Build:Daredevil - Condi DPS

Part of the current metagame

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Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 17, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

The standard condition DPS build for Daredevil. This build spams venoms and Death Blossom on bosses to inflict heavy Bleeding and Poison. Due to evading for most of its rotation, it can easily avoid boss attacks. It also provides high utility to its squad with raid boss stolen skills.

Due to this build's high ramp-up time it's best used on raid bosses with no phases or adds. It performs poorly on any boss with invuln phases, or instant kill attacks that it has a chance to accidentally move into while using Death Blossom.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Dagger

Utility

Skill Variants

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

• Caltrops are in theory higher damage, but to gain full value the boss needs to remain in place for 10s so all ticks hit, and it will lose additional value on encounters with phases, as Devourer Venom can be precast.
• Impairing Daggers (with Brawler's Tenacity) could replace Prepare Thousand Needles on encounters with high movement uptime.
• Bandit's Defense for a block and stun break.
• Shadowstep for extra mobility and stun break.

Elite

• Use Impact Strike for faster breakbar damage, on fights with multiple adds and on Matthias Gabrel, where Basilisk Venom has no effect on the encounter's breakbars.
• Use Thieves Guild for fights that do not have breakbars.

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Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Dagger
Viper

Sigil

Dagger
Viper

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Krait and Rune of Superior Rune of the Afflicted deal almost identical damage, so feel free to use whichever is most convenient.
  • You should use with Rune of Superior Rune of the Afflicted.
• If you wish to benefit from ascended food effects, then use Rune of Superior Rune of the Krait along with and (or equivalents).
• Equip your main hand dagger in your first weapon set and your second dagger in your second weapon set. This lets you weapon swap for Sigil of Superior Sigil of Doom without having to obtain 4 daggers.

Consumables

Food

Utility

• • or for a cheaper alternative

Usage

Your goal is to maintain Lotus Training and 15 stacks of Lead Attacks while using your high-damage utility skills.

Rotation

1. Needle Trap
2. Steal during the cast of Needle Trap
3. Thousand Needles
4. Dodge
5. Use venoms during the dodge animation
6. Death Blossom x3
7. Dodge
8. Death Blossom
9. Auto-attack chain once
10. Dodge
11. Death Blossom
12. Repeat from step 9

• 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.

Video example

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.
• You should try to use Steal while you do not have full initiative in order to benefit from Kleptomaniac and Endurance Thief.
• You should try to use Channeled Vigor while you do not have full endurance.
• You should only use venoms while four other allies are in range (This includes Mesmer clones, Necromancer minions, and Ranger pets).

Breakbar

• Basilisk Venom

Encounter Specific Tips

Spirit Vale

Ghost events

The ghost events are mostly movement based.

• Consider equipping a Short bow, and/or using Shadowstep.

Gorseval the Multifarious

• During the split phases, you can use Dancing Dagger to cripple spirits from 900 range.

Sabetha the Saboteur

• Be very careful not to leap over the boss using Death Blossom or Impaling Lotus while Flame Wall is active.

Salvation Pass

Slothasor

• If running Needle Trap, be careful not to hit a friendly Slubling with it.
• When fixated try not to jump over the boss with Death Blossom or Impaling Lotus.
• You have no way of blocking Slothasor's fear so either rely on others to break/cleanse it for you or equip Bandit's Defense or Shadowstep.

Matthias Gabrel

• Use Heartseeker for mobility around the room.
• Bring Impact Strike for the breakbar.
• You can bring Bandit's Defense to block timed bombs, stunbreak the rain phase knockdown, and block some damage while running poison/plasma.

Stronghold of the Faithful

Escort

• Be very careful when using Death Blossom and Impaling Lotus near mines.
• You can use Needle Trap to immobilize the wargs.

Keep Construct

• You can pre-cast Needle Trap before the burn phase starts to increase your damage.

Twisted Castle

• Consider equipping a Short bow, and/or using Shadowstep.
• Consider equipping a Bandit's Defense as a low-cooldown stunbreak.

Xera

• Be very careful not to leap off the edge using Death Blossom and Impaling Lotus

Bastion of the Penitent

Cairn the Indomitable

• Stacks of Unseen Burden will change the behavior of Death Blossom, make sure to adjust your rotation to account for this.
• This fight has no breakbar, bring Thieves Guild.

Mursaat Overseer

• Be very careful not to leap onto spikes or unclaimed tiles using Death Blossom and Impaling Lotus.
• This fight has no breakbar, bring Thieves Guild.

Samarog

• You can use Needle Trap for extra immobilizes during the split phases.

Deimos

• Be very careful not to jump into the Rapid Decay fields by using Death Blossom and Impaling Lotus
• The breakbar in this fight is too fast and too small to for Basilisk Venom, bring Impact Strike instead.