Mirage is pretty bad.
- Tactical Ability: Psyche Out - Send out a holographic decoy to confuse the enemy.
- Passive Ability: Encore! - Automatically drop a decoy and cloak for five seconds when knocked down.
- Ultimate Ability: Vanishing Act -Deploy a team of Decoys to distract enemies while you cloak.
His tactical is great & doesn't need to be touched imo👌
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His passive is amazing...in theory.
Since it doesn't turn you invisivle but instead 'cloaks' you (your character still has an outline that can be seen) chances are you're about to get gunned down anyway.
and even if it did turn you invisible, you're knocked down so you moving approx at the same speed of a crippled toad so you'll probably end up reappearing like 3 steps away from your original position still screwed.
And yes every blue moon this passive gives you just enough time to get behind cover, survive and get that sweet victory royale.
But lets be real here. Its pretty bad.
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his ultimate...oh boy what where they thinking.
Anyone who has seen a mirage ult even once will know how to beat this since there ain't really anything to beat.
You create approx 7 clones (i don't know the exact amount of clones forgive me >.<) to stand around in a circle around you and you turn 'cloaked' ( there it is again) and become unable to perform any actions for about 3-5 seconds.
Lemme repeat that- his ULTIMATE ABILITY is him summoning a bunch of clones to stand around in a circle and do NOTHING else whilst you are CLOAKED unable to do anything except wait for the cloak to wear off.
this ability is beyond useless to it gives the enemy a bigger advantage then the mirage who casted it.
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*HOW TO FIX IT*
Personally i say rework that crap to like: when you get below 20-30% health you cloak yourself and leave a clone behind with a cooldown of like 1 minute (This is a passive for the mesmer in Gw2 and it works great and i know thats a whole different game but i believe it would work pretty well here)
If EA insists on keeping it a downed ability i suggest either:
-Making the mirage teleport away whilst cloaking or turning invisible and leaving a clone behind ( so you at least have some distance)
-creating 1/2 clones that lasts for about 3-5 seconds and if they hit a clone it explodes or something and deals dmg
(that way impatient players will get punished and it helps push the trickery/illusion theme)
-lastly i think creating a special cloud around yourself that dazes enemy's when they go inside it (this would also be helpful to your teammates as well but could potentially also be very OP)
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For his ultimate i think they got the right idea it was just executed horribly.
The idea for this move was to create chaos and reposition through the chaos to suprise your enemy to take the advantage. But this doesn't work when they are all standng still since the only confusing you're creating is from yourself as you realize this ability is doo doo.
How to fix this? Make them do ANYTHING.
Another poster had a great idea of making the clones walk around a small area and flicker on and off so it looks like they are coming out of stealth so you could potentially slip in or fake doing so.i think this would be perfect and when used well could be a great ability.
Another potential idea is to create 2 clones and send them to a location of your choosing, that way it looks like you casted a tactical clone and are now walking behind it and i believe this would open up a bunch a interesting options for feints and whatnot by using your tactical and pretending you used your ult and vice versa.
Make them feint shooting, run in circles, scatter pretty much anything will do honestly as long as they do ANYTHING i think it'll be at least somewhat useful.
I'm obviously not a dev and i'll leave the numbers and stuff up the EA but i think these ideas are at least worth considering and any positive changes to my favorite character would be highly appreciated🙏
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