Mirage - Condi Mirage

Food

If you or another player shares an ascended feast, eat the Flatbread food. For normal open world, you can use cheap basic food:

• 锦鲤蛋糕

Utility

There're no budget utility items. If you need them, use:

• 大师调谐水晶 / 协调冰柱

Farming

• 薄荷怪异莓棒 + 锐磨颅骨 (and variants)

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.

Variants

• 幻灭伤残 - more damage on longer fights.
• 漫游心智 - substantial damage loss, but usefeful when fighting enemies that inflict lots of conditions and 远行 isn't enough to cleanse them.
• 自欺欺人 - can be considered for higher clone generation.
• 幻影痛苦 - when playing in groups and someone else is already providing 敏捷.

A setup with 河流古物 and 幻影痛苦 can also be considered. This is a small damage increase when soloing, but when playing in groups, you should play the default build.

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 or when reviving someone, but you cannot dodge 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.
• If you need higher clone generation, use the trait 自欺欺人.
• 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 or two 混乱之风 in between 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, interrupting whatever they might be doing, so the player casting one or two auto attacks after each Ambush also prevents the clones (which are often slower than you) from interrupting themselves.
• Since clones are so important for your damage, this build only uses 挫败之吼 when you can immediately generate 3 clones again with 幻影术士 and 相位撤退. 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.

Opener

Against bosses and other durable enemies, try to follow this opening rotation

2. in melee range
4. (don't pick up the Mirage Mirror)
5. until the two Phantasmal Warlocks become clones
6. dodge +
7. Weapon Swap
8. + dodge + +
9. Pick up the Mirage Mirror from Crystal Sands (you can use to reach it faster) and use
11. dodge +
12. +

In essence, you only use when you have three clones and have just cast (Shatter before the phantasms become clones). Then, generate the third clone with .

Boons

• This build provides permanent 25 , and to yourself and nearby allies through improved by .
  • The duration of Might and Fury scales with the number of clones that use this skill (which is only possible thanks to ), so try to maintain 3 clones up.
• will also provide and to allies it bounces to. also helps with fury. And the increased critical chance enables .

Defense

• You can use your dodge at any time, even during other actions, but not while under the effects of hard crowd control or immobilization.
• Use to reposition and cleanse 1 condition. It can also be used to help reach Mirage Mirrors.
• Abuse your for frequent dodges. You dodge so often that you'll dodge some attacks without even trying.
• sacrifices your clones for invulnerability.
• blinds trash mobs.
• Against enemies with projectiles, hide behind your clones.
• - to reposition or gain distance
• can provide a strong stunbreak.

Crowd Control

• - 1 second
• - 1 second from you AND each clone shattered, so up to 4 seconds of Daze.
• - 3 seconds of (as a last resort)
• - 2.5 seconds of (staxe only)
• - (variant option)

Weapon Variants

In order to play staff-staff mirage, you must equip one staff in your first weapon set, and a second staff in your second weapon set. Both staves must have a .

• Axe+ 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 always use as it creates a Mirage Mirror and provides .

Utility skills

We default to: and provide the highest sustained damage through their passive, so only use their active skill in emergencies. They can be replaced at a damage loss. 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:

• - evade, stunbreak, and Mirage Cloak. Removes , which prevents you from dodging.
• - if conditions are a problem.
• - to reflect projectiles.
• - can be useful, especially when playing in groups.
• - stunbreak and movement.

Elite skill

We default to because it deals good damage, can teleport you out of danger, cleanses 1 condition, and is a leap finisher (See also:Guide

• - sacrifices damage for the ability to delete a defiance bar.

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

• can only be crafted. If you can't acquire them right away, you can use while you work on acquiring the much better Trapper runes.
• Note that you require 0% boon duration from your gear to provide permanent from .
• A setup with and can also be considered. This is a small damage increase when soloing, but when playing in groups, you should play the default build.
• If you require extra defense, a few pieces of Trailblazer can be used.