Build:Mirage - Condi Mirage

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:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on August 17, 2025 and is up to date for the August 19, 2025 patch.

Overview

Staff-staff mirage is a very simple yet effective build that revolves around spamming the Ambush Chaos Vortex to both deal damage and generate boons. The build provides permanent 25 Might, Fury and Alacrity to yourself and nearby allies, while dealing good Torment, Bleeding, and Confusion 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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Skill Bar

Staff

Staff

Utility

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 Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy.

• 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 default to False Oasis as it provides an extra dodge for more damage.

Utility skills

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

• Sand Through Glass - evade, stunbreak, and Mirage Cloak. Removes Immobile which prevents you from dodging.
• Mantra of Resolve - if conditions are a problem.
• Feedback - to reflect projectiles.
• Mimic - situationally powerful.
• Portal Entre - can be useful, especially when playing in groups.
• Blink - stunbreak and movement.

Elite skill

We default to Jaunt, 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:

• Signet of Humility - sacrifices damage for the ability to delete a defiance bar.
• Mass Invisibility - very situational to run past enemies or commune with Hero Points in stealth, use together with Prismatic Understanding 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 Deceptive Evasion is wasted. In these scenarios you can instead use Blinding Dissipation + Ineptitude for more damage through Confusion.
• Illusionary Defense - trades a small amount of damage and Chaos aura uptime for Protection.
• Duelist's Discipline - when playing staxe
• Phantom Pain - when playing in groups and someone else is already providing Alacrity.

A setup with Relic of Rivers can also be considered. If using this relic, adjust your mirage traits and pick Riddle of Sand and Phantom Pain. 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.

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Staff
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

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.

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Trapper can only be crafted. If you can't acquire them right away, you can use Rune of Superior Rune of the Afflicted while you work on acquiring the much better Trapper runes.
• Note that you require 0% boon duration from your gear to provide permament Alacrity from Mirage Mantle. This is because Renewing Oasis provides permanent Regeneration to enable Chaotic Persistence and gain 250 concentration (16.66% boon duration), which is all you need.
• A setup with Relic of Rivers can also be considered. If using this relic, adjust your mirage traits and pick Riddle of Sand and Phantom Pain. 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 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

• + (and variants)

Usage

Mirage Cloak

Mirage Cloak is the profession mechanic of the mirage. Whenever you dodge or pick up a Mirage Mirror, 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 Phantasmal Warlock will summon 2 clones.
• Phase Retreat 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 Deceptive Evasion, and it will immediately use its Ambush skill due to Infinite Horizon.
• Since your clones are very important in this build, you can time your dodges to make your clones dodge dangerous attacks thanks to Infinite Horizon. This trait also stunbreaks your clones when you dodge.
• For staxe, Phantasmal Duelist and Lingering Thoughts summon 1 clone.

Damage

The vast majority of your damage comes from auto attacking and casting Chaos Vortex with 3 clones up, thanks to Infinite Horizon. Try to always have 3 clones attacking.

• You should allow yourself and your clones to use one Winds of Chaos inbetween each Chaos Vortex, as it does more damage than spamming Chaos Vortex. Infinite Horizon 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 Cry of Frustration when you can immediately generate 3 clones again. If your target is about to die, you can finish them off with Mind Wrack.
• Use Chaos Armor, Crystal Sands and False Oasis off cooldown.
• Weapon swap any time you're under 50% endurance to restore endurance thanks to Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy. 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 Chaos Aura increases your damage for 5 seconds, stacking up to 15 seconds, thanks to Illusionary Membrane. You can gain Chaos Aura by using Chaos Armor and from combo finishers (such as Phase Retreat and Jaunt) inside ethereal combo fields (such as Chaos Storm or Lesser Chaos Storm from Method of Madness). (see also: Guide:What are Combo Fields)

Boons

• This build provides permanent 25 Might, Fury and Alacrity to yourself and nearby allies through Chaos Vortex improved by Mirage Mantle.
  • The duration of Might and Fury scales with the number of clones that use this skill (which is only possible thanks to Infinite Horizon), so try to maintain 3 clones up.
• Winds of Chaos will also provide Might and Fury to allies it bounces to. Master Fencer also helps with fury. And the increased critical chance enables Sharper Images.
• Renewing Oasis provides permanent self Regeneration. This enables Chaotic Persistence.

Priority

1. Phantasmal Warlock
2. Dodge + Chaos Vortex + Winds of Chaos
3. Chaos Armor
4. Chaos Storm
5. Phase Retreat - only if clones are needed

Defense

• You can use your dodge Mirage Cloak at any time, even during other actions, but not while under the effects of hard crowd control.
• Use Jaunt to reposition and cleanse 1 condition.
• Abuse your Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy for frequent dodges. You dodge so often that you'll dodge some attacks without even trying.
• Distortion sacrifices your clones for invulnerability.
• Chaos Armor blinds trash mobs.
• Against enemies with projectiles, hide behind your clones.
• Thanks to Bountiful Disillusionment, your Shatters provide stability. However, do not rely on this as this build wants to have high clone uptime.
• Phase Retreat - to reposition or gain distance
• Sand Through Glass can provide a strong stunbreak.

Crowd Control

• Chaos Storm - 1 second Daze
• Diversion - 1 second Daze from you AND each clone shattered, so up to 4 seconds of Daze.
• Signet of Domination - 3 seconds of Stun (as a last resort)
• Magic Bullet - 2.5 seconds of Stun (staxe only)
• Signet of Humility - (variant option)

Video examples

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