Power Boon Daredevil

February 2023

Power Boon Daredevil is a very similar build to pure Power Daredevil and plays the same when it comes to damage dealing. The main difference is the usage of Detonate Plasma stolen skill, which you acquire by using Swipe. All that is topped off with amazing CC via Basilisk Venom and Fist Flurry.

Power Daredevil

Dps

Select difficulty

Staff
Pistol & Pistol

This build should only be used on bosses such as Matthias Gabrel, Mursaat Overseer, Statues of Grenth, and Cardinal Adina, where you can steal Detonate Plasma from the boss.

Build fundamentals

High boon duration items will allow you to provide permanent Quickness uptime, high Resistance uptime, Stability stacks, Aegis spam, and maintain 25 stacks of Might with help of pre-stealing.

Other boons provided by Detonate Plasma and your traits, like Protection,  Resolution,  Regeneration,  Swiftness,  Fury,  Vigor have much higher uptime and you’ll be able to keep them up permanently even with much lower boon duration.

Much as with basic Power Daredevil, your DPS comes in repeated bursts, between which you will enter a rest period where you will refill your resources with the staff Auto-attack chain.

If your endurance bar fills to one dodge while in your rest period, you will want to Dodge and use Weakening Charge.

Changing Critical Strikes to Trickery gives up some damage for boosting your  Swipe:

• Sleight of Hand will reduce its recharge and add some minor breakbar damage
• Thrill of the Crime adds more boon uptime of Fury, Swiftness and Might
• Bountiful Theft adds Vigor uptime and additional boon strip
• Lead Attacks will further reduce your steal cooldown as well as it’ll add more survivability by reducing damage taken per initiative spent

Preparedness and Kleptomaniac will increase your initiative and initiative generation, allowing you to tank more effectively or squeeze a bit more Weakening Charge attacks if you chose to dps.

On top of that, you can use your stolen skills twice with Improvisation in Deadly Arts for maximum boon output from Detonate Plasma.

Tanking

Sword/Pistol set is used both for mobility from Infiltrator's Strike, and for some additional CC from Head Shot.

But more importantly, that will be your go-to set if you choose to tank, that’s because Pistol Whip is spammable stationery evade that is 60% longer than your normal Dodge, which in junction with 3 endurance bars, makes you very hard to kill.

As a tank, you can mitigate some damage with your regular Dodge, but save Pistol Whip for most threatening attacks.

If you are in a fight like Cardinal Adina where tanking is toughness-based, swap some Diviner’s pieces with Commander’s and make sure you have the highest toughness in your squad.

Crowd Control

• Basilisk Venom
• Palm Strike
• Head Shot
• Pistol Whip

Alternatives

Utility Skills

• Hide in Shadows if you need self condition-cleanse or more CC via your staff ambush skill.
• Prepare Shadow Portal if your group needs it for specific fights and doesn’t have a Mesmer.
• Prepare Pitfall if you need more CC.