








Condition Boon Daredevil
Rotation
Precast
, up to five minutes before the fight.Prepare Thousand Needles
, right before the start of the encounter.Thieves Guild
Opener
- Unload any
you haveDetonate Plasma
Swipe
(use once if you used 2 pre-stolen stacks)Detonate Plasma
,Spider Venom
andSkale Venom
Devourer Venom
Dodge
- 3x
Death Blossom
during 3rdThousand Needles
Death Blossom
Dodge
Prepare Thousand Needles
Death Blossom
Auto-attack chain Dodge
Death Blossom
Auto-attack chain
Loop
Use off-cooldown:
Generally, use Detonate Plasma
Depending on your Endurance, Initiative and Prepare Thousand Needles
Dodge
Double Strike
Condition Boon Daredevil plays similarly to Condition Daredevil damage-wise, build owes its existence purely to the usage of Detonate Plasma
Swipe
While there are more places where Detonate Plasma
The primary reason why you run so much boon duration is an ability to provide permanent Quickness
Resistance
Stability
Aegis
Might
Other boons provided by Detonate Plasma
Protection
Resolution
Regeneration
Swiftness
Fury
Vigor
Build fundamentals
The ramp-up of your skills is not that fast, but it is carried with burst skills like Venoms, paired with spamming of Death Blossom
Always ensure to use Detonate Plasma
Swipe
Let Detonate Plasma
Detonate Plasma
Be aware of the range of your Detonate Plasma
After your opener, keep using your initiative, try to maintain 15 stacks of Lead Attacks
Maintain Lotus Training
If given occasions, you can use your Whirl Finishers, like Dagger Storm
Death Blossom
Lotus Training
Crowd Control
Alternatives
Gear
Ritualist’s and Celestial gear is exchangeable, Ritualist will increase your damage slightly, and Celestial is just more hybridized (you also have to keep in mind, that by taking Celestial, you’ll have high toughness, so communicate with your tank to take more if you are not tanking.
Your second weapon set is situational as you won’t be using it for damage, you can pick whatever will suit your needs at a given moment:
- Main-hand pistol for teleport backward and more range damage possibilities.
- Off-Hand pistol enables fast crowd-control spam via
and smoke field viaHead Shot
.Black Powder
- Short-bow for better movement potential via
and more range damage possibilities, as well as poison field and crowd-control skill withInfiltrator's Arrow
.Choking Gas
, for higher crowd-control damageSuperior Sigil of Paralyzation
Food and Infusions
If you struggle maintaining boons on allies, you can take Concentration WvW Infusion
Peppercorn-Spiced Eggs Benedict
Toxic Maintenance Oil
Skills and Traits
Your healing and elite skill are interchangeable, the best choices are Skelk Venom
Impact Strike
Thieves Guild
Devourer Venom
Prepare Thousand Needles
If you desire a boon removal on bosses like Adina, you can take Bountiful Theft
Pressure Striking
For the Eye of Judgement and the Eye of Fate from Statues of Grenth, you should swap out Sleight of Hand
Dagger Storm
Dodge
Choking Gas
Pre-stealing
In order to pre-steal on Adina, you can either trigger the boss and /gg, or you can use Swipe
Detonate Plasma
Swipe
Detonate Plasma
In order to pre-steal on Mursaat Overseer, you can only politely ask your friendly squad to trigger the boss and write /gg.
In order to pre-steal on Matthias you can either trigger the boss and /gg, or take off your Sleight of Hand
Deadly Arts
Serpent's Touch
Stealth
Swipe
On Twin Largos, you can either trigger the encounter, phase Nikare to get to Kenut’s platform, steal from her, and /gg, or you can use Swipe