The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on April 18, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
Condition Daredevil employs its damaging evades 
穿刺莲舞 and 
死亡绽放 to Bleed Bleed and 
折磨 their enemies to death while dodging their attacks. Albeit lacking in burst damage, its evasiveness and general thief mobility make it a decent build for open world, though its unavoidable forced movement can be disorienting at first.
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顺手牵羊Stolen skill
Weapon Variants
- This build purely uses daggers. Although not required, for your second weapon set you can consider shortbow Shortbow for mobility and tagging with the autoattack, or axe Axe for ranged damage. Access to axe requires Expanded Weapon Proficiency with Secrets of the Obscure.
Skill Variants
Heal skill
活力引导 is recommended for its good healing but also because it recovers endurance, which can fuel your damage through your offensive dodge 穿刺莲舞. You can also consider:
遁入暗影 - defensive heal skill.
Utility skills
You have several options to consider. 
撒播蒺藜 and 
准备千针万箭 are recommended for their high damage, but require the enemy to stay inside their area of effect. If the enemy moves too much, or you want to try other other options, here are some alternatives:
阻碍匕首 - some ranged damage and soft cc
鳞爪毒液 - good when soloing to inflict vulnerability
障眼烟幕 - blocks projectiles and provides a smoke field for stealth
暗影疾步 - teleport + stunbreak
暗影庇护 - group stealth
毒蝎钩索 - significant breakbar damage
Elite skill
同仇敌忾 is great for soloing. If you need CC; you can use:
石蜥毒液 - great cc. Works best when shared with nearby allies.
Specializations
Variants
逃生坚忍 - condition cleanse
Equipment
Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
This set uses gear similar to Build:Daredevil_-_Condi_DPS, making it a good choice for general PVE
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Viper's Abomination" weapons. Viper exotic armor is very expensive, so we recommend a budget alternative called Carrion (search the trading post for "Shiro" armor) until you can get Viper gear such as by farming Bladed armor or by acquiring ascended armor. Upgrade to Viper and ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.
- If you don't have access to Relic of the Fractal, consider
骑兵古物 with the pulsing damage engage skill from Skyscale, or 
蛇妖古物. - This build purely uses daggers. Although not required, for your second weapon set you can consider shortbow Shortbow for mobility and tagging with the autoattack, or axe Axe for ranged damage. Access to axe requires Expanded Weapon Proficiency with Secrets of the Obscure.
- For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Trailblazer Trailblazer gear is never necessary but can be considered.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
生日爆破枪 / 
令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐-
薄荷怪异莓棒
锐磨颅骨 (and variants)
Usage
Damage
With this build, damage and defense are intrinsically tied together via 死亡绽放 and 穿刺莲舞. Everytime you evade, you will also damage nearby enemies.
Your dodge, 穿刺莲舞, provides the buff 
莲舞训练 which increases your damage for a few seconds. Your main goal is to space your dodges to maintain high uptime of this buff. While under the effects of this buff, use 死亡绽放 for damage. Fill the gaps when endurance and/or intiative are low with basic attacks, but try not to interrupt your auto-attack chains as the third attack, 
毒莲打击, deals significantly higher damage, while the second, 
狂野打击, recovers endurance.
If ranged damage is required, use 
匕首之舞 or Axe Axe (requires Expanded Weapon Proficiency)
Both 死亡绽放 and 穿刺莲舞 are whirl finishers (See: Guide:What are Combo Fields). Whirling on certain fields, such as an Ethereal field from 
投掷胶泥 or those created by allies, is a mild damage increase.
Opening
You can start fights following this general idea:
Remember to change your utility skills to fit the situation at hand. Caltrops and Prepare Thousand Needles deal great damage, but require the enemy to stand in its area of effect. Consider 鳞爪毒液 and 阻碍匕首 if Caltrops and Prepare Thousand Needles would be suboptimal.
Fill empty space with basic attacks and cast your utility skills and 顺手牵羊 off cooldown. Due to your traits, stealing deals damage and recovers endurance and initiative. Your second dagger auto attack, 狂野打击, also recovers endurance.
You can control the direction of the dodge 穿刺莲舞 with your movement keys, but keep in mind that 死亡绽放 cannot be controlled and will always whirl through the target. Alternatively, you can disable auto targetting, and unselect your target to manually control Death Blossom.
Defense
- The best defense is to dodge attacks, and this build has numerous evades. Learn to recognize dangerous attacks and respond to them.
- Stealing gives you back a dodge thanks to
妙手耐力 and initiative due to 
利己主义. - Thief and Daredevil offer various stunbreaks, such as
战斗冲动, 
强横防御, and 暗影疾步. It is advised to take one of these, as CC is what will usually kill you. - You can go into stealth via
隐秘突袭 to remove threat, break enemy targeting, and reposition yourself.
