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    Condition Daredevil
    August 2023

    Group PvE
    Damage
    Recommended icon Recommended

    Armor

    Illustrious Visage icon Superior Rune of the Krait icon
    Viper's HelmSuperior Rune of the Krait
    Illustrious Shoulderguard icon Superior Rune of the Krait icon
    Viper's ShouldersSuperior Rune of the Krait
    Illustrious Guise icon Superior Rune of the Krait icon
    Viper's ChestSuperior Rune of the Krait
    Illustrious Grips icon Superior Rune of the Krait icon
    Viper's GlovesSuperior Rune of the Krait
    Illustrious Leggings icon Superior Rune of the Krait icon
    Viper's LegsSuperior Rune of the Krait
    Illustrious Striders icon Superior Rune of the Krait icon
    Viper's BootsSuperior Rune of the Krait

    Weapons & Sigils

    Dagger icon Superior Sigil of Earth icon
    Viper's DaggerSuperior Sigil of Earth
    Dagger icon Superior Sigil of Doom icon
    Viper's DaggerSuperior Sigil of Doom

    Trinkets

    Quiver of a Thousand Arrows icon
    Viper's Backpiece
    Black Ice Earring icon
    Viper's Accessory
    Asgeir's Talisman icon
    Viper's Accessory
    Asgeir's Amulet icon
    Viper's Amulet
    Black Ice Band icon
    Viper's Ring
    Mistborn Band icon
    Viper's Ring
    Relic icon
    Relic of the Fractal

    Food

    Bowl of Kimchi Tofu Stew icon Toxic Focusing Crystal icon
    Bowl of Kimchi Tofu Stew Toxic Focusing Crystal

    Infusions

    Malign WvW Infusion icon
    18xMalign Infusion

    Utility Skills

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    Rotation

    Precast

    1. Prepare Thousand Needles up to five minutes before fight.
    2. Thieves Guild right before start of the encounter.

    Opener

    1. Spider Venom and Devourer Venom, once you are in combat
    2. Dodge
    3. 3x Death Blossom
    4. Thousand Needles during 3rd Death Blossom
    5. Steal
    6. Dodge
    7. Prepare Thousand Needles
    8. Death Blossom
    9. Auto-attack chain
    10. Dodge
    11. Death Blossom
    12. Auto-attack chain

    Loop

    Use off-cooldown:

    Try to combine Throw Gunk with Whirl Finishers, when boss is going to be constantly attacking.

    Depending on your Endurance, Initiative and Prepare Thousand Needles cool-down you want to Dodge and use one or two auto-attack chains Double Strike.

     

    Condition Daredevil build offers visually dynamic gameplay due to constant usage of movement skills like Death Blossom, Steal, Heartseeker, Unstable Artifact, and Dodge.

    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 and auto-attacks, but note that spamming any weapon skill (apart from auto-attacks) may make your character cast it twice or more, which will result in you being stuck in animations, lowering your dps.

    Always ensure to use Venoms after the boon strip that happens when you enter combat with the boss and don’t steal from Invulnerable enemies, as using Steal will result in stealing nothing.

    Keep in mind that interrupted stolen skills will be consumed without providing their effects, be aware of their cast times.

    Be aware of range of your Venoms (240 units around you) when applying them to your allies. Always position yourself, so you cover every one of them within the range of the aforementioned skills.

    After your opener, keep using your initiative, try to maintain 15 stacks of Lead Attacks, when conditions from your Venoms and Preparation are active on the enemy.

    Maintain Lotus Training uptime as highest as possible, and keep in mind that the buff does not stack.

    If given occasions, you can use your Whirl Finishers, like Dagger Storm, Death Blossom, and Lotus Training on:

    • Ethereal Fields: Confusion
    • Fire Field: Burning
    • Poison Field: [effectpoison]
    • Dark Field: life-steal damage

    As the focus is placed on condition damage, this build does not benefit too much from mostly power-based stolen skills, although some of them can do some real damage even without power stats:

    Crowd Control

    Alternatives

    Gear and Food

    Superior Sigil of Bursting can be used instead Superior Sigil of Doom at the cost of 400 dps.

    You are free to play in your second weapon set, anything, depends what you want to achieve, but it is the best to play Superior Sigil of Bursting then. By example:

    • Main-hand pistol enables teleport backwards and more range damage possibilities.
    • Off-Hand pistol enables fast crowd-control spam via Head Shot and smoke field via Black Powder.
    • Short-bow, enables better movement potential via Infiltrator's Arrow and more range damage possibilities, as well as it provides poison field and crowd-control skill via Choking Gas.
    • Superior Sigil of Paralyzation, for higher crowd-control damage

    Skills

    Swap Channeled Vigor for:

    Swap Thieves Guild for:

    Traits

    Swap Bountiful Theft for:

    You can temporairly take Improvisation just to pre-steal from a foe and /gg later reverting trait change to end up with 2 stacks of stolen skill.

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