Daredevil - Condi DPS

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: Condition damage

Designed for: Raids

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 15, 2022 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.

Overview

The standard condition DPS build for Daredevil. This build spams venoms and Death Blossom on bosses to inflict heavy Bleeding and Poison. Due to evading for most of its rotation, it can easily avoid boss attacks. It also provides high utility to its squad with raid boss stolen skills.

Due to this build's high ramp-up time it's best used on raid bosses with no phases or adds. It performs poorly on any boss with invuln phases, or instant kill attacks that it has a chance to accidentally move into while using Death Blossom.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Dagger

Dagger/Dagger

Utility

Skill Variants

Always keep Spider Venom as it is a significant portion of your damage. If you need to replace skills, replace Needle Trap.

• Bandit's Defense for a block and stun break.
• Shadowstep for extra mobility and stun break.

• Use Impact Strike for faster breakbar damage, on fights with multiple adds and on Matthias Gabrel, where Basilisk Venom has no effect on the encounter's breakbars.
• Use Thieves Guild for fights that do not have breakbars.

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Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Dagger
Viper

Sigil

Dagger
Viper

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Krait and Rune of Superior Rune of the Afflicted deal almost identical damage, so feel free to use whichever is most convenient.
• Equip your main hand dagger in your first weapon set and your second dagger in your second weapon set. This lets you weapon swap for Sigil of Superior Sigil of Doom without having to obtain 4 daggers.

Consumables

Food:

• • , or for a cheaper alternative

Utility:

• • or for a cheaper alternative

Usage

Your goal is to maintain Lotus Training and 15 stacks of Lead Attacks while using your high-damage utility skills.

Rotation

1. Needle Trap
2. Swipe during the cast of Needle Trap
3. Thousand Needles
4. Dodge
5. Use venoms during the dodge animation
6. Death Blossom x3
7. Dodge
8. Auto-attack chain once
9. Dodge
10. Death Blossom
11. Repeat from step 8

• Use Weapon swap, venoms, Needle Trap and Swipe when they are off cooldown.
• Use Channeled Vigor before or after any auto-attack chain when you are out of endurance.

Notes

• If you are inside the boss's hitbox and there are other enemies nearby, Impaling Lotus will deal up to triple damage to the boss.
• Be careful not to cancel the auto attack chain as Lotus Strike deals more damage than Double Strike and Wild Strike combined.
• You should try to use Steal while you do not have full initiative in order to benefit from Kleptomaniac and Endurance Thief.
• You should try to use Channeled Vigor while you do not have full endurance.
• You should only use venoms while four other allies are in range (This includes Mesmer clones, Necromancer minions, and Ranger pets).

Breakbar

• Basilisk Venom