Daredevil - Staff Daredevil
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Contents
Overview
- Staff Daredevil brings huge direct damage from
Vault and 
Bound while remaining a difficult target due to these skills' evade frames.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Utility
Bandit's Defense can replace Signet of Agility or Assassin's Signet if sustain is needed.
Devourer Venom
Elite
Specializations
| Critical Strikes: |
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Invigorating Precision Increase in sustain but huge damage loss.
| Trickery: |
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- 24px Burst of Agility Occasional source of quickness.
| Daredevil: |
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Variants
| Acrobatics: |
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Acrobatics can replace Critical Strikes and offers a huge boost in sustain when not in a proper group.
Equipment
6xSuperior Rune of the Scholar
18xMighty WvW Infusion
Variants
Sigils
- combines with
Bountiful Theft and 
Sleight of Hand to guarantee boon rip of 
Stability and 
Resistance (as long as the target is casting).
Consumables
Food
- Alternate offensive option
- Defensive option vs condi pressure.
Utility
- Best option with a competent group and a high time above 90% life.
Usage
- General Damage
- The overwhelming majority of infight time will be spent on Staff due to its blend of damage and evade effects.
- Steal cannot be used while casting Vault, but it works with Bounding Dodger. If you want to do burst damage:
- Prepare
Assassin's Signet for the power boost. - Start dodging (to proc
Bounding Dodger. - Hit
Swipe while dodging in order to close the gap. - Follow up with Vault
- Bounding Dodger followed by a Vault will be your main source of damage. Both are slow with obvious animations so try to predict where your enemy's going to be when you land and aim for that location.
Staff Master gives back endurance when you spend initiative. Try not to use weapon skills while at full endurance when possible. Engaging with two dodges following by 3 Vault will fully restore your endurance if 
Vigor is present.- Staff skills other than auto attack (for downed cleave while out of endurance/initiative or if the target doesn't have much HP left and you need a quick finish) and Vault are very situational and won't see much use.
Debilitating Arc will be useful for getting out of 
immobilize and 
Dust Strike can blind important skills. - Save some endurance to back out of the melee. You are very squishy outside of your evade frames.
- Be aware of
Shocking Aura and line effects such as 
Ring of Warding or 
Unsteady Ground, without Stability being hit by one of these effects during an evade can be very punishing.
- Be aware of
- If you jump while casting Debilitating Arc then use another skill, you will get the evade frames but not roll backwards.
- Targeted Attacks
- Bountiful Theft will always remove Stability, thus it combines well with Sleight of Hand against channeling enemies or crowd controll skills from your teammates.
- If not already needed for an engage, try to save Swipe for significant targets such as Warriors channeling
Winds of Disenchantment or backline classes.
- Before and after clashes
- If a fight is expected, for example when defending a position or in Scrims, Devourer Venom and
Basilisk Venom can both be prepared as they last for 30s and are replaced by the proper utilities before engaging. 
Choking Gas Is very effective on downs that you are either not able to cleave or before going in on Staff to Vault, with an unblockable pulsing immobilize and poison to slow potential resurrects.
Gameplay Videos
- YouTube: Sindrener
- YouTube: [Mada] BeyondB
- YouTube: [DayZ]Skip to 5:20 for Staff gameplay.
Jun 19
And Thief takes another hit - The recent reworks didn't impacts its power, quite the opposite in fact (especially with Arc Divider getting a haircut), so Thief is still capable of pulling really nice damage, if it manages to get in range. And here the problems start, Swipe being lowered to a range 600 and requiring to connect for casting causes the engage capabilities to be atrocious, practically abolishing the freedom thief has had in the front end of public pushes.
(would probably still vote 3 stars if it wasn't for all the 5 star votes)
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Frontline Thief is kinda in a weird position. It is capable of dishing out extreme amounts of damage in guild sized fights and can also perform really well in public zergs of a limited size even though the support in those fights is naturally weaker. However it really gets difficult against groups of 30 and larger, lacking proper support here, the sheer amount of random damage floating around can easily cause an extreme headache, effectively reducing your ability to roll your damage if not outright killing you.
Most of the time however, it's the range that overshadows the thief, other power classes such as Herald, Power Scourge or usually pull ahead during the time it takes for commanders to engage (if at all). The impact of the boonrip from Trickery also seems outclassed by Scourge as of now where the sheer amount of boonrips dwarfs the three on steal regardless of specificity.