Daredevil - Condi Daredevil

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

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on July 26, 2024 and is up to date for the April 15, 2025 patch.

Overview

Condition Daredevil employs its damaging evades

Impaling Lotus

and

Death Blossom

to bleed and torment their enemies to death. Albeit lacking in burst damage, its evasiveness and general thief mobility make it a decent build for open world, though its unavoidable forced movement can be disorienting at first.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Dagger

Shortbow

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Axe - Axe can replace shortbow to replace mobility for some ranged damage. Only available to players with Expanded Weapon Proficiency.

Skill Variants

Heal skill

• Hide in Shadows
  - defensive heal skill, but Channeled Vigor works better with this build.

Utility skills

You have several options to consider.

Caltrops

and

Prepare Thousand Needles

are recommended for their high damage, but require the enemy to stay inside their area of effect. If the enemy moves too much, or you want to try other other options, here are some alternatives:

• Impairing Daggers
  - some ranged damage and soft cc
• Skale Venom
  - good when soloing to inflict vulnerability
• Smoke Screen
  - blocks projectiles and provides a smoke field for stealth
• Shadowstep
  - teleport + stunbreak
• Shadow Refuge
  - group stealth
• Scorpion Wire
  - significant breakbar damage

Elite skill

Thieves Guild is great for soloing. If you need CC; you can use:

• Basilisk Venom
  - works best when shared with nearby allies.

Specializations

Variants

• Escapist's Fortitude
  - condition cleanse

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_-_Condi_DPS, making it a good choice for general PVE

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Dagger
Viper

Dagger
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• If you don't have access to Relic of the Fractal, consider
  Relic of the Cavalier
  or
  Relic of the Krait
  .
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Trailblazer is never necessary but can be considered.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• Plate of Beef Rendang
  /
  Bowl of Truffle Risotto
• Master Tuning Crystal
  /
  Tuning Icicle

Defense

• Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew
  - this food is nearly no DPS loss when solo
• Oysters with Spicy Sauce
• Bowl of Lemongrass Mussel Pasta

Farming

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• Birthday Blaster
  /
  Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake
• Peppermint Omnomberry Bar
• Sharpening Skull
  (and variants)

Usage

Damage

With this build, damage and defense are intrinsically tied together via

Death Blossom

and

Impaling Lotus

. Everytime you evade, you will also damage nearby enemies.

Your dodge,

Impaling Lotus

, provides the buff

Lotus Training

which increases your damage for a few seconds. Your main goal is to space your dodges to maintain high uptime of this buff. While under the effects of this buff, use

Death Blossom

for damage. Fill the gaps when endurance and/or intiative are low with basic attacks, but try not to interrupt your auto-attack chains as the 3rd deals significantly higher damage.

IF ranged damage is required, use

Dancing Dagger

or Axe (requires https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Expanded_Weapon_Proficiency Expanded Weapon Proficiency])

Both

Death Blossom

and

Impaling Lotus

are whirl finishers (See: Guide:What are Combo Fields), try to whirl through fields to create various damaging bolts.

Opening

You can start fights following this general idea:

1. Cast
   Thieves Guild
2. Cast
   Spider Venom
   (it will be shared with your nearby Thieves Guild allies)
3. Prepare Thousand Needles
4. Impaling Lotus
5. Caltrops
6. Death Blossom

Remember to change your utility skills to fit the situation at hand. Caltrops and Prepare Thousand Needles deal great damage, but require the enemy to stand in its area of effect. Consider

Skale Venom

and

Impairing Daggers

if Caltrops and Prepare Thousand Needles would be suboptimal.

Fill empty space with basic attacks and cast venoms off cooldown.

You can control the direction of the dodge

Impaling Lotus

with your movement keys, but keep in mind that

Death Blossom

cannot be controlled and will always whirl through the target. Alternatively, you can disable auto targetting, and unselect your target to manually control Death Blossom.

Defense

• The best defense is to dodge attacks, and this build has numerous evades. Learn to recognize dangerous attacks and respond to them.
• Stealing gives you back a dodge thanks to
  Endurance Thief
  .
• Thief and Daredevil offer various stunbreaks, such as
  Haste
  ,
  Bandit's Defense
  , and
  Shadowstep
  . It is advised to take one of these, as CC is what will usually kill you.
• You can go into stealth via
  Cloak and Dagger
  to remove threat, break enemy targeting, and reposition yourself.

Crowd Control

• Basilisk Venom
• Choking Gas
• Prepare Thousand Needles