Daredevil - P/P Dash

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Overview

A Daredevil build for running around in open world. This build combines strong ranged damage with insane mobility that allows it to easily avoid danger.

Skills

Pistol/XHealingUtilityElite

X/Pistol

Weapon Variants

You can carry a Shortbow for tagging mobs in open world farming.

Skill Variants

Utilities

Smoke Screen - blinds enemies and destroys projectiles.
Tripwire - if struggling with defiance bars.
Bandit's Defense - short cooldown stun break and block.
Shadowstep - stun break that cleanses conditions.
Haste - stun break that grants offensive boons.
Shadow Refuge - to escape from enemies or stealth past them.

Elite

Thieves Guild - more damage.
Basilisk Venom - strong crowd control if there are allies nearby.

Specializations

Critical Strikes:

Twin Fangs

Ankle Shots

No Quarter

Trickery:

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Trickster

Quick Pockets

Daredevil:

Brawler's Tenacity

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Unhindered Combatant

Variants

Invigorating Precision - if you need healing. If you take this take Thrill of the Crime to keep up fury.

Equipment

Equip your main hand pistol in weapon set 1 and offhand pistol in weapon set 2. This allows you to weapon swap without needing 4 pistols.
Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Standard Equipment

This build uses the same gear as the Deadeye - Power DPS P/P build for fractals and raids, and similar gear to Deadeye - Power DPS D/D. This makes it a good general-purpose gear set and is the gear that most players should aim for.

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Superior Rune of the Scholar

Optimal Equipment

The Optimal Variant is the best possible gear for this build. It's overkill in most cases, and you should only get it if you have spare gold or you don’t care about fractals and raids.

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

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Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Variants

provides high sustain at the cost of damage.

Variations

Consumables

If you're having trouble you can use the following consumables:

Food

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Nourishment (1 h):

+100 Power+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

,

Plate of Truffle Steak

Plate of Truffle Steak

Nourishment (30m):

+100 power+70 precision+10% Experience from kills

Consumable

, or

Dragon's Breath Bun

Dragon's Breath Bun

Nourishment (20 m):

+200 power for 30s after killing an enemy+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

for more damage.
Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew

Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew

Nourishment (30 m):

100% chance to gain might when you dodge.+40% to your Endurance refill rate.+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

for more dodges.
Scoop of Mintberry Swirl Ice Cream for more healing.

Utility

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Nourishment (1 h):

Gain power equal to 3% of your precisionGain power equal to 6% of your ferocity+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

Usage

General

You should have the "Autotarget" option active. This is because many times you will be fighting enemies that do not have enough health remaining to survive all 8 shots of Unload. Autotarget will automatically switch to a nearby enemy when your initial target dies so if there are two enemies sufficiently close to each other, you will still receive the Initiative refund from hitting all 8 shots. Line up your targets appropriately when you have an enemy that is too weak to take all 8 shots.
You should have a key bound to "Disable Autotarget". There are times when you will want to cast an ability without actually hitting anything. Primarily Steal to trigger Thrill of the Crime and Black Powder for stealth blasting out-of-combat.
When you use skills or traits to restore Initiative, try to keep at least one Initiative counter emptied so that you don't waste passive Initiative regeneration.

Damage

Mash Unload and pew pew things to death.
Try to hit with all 8 shots so you get the initative refund.
Weapon swap, Steal, or use Roll for Initiative to regain initiative.
If you're out of initiative, just fill with autoattacks while waiting for your initiative to recharge.

Mobility

In the open world, mobility usually means getting out of combat as fast as possible to remount, or to kill the enemies that are in combat with you in order to exit combat to remount. Whereas in story instances, just having high on-foot mobility is a huge advantage.
Simply by using Dashes, Unhindered Combatant will ensure that you will overcap 100% Swiftness uptime for permanent 33% on-foot movement speed.
You are able to displace yourself more than 3150 units over 6 seconds with full evade frames and be immune to soft control conditions by Dashing 3 times, using Channeled Vigor, Dashing 2 more times, then using Signet of Agility, and Dashing 2 more times. Spam this combination between combat during story instances to cover distance more quickly.
As long as you are using Quick Pockets instead of the other two traits, you can use Steal as a 1200 range teleport to any enemy or neutral unit without being put into combat.
You can swap out Assassin's Signet for Shadowstep for additional mobility. Alternatively, you can take Shortbow for Infiltrator's Arrow to convert Initiative into mobility as well.
Roll for Initiative can be used as a repositioning tool, stunbreak, and initiative recovery skill all rolled into one.

Defense

Use your range to your advantage by kiting enemies and staying out of danger.
If cornered by lots of enemies, use Black Powder or Smoke Screen to pulse blindness.
Headshot is a zero-cooldown daze that can be used to interrupt dangerous attacks.
Dagger Storm evades for a very long duration while still dealing damage.
Smoke Screen destroys projectiles. You can also use Dagger Storm for more projectile defense.
Roll for Initiative can be used as an escape.
Remember to always dodge and sidestep attacks if possible. Don't get hit by anything you can move out of.

Sustain

You receive a small amount of sustained healing from Signet of Malice. If this isn't enough, you can also trait Invigorating Precision.
In a pinch, Signet of Agility cleanses conditions. If you have lots of trouble with conditions you can run Shadowstep.

Stealth

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