Mirage Prime ESO Prism Guard build

I have been having a lot of fun surprising people with this build and with the amount of people asking for this build I thought I would make a guide here for it

Intro

Hello, my IGN is CatgirlsAreWaifus.
People have been asking quite a lot for my Mirage Prime Prism (her 4th ability aka disco ball) build ever since I started bringing it to ESO around 2 or 3 weeks ago. It is very fun and Prism Guard is very good and I have been in love with it ever since it was added to PvE in Nightwave Glassmaker. I had made it back then but only just now came back to it and updated it and started bringing it to ESO.

This is my first guide ever so please don't judge me too harshly :)

The Build

Notes about the build

THERE ARE SOME THINGS HERE YOU MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND IF YOU HAVE NOT PROGRESSED THROUGH THE STORY, SO BE WARNED THAT THERE ARE SOME SPOILERS HERE. The build is much worse without them so you might want to come back to this once you have progressed further. I really didn't want to spam this area with spoiler areas so be warned: read at your own risk.

• I have 2x cast time archon shards. Others are preferential but I use 1x hp and 2x armor ones.
  
• Dispensary subsume (replacing Sleight of Hand aka her 2nd ability aka bombs) gives energy so that when you are running around (I usually find a path that loops around the whole zone and follow that the whole time) you will come back to it eventually and pick up the energy (and ammo if you use something ammo-hungry like the Kuva Bramma)
  
• Arcane Energize is just too good to pass up since it keeps your energy full with Dispensary and natural energy orbs.
  
• Molt Efficiency helps with the uptime of all your abilities, but ESPECIALLY helps for your Prism since Prism Guard will decrease your BASE duration of Prism to 4 seconds (which is why there is so much duration in the build).
  
• Her Prism has a long cast time so the cast time mods and archon shards help mitigate that, which is ESPECIALLY important because of the duration problem I talked about in the last point (less duration = you are recasting more often = you want less cast time for more DPS and quality of life).
  
• If you are using the Kuva Bramma or other explosive weapons with big range, use Primed Sure Footed instead of Speed Drift in the exilus slot (the top right slot next to the Aura mod).
  
• You only need to have her Hall of Mirrors (her 1st ability aka her clones) active if you intend on using weapons alongside her Prism.
  
• If you run out of energy with your Prism active or go through a portal with your Prism active, WAIT for a bit before recasting your Prism so that Simaris doesn't restrict it for a while.
  
• If your Prism goes through the full duration you can immediately recast it and Simaris will not restrict it.
  
• With Zenurik focus tree, you might want to cast Dispensary BEFORE your Prism when you start a new zone because Inner Might will allow you to bypass the energy cost of abilities every now and then. You want to use that benefit on the big cost of Dispensary and NOT on the Prism (it only works on the initial cast cost of it and doesn't work on the channeling cost) so you can have more abilities active right away when the zone starts.
  
• My Kuva Bramma build:
  The Primed Sure Footed is really important when using Primed Firestorm because it is pretty much always going to knock you over with self-stagger. If you don't use Primed Firestorm you MIGHT get away with not using Primed Sure Footed if you always shoot away from yourself, but you will still knock yourself over pretty often.
  You can replace the Riven with something else, probably Vigilante Armaments.
  You don't need status chance since Mirage's damage output is very high. You can oneshot all the ESO enemies without status chance.
  Dispensary and Vigilante Supplies should keep you reasonably topped up on ammo.
  You can shoot past the enemies or near the general vicinity of an enemy and get a larger AOE and more kills. The Primed Firestorm and the multishot of both yourself and your clones will spread the AOE over a larger area. You can make your shots hit many areas of a room since there are many shots with different arcs that can hit different objects/floors/etc. You don't have to ADS (aim down sights) at enemies. Just firing at a general area while looking at the minimap works well for getting kills on many maps once you get used to it.
  For a secondary bring something that can break nullifier shields fast (anything with high fire rate and multishot). The Kuva Bramma CAN break nullifier shields if you aim at the floor near their bubble shield, but it can be inconsistent and if you have low ammo you would rather not waste a shot for that.

Thanks for reading this

I hope you enjoy using the build :)

[Angel 𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪]

This looks great! I'm going to try it out :)