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Dual Daggers Condition Daredevil

Build Rating (Subjective)

Criterion	Rating
Burst Damage	3/5
Sustained Damage	5/5
Utility Options	3/5
Survivability	4/5
Difficulty	2/5

Condition Daredevil has a very simple-to-learn rotation and is lots of fun to play in open world. It excels when you can precast   Prepare Thousand Needles, and the access to nearly permanent dodges allows it to power through high incoming damage where other builds might have to play more defensively.

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Build

Playstyle & Skills

Skill Type	Skills
Steal & Good Stolen Skills
Dual Daggers
Pistol + Dagger
Pistol + Dagger
Utility

Thieves are – together with Revenants – the only profession in the game with a resource bar that determines how often you can use skills. On this profession, skills have different Initiative costs, but no internal cooldown. You regenerate 1 Initiative per second, but there are other ways to increase the inflow. Since skills have no internal cooldown, this often means that the skill that does the most damage per cast and initiative spent is repeated (like   Death Blossom on this build), making most rotations on Thief relatively simple to understand.

Dodges

• Daredevil changes how Dodges work, and the effects gained on dodging change with the grandmaster trait choice. For the condition variant, only  Lotus Training and  Unhindered Combatant are of interest to us.
• On Daredevil, you also gain access to another Endurance bar, allowing you to dodge up to three times in quick succession.

Required trait	Skill			Description
Lotus Training	Impaling Lotus			Evade attacks and hurl damaging daggers, dealing multiple conditions to enemies.
Unhindered Combatant	Dash	0.75¾		Remove conditions and gain swiftness, then rush forward and evade attacks.

•  Lotus Training is a really strong choice for condition damage, as it applies  Bleeding and  Torment three times per cast, to up to three targets. But not only that: it will also grant you the buff   Lotus Training for 4 seconds, increasing all condition damage by 10%.
•  Unhindered Combatant is excellent for ranged gameplay, defense and mobility, as it will give you   Unhindered Combatant for 4 seconds, reducing all damage you take by 10%. It will further remove  Crippled,  Chilled and  Immobile on you. But careful: this will stop Endurance regeneration for up to 4 seconds!

Rotation Concept

You can find my most recent rotation showcase here.
Damage log

Rotation Flow

Section	Notes
General Stuff	Careful:This build scales with the number of conditions on the enemy on yourself. For guidance on setting up the training area, see my guide for it.' Any combo of the following utility skills will work well:   Spider Venom - makes your damage scale with allies, increases burst   Skale Venom - makes your damage scale with allies, increases burst   Devourer Venom - makes your damage scale with allies, increases burst   Prepare Thousand Needles - best when you can precast it   Impairing Daggers - ranged damage   Caltrops - long-lasting AoE damage
Opener	Precast   Prepare Thousand Needles this up to 5 minutes prior to combat starting, allowing you to reset the cooldown (the cooldown ticks down after the first cast). Open up with all utility skills and then start the Dodge combo explained below.
General Rotation	The main combo of this rotation is to use   Death Blossom to move forward and then Dodge right after to move backward again. Both will apply conditions! This creates frequent Evade windows, making this build immune to a lot of incoming damage for much of its rotation.   Death Blossom and   Impaling Lotus include consistent Whirl finishers. Through the Whirl finishers, you benefit from existing Combo fields (especially Fire fields for  Burning, Poison field for  Poisoned and Ethereal fields for  Confusion). While doing that, use all utility skills and   Steal on cooldown.
CC Skills for Breakbar Damage	Basilisk Venom applies up to 750 CC damage, making it one of the strongest single CC skills in the game when you have allies around you. A lot of Immobilized via  Panic Strike,   Devourer Venom

Utility Skills

Utility Skills

Skill Choice	Notes
Channeled Vigor	Cheap and strong heal that also gives you half of you Endurance back, so that you can regain Dodges. For a more pasive inflow of healing, you can use   Signet of Malice.
Prepare Thousand Needles	This skill is strong damage via  Immobile,  Bleeding and  Poisoned on the secondary cast   Thousand Needles.
Any selection of...	Spider Venom   Skale Venom   Devourer Venom   Prepare Thousand Needles   Impairing Daggers   Caltrops
Basilisk Venom	Applies a Stun on cast. Since it is a Venom skill, this gets shared with 4 nearby allies too, making it one of the strongest CC skills in the game.

Gear & Traits

Important Stats (descending in Importance):

1. 100%  Bleeding Duration
2. 100%  Poisoned Duration
3. Maximize Condition Damage

Since the vast majority of damage comes from  Bleeding and  Poisoned, it is important to reach 100% condition duration on them.

Gear

Armor	Prefix	Rune
Head	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Krait
Shoulders	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Krait
Chest	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Krait
Gloves	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Krait
Legs	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Krait
Boots	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Krait
Trinket	Prefix
Amulet	Viper's
Ring 1	Viper's
Ring 2	Viper's
Accessory 1	Viper's
Accessory 2	Viper's
Backpack	Viper's
Weapon	Prefix	Sigil
Dagger (Main Hand)	Viper's	Superior Sigil of Earth
Dagger (Off Hand)	Viper's	Superior Sigil of Bursting
Pistol (Main Hand)	Viper's	Superior Sigil of Earth
Purpose	Item Type	Source
Damage	Ascended Food	Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread
Damage	Non-Ascended Food	Bowl of Kimchi Tofu Stew
Survivability	Ascended Food	Peppered Cured Meat Flatbread
Survivability	Non-Ascended Food	Oysters Gnashblade
Damage	Utility	Toxic Focusing Crystal
Survivability	Utility	Potion Of Karka Toughness
Damage	Relic	Relic of the Fractal

Traits

Deadly Arts
Trickery
Daredevil

• For a budget variant, simply replace all armor pieces of Viper's with rare/exotic Ritualist's. For the backpack, you can use a Crafter's backpack of the highest tier and select either Celestial or Rabid.
• Ascended gear is always ideal, but exotic gear is fine for everything aside from higher-tier fractals.

Open World Build

You can find my most recent open world build showcase here.

Increasing Survivability

For OW, it can make sense to make a build more forgiving, so that you can sustain on your own.

• The first major step to increase survivability versus bosses is to stay on pistol + dagger. Use dual daggers for general mobs, as pistol has no cleave damage.
• That allows you to deal damage from range so you can kite dangerous enemies instead of facetanking their damage.
•   Shadow Strike has to be used in melee range, but it teleports you backwards and give you access to   Repeater. Repeater applies nice amounts of  Bleeding from range. In general open world gameplay, that allows you to teleport into melee range via   Steal or   Infiltrator's Signet, use   Shadow Strike to port away and then use   Repeater from range.
•  Unhindered Combatant in  Daredevil reduces damage you take by 10% for 4 seconds after dodging. This is great for mobility and ranged gameplay.
• Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew stacks with  Vigor and increases you endurance regeneration by 40% (leads to a total 90% when  Vigor is up). It also grants you  Might for 5 seconds on dodging. Using this will allow you to dodge even more.
•   Channeled Vigor
• You can also decide to change your amulet and helmet to Celestial or Trailblazer, as you can get them cheap via Ice Golem's Maw Box and Candy Corn Orichalcum Amulet, respectively. Make sure to put a Black Diamond or Chunk of Petrified Echovald Resin on the amulet, as it natively includes Berserker's on the upgrade.
• Use the survivability food and utility item listed above for -10% damage taken and 150 Toughness! It's usually more effective to use Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew though.

Utility Skills (Open World)

Skill Choice	Notes
Channeled Vigor	Restores up to 50% of your total endurance on cast. While   Signet of Malice provides stronger passive healing,   Channeled Vigor is by far the stronger defensive tool.
Infiltrator's Signet	Great mobility tool to combo with   Shadow Strike and a Stun break.
Impairing Daggers	Strong ranged application of  Poisoned,  Weakness,  Slow and  Immobile with a short cooldown.
Haste	Increases coverage of  Quickness,  Fury and  Swiftness on yourself and is a second Stun break. Can be replaced by any skill you desire, e.g.   Spider Venom or   Thousand Needles for damage or   Signet of Agility for condition cleanse and additional endureance recovery on demand.
Dagger Storm	Long-lasting Evade that applies lots of  Bleeding. Great emergency button versus groups of enemies, especially when paired with   Signet of Malice.

Boon Coverage

•  Thrill of the Crime in  Trickery can help covering  Might,  Fury and  Swiftness on yourself.
• Condition Daredevil has no useful source of  Protection and generally low boon coverage on itself. Therefore, using   Jade Tech Offensive Overcharge and   Jade Tech Defensive Overcharge will massively increase your strength in solo gameplay.
• These give for 150 additional Toughness, Vitality, Condition Damage and Power as well as all boons aside from  Stability,  Resistance and  Resolution on entering combat. These effects can be pre-stacked by using an Enchanted Snow Diamond Tonic repeatedly when out of combat. They will fully cover  Protection in general roaming, where you enter and exit combat frequently!
• In story instances (or if you don't want the hassle of reapplying protocols), you can abuse the synergy between Relic of the Cavalier and   Blast from the Skyscale to apply lots of  Aegis,  Resistance,  Might and  Quickness to yourself. It does not have an internal cooldown and applies the boons on every hit of   Blast.

Dealing with Incoming Conditions and Control effects

•  Escapist's Fortitude in  Daredevil removes a condition and heals you whenever you evade an attack. I recommend using this in open world, as it takes care of conditions and provides decent passive healing.
•   Signet of Agility cleanses conditions and restores a lot of Endurance.
•   Infiltrator's Signet and   Haste are both Stun breaks that you can use on demand.