Daredevil - Staff Daredevil (GvG)

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Focused on: Direct damage and Utility

Designed for: WvW GvG

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

Overview

Staff Daredevil brings huge direct damage and cleave from

Vault

while being a difficult target due to its evade frames. Excels in highly coordinated group play group with strong support enabling it.

Skill Bar

Staff

Staff

Utility

Template Code

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Equipment

Head
Marauder

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Marauder

Legs
Marauder

Feet
Marauder

Backpiece
Marauder

Accessory
Dragon

Accessory
Dragon

Amulet
Marauder

Ring
Dragon

Ring
Marauder

Staff
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x17

Infusion
x1

Relic

Consumables

• Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak
  • Fried Oyster Sandwich
    personal option
• Writ of Masterful Strength

Usage

General

• When using
  Steal
  prioritize, in order:
  • Warriors -
    Whirling Axe
  • Revenants -
    Essence Sap
  • Mesmers -
    Consume Plasma
  • Necromancers -
    Skull Fear

Priorities

High

• Spike damage

Moderate

• Sustained damage

Surviving

• This build has low passive defense
• This build has high mobility skill access
  • An About Face keybind can be useful for
    Debilitating Arc
  • Beware of CCs like (
    Line of Warding
    ) and
    Shocking Aura
    that will interrupt Dodge and
    Vault
• This builds has high active defenses
  • If you die inside ground pressure, immediately use
    Shadow Escape
    towards your group
    • If you are unlikely to be cleaved quickly, don't use
      Shadow Escape
      as it can make allied
      Signet of Mercy
      fail
  • Use
    Channeled Vigor
    between engages while positioned safely to restore endurance
  • Shadowstep
    is your most powerful defensive skill and only stunbreak, try to be very conservative with it
    • Hold onto
      Shadow Return
      for as long as possible for the same reasons

Active defense priority

• Shadowstep
  /
  Shadow Return
  - for stunbreaking
• Debilitating Arc
  - for Immobilize
• Signet of Agility
  - for Immobilize
• Dodge
• Debilitating Arc
  - general use
• Signet of Agility
  - for endurance
• Dagger Storm
• Channeled Vigor
• Shadowstep
  - general use

Detailed Explanations

Spike damage

• Bound
  ⇒
  Vault
  ⇒
  Vault
  ⇒ Weapon Swap (
  Superior Sigil of Hydromancy
  ) ⇒
  Vault
• Use
  Steal
  at the end of the cast of
  Weakening Whirl
  or
  Bound
  to port yourself onto the target as an alternative opener
  • Weakening Whirl
    hits harder than
    Vault
    , but only if all three hits connect, which is unreliable without
    Steal
• Use your spike when:
  • Your group calls a spike:
    • Winds -
      Winds of Disenchantment
    • Wells -
      Well of Corruption
      +
      Well of Suffering
    • Shades -
      Desert Shroud
    • Traps -
      Procession of Blades
      +
      Test of Faith
  • On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
  • Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing

Sustained damage

• Switch weapons as often as possible to proc
  Quick Pockets
  and
  Superior Sigil of Energy
  • Try not to swap if either proc would get less than full value, though
    Quick Pockets
    is more important
  • Swap as you finish
    Vault
    to increase your spike with
    Superior Sigil of Hydromancy
• Try to position yourself on the edge of the enemy group, away from the direction they push into
  • This also applies for targetting
    Vault
    , don't cast it into the middle of the enemy stack
• In general, it is better to pool initiative for spikes instead of spending it on sustained damage
  • This does not mean you should spend long at the initiative cap
• Finish your auto chains before using another damage skill, unless you need the evade frames from
  Vault
  or
  Bound
  to keep dealing damage

Skill priority

• Dodge (
  Bound
  ) - when missing
  Bounding Dodger
  buff
• Vault
• Whirling Axe
• Essence Sap
  - single target only
• Dodge (
  Bound
  ) - general use
• Staff Strike