Guild Wars 2

Durzlla.6295:

Fiskerton.2739:

musu.9205:

superspeed does not work backward

Use the about-face button, or use the right click camera control.

But then I can’t run away while channeling Conflunding Images/throwing out a skill at an enemy and I’m literally just dodging worse in every way than base Mesmer instead of taking advantage of the evade frames I can do whatever I want in.

But you wouldn’t have been able to do those things dodging anyway. With Mirage Cloak, you can cast utility skills (especially heals and signets). With right click camera control, you can get a feel for how much of an angle you need to run to still keep a channel on an enemy, meaning you can run out of an aoe a lot faster, while invulnerable, and still be channeling on an enemy. A lot of times you want to dodge forward anyway to get in range for a shatter. You can combine Mirage Cloak with the ambushes (sword ambush for jump forward, scepter ambush for blink back) to move out of aoe while still attacking. There are a lot of things possible that simple roll dodging won’t let you do.

musu.9205:

superspeed does not work backward

Use the about-face button, or use the right click camera control.

The minor grandmaster gives you superspeed every time you get mirage cloak (ie every time you dodge). you can literally walk the same distance as a dodge roll during this time while being invulnerable, but not interrupting anything you were doing. With Mirage you have to be moving pretty much constantly.

I agree most of the ambushes are kinda underwhelming, but they’re mostly just autos with something additional added. They’re not meant to be nukes or individual abilities, especially since they’re not cooldown gated, just endurance gated. Vigor is a lot easier to get than alacrity. The only thing I would change is to remove the root on scepter ambush.

When I tried Mirage, I basically focused on dealing as much condition damage along with Dune Cloak trait. Mirage can stack confusion like a mofo, I think it’s severely underestimated.

In any case, two days of testing isn’t enough to understand Mirage. It attempts to use things that haven’t been used in mesmer before.