Daredevil - Condi Daredevil

Variants

• 逃生坚忍 - condition cleanse

Condition Daredevil employs its damaging evades 穿刺莲舞 and 死亡绽放 to 流血 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.

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 (requires Expanded Weapon Proficiency)

Both 死亡绽放 and 穿刺莲舞 are whirl finishers (See: Guide

投掷胶泥

Opening

You can start fights following this general idea:

1. 准备千针万箭
2. 同仇敌忾
3. 蜘蛛毒液 (it will be shared with your nearby Thieves Guild allies)
4. 撒播蒺藜
5. 穿刺莲舞
6. 死亡绽放 X3

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 and initiative due to .
• Thief and Daredevil offer various stunbreaks, such as , , and . It is advised to take one of these, as CC is what will usually kill you.
• You can go into stealth via to remove threat, break enemy targeting, and reposition yourself.

Crowd Control

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

This set uses gear similar to Build

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

• If you don't have access to Relic of the Fractal, consider with the pulsing damage engage skill from Skyscale, or .
• This build purely uses daggers. Although not required, for your second weapon set you can consider Shortbow for mobility and tagging with the autoattack, or 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 gear is never necessary but can be considered.

Weapon Variants

• This build purely uses daggers. Although not required, for your second weapon set you can consider Shortbow for mobility and tagging with the autoattack, or Axe for ranged damage. Access to axe requires Expanded Weapon Proficiency with Secrets of the Obscure.

Skill Variants

Heal skill

is recommended for its good healing but also because it recovers endurance, which can fuel your damage through your offensive dodge . You can also consider:

• - defensive heal skill.

Utility skills

You have several options to consider. and 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:

• - some ranged damage and soft cc
• - good when soloing to inflict vulnerability
• - blocks projectiles and provides a smoke field for stealth
• - teleport + stunbreak
• - group stealth
• - significant breakbar damage

Elite skill

is great for soloing. If you need CC; you can use:

• - great cc. Works best when shared with nearby allies.

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
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Defense

• - this food is nearly no DPS loss when solo

Farming

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
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• (and variants)