Magic Mirror

(unnamed object)

Location

Castora
(Tyria)

Requires

Secrets Unearthed

Interact

Yes

Destructible

No

Other images

With linked Obscured Chests in Shipwreck Strand With linked Obscured Chests in Starlit Weald

Magic Mirrors are interactable objects hidden around Castora that become visible upon obtaining the first mastery in the Wild Castoran Magic mastery track,   Secrets Unearthed.

Successfully finishing the mini-game spawns one Long-Lost Keepsake Box at the mirror location and multiple Obscured Chests within the area of the mirror. If player trained the   Prosperity Unending mastery, it also grants 5  Ethereal Key Charges.

Mechanics

Mini-game

• Upon interacting with a Magic Mirror, a formation of floating targets will appear in the distance behind it. The player is stuck in place and cannot move while affected by  (unnamed effect). The goal is to destroy all targets within the limit of three ammo charges.
• There are two types of targets, dark and light. Dark targets create an explosion around them, destroying any targets around it.
  • Therefore hold fire (at the dark targets) until the dark targets move close to the light targets.
  • Dark targets hit by the explosion of another dark target will cascade, meaning a chain can be destroyed with one shot.
    • When there's a stationary dark target next to a moving target, it may be easier to time the explosion by aiming at the stationary target.
• The target formation is always the same for a specific mirror location. Some mirrors require significantly better timing than others.
• The challenge can be reset by pressing the reset button.

• 

  Example mini-game appearance

Bugs:

• Moving targets frequently desync, making them hard to hit and causing explosions in different positions than intended.
• After resetting, the moving targets may flicker and move erratically.

Skills

#	Skill			Description
1	Fire	0.25¼		Fire at your target. This projectile disintegrates after 1 second.
2	Reset		2	Reset all targets and reload.

Rewards

• One Long-Lost Keepsake Box spawns at the mirror location.
• Multiple obscured chests spawn within the area. They require  Ethereal Key Charge to open, with the amount dependent on the chest type.
  • Small Obscured Chest (3  keys or 2 with  Efficient Magic)
  • Medium Obscured Chest (6  keys or 4 with  Efficient Magic)
  • Large Obscured Chest (15  keys or 10 with  Efficient Magic)
• Each chest can only be opened once per day per account.

Chest contents

All the chests follow a similar pattern of containing multiple separately dropped pieces of Unidentified Gear. With the  Obscured Riches mastery trained, they also contain additional currencies, and have a chance to approximately double their gear drops.

Chest	Gear			Currencies
Long-Lost Keepsake Box	2	1-2	1-2	3	3	0	7-10
Small Obscured Chest	1	0	0-1	1	1	0	1-3
Medium Obscured Chest	2	1-2	0-1	2	2	0	4-6
Large Obscured Chest	3	1-2	1-2	3	3	0	7-10

Possible upgrades

• Each drop follows standard loot mechanics, where it has a progressively lower chance to upgrade to higher rarities.
• Any gear drop also has a chance to be upgraded to Chromatic Resin Box
• Piece of Common Unidentified Gear
  • Also has a chance to be upgraded to Rare Essence of Luck
  • Also has a chance to be upgraded to Exotic Essence of Luck
• Piece of Unidentified Gear
  • Also has a chance to upgrade in quantity to 2-3
• Piece of Rare Unidentified Gear
  • Also has a chance to upgrade in quantity to 2-3

Locations

Castora

• Shipwreck Strand
• Starlit Weald (excluding The Winding Passage)
• Eternity's Garden

Obscured chest spawn locations

• Locations for small chests are guaranteed to spawn a small chest.
• Areas containing medium chests always contain two, except for Temple of the Blessed Mantle and Artificer's Islet which contain three each.
• In areas where a large chest can be found, it spawns randomly in one of the locations shared between the medium and large chests.
• Because some areas in Eternity's Garden have more possible locations for medium and large chests than can spawn, some spots will be empty.

Bug:

In Shipwreck Strand and Starlit Weald, a medium and the large chest may spawn inside each other at the same location, leading to one of the other locations being empty. Both chests can still be opened.

Related masteries

Wild Castoran Magic

•  Secrets Unearthed: Magic mirrors can be seen and interacted with. Engage with their challenges to reveal additional treasure chests in a sector.
•  Lingering Magic: Gain key charges when entering Castoran maps for the first time each day.
•  Efficient Magic: Chests require fewer key charges to open.
•  Obscured Riches: Magic-mirror treasure chests have a chance of granting additional rewards.
•  Prosperity Unending: Completing magic-mirror challenges awards key charges.
•  Residual Mirror Magic: Completing magic-mirror challenges awards stacks of Residual Magic. Mirrors and revealed obscured chests are marked on the map.

Notes

Bugs:

• If another player interacts with a chest after you reveal it but before you interact with it, it will remove its icon from your map. You can still loot it, but finding it will be more difficult. ^{[verification requested]}
• Chests don't always appear, and may require a re-log + redo of the corresponding mirror for it to show up (may take multiple tries). ^{[verification requested]}

• Magic mirror challenges can be repeated by switching to another character or by relogging. Subsequent completions award 5  Ethereal Key Charges (  Prosperity Unending mastery required) and reveal unopened obscured chests. The Long-Lost Keepsake Box will also respawn if it wasn't opened already that day.
• You may need to go to character select and log back in if you can't see the mirrors after unlocking the mastery, which will make you lose your  Ethereal Key Charges.

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Castoran Chests