The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage and Support
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds
Difficulty: Hard
This build was last updated on August 23, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A condition DPS Mirage build that also provides permanent 
敏捷 and a bit of 
威能 and 
激怒 by spamming ambush skills and shatters.
It excels against bosses that attack a lot due to a large portion of its damage coming from 
困惑. It is also highly survivable and can easily avoid boss attacks because it is in 
幻象斗篷 for most of its rotation. Also incidentally small amounts of 
圣盾, 
决心 and 
迅捷 to party members through 
混乱风暴.
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
- You can run Staff in both sets for a greatly simplified rotation, but at a significant DPS loss.
- Running a Focus instead of a Torch generates more 困惑 if you're able to consistently get the
幻影守望 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
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Trait Variants
- If you desperately need more 威能 and 激怒, you can switch to
无限视界, which should allow you to cap both boons, though with a different rotation and significant DPS loss.
Equipment
- No boon duration is required to maintain 敏捷.
Non-SotO Relics
荆棘古物 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:
幻象术士古物 - depending on the boss, you might be able to trigger this a lot, and it is theoretically stronger than the recommended relic.
耐久古物 - 
再生 is very important thanks to 
幻象防护 and 
混沌执念, so this can help with the uptime somewhat.
Consumables
Food
Utility
Usage
A big part of this rotation is maximising the uptime of Chaos Armor for 幻象防护. This can be applied with 
混乱护甲, 
挫败之吼, or by leaping in an ethereal field:
- Ethereal Fields: 混乱风暴, and the Lesser Chaos Storm triggered by
伪装绿洲 (via 
疯狂法则) - Leap Finishers:
对称利斧 and 
远行
Rotation
Throughout the rotation, you should use 远行. It's worth using for the damage alone, but the real value is that thanks to 
自欺欺人, it will generate an extra clone (provided you already have at least one). This allows you to reliably trigger 
沙丘遮隐, and can also be used as a source of 混乱护甲.
Whenever Shatter is listed, use whichever is available with the following priority:
Opener Begin on Staff
幻影术士, and 
相位撤退 during the cast-
混乱护甲
-
混乱风暴
- 远行 back into position
- Dodge Dodge
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
Axe
-
虚拟利斧
-
萦绕思绪
- Shatter - assuming you have three clones, this will grant Mirage Cloak Mirage Cloak
- 远行 after the clone from Lingering Thoughts appears
-
虚拟利斧
-
虚幻魔术
幻影法师 and Dodge Dodge during the cast-
虚拟利斧
-
萦绕思绪
- Shatter
-
虚拟利斧
水晶沙尘 - make sure this skill finishes as it's easy to interrupt
幻光纹章 and move into the Mirage Mirror created by Crystal Sands-
虚拟利斧
- 幻影法师 and Dodge Dodge during the cast
-
虚拟利斧
-
萦绕思绪
- Shatter
-
虚拟利斧
- 对称利斧 and Dodge Dodge during the cast
-
虚拟利斧
-
萦绕思绪
- Shatter
-
虚拟利斧
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
Staff
- 幻影术士, and 相位撤退 during the cast
- Dodge Dodge as you run back into position
-
混沌漩涡
- Autoattack until you have two clones
- Shatter
-
混沌漩涡
- Autoattack until you have two clones
- Shatter
-
混沌漩涡
- 混乱风暴 just before Phase Retreat is ready
-
相位撤退
-
幻影术士
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
- Return to start of Axe section
Infinite Horizon Rotations
Click to view
Opener
-
幻影术士
-
相位撤退
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远行
-
伪装绿洲
-
水晶沙尘
- Dodge and cast 混沌漩涡
-
混乱风暴
- 挫败之吼 just before your Phantasms transform into clones (approximately 4 seconds after your cast 幻影术士)
- 远行 to regain your third clone
Rest of the Rotation
After the opener above you want to be dodging as often as you can to trigger 混沌漩涡.
- Try to cast 挫败之吼 off cooldown, and immediately recover three clones.
- Use 混乱风暴 off cooldown.
- Use 混乱护甲 off cooldown.
- Use 水晶沙尘 off cooldown.
- Keep a charge or two of 远行 for mobility or in case you run out of clones for some reason.
Video example (Riddle of Sand)
General Tips
- Make sure to collect the
幻象之镜s from 伪装绿洲 and 水晶沙尘 for extra casts of 混沌漩涡. - 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
超级能量法印. - 远行 and 混乱护甲 can be cast during other skills' channels.
- If using 空槽, make sure to never use 远行 during ambushes as this will create new clones due to 自欺欺人 and will cancel the clone attacks.
- 伪装绿洲 and 挫败之吼 have the same cooldown, so you may find it easy to always use 伪装绿洲 after shattering for clone recovery.
- 幻影术士 is a DPS loss if used regularly in your rotation, so is only used for the clones it generates.