Daredevil - Power Daredevil

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on August 02, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Daredevil is a very mobile open world build with lots of evades, decent burst, and good AoE damage. It isn't hard to play and has very little reliance on allies, making it a strong class for completing content alone.

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Skill Bar

Staff

Shortbow

Utility

Skill Variants

Heal skill

Channeled Vigor provides both decent healing and recovers endurance, making it a good all rounded healing skill. But other alternatives can be considered.

• Withdraw - provides less healing but it is an evade and mobility skill.
• Signet of Malice - provides almost no burst healing in exchange for constant sustain if you can keep hitting enemies.
• Hide in Shadows - defensive heal that provides Stealth to access the CC stealth attack Hook Strike.

Utility skill

Keep Fist Flurry as it deals great damage. For the other two slots you can use whatever you want, we suggest Bandit's Defense and Haste for some stun breaks with offensive capabilities, but other options can be considered.

• Shadowstep - alternative stun break that grants mobility and condition cleanse.
• Smoke Screen - blinds enemies and blocks projectiles.
• Scorpion Wire - if crowd control is needed.
• Shadow Refuge - to escape from enemies or stealth past them.
• Signet of Agility - can be considered if conditions are a problem.

Elite skill

• Basilisk Venom - grants significant defiance bar damage
• Thieves Guild - more damage on a longer cooldown; ideal for solo or duo bosses / hero points

Specializations

• Invigorating Precision - provides some sustain.
• Escapist's Fortitude - condition cleanse

Deadly Arts Variant

Higher DPS in situations where you are receiving Might from nearby allies. Replaces trickery.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
This set uses gear similar to Build:Daredevil_-_Power_DPS, making it excellent for general PVE

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Assassin

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Gear

• Knight - defensive trinkets
• Marauder - trades a small amount of damage for a very large boost to health

Runes

• Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration, Rune of Superior Rune of Strength - budget DPS
• Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - defense

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Air - budget DPS
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Strength - higher DPS than other options in longer fights
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Celerity - causes Steal to provide 25% quickness uptime; this can result in the highest DPS increase from a single sigil, but requires skill management to work.

Tagging
Equip your shortbow with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Fire and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Stamina and take Unhindered Combatant to create one of the best mob-tagging options in the game.

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

Usage

Damage

• Open combat with dodge Bound for the extra damage from Bounding Dodger plus Steal to gain the boons from Trickery traits. Dodge often to maintain that bonus.
• Keep your endurance low to benefit from Havoc Specialist.
• Spam Weakening Charge after dodging on single targets.
• Spam Vault after dodging on groups or to evade damage.
• Fill with Auto-attacks; try never to interrupt the attack chain.

Defense

This build's defense is centered around evading damage rather than absorbing it.

• Vault is a semi-spammable dodge.
• Bountiful Theft provides significant Vigor uptime for more dodges.
• Channeled Vigor will refill endurance.
• Dust Strike is an area blind.
• Bandit's Defense is a channelled block.
• Make use of Stealth to disengage. Long lasting stealth can be used to channel hero points or sneak through otherwise dangerous places. If Shadow Refuge is not enough, blast stealth. To do this, equip a shortbow, place a Smoke Screen, then spam Cluster Bomb in the smoke field.

Sustain

• Invigorating Precision is the primary source of healing in the build, though it should only be taken when extra healing is required.

Crowd Control

• Impact Strike and Uppercut (Daredevil)
• Basilisk Venom
• Steal (if running Sleight of Hand)
• Choking Gas
• Bandit's Defense
• Fist Flurry
• Headshot (if running a spare pistol offhand)