Mirage - Power Spear Mirage

Damage

• CC skills are an important part of your bursts because they increase your damage via various traits:
  • 力量阻隔 grants a strong damage modifier.
  • 暴怒打断 stacks 威能 and even 急速.
  • 炫目炽光 + 脆弱错觉 apply 易伤, which is something even your team can benefit from.

Spear

• 间隙危机 (MTG) is the bread and butter of spear, it's both the main burst skill and its central mechanic.

• Whenever you score a hit with MTG you gain Clarity, which empowers your next skill. Therefore MTG should almost always be the first skill you use on Spear.

• MTG does more damage and has a higher crit chance if the target is near the outer edge of the skill. Try to use it from just outside melee range!

• 幻影长矛 isn't just a Phantasm skill. If you can hit an enemy with the leap itself, you'll remove some boons too.

  • Clarity: summon 2 Phantasms.

• The main purpose of 精神崩塌 is to reset the CD of MTG and serve as a gap closer for it.

  • Clarity: stuns the target.

• While 虚拟反转 is mainly a defensive skill on this set, it does quite high damage in melee and can be used to safely counterpressure enemies.

Spear burst rotation

1. 间隙危机 while trying to hit enemies with the outer ring.
2. 精神崩塌 which is now empowered and stuns targets.
3. 间隙危机 again. Try to walk away from the stunned target while casting it in order to put them inside the outer ring of MTG.
4. 幻影长矛 which should now summon 2 Phantasms due to having Clarity.

Sustain

• Condition cleansing is a weakpoint of the build. You don't have any mass cleanses, only a bunch of smaller ones you can chain together: 洁净法印 on weapon swap, 远行 (elite) and 虚拟反转 on Spear.

  • 失真 could act as a time-out button too.
  • Most of these are instant, which at least makes them easier to chain.

• Power Mirage in general is one of the squishiest specs in PvP. Your best defense is a good offense, try to CC enemies and keep them pressured when you're in melee. Use your mobility to bail at the first sign of trouble, and re-engage when you're feeling safe. Don't hesitate to use your bigger CDs either, it's a very aggressive build that wants short fights anyways.

• You should abuse the fact that you can attack while dodging. Oftentimes your dodges will be used to limit windows of vulnerability when you're pressuring targets in melee, and since dodging opens up Ambush attacks, you have an opportunity to counterpressure targets whenever you dodge something, putting enemies on the backfoot and creating some breathing room for yourself.

• Instant CCs like 强力钉刺 and 误导 are key parts of your sustain along with teleport skills such as 闪光传送 and 远行.

• 闪光传送 is your only stunbreak, but you still have several other options for dealing with stunlocks. You can teleport away with 远行, hit them with 误导, buy time with 失真 - just to mention a few options.

• Axe/Shield is the far stronger defensive set.

• Axe has 对称利斧 for breaking enemy targeting or repositioning by targeting an enemy that isn't focusing you (or they're on a highground and the others aren't). You can even use it on a Necromancer's Flesh Wurm or objects like a Trebuchet to escape.

• On Shield you've got 回忆幻像 for blocking attacks. If any attack is blocked, you can use its chain skill 流忆残影 for another block.

  • Always make sure that you block something with EoM! Move into hostile AoE spells if necessary, tank enemy pets, etc.
  • Both of these are phantasm skills, which means that you can reduce their CD with in case you need to block but the skill isn't ready yet.

• can also be used defensively, since it's a (double) CC. It stuns targets in the direction you're aiming, and then once more as it comes back to you.

• Spear only really has , but it's basically a stronger version of the Shield block since it gives Blur, and Blur is like a discount version of Distortion. You have to cast it and it won't prevent condition damage, but it's stronger than a block because it's unaffected by unblockables.