Side Mirage

October 2024

Side Mirage is a duelist build based on slowly killing your opponents while getting your cooldowns back very fast due to a very high Alacrity uptime.

Build fundamentals

Side mirage is a duelist build. Most of your damage comes from Infinite Horizon under the form of very slow damage based on your clones and dodges, as well as your staff clones simply casting Winds of Chaos.

The one slight burst you have comes from Phantasmal Duelist which applies high amount of Bleeding. Combining it with Magic Bullet is mandatory to ensure to hit every shot from the phantasm.

You should use every other cooldown to survive and slightly pressure the enemy. Illusionary Counter should be used as soon as you can as it blocks and applies 5 stacks of on your opponent.

Ether Barrage gives you Quickness to help you cast it fast enough. Remember you can move freely using this aslong as you’re facing your target.
Be really careful when using Confusing Images: it has really strong damage but it’s really easy to get punished during its cast, so you’ll most likely have to interrupt it before you finish casting it fully.

It is VERY important you spam Chaos Vortex (staff ambush, obtained instead of Winds of Chaos when you use a dodge, distortion or pick up a mirror) for the . Without it, you won’t be able to get your cooldowns back fast enough and fall behind your opponent.

Shatter skill usage:

• Mind Wrack should only be used for from Bountiful Disillusionment.
• Diversion can be used offensively or defensively. You can interrupt a heal, or your opponent’s burst. It also procs Ineptitude so it can help a bit with the offensive but it’s not a major source of damage.
• Distortion gets longer the more clones you have and lets you use ambush skills as well.
• Cry of Frustration looks like a good idea to use but losing your clones is never worth it for this damage. Only use with 0 clones for boons.

One of mirage biggest weakness is conditions. In such matchups using Arcane Thievery properly is very important. Into condition heavy teams consider swapping it for Mantra of Resolve which will give you a lot more reliable cleanses.