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Daredevil - Celestial P/P Roamer

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Hybrid damage and Mobility

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on November 08, 2023 and is up to date for the July 18, 2025 patch.

Overview

A hybrid Thief build for WvW roaming. The gameplan is simple: proc Bounding Dodger in Black Powder for stealth, follow up Sneak Attack - repeat until target dies. Due to its simple playstyle it's also quite beginner friendly.


Skill Bar

Pistol/Pistol
Shortbow
Utility


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Specializations


Equipment

Head
Celestial
Shoulders
Celestial
Chest
Celestial
Hands
Celestial
Legs
Celestial
Feet
Celestial
Backpiece
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Amulet
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Pistol
Celestial
Pistol
Celestial
Sigil
Sigil
Shortbow
Celestial
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic


Relics

Having enough endurance is crucial for this build. Cutting Vigor Vigor uptime by opting for a different relic could have a negaive impact in longer fights, but certain other relics could attempt to compensate for that by making you better at getting kills faster:

  • Relic of the Demon Queen - the extra healing reduction could help you kill other Cele builds.
  • Relic of the Fractal - better damage, more condi variety.


Consumables

Food


Utility

  • Optimal: or , whichever is cheaper (the difference beween them is negligible, a grand total of 2 condition damage stat in favor of Tuning Icicle).


Usage

General

  • Drop Black Powder.
  • Dodge.
  • Sneak Attack
  • Repeat.


Ratings

This build has a rating of 4 stars based on 2 votes.
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3 stars
Hanz gave this build 3 stars • February 2025
Extremely obnoxious to play against and very easy to do well with it, but there's very little you can do on this to outplay an opponent. Which is unfortunate when your damage isn't enough to bruteforce a win because then you'll end up in a stalemate. Several nerfs later it's still viable in 1v1s, but doesn't fare well in outnumbered situations. The nerfs to revealed duration is the one that can be felt the most, ironically the initiative nerf on Pistol 5 and the SA trait is almost irrelevant, as the 4s revealed stops us from spamming stealth.
5 stars
Greenranger gave this build 5 stars • July 2022
Thanks to the new Shadowarts changes this build has become incredibly effective, for how easy it is to execute. If you dont greed with this there is no way your dying. Very high stealth uptime and the option to permastealth with your smokefields and Bow 2 + Boundingdodger. I am having great success with it, especially in 1vX situations. Personally i would run "cover of shadows", if you spend your Initiative wisely you will have enough even without shadowsrejuvenation and the extra Protection turns you into a raidboss.

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