Daredevil - Condi D/D Permadodge Roamer

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on November 21, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A condition based Dagger/Dagger Thief build for WvW roaming with a very simple playstyle: keep dodging attacks indefinitely while passives take care of everything else.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Dagger

Dagger/Dagger

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility

Viable choices for the optional slot:

• Signet of Agility - endurance refill and more condition removal.

• Prepare Thousand Needles - AoE burst damage + soft-CC. Could make all the difference vs more tanky Cele builds out there. Quite good at taking camps too.

• Impairing Daggers - low CD offensive option with mediocre damage, but it does provide some setup with the Immob and healing reduction via Poison.

• Bandit's Defense - great defensive skill that adds another stun break to the build. It can act as a time-out button, giving you some time for endurance/initiative/other CDs to come back up while you're heavily pressured and out of options.

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Equipment

Head
Trailblazer

Shoulders
Trailblazer

Chest
Trailblazer

Hands
Trailblazer

Legs
Trailblazer

Feet
Trailblazer

Backpiece
Trailblazer

Accessory
Apothecary

Accessory
Apothecary

Amulet
Apothecary

Ring
Apothecary

Ring
Apothecary

Dagger
Trailblazer

Sigil

Dagger
Trailblazer

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Note: you don't have to use 4 daggers for this build. If you only put a mainhand in set 1 and an offhand in set 2, mechanically they'll work the same as having 2 full weapon sets. This could save you some gold on gear. The only reason to have 2 full weapon sets here is if you'd like to use a different set of sigils for each.

Equipment Variants

Relics

• Relic of the Mirage - better condition variety, but it's less bursty than Fractal.

• Relic of Nayos - huge boost to your already great passive healing, but it's usually the relatively low damage of the build that's going to be a problem so you should be better off with an offensive relic.

Stats

• A full set of Celestial gear would also work if you can't get Trailblazer or already have a Cele set, but the build doesn't scale that well with Power and your condition pressure will be lower.

Consumables

Food

Utility

• Optimal:

• Optional: - with the amount of healing and evasion uptime this build has, it's actually somewhat realistic to have a near permanent uptime of this consumable in combat. It could even be considered optimal. If however you're not confident in your ability to stay above 90% HP in combat, or you find this too expensive, then other consumables are fine too.

• Budget: either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.

Usage

General

• Spam dodge and Death Blossom. Dodging costs 50 endurance, DB costs 5 Initiative, rotate these two in a way that you never run out of both resources at the same time. If you do, use weapon swaps and various CDs to keep going.

• Try to weave in some dagger autoattacks for the Poison when you aren't pressured.

• Swap weapons on CD but make sure that you're missing at least 1 dodge bar's worth of endurance.
  • Tip: try swapping weapons right after you dodge. Dodging shoots 3 projectiles at enemies via Lotus Training, these could almost instantly apply Sigil of Superior Sigil of Doom ensuring that the proc can't be avoided.

• Use Steal on CD but make sure that you're missing at least 2 initiative and half a dodge bar.

• Evading attacks passively heals you, restores intiative, removes conditions and damages opponents.

• Never use Signet of Malice, keep it for the passive healing. View Dagger Storm as your actual healing skill - the rapid attacks combined with the signet's passive heal for quite a high amount, and this healing scales with the number of hostile targets around you.