D/P Daredevil Roaming Build

GW2. WvW Build. D/P Daredevil WvW Roaming Build. Thief WvW. Small Scale WvW Build.

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Role: Assassin

The D/P Daredevil is a thief WvW roaming build with high mobility, stealth, and burst damage to assassinate key targets before they can receive reinforcements. While stealth has many counters, it still allows survival in many disadvantageous situations with dodging and movement.

Your main burst is from Backstab which is enabled when in stealth, but to get value from the damage of this skill you need to combine it with other damage modifiers or disables. Then finish off enemies by interrupting them with Pistol 4, Steal, or Dagger 2 which deals more damage to low health targets.

Basic Opener

• Pistol 5 > Dagger 2 > Dodge > Backstab (1) > Dagger 3 > 111 > Steal > 222

Faster Opener

• Pistol 5 > Dagger 2 + Steal (mid cast) > Backstab > Dagger 3

Not always is this combo suggested because it costs a good amount of initiative and enemies may just dodge it when they see you stealth. Baiting cooldowns and dodges is required to ensure you land your combos. Also, the use of Impairing Daggers and Impact Strike can disable enemies so that they can’t dodge, or at least force them to use their cooldowns faster.

The quickness gained from the Celerity sigil on disabling an enemy allows you to output extreme pressure in a short window of time. Dagger 1 can do great damage with quickness so try to ensure the final part of that chain lands. Depending on the class you steal from, the stolen abilities can also be used within your combos, and the Improvisation trait will grant you two instances of that stolen ability. It is extremely important to land steal because of this.

However, you must balance your decision between landing steal as often as possible and Stealing for momentum. The daze and other benefits tied to steal can be used to interrupt a heal, prevent counter pressure so you can follow through with your burst, or close the gap if your target is moving away too fast. Wasting steal or using it too early can result in stalling the fight longer than you can sustain it. If no opportunity to steal presents itself, play passively and use Shortbow 2 or stealth while waiting for an opening or your Steal to come off cooldown, then go aggressive when you see an opening.

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Alternatives

• Stats: Mix in more Berserker for more damage
• Sigil: instead of Sigil of Energy

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Dagger / Pistol	Heal / Utility / Elite
Shortbow	Stealth Attacks

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Alternatives

• Heal: for more cleanse or stealth access, especially when replacing Signet of Agility
• Utility: instead of Signet of Agility for more stun breaks against power builds
• Utility: for group play and more stealth access
• Elite: for group play
• Elite: for group play

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Variants

• Shadow Arts instead of Deadly Arts for more sustain but less damage
  • for more healing reduction

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Alternatives

• Daredevil: when taking more berserker gear or shadow arts for cleansing

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Chat Code: (copy/paste into in-game chat)

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