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
Overview
Condition Daredevil employs its damaging evades
and 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.
Template Code
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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
- - defensive heal skill, but Channeled Vigor works better with this build.
Utility skills
You have several options to consider.
and 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:- - some ranged damage and soft cc
- - good when soloing to inflict vulnerability
- - blocks projectiles and provides a smoke field for stealth
- - teleport + stunbreak
- - group stealth
- - significant breakbar damage
Elite skill
Thieves Guild is great for soloing. If you need CC; you can use:
- - works best when shared with nearby allies.
Specializations
- Variants
- - 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
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- If you don't have access to Relic of the Fractal, consider or .
- 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.
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Defense
- - this food is nearly no DPS loss when solo
Farming
- Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
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- (and variants)
Usage
Damage
With this build, damage and defense are intrinsically tied together via
and . Everytime you evade, you will also damage nearby enemies.Your dodge,
, provides the buff 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 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 Axe (requires https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Expanded_Weapon_Proficiency Expanded Weapon Proficiency])
orBoth Guide:What are Combo Fields), try to whirl through fields to create various damaging bolts.
and are whirl finishers (See:Opening
You can start fights following this general idea:
- Cast
- Cast (it will be shared with your nearby Thieves Guild allies)
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
and 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
with your movement keys, but keep in mind that 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 .
- Thief and Daredevil offer various stunbreaks, such as , , and . It is advised to take one of these, as CC is what will usually kill you.
- You can go into stealth via to remove threat, break enemy targeting, and reposition yourself.
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