Mastering the Hidden Arts: An Assassin’s Guide to Stealth in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Embrace the shadows. As Basim Ibn Ishaq, you are now a Hidden One – an elite shadow warrior. Assassin’s Creed Mirage brings us full circle to the franchise’s stealth roots. To dismantle the secretive Order of the Ancients, you must become a true master of infiltration, deception, and elimination. This extensive guide provides everything you need to perfect the subtle arts of assassination.
We’ll cover optimal progression for abilities and gear, clever application of your assassin tools, advanced field tactics, managing notoriety, and escaping pursuit. Follow our path to transform from novice to legend. The Order will come to fear the sight of white robes and red sashes.
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Prioritize These Core Abilities Early On
As you eliminate targets and complete missions, you’ll unlock new skills. Focus first on these fundamental stealth abilities:
- Extra Tool Capacity – Unlock all tools very early. Crucial flexibility.
- Chain Assassination – Swiftly eliminate two unsuspecting enemies.
- Assassin’s Focus – Slow time to precisely plan and execute kills.
- Enkidu Eagle – Scout and mark enemies for improved situational awareness.
- Smoke Bomb – Create clouds for cover and multi-kills. Upgrade duration first.
Reset skills anytime to re-spec. But tool capacity remains unlocked through resets. Invest here before focusing on combat abilities.
Upgrade Your Arsenal of Assassin Tools
In addition to your Hidden Blade, you wield six special tools enabling silent infiltration and elimination:
- Throwing Knives – Precise lethal ranged projectiles.
- Noise Maker – Distract and lure enemies with an explosive.
- Trap – Non-lethal mine knocks down foes.
- Smoke Bomb – Fundamental for escape and multi-kills.
- Blow Dart – Silently disable enemies from range.
- Torch – Illuminate dark areas.
Visit Hidden One Bureaus to upgrade each tool’s stats and behaviors. Upgrade capacity first, then boost tool effects. Combine creatively for unique tactics. The right instrument for any job.
Mastering The Assassin’s Focus
This game-changing ability allows you to slow down time, quickly marking and assassinating up to five enemies in rapid succession while remaining undetected. Assassin’s Focus refines stealth into a true art form.
Charge your focus bar by performing regular stealth kills. Each full segment enables one slowed-time assassination. Use it to carefully orchestrate your approach. But be cautious of your final positioning – stay out of enemy lines of sight.
Once fully charged, trigger it with the right joystick. Meticulously plot each takedown while scouting the environment. This power enables execution of complex, flowing kill sequences.
Advanced Field Tactics and Infiltration Methods
Once you’ve honed your core abilities, utilize these expert tactics to become a ghost:
- Eliminate lone patrolling guards last to avoid detection.
- Assassinate from hiding spots like ceilings, closets and rooftop perches.
- Use disguises to walk freely in hostile territory.
- Distract enemies by throwing bodies to break their line of sight.
- Lure guards into proximity traps for non-lethal diversions.
- Employ blow darts for long range disables without leaving cover.
- Save civilians to create mobile hiding spots during escapes.
- Use smoke bombs to accomplish multi-kills within large groups.
- Set traps along your escape route while being pursued.
In addition, make masterful use of your environment. Whistle from cover to draw enemies near for a concealed kill. Vanish into crowds to blend in plain sight. And utilize stalking zones, gazebos, haystacks, and foliage to avoid detection. The world is your weapon.
Gear and Ability Progression for Stealth Supremacy
Follow this route to unlock the best gear and skills for stealth domination:
- Prioritize Extra Tool Capacity first to enable all tools.
- Get the Hidden Blade for silent assassinations.
- Upgrade smoke bombs for longer duration to escape confrontations.
- Obtain the grappling hook to access perches and stalking points.
- Unlock Chain Assassination skills for quickly killing two enemies.
- Increase your Assassin’s Focus duration to eliminate more foes.
- Boost your Arrow Capacity to assassinate distant threats like archers.
- Upgrade your blow dart’s sleep duration against alerted enemies.
This focused progression amplifies your stealth lethality. But feel free to experiment to find your own optimal path. The goal is perfecting the subtle arts of infiltration and elimination.
Managing Notoriety to Avoid Unwanted Attention
Committing crimes raises your notoriety, making guards more aggressive:
- Level 1 – Civilians expose your identity
- Level 2 – Archers populate rooftops to attack
- Level 3 – Elite interceptors hunt you relentlessly
Lower notoriety by removing wanted posters unseen, bribing heralds, or defeating unique community bosses. Anonymity lets you hide and strike anywhere. Avoid confrontations and remain a ghost.
Escaping Pursuit and Evading Enemies
Once engaged, break line of sight immediately. Use smoke bombs and crowds to vanish. Dart through interior spaces and stalking zones. Traps like tripwires can block chasing enemies.
If surrounded, trigger Assassin’s Focus. Plot an escape by meticulously assassinating foes blocking your exit route. Parkour quickly across rooftops and through homes to lose pursuers.
Avoiding detection entirely is ideal. But escape plans enable you to evade and re-enter the shadows if confronted. Ambush scattered enemies after escaping rather than engaging head on.
In Conclusion: Become One with the Shadows
We’ve provided everything you need to master the subtle arts of assassination. Take these teachings to heart in your crusade against the Order of the Ancients. Hone all your abilities in unison to become a perfect shadowy blade dispensing justice.
The path ahead is long, but walk it with patience and determination. Where others are blinded by false truths, we seek knowledge and understanding. When others are restrained by morality and law, we do what is just and necessary.
You are Basim Ibn Ishaq, a Master Assassin. A whisper in darkness. Your deeds will echo through history. Bring hope and freedom to Baghdad’s oppressed people.
The Order will come to fear white robes and red sashes. And your hidden blade. Let it be their end – and a new beginning.