Mirage - Condi DPS

Weapon Variants

• 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

• 斥力穹窿 over 支配纹章 if you need reflects.

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.

Trait Variants

• 富饶幻灭 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.

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.

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:

1. 挫败之吼
2. 心灵粉碎
3. 误导
4. 失真

Opener Begin on Staff

1. 幻影术士, and 相位撤退 during the cast
2. 混乱护甲
3. 混乱风暴
4. Dodge
5. Weapon Swap
6. 虚拟利斧
7. 萦绕思绪
8. 远行 - make sure not to use it too early and cancel the clone from Lingering Thoughts
9. 幻影法师 and Dodge during the cast
10. 虚拟利斧
11. 萦绕思绪
12. 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
13. 水晶沙尘
14. 幻光纹章 and move onto the Mirage Mirror from Crystal Sands
15. 虚拟利斧
18. and Dodge during the cast
21. during Lingering Thoughts
24. Dodge
26. Weapon Swap

Staff

Across the Staff section, you want to Dodge ⇒ two or three times as energy allows, just be sure to have three clones.

2. - use as soon as you can
3. Shatter before the clones from Phantasmal Warlock appear
5. Autoattack until Phantasmal Warlock is nearly ready
8. Shatter
10. Weapon Swap

Axe

4. and Dodge during the cast
6. and Shatter during the cast
7. ⇒ ⇒
8. and Dodge during the cast
10. and Shatter during the cast
12. and move into the Mirage Mirror from Crystal Sands
15. and Dodge during the cast
17. and Shatter during the cast
18. as soon as the clone from Lingering Thoughts appears
19. Weapon Swap
20. Return to the start of the Staff section

Dune Cloak Rotation

Axe Rotation

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.

Food

Utility

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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

1. 幻影术士, and 相位撤退 during the cast
2. 混乱护甲
3. 混乱风暴
4. 远行 back into position
5. Dodge
6. Weapon Swap

Axe

1. 虚拟利斧
2. 萦绕思绪
3. Shatter - assuming you have three clones, this will grant Mirage Cloak
4. 远行 after the clone from Lingering Thoughts appears, or 对称利斧 if Jaunt is not available
5. 虚拟利斧
6. 虚幻魔术
7. 幻影法师 and Dodge during the cast
8. 虚拟利斧
9. 萦绕思绪
10. Shatter
11. 虚拟利斧
12. 水晶沙尘 - make sure this skill finishes as it's easy to interrupt
13. 幻光纹章 and move into the Mirage Mirror created by Crystal Sands
14. 虚拟利斧
15. 幻影法师 and Dodge during the cast
16. 虚拟利斧
17. 萦绕思绪
18. Shatter
19. 虚拟利斧
20. - make sure you have at least one clone
21. and Dodge during the cast
24. Shatter
26. Weapon Swap

Staff

1. , and during the cast
2. Dodge as you run back into position
4. Autoattack, and use to generate an extra clone before the clones from Phantasmal Warlock appear - skip if Jaunt isn't available in time
5. Shatter - skip if Jaunt wasn't used in the previous step
10. Weapon Swap
11. Return to start of Axe section