulders
Viper
Chest
Viper
Hands
Viper
Legs
Viper
Feet
Viper
Backpiece
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Amulet
Viper
Ring
Viper
Ring
Viper
Greatsword
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Axe
Viper
Pistol
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


  • Rune of Superior Rune of the Trapper - Five of these combined with one Black Diamond can easily replace Rune of Superior Rune of the Nightmare

Berserker / Power Variant

Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Hands
Berserker
Legs
Berserker
Feet
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Greatsword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Axe
Berserker
Sword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


  • Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism provides significant sustain at the cost of damage.

Other Equipment Options

  • Rune of Superior Rune of Speed when combined with Signet of Inspiration provides very high movement speed at the cost of DPS
  • Rabid Rabid or Celestial Celestial trinkets provide extra defense for the condition variant
  • Knight 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:

  1. Flat % Experience, like we see on Ascended Food
  2. % Karma Gain
  3. % Magic Find
  4. Experience from kills
  5. % 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 Spatial Surge / Split Surge on enemies. Use the Tab key to change targets to different groups. Use other Greatsword skills off cooldown. Use Mantra of Pain to tag missed enemies.

Against bosses or when alone, use Axe + Pistol by summoning Phantasmal Duelist, dodging, and using auto-attacks. For a full breakdown of how to use Axe/Pistol or Staff, see Build:Mirage_-_Condi_Mirage or Build:Mirage_-_Axe_Mirage.

Crowd Control

  • Diversion
  • Illusionary Wave
  • Illusionary Riposte
  • Signet of Humility if running it
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Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 5 votes.
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5 stars
Jaragosh gave this build 5 stars • September 2023
One of the best if not THE BEST open world build. For all kind of content and situations. You can use as mentioned S/S or S/Fo for solo and event content as well as doing good damage. It is also a LOT of fun and makes me want to do open world content more then ever
5 stars
Gothic90 gave this build 5 stars • February 2021
This build is listed as a pure tagging/farming build, but the main version (GS+Sw/Fo or Sw/Sw) is good enough to be a roaming build and/or event build as well even though the damage may seem low at first glance. Blink and Sw ambush skill mean high mobility and are useful in many personal story achievement runs where you want to avoid things, and GS means high range. Split surge generates might for every target hit, and if you are facing only one enemy, use mirror blade. Meaning this build has excellent might generation in solo play. Also, Mirage can press dodge when harvesting a node to avoid getting into combat if that node is guarded by monsters.
5 stars
Luvina gave this build 5 stars • August 2020
Extremely fast and great at tagging, no projectile delay thankfully. Also super fun to watch your purple lasers hitting nearly everything. Great survivability, so far my favourite class to OW with. Focus can help pull mobs, but if u're in a super fast zerg, I personally prefer sword/sword offhand for more dps on the tougher mobs.
5 stars
Onlywrin gave this build 5 stars • October 2019
S-Tier Open World Tag build. Used for the right circumstances (Lab, LS4 farming, Etc) it can be one of the most effective builds in the game. Its also insanely easy to play and has a ton of utility via Portals and Reflects. I normally don't vote on builds; I've made an exception in this case.
5 stars
Chinkeeyong gave this build 5 stars • September 2018
Turns out Infinite Horizon doesn't just multiply your clone damage, it also multiplies your loot.

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