User:Masel/Builds/PDaredevil

Power Pistol  Daredevil

DPS Build Summary

Criterion	Value
Burst Damage	~40,5k
Sustained Damage	~37,7k
Effective Range (1200 = Maximum)	497
Actions Per Minute (APM)	22
Share of Forced Movement or Stealth Skills	59%
Bar Swaps per Minute (BPM)	0
# of Skills Used	3
Damage Log Link	Link
Damage Build Link	Link

Power  Daredevil with Pistols has a very simple-to-learn rotation that uses only 4 skills and is lots of fun to play in open world and instanced content. Through   Unload, the Initiative bar is always full, so you can spam   Head Shot for a lot of Defiance bar damage. Through its frequent Dodges, it can evade a lot of incoming damage. Paired with the range from Pistols and multiple healing on damage traits, it becomes a strong open world choice. As a plus, your damage will go up significantly when you are provided with external  Quickness,  Alacrity and It also uses mostly the same gear as Power Pistol  Deadeye, allowing you to swap between them (one for damage, one for  Quickness).

Link to the DPS Build in the Build Editor

Playstyle & Skills

Skill Type	Skills
Steal
Dual Pistols
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   Unload on this build), making most rotations on Thief relatively simple to understand.

Rotation Concept

Section	Notes
General Stuff	Careful:This build scales with the number of conditions on the enemy. For guidance on setting up the training area, see my guide for it.' Make Sure to set your Auto Attack to   Unload by Crtl+ Right-clicking on it. Always maintain   Bound.
Opener	For the Opener, cast   Thieves Guild and then Dodge into your enemy. Start with   Unload,   Fist Flurry,   Palm Strike into another   Unload. Dodge Again.
General Rotation	The general rotation concept evolves maintaining the 15% damage buff from   Bound by Dodging every 4-5 Seconds. Make sure to dodge into your enemy to make it hit them. After Dodging, press   Unload once to make sure that your character does not keep facing away from the enemy doing nothing In between Dodges, you can do the following two combos: 3x   Unload   Unload,   Fist Flurry,   Palm Strike into another   Unload. That is it. Repeat this until whatever you are shooting at is dead.
CC Skills for Breakbar Damage	Since your Initiative is always full, you can spam   Head Shot whenever a Breakbar pops up.   Fist Flurry into   Palm Strike You can bring another Pistol with a Superior Sigil of Paralyzation for more CC damage. You can take   Basilisk Venom for a whopping 750 Breakbar Damage with allies around you.

Rotation Flow

DPS - Power Pistol Daredevil (Masel) - Rotation Flow

Section	Skills
General Rotation

Utility Skills

Utility Skills

Skill Choice	Notes
Channeled Vigor	Gives you back two Dodges on demand, allowing you to get through phases without  Vigor uptime.
Palm Strike	Strong Damage and CC on the secondary cast.
Signet of Agility	Mainly here for the passive  Precision, but can be used to instantly give another two Dodges and cleanse conditions for you and up to 4 allies.
Assassin's Signet	Just there fore the passive  Power, you can use it towards the end of phases to gain free damage.
Thieves Guild   Basilisk Venom	Damage Defiance bar damage (only worth it with allies around you).

Gear & Traits

Important Stats (descending in Importance):

1. ~63% Critical Chance in the Hero Panel -  Fury,  Keen Observer and  Twin Fangs provide the remaining 37 %.
2.   Signet of Agility will make you overcap by a good amount, but still provides ~3% Critical chance and makes a great emergency dodge button (and area condi cleanse!). We will exploit this later in the OW build.
3. Maximize  Power
4. Maximize  Ferocity

Gear

Armor	Prefix	Rune
Head	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Shoulders	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Chest	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Gloves	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Legs	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Boots	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Trinket	Prefix
Amulet	Berserker's
Ring 1	Berserker's
Ring 2	Berserker's
Accessory 1	Berserker's
Accessory 2	Berserker's
Backpack	Berserker's
Weapon	Prefix	Sigil
Pistol	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Force
Pistol	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Impact
Purpose	Item Type	Source
Damage	Ascended Food	Cilantro Lime Sous-Vide Steak
Damage	Non-Ascended Food	Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
Survivability	Ascended Food	Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak
Survivability	Non-Ascended Food	Oysters with Zesty Sauce
Damage	Utility	Potent Superior Sharpening Stone
Survivability	Utility	Potion Of Karka Toughness
Damage	Relic	Relic of the Thief
Survivability	Relic	Relic of Zakiros

Traits

Deadly Arts
Critical Strikes
Daredevil

• For a budget variant, simply replace all armor pieces of Berserker's with rare/exotic Berserker's.
• Ascended gear is always ideal, but exotic gear is fine for everything aside from higher-tier fractals.

Open World Build

Open World Build Summary

Criterion	Value
Burst Damage	~18,9k
Sustained Damage	~17,7k
Effective Range (1200 = Maximum)	557
Actions Per Minute (APM)	15
Share of Forced Movement or Stealth Skills	86%
Bar Swaps per Minute (BPM)	0
# of Skills Used	3
Open World Log Link	Link
Open World Build Link	Link

(Note that Major Sigils of Celerity are not available in the Editor)

Increasing Survivability

• For OW, it can make sense to make a build more forgiving, so that you can sustain on your own. As a starting point, I typically go into the Special Forces Training Area with the following setup:

1. No self-boons
2. No pre-applied conditions on the golem
3. 1 million health Golem (anything else is tedious)
4. Activate the moderately threatening damage area.

• Change gear and traits to the following, as much as you can afford:

Gear

Armor	Prefix	Rune
Head	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Shoulders	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Chest	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Gloves	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Legs	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Boots	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Trinket	Prefix
Amulet	Diviner's
Ring 1	Diviner's
Ring 2	Diviner's
Accessory 1	Diviner's
Accessory 2	Berserker's
Backpack	Diviner's
Weapon	Prefix	Sigil
Pistol	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Celerity
Pistol	Berserker's	Major Sigil of Celerity
Purpose	Item Type	Source
Survivability	Ascended Food	Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak
Survivability	Non-Ascended Food	Oysters with Zesty Sauce
Survivability	Relic	Relic of Zakiros

Traits

Trickery
Critical Strikes
Daredevil

•  Trickery facilitates Boon coverage and Initiative management significantly. With the gear and trait loadout of choice, you will maintain full 25  Might,  Fury and  Quickness on yourself, as well as 60%+  Vigor.
• With only partial  Vigor coverage, you might have to use   Channeled Vigor and/or   Signet of Agility to restore Endurance.  Signet of Agility doesn't have a cast time, so you can sue this for two emergency dodges.
•  Escapist's Fortitude heals you and cleanses a condition off whenever you evade and attack, which is... often in this build.
• Your Dodges are your most important way to recover health. You heal on evading attacks and you heal when you hit an enemy with it through the damage to healing conversion sources.
• Spam   Unload for self- Might and damage. When you hit with all bullets, it restores Initiative. That way, you can spam it indefinitely.
• Beware of enemies that reflect projectiles, they will make you kill yourself very quickly if you're not careful!
• For strong passive self-healing, you have several options:

1. Relic of the Thief and   Invigorating Precision.
2. Relic of Zakiros and   No Quarter.
3. For even more survivability, you can use both Relic of Zakiros and   Invigorating Precision.

• Use the survivability food and utility item listed above for -10% damage taken and 150 Toughness!

Note that using  Deadly Arts has a higher damage ceiling than  Trickery when you are provided with conditions on the enemy. You can consider switching between the trait loadout for group dps and open world as needed via build templates!

Traits

Deadly Arts

Boon Coverage

Open World Boon Coverage

Criterion	Value	Notes
Might	24 Stacks	Covered by   Unload and   Steal via  Bountiful Theft.
Fury	100%	Covered by   Haste,  Burst of Agility and   Unrelenting Strikes.
Quickness	100%	Covered by   Haste,  Burst of Agility and the Superior and Major Celerity Sigils. Make sure to use either   Head Shot or   Steal to trigger this with the 20 second cooldown in mind!
Alacrity	0%
Protection	0%
Regeneration	0%
Vigor	73%	Partially covered by   Steal via  Bountiful Theft
Aegis	0%
Stability	0 Stacks
Swiftness	66%	Partially covered by  Burst of Agility and   Haste
Resistance	0%
Resolution	0%
Vulnerability	0%

Dealing with Incoming Conditions and Control effects

Condition cleanses

•  Escapist's Fortitude is your main source of passive condition cleanses.
•   Signet of Agility can be used on top for emergency cleanses.
•   Dagger Storm is a long evading channel that triggers  Escapist's Fortitude a couple of times during the channel

Stun Breaks and  Stability

•   Roll for Initiative is a good option to replace   Assassin's Signet for difficult content. Gives Initiative back, is an evade and a stun break for emergencies
•   Haste and   Lesser Haste are part of the general rotation. Delaying   Haste for the stun break might lead to lower  Quickness uptime and   Lesser Haste is hard to monitor and control.