Build:Daredevil - Boon Support Condi DPS

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

Focused on: Condition damage and Support

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 15, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condi variant of Daredevil - Boon Daredevil. This raid build provides 100% uptime on Might, Quickness, Fury, Protection, Regeneration, Vigor, Resolution and very high uptimes on Stability, Aegis and Resistance.

Boon Daredevil only functions on bosses that provide Detonate Plasma. Compared to power, this build provides more DPS, but due to its high ramp-up time it's best used on raid bosses with no phases.

Thus, it is likely you will only run it at Matthias Gabrel or Mursaat Overseer.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Dagger

Dagger/Pistol

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility Skills

Always keep Spider Venom as it is a significant portion of your damage. If you need to replace skills, replace Needle Trap.

• Bandit's Defense for a block and stun break.
• Shadowstep for extra mobility and stun break.

Elite Skills

• Use Basilisk Venom for higher break bar damage on fights with no adds.
• Use Thieves Guild for fights that do not have break bars.

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Equipment

Head
Ritualist

Shoulders
Ritualist

Chest
Ritualist

Hands
Ritualist

Legs
Ritualist

Feet
Ritualist

Backpiece
Ritualist

Accessory
Ritualist

Accessory
Ritualist

Amulet
Ritualist

Ring
Ritualist

Ring
Ritualist

Dagger
Ritualist

Dagger
Ritualist

Sigil

Sigil

Pistol
Ritualist

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Torment can be swapped for a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Concentration for more reliable boon uptimes. You could also use Sigil of Superior Sigil of Agony as a budget option for a minor DPS loss.
• Pistol is only taken to provide additional CC at Matthias.
• Celestial stats can be taken instead of Ritualist stats for a small loss of efficiency if you have greater access to it, as ritualist trinkets especially can be difficult to come by without legendaries. Note: Celestial gear will increase your toughness, but as this build is mostly viable at bosses without toughness tanking, it is largely a non-issue.

Consumables

Food

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Utility

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Usage

Your goal is to maintain Lotus Training and ~11 stacks of Lead Attacks while using your high-damage utility skills.

Rotation

1. Needle Trap
2. Steal during the cast of Needle Trap
3. Detonate Plasma
4. Thousand Needles
5. Dodge
6. Use venoms during the dodge animation
7. Death Blossom x3
8. Dodge
9. Detonate Plasma (if available)
10. Auto Attack chain
11. Dodge
12. Death Blossom
13. Repeat from step 10

• Use Weapon swap, venoms, Needle Trap and Steal when they are off cooldown.
• Use Channeled Vigor before or after any auto-attack chain when you are out of endurance.

Notes

• If you are inside the boss's hitbox and there are other enemies nearby, Impaling Lotus will deal up to triple damage to the boss.
• Be careful not to cancel the auto attack chain as Lotus Strike deals more damage than Double Strike and Wild Strike combined.
• Steal off cooldown to maintain initiative, endurance, and Detonate Plasma.
  • Every other time you Steal, one of your utility cooldowns will reset thanks to Improvisation. The ICD is slightly longer than the cooldown on Steal, but it isn't worth delaying for the cooldown reset.
• You should use Channeled Vigor while you do not have enough endurance to dodge.
• You should only use venoms while four other allies are in range. This includes Mesmer clones, Necromancer minions, and Ranger pets.

Breakbar

When more CC is required, swap to pistol and spam Headshot. Just autoattack (while using Steal and utility skills off cooldown) until you can switch back to dagger/dagger, dodge if you reach full endurance, and use Shadow Shot if you reach full initiative. Once you switch back to dagger/dagger, restart the rotation from step 5.

• Basilisk Venom
• Impact Strike

Encounter Specific Tips

Matthias Gabrel

• This encounter can be quite disruptive. It is recommended to start the encounter and Steal from Matthias, then /gg so that you can begin by using Detonate Plasma four times in quick succession (make sure to delay your Steal until you've used the first two.
• When the timed bomb mechanic begins, try to only use Detonate Plasma when the group has stacked back up.
• As the boss nears 40%, make sure you have a charge of Detonate Plasma ready to use at the phase transition to prevent the Fear.

For more information, see our Matthias Gabrel Guide.