Daredevil - Power Daredevil

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on February 16, 2022 and is up to date for the November 28, 2023 patch.

Overview

Power Daredevil is a consistent generalist open world build that brings high damage while maintaining the unique out of combat utility that thief provides. It is relatively easy to play and has very little reliance on allies, making it a strong class for completing content alone.

Power Daredevil is an extremely versatile build that can make use of many different traits and weapons. As such, this guide serves as a catch-all for the "Power Daredevil" playstyle which might include dual pistols, staff, double daggers, shortbow tagging, or even sword/pistol.


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Skill Bar

Staff
Shortbow
Utility


Weapon Variants

  • Shortbow - mobility via
  • Duals Pistols - dual pistols provides a strong ranged option
  • Sword/Pistol - grants access to which is a strong evade (Editor's Note: The evade is not listed in the tooltip. This is a bug.)


Skill Variants

  • - a powerful escape button that can sometimes outclass other heals in high-pressure situations.
  • - can replace if stunbreak isn't needed
  • - a good stunbreak that doubles as a defensive mechanism
  • - alternative stun break that grants mobility and condition cleanse.
  • - blinds enemies and blocks projectiles.
  • - if crowd control is needed.
  • - to escape from enemies or stealth past them.
  • - For assisting allies in reaching places.
  • - provides extra initiative generation, especially when farming trash mobs
  • - grants significant defiance bar damage
  • - more damage on a longer cooldown; ideal for solo or duo bosses / hero points


Specializations

  • - provides enormous amounts of sustain.
  • - 10% quickness uptime
  • - condition cleanse
  • - ignore soft CC; take this if using Pistol/Pistol


Deadly Arts Variant

Higher DPS in situations where you are receiving buffs from nearby allies (such as Fury Fury, , and ). Replaces trickery.


Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
This set uses gear similar to Build:Daredevil_-_Power_DPS, making it excellent for general PVE

Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Hands
Berserker
Legs
Berserker
Feet
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Staff
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Shortbow
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6



Variant Equipment

Gear

  • Knight Knight - defensive trinkets
  • Marauder Marauder - trades a small amount of damage for a very large boost to health

Runes

  • , - budget DPS
  • , - defense

Sigils

  • - budget DPS
  • - higher DPS than other options in longer fights
  • - causes to provide 25% quickness uptime; this can result in the highest DPS increase from a single sigil, but requires skill management to work.

Tagging
Equip your shortbow with and and take to create one of the best mob-tagging options in the game.

Consumables

Food
  • Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
  • - farming
  • , - DPS
  • - defense
Utility
  • (and variants) - farming
  • , - dps


Usage

Damage

Staff

  • Open combat with to proc Trickery traits.
  • Keep endurance at 33% or lower at all times.
  • Spam after dodging on single targets.
  • Spam after dodging on groups or to evade damage
  • Fill with Auto-attacks; try never to interrupt the attack chain.


Pistols

  • Keep Endurance at 33% or lower
  • Spam ; ensure all 8 shots hit
  • Fill with auto-attacks


Sword/Pistol

This weapon set should only be run for the useful evade spam of or area blind of

  • Keep endurance at 33% or lower
  • Auto-attack; try not to interrupt the attack chain
  • If using Black Powder: Fit two auto chains between each cast of Black Powder


Defense

This build's defense is centered around evading damage rather than absorbing it.

  • is a semi-spammable dodge.
  • provides significant Vigor Vigor uptime for more dodges
  • will refill endurance
  • is an area blind

Additionally, thief has many powerful defensive utilities. Make the most of thief's kit by changing skills to fit the current need.


Sustain

  • is the primary source of healing in the build, though it should only be taken when extra healing is required.


Stealth

  • Stealth is one of the most useful tools available to Thieves. Use to channel hero points or sneak through otherwise dangerous places.
  • If is not enough, blast stealth. To do this, equip a shortbow, place a , then spam in the smoke field.


Crowd Control

  • and
  • (if running )
  • (if running a spare pistol offhand)


Ratings

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5 stars
Starlitjupiter gave this build 5 stars • March 2023
Power Daredevil is a hyper-mobile, high DPS build that is incredibly versatile. It's capable of performing well both when solo and in farm zergs. Additionally, when it comes to tagging in events such as the Mad King's Labyrinth, this build is easily the best in the game at it (tied with Greatsword Mirage).

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