Daredevil - Staff Daredevil

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The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great.

Focused on: Gvg, Direct damage, Utility.

Designed for:

World vs World

Overview

Staff Daredevil brings huge direct damage from

and

while remaining a difficult target due to these skills' evade frames. It excels in a GvG setting where its

can quickly finish downed opponents and its superior smoke field access can be utilized.

Skill Bar

 

 

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Shortbow

Skill Variants

Healing

• is an excellent mobility and panic button as well as an extra on demand evade.

Elite

• Offers a strong and unique utility that lets you secure kills in GvG settings.

Specializations

Variants

• For less damage but high utility and synergy if using Physical skills.
• If you are having extreme trouble with condition cleansing.

Variants

• Variants
  • If your sustain is good.

Critical Strikes is recommended for higher damage and higher active sustain, especially in a GvG setting. However Acrobatics offers great passive sustain that makes it excellent for larger scale fights, so choose according to what you will be doing.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Pack

18x

Mighty WvW Infusion

Variants

Stats

• The two Soldier's rings can be replaced with Valkyrie for more damage but at a high sustainability loss.

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Absorption

  Superior Sigil of Absorption

  Steal a boon when interrupting an enemy.
  combines with
  and
  to guarantee boon rip of Stability and Resistance (as long as the target is casting).

Consumables

Food

• Fried Oyster Sandwich

  Fried Oyster Sandwich

  Nourishment (30 m):

  +10% Damage Reduction+70 Power+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable
  Offensive option.
• 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
  Alternate offensive option
• Loaf of Saffron Bread

  Loaf of Saffron Bread

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Incoming damage reduced by 20% while stunned, knocked down, or knocked back.-20% condition duration+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable
  Defensive option vs condi pressure.

Utility

• Furious Sharpening Stone

  Furious Sharpening Stone

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Gain Power equal to 3% of your PrecisionGain Ferocity equal to 3% of your Precision+10% Experience from Kills

  Consumable
  .

Usage

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Make sure to coordinate
  with your teammates crowd control skills on a focus target.
  will always remove Stability
• If you jump while casting
  then use another skill, you will get the evade frames but not roll backwards.
• 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.
• Steal cannot be used while casting Vault, but it works with Bounding Dodger. If you want to do burst damage:

1. Use
2. Start dodging (to proc
3. Hit
   while dodging in order to close the gap and stun the target with the unblockable venom
4. Follow up with

Gameplay Videos

• YouTube:
  Sindrener
• YouTube:
  [Mada] BeyondB
• YouTube:
  [DayZ]
  Skip to 5:20 for Staff gameplay.