Mirage/Main

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A master of illusion, Mirage confounds the enemy in a spectacle of style and power.

> This is Mirage, a sly conjurer.
> Do you believe in magic, Tenno? Mirage's deceiving influence on the battlefield might make you.
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**Release Date:** July 18th, 2014

Mysterious and mischievous, **Mirage** manipulates the spectrum of light to dazzle her foes. With deceitful mirror images, colorful photokinetic displays and explosive pranks up her sleeves, every battlefield becomes the stage for her next performance. **Mirage** was unveiled in Update 14.0 (2014-07-18).

## Acquisition

Mirage's main blueprint can be purchased from the Market. Component blueprints are awarded at the end of each mission for the Hidden Messages quest. The previously awarded component must be built to obtain the next components.

Additional blueprints can be bought from Cephalon Simaris for **25,000 Standingไฟล์:ReputationBlackx64.png 25,000**.

## Warframe Guides

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*See Category:Mirage Guides to read user-made guides on how to play this Warframe.*

## Notes

* Mirage ties with Nova & Wisp for third highest default sprint speed (behind Gauss at 1.4, and Loki at 1.25).
* Mirage is the first Warframe that requires an Argon Crystal to construct the entire Warframe instead of a single Orokin Cell.
	+ Mirage does, however, require an Orokin Cell to craft each component for a total of three required cells.
* Mirage is the first Warframe to not require any Rubedo.
* Currently, Mirage has the second-lowest base health of any Warframe at 80 (Ivara, Loki, and Mag having 75).

## Trivia

* In the game Mirage first appeared on the fire damage/status chance mods rewarded from the Operation Breeding Grounds event, shown with the new Sybaris and Pyrana.
* Her second appearance is in a teaser trailer revealed on day 5 on www.theliset.com, the teaser site for Update 14.
* Details of one of Mirage's abilities, internally named the "Comedy of Errors", (now named Sleight Of Hand and is her second ability) were leaked in Devstream 31.
* Mirage's design aesthetic is based on the harlequin, and has an alternate helmet named so.
	+ Both helmet designs also have elements inspired by the cuttlefish, particularly the body of the default helmet and the face of the alternate. Cuttlefish have been the subject of much recent study for their ability to perceive polarized light and to produce complex shifting patterns on their skin.
* Mirage's third ability, Eclipse, has visual effects that evoke the phrase *smoke and mirrors*. Many tricks of stage magic and illusion are performed with the aid of special mirrors, lighting and distracting bursts of smoke, hence the idiom *"It's all done with smoke and mirrors."* The phrase has entered wider usage to refer to other sorts of fraud and deception, especially when hidden by some flashy display.
* She is the third frame with an ultimate power that toggles and does not cost 100 energy to cast, the others being Nyx, Banshee, Mesa, Chroma, Inaros, Nidus and Equinox.
	+ Prism is the first ability to have both a toggle and a maximum duration.
* Barring Prime variants, Mirage is the 20th Warframe released.
* Mirage is the first Warframe that can be obtained through a quest.
* Mirage was the first Warframe that is known to participate in the Sentient War that occurred before the events of the game while the second one would be Gara.
* Mirage is the first quest-driven Warframe to receive a Prime variant, followed by Limbo.