Mirage - Power Shatter

• Mirage - Shatter Mirage - WvW roaming version of the build.

Skill Variants

Utility

错乱咒语 can be replaced if you feel like you need more sustain:

• 午夜纹章 - stealth access and stunbreak.

• 幻影伏击 - evasion and repositioning. Could also help you chase and burst targets, it's not purely a defensive pick.

• 沙铸玻璃 - low CD stunbreak + evasion, also gives you an opportunity to immediately counterpressure targets by granting you Mirage Cloak.

Elite specialization basics

• Dodge rolling is replaced by Mirage Cloak, which is more or less the same thing but allows you to cast skills and grants access to ambush attacks for its duration: for Sword and for Greatsword. Ambush skills replace the autoattack of the weapons for 1.5 seconds and can only be used once per Mirage Cloak activation.

• You can dodge while casting skills and performing actions like rezing or stomping, but not while CC'd.

General

• can be used to strip important boons such as or off targets before or during bursts. will primarily be used for this, but also works as a substitute for in your burst rotation when that's on cooldown. CoF deals much less damage than MW does, but it's better than nothing especially for finishing low HP enemies.

• is the best interrupt in the build because it's an instant ranged CC - if another CC can get the job done, use that and don't waste mantra charges.

  • Recharging reduces the recharge of , encouraging you to use Diversion before you'd run out of mantra charges and had to recharge it.

• There are several tools for stomping downed enemies including mirage cloak, stealth, and distortion.

• Ambush attacks on the two weapons fill different roles:

  • provides excellent mobility both in and out of combat, but what truly makes it powerful are the trait synergies. The daze works with a bunch of traits on Domination, most notably which increases its damage significantly. Aside from doing damage or denying them healing for 15 seconds upon a successful interrupt of a healing skill, Mirage Thrust can also be used defensively for the . An example: if you're being focused and have to dodge, not only will you avoid incoming damage, but also summon a clone via , make that clone do its ambush attack through , and now this clone can interrupt your enemy whilst triggering for the potentially ruining their entire burst.