Guild Wars 2

The good thing about Mirage: I don’t have to gather hero points for it because it is worse than Chronomancer and core Mesmer in PvE in every aspect…

Even with ambush skills “on cooldown” (using every dodge for DPS instead of actually dodging) a phantasm deals more damage than a clone. And Mirage has zero support for phantasms (a Chronomancer can shatter quite often without losing DPS because phantasms can be resummoned once when used for shatter skills).

I am very disappointed.

Mirage seems like it’s going to be the superior condi build in PvE.

Malchir.4798:

And Mirage has zero support for phantasms

It’s the only spec that can redirect phantasms.

Daharahj.1325:

Mirage seems like it’s going to be the superior condi build in PvE.

How?
I tried to find a good condition build for the Mirage, but when i thought i found a good build, i just swaped Mirage for Chronomancer and dealt more damage while having more movement speed and better survival.

Daharahj.1325:

It’s the only spec that can redirect phantasms.

That is right, but you have to sacrifice a weapon slot for the axe (which isn’t good since it’s very clunky and does less damage than the scepter) or a utility slot for the ability with a 30 seconds cooldown.

Daharahj.1325:

Mirage seems like it’s going to be the superior condi build in PvE.

Malchir.4798:

And Mirage has zero support for phantasms

It’s the only spec that can redirect phantasms.

But none of the rest of the spec is worth giving up other options for that utility.

Yeah, let’s run an elite spec for one utility skill that prevents us from losing our ramp up… but is on a 30s cooldown and still isn’t usable in Raids because most fights require re-targeting on a cooldown similar to axe3 (which doesn’t retarget phants).

If you’re talking Dungeons or Open World Content, things die too fast for retargeting to be useful except in edge cases like… like… yeah no I can’t see it being used in Dungeons or Open World Content because there’s no boss where you need to kill two big health sponges back to back with no break in between. Even in Fractals, you won’t find a use unless you run that utility and pop it on Molten Twins right before one dies.

btw axe 3 DOES retarget phantasms, but it only teleports axe clones to the target. phantasms and other clones however are still retargeted. read the discription, if they arent its a bug.

Blades Of Fatalis.1279:

btw axe 3 DOES retarget phantasms, but it only teleports axe clones to the target. phantasms and other clones however are still retargeted. read the discription, if they arent its a bug.

You’re thinking of Illusionary Ambush, maybe? Axe3 says all axe clones and I haven’t tested with non-axe clones but I know for sure that phantasms do NOT retarget on axe3.

EDIT: Ok weird, I literally just tested this and the mage didn’t retarget and now it did. Hm. :/

Esplen.3940:

Blades Of Fatalis.1279:

btw axe 3 DOES retarget phantasms, but it only teleports axe clones to the target. phantasms and other clones however are still retargeted. read the discription, if they arent its a bug.

You’re thinking of Illusionary Ambush, maybe? Axe3 says all axe clones and I haven’t tested with non-axe clones but I know for sure that phantasms do NOT retarget on axe3.

EDIT: Ok weird, I literally just tested this and the mage didn’t retarget and now it did. Hm. :/

It does retarget, just that Axe clones do a synced up attack.