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    Booster Mirage
    October 2024

    Open World
    Offensive Support
    Booster build icon Booster build

    Armor

    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial HelmSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial ShouldersSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial ChestSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial GlovesSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial LegsSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial BootsSuperior Rune of the Trapper

    Weapons & Sigils

    Staff icon Superior Sigil of Energy icon Superior Sigil of Malice icon
    Celestial StaffSuperior Sigil of EnergySuperior Sigil of Malice
    Staff icon Superior Sigil of Energy icon Superior Sigil of Malice icon
    Celestial StaffSuperior Sigil of EnergySuperior Sigil of Malice

    Trinkets

    Celestial icon
    Celestial Backpiece
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Accessory
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Accessory
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Amulet
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Ring
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Ring
    Relic icon
    Relic of Akeem

    Food

    Peppered Cured Meat Flatbread icon Tuning Icicle icon
    Peppered Cured Meat FlatbreadTuning Icicle

    Weapon Skills

    Utility Skills

    copied

    Rotation

    Damage and alacrity combo

    1. Phantasmal Warlock
    2. Phase Retreat Jaunt
    3. Dodge Chaos Vortex
    4. 2x Winds of Chaos

    Burst combo

    1. Phantasmal Warlock Cry of Frustration Phase Retreat

    Damage mitigation

    1. Dodge Evasive Mirror
    2. Chaos Armor
    3. Chaos Storm

    Condition mitigation

    1. Jaunt

     

     

    Target Stats

    10001000100010000000
    1000159225%150%00%0%

    This celestial booster build is great offensive support made for open-world and is beginner friendly. The equipment above is designed to be played with no modifications from the exotic gear obtained by the level 80 booster. If one does not have the level 80 booster available to them then the equipment can be obtained through crafting or purchasing directly from the trading post. This build utilizes the elite specialization of a mirage. Specifically, this build will allow you to provide support as well as maintain survivability during solo content through the utilization of clones.

    Build Fundamentals

    While playing mirage your dodge is replaced with Mirage Cloak, which is a very strong ability. While Mirage Cloak is active you gain powerful abilities depending on the weapon you choose to use. Your main weapon on this build for applying boons to yourself and others is the staff. You can maintain permanent 25 , , and permanent . This build uses Superior Sigil of Energy to gain endurance when swapping weapons for additional dodges.

    Clones and dealing damage
    You gain clones by using Phase Retreat and Phantasmal Warlock Your clones are your main source of damage, so you want to maintain three clones as much as you can. Clones also gain Mirage Cloak while you dodge. To get the most out of your clones try to not interrupt their actions. You can achieve that by doing 2 actions yourself before dodging.

    While your clones are very powerful, you want to use shatters for damage, crowd control, and invulnerability. For damage, you want to shatter Cry of Frustration with three clones and then quickly regain them back with Phase Retreat and Phantasmal Warlock. This is going to be your burst rotation.

    Survivability
    Your survivability mainly comes from using your clones as a distraction, the ability to dodge whenever, and being able to maintain almost permanent , and because of Renewing OasisNomad's Endurance and Mirage Mantle. Using Chaos Storm and Method of Madness gives you , , and . While you have Chaos Armor active you have a chance of gaining additional and when hit. When shattering you gain via Bountiful Disillusionment. Jaunt is an instantaneous condition removal and short-range teleport. False Oasis creates a mirror on the spot you used your heal on. Mirage Mirror provides an additional dodge that you can use to trigger Mirage Cloak.

    You want to start on staff and spawn three clones using Phantasmal Warlock and Phase Retreat while giving yourself as many boons as you can weaving in Mirage Cloak between auto attacks using your burst rotation whenever Cry of Frustration is off cooldown.

    Crowd Control

    Alternatives

    For group content, you want to use the staff/staff variant while playing alone you want to use the staff/axe variant.

    Armor

    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial HelmSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial ShouldersSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial ChestSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial GlovesSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial LegsSuperior Rune of the Trapper
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Trapper icon
    Celestial BootsSuperior Rune of the Trapper

    Weapons & Sigils

    Staff icon Superior Sigil of Energy icon Superior Sigil of Celerity icon
    Celestial StaffSuperior Sigil of EnergySuperior Sigil of Celerity
    Axe icon Superior Sigil of Energy icon
    Celestial AxeSuperior Sigil of Energy
    Pistol icon Superior Sigil of Malice icon
    Celestial PistolSuperior Sigil of Malice

    Trinkets

    Celestial icon
    Celestial Backpiece
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Accessory
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Accessory
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Amulet
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Ring
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Ring
    Relic icon
    Relic of Akeem

    Food

    Peppered Cured Meat Flatbread icon Tuning Icicle icon
    Peppered Cured Meat FlatbreadTuning Icicle

    Utility Skills

    copied

    Target Stats

    10001000100010000000
    1000159225%150%00%0%

    Mirage is an incredibly durable open-world class utilizing Clones, survivability from the Celestial’s stat line, and some trait synergies. Using this build you will be able to solo many open world events and challenging hero points while providing amazing group support by using staff.

    Build Fundamentals

    While playing mirage your dodge is replaced with Mirage Cloak which is a very strong ability. While Mirage Cloak is active we gain powerful abilities depending on the weapon we choose to use. Your main weapon on this build for applying boons to ourselves and others is the staff. You can maintain permanent 25 , and 60%~ .  This build uses Superior Sigil of Energy to gain endurance when swapping weapons for additional dodges.

    Clones and dealing damage
    You gain clones by using Phase Retreat, Phantasmal Warlock, Lingering Thoughts and Phantasmal Duelist. Your clones are your main source of damage so you want to maintain them as much as you can. Clones also gain Mirage Cloak while you dodge. On this build, you want to maintain axe clones, because Imaginary Axes is very powerful. To get the most out of your clones try to not interrupt their actions. You can achieve that by doing 2 actions yourself before dodging.
    While your clones are very powerful, you want to use shatters for damage, CC, and invulnerability. For damage, you want to shatter Cry of Frustration with 3 clones and then quickly regain them back with Phantasmal Duelist and Lingering Thoughts. This is going to be your burst rotation.

    Survivability
    Your survivability mainly comes from using your clones as a distraction, the ability to dodge whenever, and being able to maintain almost permanent and because of Renewing Oasis and Nomad's Endurance. Using Chaos Storm and Method of Madness gives us , and . While you have Chaos Armor active you have a chance of gaining additional and when hit. When shattering you gain thanks to Bountiful Disillusionment. Alongside that Jaunt is an instantaneous condition removal and short-range teleport.
    False Oasis creates a mirror on the spot you used your heal on. Mirage Mirror provides an additional dodge that you can use to trigger Mirage Cloak.

    You want to start on staff and spawn 3 clones using Phantasmal Warlock and Phase Retreat while giving yourself as many boons as possible before swapping to axe. While on axe you want to do your shatter burst and swap back to staff as soon as you can.

    Crowd Control

    Alternatives

    For group content, you want to use the staff/staff variant while playing alone you want to use the staff/axe variant.

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