Daredevil - Staff Daredevil
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Contents
Overview
Staff Daredevil brings huge direct damage from and while remaining a difficult target due to these skills' evade frames.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Utility
- can replace Signet of Agility or Assassin's Signet if sustain is needed.
Elite
Specializations
Variants
- Increase in sustain but huge damage loss.
Variants
- Occasional source of quickness.
Variants
- for better condi clear
Variants
- Acrobatics can replace Critical Strikes and offers a huge boost in sustain when not in a proper group.
Equipment
6x
Superior Rune of the Scholar
18x
Mighty WvW Infusion
Consumables
- feast option with additional power and ferocity.
Variants
Sigils
- combines with and to guarantee boon rip of
Stability and 
Resistance (as long as the target is casting).
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 for the power boost.
- Start dodging (to proc .
- Hit while dodging in order to close the gap.
- Follow up with
- followed by a 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.
- 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 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 are very situational and won't see much use. will be useful for getting out of
immobilize and 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 and line effects such as or , without Stability being hit by one of these effects during an evade can be very punishing.
- Be aware of and line effects such as or , without
- If you jump while casting then use another skill, you will get the evade frames but not roll backwards.
- Targeted Attacks
- will always remove Stability, thus it combines well with against channeling enemies or crowd controll skills from your teammates.
- If not already needed for an engage, try to save for significant targets such as Warriors channeling or backline classes.
- Before and after clashes
- If a fight is expected, for example when defending a position or in Scrims, and can both be prepared as they last for 30s and are replaced by the proper utilities before engaging.
- Is very effective on downs that you are either not able to cleave or before going in on Staff to , with an unblockable pulsing immobilize and poison to slow potential resurrects.
Gameplay Videos
- YouTube: [Sen] Forged
- YouTube: [LAYS] Insight
- YouTube: [LAYS] Zylîght
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.