mirror image is just TOO HARD!

How the hell are you suppost to beat it when it does twice as much damage with its skill as you do?

Mirror image is easy. They are too stupid. Just change to skills that need stratagy. I dropped mine in 5 seconds :-)

lol they are tough lil beasts but its stupidly easy once you figure out a way

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For example my ranger/mesmer couldn't do a thing, i could heal fast enough, i couldn't take the damage... until i found they swap between ranged and melee. Put on all arrow skills, troll unguent and healing springs as only heals. Run up to mirror. They can now use only troll and springs. springs is easily interrupted, so since im only attacking him, he can't possibly cast that. So the only thing he can do is cast troll. I have distracting shot... he can't heal at all... down he goes

Keep a few things in mind when prepping to fight the mirror image:

1. If you have a skill on your bar, it will use it without thinking. That means you can drain its energy with worthless enchantments or trick it into sacrificing its health.

2. If you have weapons in your inventory, it will use those. Make sure they suck.

3. It's no smarter than any other monster.

You may have to fiddle with your attributes or go fishing around for necessary skills, but you can do it. As daunting as it may seem at first, I was amazed at how fast the thing died after I tricked it into sacrificing 55% of its max health.

If all else fails, go to Destiny's Gorge, Seeker's Passage of Hero's Audience and do one of the quests to switch your secondary class to something more useful (i.e. mesmer, necro). You can switch it back with the appropriate quest any time you like.

Good tips
BTW It's no hard , just use the right tactic
with my E/W i can beat him in 15 sec

i managed to kill it finally by only equiping a few skills (firestorm being one since i can run out of it while he only stands there.

There are plenty of useful tactics/considerations.

1. Load up on useless skills as sometimes the mirror will wast time casting them. Rangers can load up on nature rituals, penetrating shot, distracting shot. Let the mirror cast the rituals then distract it when it uses penetrating shot.

2. If you're an elmenatlist use ether renewal, aura of restoration, mark of rodgort and a fire wand. Also, you can always just use flare, aura of restoration and ether renewal. It's so dumb that it will rarely cast flare after it uses ether renewal.

I beat it the first try (W/Mo). I loaded up on holy wrath, retribution, heal area as only heal, and a bunch of crap skills that do nothing btu eat mana. If he tried to heal he would heal me just as much, every time he hit me he took 99% of the dmg back, and I was hitting him. Took maybe 10 seconds and he was dead.

If you have Mo do that, if you have N load up on all sacrifice spells. if mes load up on enchantments and use shatter for uber dmg.

Not another mirror thread!

I tried it again last night with all my regular skills. Owned him.

Well I'll be damned. Thanks so much for making that known. I have like 4 golden weapons in my inventory and I just couldn't take him on without him slaughtering me with a MASSIVE bow. Turns out it's mine. This'll help so very much. Thanks.

It's near impossible to beat the lvl 20 mirror with lvl 3 if you lag since your strafe gets owned by ping.

most confusing when i met my mirror on my N/R, he had a bow that dealt 40-85 damage to me and i had no such weapon in my pack, wierd.

Lvl 20 Mirror has 15 in all attributes, ALL attributes, not just your own class. The only things that you two share are the 8 skill slot.

Guess it depends on the class.

I dropped mine twice in a row, first time I did it I didnt even realize it was my mirror image it was so easy.

The second time I did it again and beat it again.

I guess its the unique W/Mo build I have. He was not able to(or just didnt use) Defy Pain, so I whacked him hard with frenzy, juiced up 300 hp when I was low, and then knocked him out.

So....I lied. That didn't work. No bows in my inventory...and sure enough..he shot me down with a bow..again..and again.

Mirror self my arse.

I know it really is poorly named then. He should have your level attributes skills and weapons. That is what a SELF MIRROR is.

Then they should just call it "Pushover".

I beat the mirror first time with N/E and I didn't even think about it, but my R/Me got owned untill I figured out the right combo of skills to use.
The mirror can be either really easy or really hard, alot of it depends on the class you are.
Some class's don't actually require a great deal of thought others do. IMHO the mirror is no the best balanced aspect of the game, but it is doable by all classes.

Lvl 3 vs Lvl 3? Oh god, that's one quick match. Lvl 3 vs Lvl 20 only took 5 minutes.