Daredevil - Carrion P/D

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Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 13, 2022.

Overview

A Daredevil version of the Core P/D Condition build for sPvP, designed to roam the map and quickly overwhelm targets with a wide variety of conditions. Compared to the core version, this build trades the extra stealth and utilites granted by Shadow Arts for better mobility and survival out of stealth.

Skill Bar

Pistol/Dagger

Shortbow

Utility

Skill Bar Variants

Utility

Other viable choices:

• Skale Venom - a bursty option and a replacement for the nerfed Spider Venom.

• Shadow Refuge - could be used to gain extra sustain, mask group movements, cloak downed allies, or disengage safely.

• Smoke Screen - an excellent projectile denial and smoke field to set up combos and stealth allies.

Elite

This slot largely depends on personal preferences:

• Basilisk Venom makes it easier to land your burst and can be shared with your allies.

• Thieves Guild is a bit of a meme option, but if you share Skale Venom with them their combined burst could catch people offguard.

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Specializations

Variants

• For a less Poison focused build you could take Improvisation. This is going to cost you some damage but adds more utility to the build through CD resets and an additional charge of stolen skills.

Equipment

Pistol

Dagger

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Usage

General

• Share your venom(s) with as many allies as possible, including pets and minions.

• Use Infiltrator's Arrow to move between capture points. Your job is to roam the map and +1 fights by bursting down targets who have no cleansing / no cooldowns left.

Stealing

• Steal is replaced by Swipe which inherits all the traits from Steal, but has half the range. To compensate for that, Swipe is unblockable! We'll still be referring to this profession mechanic as steal/stealing for most of the guide.

• Swipe is going to be used more freely here compared to other builds as it's not an interrupt in this build. Steal applies various cover conditions such as Vulnerability from Even the Odds or Bleeding from Deadly Ambush, fitting nicely into your burst combos.

• Swipe teleports you into melee range so you can follow that up with Shadow Strike and Repeater, in addition, it provides extra initiative.
  • Note: Swipe has a much shorter range than Steal from the Core version of the build, making it more ideal to use in middle of combat. Infiltrator's Signet can be used instead as the gap closer.

Pistol/Dagger

• Most of the damage in this build comes from the Shadow Strike ⇒ Repeater chain and the occasional Sneak Attack. You should spend most of your initiative on these skills.
  • Once you have access to Repeater it's possible to spam this skill 2 times in a row without having to refresh with Shadow Strike.

• Body Shot is more of a niche skill. It could be useful for rooting targets in place, making it easier to land Shadow Strike, but you should try to do it without Bola Shot to save initiative whenever possible. Another thing you could do is root targets in place to make sure your brust doesn't miss, or that they don't catch up to you while spamming Repeater.

• Dancing Dagger is okay for some ranged poking vs multiple targets if you can't get in range for Shadow Strike and don't want to switch to bow just yet.

• Cloak and Dagger provides relatively easy stealth access which could be followed up with Sneak Attack. However doing Shadow Strike ⇒ Repeater is generally better as it's more damage and SS has a way shorter cast time than CnD, making it easier to pull off (especially under pressure). This is more of a niche defensive/utility skill, allowing you to catch a break while under attack or safestomp downed enemies.
  • This is often used on AI (clones, pets, minions) because this skill is all about the stealth, not the damage, and AI won't dodge it therefore the odds of getting a successful CnD off becomes higher.

Shortbow

Utility weapon, secondary set

• Trick Shot is a bit of a weak filler skill in this build that you can spam when weapon swap is on CD and you're out of initiative.

• Cluster Bomb being a spammable blast finisher has high value for your team when it comes to blasting fields for AoE Stealth.
  • Its chain skill Detonate Cluster is a solid source of downed cleave.

• Disabling Shot (thief short bow) provides access to some evasion in case you're being focused by the enemy team and your defensive skills are on CD. Remains usable even while Immobilized, but it's somewhat expensive.

• Use Choking Gas on downed enemies especially if they are being revived - Poison decreases healing received by 33% which affects resurrecting speed and the initial strike interrupts foes.

• Infiltrator's Arrow is the #1 skill for moving around the map in general, cuts down on travel time between capture points drastically.

Utilities

• Shadowstep is easily the most versatile and one of the strongest skills in the build. It has 2 parts:
  • The first half is a stun break and teleport, which already has countless applications. A few applications include teleport to safety while pressured, extending your reach in combat, or using the instant mobility boost to decap enemy points before using the 2nd part of the skill to leave just as fast.
  • The second half is called Shadow Return. This skill becomes available for 10 seconds after using Shadowstep, and cures 3 conditions in addition to breaking stun again before returning you to your starting location.
  • These can also be combined to safe stomp targets: begin stomping, Shadowstep away to safety, and then follow up with Shadow Return at the end of the animation in order to finish the target.

• Blinding Powder is fairly simple. This is your second stun breaker, and another source of stealth. This skill can be used offensively as stealth allows you to use Sneak Attack in case you run out of initiative.

• Infiltrator's Signet is your primary gap closer, allowing you to instantly set up Shadow Strike ⇒ Repeater from 1200 range distance. Unlike steal, this skill teleports you to the target's direction even when out of range, allowing you to chase for 1800 range distance in total when combined with Swipe.

• Dagger Storm is both a defensive and offensive elite. The rather lengthy evade frame with increased movement speed makes it an excellent panic button when you're being focused by the enemy team. On the other hand the skill deals heavy AoE damage especially when comboed with Choking Gas, which makes it great for pressuring melee targets in general with next to no risk.
  • Skills like Shocking Aura or Line of Warding are able to interrupt Dagger Storm, so don't be completely careless.

Related Builds

• Thief - Core P/D Condition - core version.