The Mirror Self Tips Thread

Horogan Sivoris

Horogan Sivoris

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

UK baby

Ok, First and formost, the purpose of this thread is referance for those having trouble with the mirror self fight. Please try to avoid making to many posts in the thread. If you must post, please try to wait untill all the possibilities of differen't classes have already been posted, so that people can open the thread, so i'm a "Wa/Mo" and go straight to the Wa/Mo post.

People who are of an unposted class, please start the post about that class. If you have something to add to a class/profesion post, Private Message that person and ask them to add it to their own post, along with credit for it!

That Said, I will now post the Ra/Mo tips I have discovered.

The way I managed to defeat the mirror self was simple, and thanks to my girlfriend for the idea.

Firstly, as a Monk, I had many healing spells. Remove these, and put your points for healing, if any, in Marksman ship and wilderness survival. (Maybe expertese) If you remove your own healing, you remove his healing too.

Equip any damaging ranger skills that you favour. The idea is you need to damage him fast. I used, Poison arrow, Kindle Arrow, Point blank shot, Power shot and Penetrating Attack.

Then Equip healing springs, and Troll Unguent.

And finally, Equip distracting shot.

As you enter the fight, one of two things will happen.
A. you'll get attacked.
B. He'll cast something.

If you get attacked, Head straight at him. If you get next to him, he changes weapon to an axe, rendering his arrow attacks useless.

If he casts something, it's up to you to choose to distract him with distracting shot, Or run up to him.

The idea now, is to start causing damage. Poison him, then spam his ass with damage. BUT keep enough energy for distracting shot. If he goes to cast, distract him. Hopefully, this will distract either his Troll Unguent, or his healing springs. Completely removing his healing abilities.

Now keep your self healed using your healing abilities (his axe can hurt, a lot) and poison/imulsify/power/penetrate/point blank his ass untill he goes down.

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Pevil Lihatuh

Pevil Lihatuh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Yorkshire, UK

R/Me

Ok here's my one for Ranger/Mesmer. It's very similar to Horogans, either would work just as nicely

Use NO mesmer spells. Equip the following skills:
1. Favourable Winds
2. Kindle Arrows/Ignite Arrows
3. Power Shot
4. Dual Shot
5. Res Signet
6. Troll Unguent
7. Healing Springs
8. Distracting Shot

Attributes: all points into Marksmanship/Expertise/Wilderness Survival

Upon getting into the arena, run right up to the enemy. Again this means he can't use any of the skills except Troll Unguent and Healing Springs. Cast Troll Unguent whenever you lose around 100 hp, and then swap between Power and Dual shot after casting Favourable Winds and Kindle/Ignite Arrows. These will deal plenty of damage.

Healing springs is easily interrupted, and since he's the only enemy, he will never be able to cast it as your attacks are all concentrated on him. Now despite the fact that you crouch to cast Troll Unguent, he will rise up above the ground whenever he attempts to cast it. So whenever you see him rise up (like an elementalist casting), use distracting shot. This way he cannot heal and should go down very quickly. You should have nothing to stop you using Troll Unguent yourself and with 9 or 10 in wilderness suvival, this will give you +8 health regen; more than enough to cope with his damage.

Leventh

Leventh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

michigan

Unforgiven Clan [UF]

R/Me

Beat him with my R/E.

Play off the AI. Use firestorm (he will not move) with any knockdowns you have (to stop him from casting) If you see him casting firestorm let him, use this time get a few hits in, soon as it casts simply move five feet in any direction.

He should go down quick.

Note: 12 ranks in fire

Horogan Sivoris

Horogan Sivoris

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

UK baby

Here's another
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maegi
Pump up Divine favor and smiting and have at least 6 healing prayers.
Get a good smiting staff 10-19 or 11-21, something close to this range.

Take these skills with you and only these skills.
Retribution, Divine Boon, Healing Breeze, and Balthazar's Spirit and Bane Signet.

Put Retribution and Divine Boon and Baltahzar's on before you step on the third stone and skip the cutscene.

Hit tab or whatever you use to target. Get the wand shooting the mirror.
Use Bane. He might use it first, doesnt matter. Use it when it recycles and keep the wand shooting. Hit Healing breeze as needed.

You will stay full health or at least 3/4 full if you apply the healing breeze as needed. Balthazar's will keep you with enough mana from his damage to heal.
Retribution , the wand and the Bane will kill him.

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Nessaja

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

A tactics that always worked for me.

Unequip all skills.

Done.

Northern

Northern

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

E/Mo

Ele/Mo

1. Cast Meteor Shower
2. Cast Fire Storm
3. Win

MaglorD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Completed this one on first try with the W/Mo. Went in with all my usual skills. Killed my mirror with skills.

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

R/

My tactic with my Ranger /Necro

4 pet skills, doesn't matter which ones as there won't be a pet.
2 necro sacrifice your HP skills
1 ranger spirit (winter in my case)
1 storm chaser

- start the storm chaser right before you enter and skip the cutscene
- run up the ramp to near the top
- rain arrows down on your mirror, you have the high ground thus your avg arrow dmg tends to be higher and you have a better chance of a critical hit

I used my first attempt to gauge how my mirror would come at me, if he'd come close and then hack at me, or stick to ranger. He stuck to range and I almost won without trying (would have if I had taken more high ground). My second attempt I went further up and rained arrows upon him, only to have him commit suicide just as I launched my last arrow when he sacrificed 20% of his HP (leaving him with like 5) for a useless effect

OvertheHill

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

I had complained openly on a thread about this mission, and ended up coming back having to eat a little crow after beating it pretty easily after a re-think. Here's how...

My primary is Monk. My secondary is Mesmer. I'm a healer monk. Almost all Healing Prayer and Divine Skills. I only use a few points in Inspiration. I really one use one skill (channeling) regularly right now. I didn't use any mesmer skills as weapons, but they were very important.

I reduced all my mesmer skills and dropped my divine some for extra smite points, boosted my smite way up to 10, and used the Bane Signet and Healing Prayers as Jana suggested. I also noticed someone at the guru forum mention starting with a cheapie wand and swapping to a better one. That made me realize the AI checks the weapons that are ready on the Function keys.

So, I cleared out my Storage chest. Started melee with a water (cold damage) wand set on f3. Put a smite staff on F1 and my trusty holy (fire damage) wand on f2.

Set my skills as follows
1-Fraility
2-Mantra of Frost
3-Mantra of Flame
4-Guardian
5-empty
6-empty
7-Bane Signet
8-Healing Breeze

Swapped to the Smite wand immediately and hit with the bane signet. Started out getting hit hard by the initial bane shot and first couple of melee attacks. Got dropped to about half of my hit points. Then the mirror ran himself out of energy with the zeroed mesmer and protection spells. The mirror did use the mantra spells because of the threat of the weapons I had put on my function keys. It was over in less than two minutes. I never even had to move from the starting point. It wasn't really even close.

Spirit Firefly

Spirit Firefly

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

LFG

Mo/N

Mo/N
Equip Scourge sacrifice and then fill rest of skills with self sacrificing spells walk in cast scourge sacrificing and watch him commit suicide. I think the match lasted exactly 9 seconds.

vai demine

vai demine

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

Mo/R

Profession: Monk/Ranger

Equipped as many Nature Rituals as possible (that wouldn't be helpful for my mirror to use), and some smiting spells (banish/bane sig/holy strike). No healing.

The mirror starts throwing up Nature Rituals while I start right off with my smiting spells. I believe he actually cast them all, which is nice because they have long cast times as well.

Anyway, it took about 30 seconds, he had me at about 1/2 life by the time he died.

Vai

Viruzzz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

primary or secondary mesmers or necromancers can beat him with the following (i've seen it done at level 3..)

tactic in both cases involves not attacking but dodging his attacks

mesmer: max out your domination magic and bring NOTHING but empathy. casti it on him and start dodging his arrows. he will lose health. you wont if you dodge his arrows right. when empathy wears off. don't recast it. wait till he is casting. that way you won't take a single hit(providing you are dodging his arrows)

necromancer: bring price of faliure. it will give him 25% chance to miss and he will take damage each time. the trick is to make him miss every time. so start dodging. again. don't cast it until he is. don't want him to hit you at all. its the whole point of it if you can. blind him somehow. he will take damage and wont hit you at all

and some tips for other professions too.
warrior: bring frenzy. but don't use it yourself
monk: bring life atunement but don't bring any heals. it will lower his damage and not give him any advantage
ranger. poison him and dodge his poisoned arrows. or trap your way to higher ground. his health will be down and you will have damage boost
ele: bring aoe spells. cast them. dodge his spells.

Cymmina

Cymmina

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Me/N

Me/Mo: Domination/Inspiration/Fast Casting/Healing Prayers... but *not* Illusion
(this could be used for any domination mesmer, regardless of secondary)

1. Power Spike
2. Hex Breaker
3. Ether Feast
4. Holy Veil (optional)
5. Conjure Phantasm
6-7 Any fast recharging Illusion *hex* (very important)
8. Any other defensive spell (Spirit of Failure would work)

Pretty much just keep Hex Breaker up the whole fight. I used Holy Veil to buy a bit of time for myself, but it isn't necessary. Your mirror will spend the entire time casting all those illusion hexes (with no illusion skill, so even if you miss, it isn't hurting you much), so just keep spamming HB and it will eventually kill itself. If you get low on health, use Ether Feast, if the mirror uses Ether Feast, use Power Spike.

KraXed112

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Northern
Ele/Mo

1. Cast Meteor Shower
2. Cast Fire Storm
3. Win lol does that really work? i'm at the beginning of the ascension part haven't done the test.. but alot of ppl got me worried that the mirrior is the hardest part.... u made it seem........... so..........simple... haha now i'm lookin foward to it!!
thanx

Shadowsting

Shadowsting

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Gentlemen's Club

The trick is knockdown. I equipped my Aeromancer wih a bunch of knockdowns (Okay, only Gale and Shock). He immediately ran up to me (probably to cast Shock). I Shock him first, then quickly used Lightning Orb. Then Gale, then Lightning Strike, then Lightning Javelin. I think he was dead by this time; I don't fully remember what happened exactly.

Rajamic

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

IA

Chronicles of Heroes [CoH]

R/Me

I can't take credit for this. Someone who ingame is known as Mistress Felbane clued me in to this after I had failed about 6 times with my Ranger/Mesmer. She said she'd lost over 15 times before figuring this out and was publicly offing this tidbit to anyone who wanted to know (for free, so... *Lee Chaolan thumbs up!*)

I had been trying to finesse the fight by dodging arrows and inturrupting his Troll Unguent, while duing damage almost exclusively with Chaos Storm.


The trick is to equip all bow-related skills and then run up close to him. I used
1) Read the Wind
2) Kindle Arrows
3) Penetrating Shot
4) Power Shot
5-7) other damaging bow attacks
8) Whirling Defense

Both times I fought him (I went back to get the bonus), he started with Kindle Arrows. I ran in and matched his Kindle Arrows. He switched to an axe and couldn't use any skills (and kindle arrows was no longer applicable). He never seemed to use Whirling Defense, so it is apparently safe to bring it along. Just alternate between Penetrating Shot and Power Shot to beat the bonus time limit.

My Attributes are set at:
Expertise: 7+1
Marksmanship: 7
Wilderness Survival: 9
Domination: 10
Inspiration: 2 (throwaway points)

I didn't even bother adjusting these, and I still (though just barely) managed to get the bonus. Boosting Markmanship to damage-oriented levels would've made it much quicker. Also, my bow is a 12-21 Longbow with +10% damage and -2 damage received both during a stance, and 20% customize. So there's plenty of room for improvement as far as DPS goes.

Jackell

Jackell

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Buffalo NY

None at the moment

R/E

When I took my R/E in against him, I equipped Conjure frost and Iron Mist, and that's it.
Conjure Frost - All your damage is cold
Iron Mist - Target is slowed but can only be hurt lightning damage

I just plucked away at him while 90% of his damage didn't do a thing.

soygreen

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Dargon's trick for the Rang/Necro worked great - BUT - i used a different spirit...

The Winter spirit made the mirror hit me as crits even though below me almost every time for some weird reason. I think i used quickening zephyr.

But it was a great tactic to use.

Peace,
Jack De Muerte

Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Gaelic Storm

For anyone that has Necromancer, I've found an amusing way to win is equip Dark Aura, Touch of Agony, Dark Pact, and.. uh.. Death Nova.

Even if you lose, the mirror has taken enough damage that your Death Nova will take him out.

Which, as far as the code is concerned, is a GOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL.

<10 seconds.

Zexion

Zexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Warrior Nation [WN]

N/Me

Here is a nice setup that should work for any N/x, as long as you have some refund for Death Magic.

Attributes:

Blood Magic: 11+2 (only part of my setup, not needed)
Soul Reaping: 7+1 (again, not needed)
Death Magic: 11

Skills:

Dark Aura
Malaise
Dark Pact
Death Nova
Blood of the Master
Chilblains
(none)
(none)

Strategy:

Simple, just start by casting Death Nova and Dark Aura on yourself, and otherwise, get closequarters and attack.

_Zexion

Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Gaelic Storm

Zexion, see above. ;P

Rhunex

Rhunex

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Dark Nightmare

E/

Hey, I'm just wondering. If you go into the fight with everything unequiped, and then equip it, will your mirror self have those same items? If not, then for most professions I'd recommend going in with nothing on, and then equiping armor from the crafters that blocks your more powerful attacks. Example would be:
Fire Elementalist goes in, with nothing equipped(except skills). This means the mirror has no def, no + to skills(if you already have runes on your armor or some such). Then, you equip Pyromancer armor, and you have def, +def against your own fire spells. You cast your fire spells on him/her, do a lot of damage and those same skills on you do less damage.

I'm not sure if this is already covered, I sort of need to get off the comp so I don't have time to read all the posts above...

Zexion

Zexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Warrior Nation [WN]

N/Me

The mirror only equals you in skills.
I don't know if he has the same attributes though.

_Zexion

sojen

sojen

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Malaysia

[CO]

R/Mo

Heres my method as a Ranger/Monk. Note: My monk is just for res, I'm mostly ranger skills.

Skills to bring: Firstly, bring apply poison, troll unguent, and distracting shot.
As for the other slots, bring as many Spirits as you can.
Not enough spirits to fill the slot??
Bring traps then, make the mirror waste even more time.

All you have to do is apply poison the first thing, and poison him with the first arrow. If he starts casting spirits, just keep on damaging him. Keep in mind to keep poisoning him to ensure poison stays on him.

When he starts using apply poison, or troll unguent, decide for yourself, Do you want to stop his poison or his heal. Use distracting shot to stop him. Sometimes he will cast apply poison followed by troll unguent, depending on his life. So its safer to try to take out troll unguent if your health regen from troll is strong. Health regen can and will fight back the poison as well as healing some health.

Either way, you will outlast him because you can poison him AND heal yourself. Not to mention you pump in additional damage while he is busy casting all those nature rituals, 5 seconds each. 4 Rituals is 20 seconds gone. Plus, you gain the benefits from the spirit as well since the area is quite small.

If you bring traps, not to worry, he will set traps, but then again, you are just using your bow, no need to run towards him, and he also stays using a bow. Wasted him time setting traps.

Zexion

Zexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Warrior Nation [WN]

N/Me

Studio, I must admit, I forgot to give you credits for the Death Nova idea (thought it was ally only), but the Sacrifice thing was already in my strategy, so I actually took yours and made it more readable, and extended upon it.

So if anyone makes a compilation, credit both me and studio for that.

_Zexion

Cymboric Treewalker

Cymboric Treewalker

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Imperial Palace - Cantha

[SFK] Sacred Forge Knights (founder)

Me/Mo

W/Mo

Zelot's Fire go stand next to him, Retribution, cast healing breeze.

May have to cast healing breeze again.

Dead in under 50seconds.

DRAGONHAWK

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

ok im not sure if this was some bug or if it actually works but it worked for me and is worth a try. after a few tries with my ranger/elementalist i accidently found a way to beat the mirror self that just seems too easy.

i dont remember exactly what armor i had but all of it gave extra protection against elemental attacks. i know some of it was druids armor.

now all i did was equip ignite arrows and whatever else you want. he will use it and cause his arrows to do fire damage but because of the high resistance to elemental attacks the arrows had absolutely no affect. so i just sat there shooting until he was dead. seems too easy but its worth a shot.