The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Raids
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. This build provides very high single target damage with the ambush skill 
虚拟利斧. 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.
Skill Bar
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 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
- provides your group with incidental
威能 and 
活力, and yourself with some 
稳固. Use if your 活力 uptime is low, but be careful on encounters featuring boon corruption, as the 稳固 can be corrupted into 
恐惧. 
复元绿洲 can be taken for if your 
再生 uptime is low.
Specialization Variants
If using the axe-only build, you cannot benefit fully from 
幻象防护 or 
混乱强化. This makes Dueling pull ahead of Chaos:
Equipment
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 important thanks to 
混沌执念, 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 混沌执念:
- Swap both
超级大地法印 and 
超级折磨法印 to a 
超级恶魔法印
- It would be optimal to use 18 Malign infusions and
剧毒调谐水晶 with this setup
- It would be optimal to use 18 Malign infusions and
- Alternatively, swap both 超级大地法印 and 超级折磨法印 to a
超级恶毒法印
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 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
- Dodge Dodge
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
-
虚拟利斧
-
萦绕思绪
- 远行 - make sure not to use it too early and cancel the clone from Lingering Thoughts
幻影法师 and Dodge Dodge during the cast-
虚拟利斧
-
萦绕思绪
- 挫败之吼 and
误导 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 -
幻光纹章
-
远行
-
虚幻魔术
- 幻影法师 and Dodge Dodge during the cast
-
虚拟利斧
-
萦绕思绪
心灵粉碎 during Lingering Thoughts-
水晶沙尘
-
对称利斧
- 远行 onto the Mirage Mirror from Crystal Sands
-
虚拟利斧
撕裂切割 ⇒ 
以太切割- Dodge Dodge
-
虚拟利斧
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
Staff
- 幻影术士 and Dodge Dodge during the cast
混沌漩涡 and 混乱护甲 during the cast- Autoattack in place and let the Mirage Mirror from False Oasis trigger another dodge
-
混沌漩涡
- Autoattack, and Dodge Dodge ⇒ 混沌漩涡 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
-
相位撤退
- Autoattack until Phantasmal Warlock is nearly ready - if you have enough endurance you can Dodge Dodge ⇒ 混沌漩涡 as well
-
混乱风暴
- Shatter
-
幻影术士
-
相位撤退
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
Axe
-
萦绕思绪
-
虚幻魔术
- 对称利斧 and Dodge Dodge during the cast
-
虚拟利斧
- 萦绕思绪 and Shatter during the cast
- 撕裂切割 ⇒ 以太切割 ⇒
镜像打击 - 幻影法师 and Dodge Dodge during the cast
-
虚拟利斧
- 萦绕思绪 and Shatter during the cast
-
水晶沙尘
- 幻光纹章 and move into the Mirage Mirror from Crystal Sands
-
虚拟利斧
- 幻影法师 and Dodge Dodge during the cast
-
虚拟利斧
- 萦绕思绪 and Shatter during the cast
- 远行 once the clone from Lingering Thoughts appears
-
对称利斧
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
- Return to the start of the Staff section
Dune Cloak Rotation
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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.
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, or 对称利斧 if Jaunt is not available
-
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
- 远行 - make sure you have at least one clone
- 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, and use 远行 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
-
混沌漩涡
-
相位撤退
-
混乱风暴
-
幻影术士
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
- Return to start of Axe section
Axe Rotation
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Opener
-
虚幻魔术
-
幻影法师
- Dodge and use 虚拟利斧 and 心灵粉碎
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
魔法子弹 and 误导-
幻影斗士
-
萦绕思绪
- 远行 as soon as the clone from Lingering Thoughts appears
- Dodge Dodge and use 虚拟利斧
-
萦绕思绪
- 挫败之吼 and
失真 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 - 水晶沙尘 and Dodge Dodge
-
幻光纹章
-
虚拟利斧
-
幻影斗士
-
对称利斧
- Dodge Dodge and use 虚拟利斧
- 萦绕思绪 and 心灵粉碎
-
远行
- Dodge Dodge and use 虚拟利斧
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
Rest of the Rotation
After the opener above you want to be dodging as often as you can to trigger 虚拟利斧. Try to complete an auto-attack chain between each cast of 虚拟利斧 to ensure that all your clones have time to cast it as well as they probably won't have 
急速.
- Try to cast 挫败之吼 off cooldown, and immediately recover three clones. The best way to do this is to shatter during the cast of 萦绕思绪 and immediately follow up with 水晶沙尘 or 远行.
- It is worth slightly delaying skills that generate clones in order to guarantee you can get back to three as soon as possible.
- If 挫败之吼 is on cooldown, you can instead use 心灵粉碎 provided you can get back three clones immediately.
- Use 对称利斧 off cooldown, but make sure you have three clones
- Use 幻影斗士, 幻影法师 and 魔法子弹 off cooldown.
- Use 虚幻魔术 off cooldown and be sure to press autoattack immediately to remove your stealth and continue attacking.
- Use 水晶沙尘 off cooldown. Be mindful of your where you place the
幻象之镜, as you will want to be able to access them later. The 幻象之镜 spawns in the center of the skill's AoE marker. - Keep a charge or two of 远行 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
超级能量法印. - Make sure to never break your auto-attack chain that includes: 撕裂切割, 以太切割 and 镜像打击.
- 远行 can be cast during other skills' channels.
- Make sure to never Weapon swap Weapon swap during the animation of 虚拟利斧 as this will cancel the Ambush attack.