Daredevil - Chokebow - (WvW)

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Focused on: Condition damage, Control.

Designed for:

World vs World

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Overview

This build combines high damage with CC for some of the best down control gameplay available. Useful in stopping revives and general open field damage with moderate results.

Skill Bar

 

 

Short bowHealingUtilityElite

Short bow

Weapon Variants

Dagger/Dagger

Double Strike

Chain. Strike your foe twice.

₂Damage: 138

Number of Targets: 2

Range: 130

3

¾

Heartseeker

Leap and strike your foe. The less health your target has, the more damage you cause.

Above 50%: 244

Below 50%: 365

Below 25%: 487

Combo Finisher: Leap

Range: 450

4

½

Death Blossom

Dual Wield. Do an evasive attack over your target, striking nearby foes three times. Each hit causes bleeding.

₃Damage: 147

₃Bleeding (10s): 1,275 Damage

Evade: 0.25 seconds

Combo Finisher: Whirl

Range: 130

3

¼

Dancing Dagger

Throw a dagger that cripples nearby foes and returns to you.

Damage: 122

Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

Number of Bounces: 3

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

6

½

Cloak and Dagger

Stab your foe and vanish in stealth, leaving them vulnerable.

Damage: 444

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

₃Vulnerability (5s): 3% Incoming Damage

Range: 130

Dagger Dagger is useful in GvG and lowman combat, with extra conditions and evades, but can be hard to pull off against a large group where the range of the short bow is preferable.

Dagger/Pistol

Double Strike

Chain. Strike your foe twice.

₂Damage: 138

Number of Targets: 2

Range: 130

3

¾

Heartseeker

Leap and strike your foe. The less health your target has, the more damage you cause.

Above 50%: 244

Below 50%: 365

Below 25%: 487

Combo Finisher: Leap

Range: 450

4

Shadow Shot

Dual Wield. Fire an unblockable shot shot at your foe, which blinds them, and then shadowstep to them for a dagger strike.

Damage: 304

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

Unblockable

4

Headshot

Daze your foe with a head shot.

Damage: 61

Daze (¼s): Unable to use skills.

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

6

½

Black Powder

Fire a black powder shot, blinding nearby foes with the smoke cloud.

Damage: 62

Blindness (2s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Number of Targets: 5

Pulses: 3

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 2 seconds

Radius: 120

Combo Field: Smoke

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

For smoke field access to both the group on engage and for yourself to add a layer of personal survivability.

Skill Variants

Utility

• For a strong shareable immobilize
• Especially useful in low mans or GvG for stomps

Elite

• For GvG or low man combat

Specializations

Variants

• Can't find such trait "Escapist's Absolution"! Please refer to our trait index survivability for a moderate dps loss.

Equipment

First Weapon Set Main Hand Shortbow Stats: Trailblazer's Superior Sigil of Draining Superior Sigil of Draining Steal life when interrupting an enemy. Superior Sigil of Absorption Superior Sigil of Absorption Steal a boon when interrupting an enemy.	Second Weapon Set Main Hand Shortbow Stats: Trailblazer's Superior Sigil of Draining Superior Sigil of Draining Steal life when interrupting an enemy. Superior Sigil of Absorption Superior Sigil of Absorption Steal a boon when interrupting an enemy.

Armor Head Stats: Trailblazer's Superior Rune of Tormenting Superior Rune of Tormenting (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Torment Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +15% Torment Duration (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Torment Duration; When you use a heal skill, apply two stacks of torment to nearby foes. (Cooldown: 20s) Shoulders Stats: Trailblazer's Superior Rune of Tormenting Superior Rune of Tormenting (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Torment Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +15% Torment Duration (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Torment Duration; When you use a heal skill, apply two stacks of torment to nearby foes. (Cooldown: 20s) Chest Stats: Trailblazer's Superior Rune of Tormenting Superior Rune of Tormenting (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Torment Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +15% Torment Duration (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Torment Duration; When you use a heal skill, apply two stacks of torment to nearby foes. (Cooldown: 20s) Hands Stats: Trailblazer's Superior Rune of Tormenting Superior Rune of Tormenting (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Torment Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +15% Torment Duration (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Torment Duration; When you use a heal skill, apply two stacks of torment to nearby foes. (Cooldown: 20s) Legs Stats: Trailblazer's Superior Rune of the Trapper Superior Rune of the Trapper (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Condition Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): When you use a trap skill, gain 3 seconds of super speed. (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): Gain 3 seconds of stealth when using a trap skill. Feet Stats: Trailblazer's Superior Rune of the Trapper Superior Rune of the Trapper (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Condition Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): When you use a trap skill, gain 3 seconds of super speed. (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): Gain 3 seconds of stealth when using a trap skill.

Accessories Amulet Stats: Trailblazer's Ring 1 Stats: Trailblazer's Ring 2 Stats: Trailblazer's Earring 1 Stats: Trailblazer's Earring 2 Stats: Trailblazer's Back Stats: Trailblazer's

Infusions

• Malign WvW Infusion

  Malign WvW Infusion

  +5 Condition Damage +1% Damage to Guards, Lords, and Supervisors

Variants

Stats

• When changing gear, keep in mind the loss in condition duration. 100% Poison duration should be maintained in Shortbow.
• Use Viper's in place of Trailblazer's to add damage.
• Dire in general and Giver's for weapons are a decent budget option.
  • Use Sinister in place of Dire to add damage.

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Energy

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  Superior Sigil of Energy

  Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
• Superior Sigil of Venom

  Superior Sigil of Venom

  Increase Inflicted Poison Duration: 20%
  If not able to go full Trailblazer's

Runes

• Superior Rune of Thorns

  Superior Rune of Thorns

  (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Poison Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +15% Poison Duration (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Poison Duration; gain 50 condition damage for 60 seconds when you're hit by a poisoned foe. (Cooldown: 10s)
  If using variants and in need of poison duration.

Consumables

Food

• Fancy Truffle Burger

  Fancy Truffle Burger

  Nourishment (30 m):

  +15% poison duration+70 precision+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable

Utility

• Magnanimous Tuning Crystal

  Magnanimous Tuning Crystal

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Gain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your VitalityGain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your Toughness+10% Experience from Kills

  Consumable

Usage

This build relies on bursts of damage layered with others in your group, designed to add fatal CC and boon rip on top of existing bombs. Alongside Necromancer and Revenant boonrips you will see a great deal of burst damage from both your poison and torment as well as significant boonrip of attempts to re apply resistance thanks to your Absorption sigil. Defensive cooldowns are minimal, and the most important part of being effective is to maintain good positioning and avoid incoming damage rather than attempt to recover from hits, playing a role close to but not always inside of the melee train open field.

• Use your venom skills timed with other player's burst to maximize quick stacking of the conditions by you and your team mates, preferably whilst you are also at full initiative.
• Pool initiative for . Cast it multiple times on the same spot to proc the Daze on your own. Added to this, you can weapon swap to proc for the extra initiative to layer another field on top for a fairly significant damage boost.
• Dodge to maintain the lotus training buff. Attempt to use this dodge within range for the projectiles to hit enemies, but do not go so aggressive as to put yourself out of position, as CC is a huge weakness to the build.
  • Try to dodge where your proc will hit people when safe. Dropping this in front of enemy pushes or while moving through with the commander is highly effective.

Counters

• Heavy CC
• Heavy conditions
• Heavy cleanse
• Resistance will mitigate your damage, though you can still Daze through it and
  Superior Sigil of Absorption

  Superior Sigil of Absorption

  Steal a boon when interrupting an enemy.
  has priority on resistance.