Condition Daredevil

August 2023

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:

• Unstable Artifact – Vale Guardian, Gorseval, Sabetha, Keep Construct, Cairn, Rigom during Samarog, Deimos, Dhuum with messengers and enforcers, Conjured greatsword on Conjured Amalgamate, Sabir and Qadim the Peerless
• Throw Cursed Artifact – Boneskinner
• Throw Gunk – common enemies

Crowd Control

• Impact Strike
• Basilisk Venom
• Head Shot
• Choking Gas
• Throw Magnetic Bomb

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:

• Skelk Venom for some shared healing
• Signet of Malice to receive constant passive healing

Swap Thieves Guild for:

• Basilisk Venom If there are any breakbars.
• Dagger Storm is a potential damage option, especially when you need to evade mechanics. Try to use it within Combo Fields, which you provide via Choking Gas or Throw Gunk.

Traits

Swap Bountiful Theft for:

• Pressure Striking if someone in your group will be providing Vigor.

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.