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:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on September 18, 2023 and is up to date for the June 27, 2023 game patch.

Overview

Power Daredevil is a very mobile open world build with lots of evades, decent burst, and good AoE damage. It isn't hard to play and has very little reliance on allies, making it a strong class for completing content alone.

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Skill Bar

Staff

Shortbow

Utility

Skill Variants

Heal skill

provides both decent healing and recovers endurance, making it a good all rounded healing skill. But other alternatives can be considered.

• - provides less healing but it is an evade and mobility skill.
• - provides almost no burst healing in exchange for constant sustain if you can keep hitting enemies.
• - defensive heal that provides Stealth to access the CC stealth attack .

Utility skill

Keep as it deals great damage. For the other two slots you can use whatever you want, we suggest and for some stun breaks with offensive capabilities, but other options can be considered.

• - 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.
• - can be considered if conditions are a problem.

Elite skill

• - grants significant defiance bar damage
• - more damage on a longer cooldown; ideal for solo or duo bosses / hero points

Specializations

• - provides some sustain.
• - condition cleanse
• If you're not comfortable keeping your endurance low to gain up to 15% bonus damage from , you can use though this is a dps loss of about 10% long term, and greatly reduces your burst damage.

Deadly Arts Variant

Higher DPS in situations where you are receiving Might from nearby allies. 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
Assassin

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• and are interchangeable.
• Other relics include , , or .
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use Knight trinkets.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• /
• /

Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• /
• (and variants)

Usage

Damage

• Open combat with dodge for the extra damage from plus to gain the boons from Trickery traits. Dodge often to maintain that bonus.
• Keep your endurance low to benefit from . You have 3 bars of endurance. For each bar that isn't full, you gain 5% bonus damage, up to 15% bonus damage.
• Spam after dodging vs. groups of 3 or less enemies.
• Spam after dodging vs. groups of 4 or more enemies.
• Fill with Auto-attacks; try never to interrupt the attack chain.

Opener

Against bosses and other durable enemies, try to follow this opener:

1. X3 to deplete your endurance to gain 15% bonus damage from .
2. (you will regain 50 endurance due to )

After this, keep using and while under the buff of .

Defense

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

• and make you evade attacks for 0.5 seconds.
• provides significant Vigor uptime for more dodges.
• will refill endurance.
• is an area blind.
• is a channelled block.
• Make use of Stealth to disengage. Long lasting stealth can be used 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.

Sustain

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

Crowd Control

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