The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds
Difficulty: Easy
Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.
This build was last updated on September 26, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
Staff-staff mirage is a very simple yet effective build that revolves around spamming the Ambush 
混沌漩涡 to both deal damage and generate boons. The build provides permanent 25 
威能, 
激怒 and 
敏捷 to yourself and nearby allies, while dealing good 
折磨, 
流血, and 
困惑 damage.
While the build has a very prominent lack of burst damage, staff-staff mirage is very simple to play, capable of soloing champions and bosses with ease thanks to its evasiveness, clones tanking for you, and its mobility.
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Weapon Variants
In order to play staff-staff mirage you must equip one staff in your first weapon set, and a second staff on your second weapon set. Both staves must have a 
超级能量法印.
- Axe Axe+Pistol Pistol can replace one staff, this build is called staxe mirage (staff+axe). It sacrifices boon generation and ranged damage in exchange for better burst. When playing in groups providing boons, staxe will outperform staff-staff. But staff-staff is better for solo content.
Skill Variants
Heal skill
We default to 
伪装绿洲 as it provides an extra dodge for more damage.
Utility skills
We default to:
午夜纹章 and 
支配纹章 provide the highest sustained damage through their passive, so only use their active skill in emergencies. They can be replaced at a damage loss.
水晶沙尘 provides damage and more Ambushes. Can be replaced if the need arises.
If you want or need to run other skills, here are some suggestions:
沙铸玻璃 - evade, stunbreak, and Mirage Cloak. Removes 
定身 which prevents you from dodging.
坚定咒语 - if conditions are a problem.
斥力穹窿 - to reflect projectiles.
镜像复制 - situationally powerful.
传送入口 - can be useful, especially when playing in groups.
闪光传送 - stunbreak and movement.
Elite skill
We default to 
远行, it deals good damage, can teleport you out of danger, cleanses 1 condition, and is a leap finisher (See also:Guide:What are Combo Fields). If required, it can be replaced by:
谦逊纹章 - sacrifices damage for the ability to delete a defiance bar.
群体隐形 - very situational to run past enemies or commune with Hero Points in stealth, use together with 
万华领悟 for longer stealth, but change the trait afterwards.
Specializations
Variants
- On fights against boses, you will not be constantly changing target so you require less clone generation and
欺诈闪避 is wasted. In these scenarios you can instead use 
目盲幻碎 + 
障目强光 for more damage through 困惑. 
幻象壁垒 - trades a small amount of damage and Chaos aura uptime for 
保护.
决斗戒律 - when playing staxe
幻影痛苦 - when playing in groups and someone else is already providing 敏捷.
A setup with 
河流古物 can also be considered. If using this relic, adjust your mirage traits and pick 
沙漠谜题 and 幻影痛苦. This is a small damage increase when soloing, but when playing in groups you should play the default build.
Equipment
This build uses the same gear as Mirage - Alacrity Support Condi DPS. Infusions are not mandatory.
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Viper's Abomination" weapons. Viper exotic armor is very expensive, so we recommend a budget alternative called Carrion (search the trading post for "Ogden" armor) until you can get Viper gear such as by farming Bladed armor or by acquiring ascended armor. Upgrade to Viper and ascended as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.
超级陷阱师符文 can only be crafted. If you can't acquire them right away, you can use 
超级苦痛符文 while you work on acquiring the much better Trapper runes.- Note that you require 0% boon duration from your gear to provide permament 敏捷 from
幻象披风. This is because 
复元绿洲 provides permanent 
再生 to enable 
混沌执念 and gain 250 concentration (16.66% boon duration), which is all you need. - A setup with 河流古物 can also be considered. If using this relic, adjust your mirage traits and pick 沙漠谜题 and 幻影痛苦. This is a small damage increase when soloing, but when playing in groups you should use the default build.
- If you require extra defense, a few pieces of Trailblazer Trailblazer can be used.
Consumables
Food
If you or another player shares an ascended feast, eat the Flatbread food. For normal open world you can use cheap basic food:
Utility
There's no budget utility items. If you need them, use:
Farming
Usage
Mirage Cloak
幻象斗篷 is the profession mechanic of the mirage. Whenever you dodge or pick up a 幻象之镜, you enter Mirage Cloak for 0,75 seconds, dodging incoming attacks. You also gain access to Ambush skills for 1,5 seconds, which replace your first weapon skill. Mirage Cloak does not have a cast time, allowing mirages to dodge at any time, such as when casting a skill, when reviving someone, but cannot be used while under the effects of hard crowd control or immobilization.
Clone generation
Clones are essential to playing condition mirage. Try to always have 3 clones attacking. These are your sources of clones:
- Phantasms become clones after attacking, so
幻影术士 will summon 2 clones. 
相位撤退 summons 1 clone, but be mindful of the forced teleport, don't teleport into enemy AoEs.- Dodging while in combat will summon 1 clone at your location that attacks the nearest target due to 欺诈闪避, and it will immediately use its Ambush skill due to
无限视界. - Since your clones are very important in this build, you can time your dodges to make your clones dodge dangerous attacks thanks to 无限视界. This trait also stunbreaks your clones when you dodge.
- For staxe,
幻影斗士 and 
萦绕思绪 summon 1 clone.
Damage
The vast majority of your damage comes from auto attacking and casting 混沌漩涡 with 3 clones up, thanks to 无限视界. Try to always have 3 clones attacking.
- You should allow yourself and your clones to use one
混乱之风 inbetween each 混沌漩涡, as it does more damage than spamming Chaos Vortex. 无限视界 forces the clone to cast the Ambush, interrumpting whatever they might be doing, so the player casting one auto attack after each Ambush also prevents the clone's Ambush from getting interrupted by casting another Ambush. - Since clones are so important for your damage, this build only uses
挫败之吼 when you can immediately generate 3 clones again. If your target is about to die, you can finish them off with 
心灵粉碎. - Use
混乱护甲, 水晶沙尘 and 伪装绿洲 off cooldown. - Weapon swap any time you're under 50% endurance to restore endurance thanks to 超级能量法印. If you are at full endurance, dodge before weapon swapping. This can be done even with autoattack on, but you have to be fast to not interrupt your character automatically using Chaos Vortex.
- Gaining
混沌光环 increases your damage for 5 seconds, stacking up to 15 seconds, thanks to 
幻象防护. You can gain Chaos Aura by using 混乱护甲 and from combo finishers (such as 相位撤退 and 远行) inside ethereal combo fields (such as 
混乱风暴 or Lesser Chaos Storm from 
疯狂法则). (see also: Guide:What are Combo Fields)
Boons
- This build provides permanent 25 威能, 激怒 and 敏捷 to yourself and nearby allies through 混沌漩涡 improved by 幻象披风.
- The duration of Might and Fury scales with the number of clones that use this skill (which is only possible thanks to 无限视界), so try to maintain 3 clones up.
- The duration of Might and Fury scales with the number of clones that use this skill (which is only possible thanks to
- 混乱之风 will also provide 威能 and 激怒 to allies it bounces to.
剑术大师 also helps with fury. And the increased critical chance enables 
锐利幻象. - 复元绿洲 provides permanent self 再生. This enables 混沌执念.
Priority
Defense
- You can use your dodge 幻象斗篷 at any time, even during other actions, but not while under the effects of hard crowd control.
- Use 远行 to reposition and cleanse 1 condition.
- Abuse your 超级能量法印 for frequent dodges. You dodge so often that you'll dodge some attacks without even trying.
失真 sacrifices your clones for invulnerability.- 混乱护甲 blinds trash mobs.
- Against enemies with projectiles, hide behind your clones.
- Thanks to , your Shatters provide
稳固. However, do not rely on this as this build wants to have high clone uptime. - 相位撤退 - to reposition or gain distance
- 沙铸玻璃 can provide a strong stunbreak.
Crowd Control
- 混乱风暴 - 1 second
晕眩 
误导 - 1 second 晕眩 from you AND each clone shattered, so up to 4 seconds of Daze.- 支配纹章 - 3 seconds of
昏迷 (as a last resort) 
魔法子弹 - 2.5 seconds of 昏迷 (staxe only)- 谦逊纹章 - (variant option)