My Daredevil Build
may post this in the thief forum, but u are lacking stunbreaks and cleans.
shadow refuge, no shadow step, what?! o.O
Are impairing daggers even viable o.O
Even if you kill people with this build i guess it is more likely because nobody experienced playing against such a thief. If it was meta everyone and their dog would know how to counter you.
All you have with this build is the element of surprise. Other than that marauder staff meta teef seems better at first look.
EDIT: Bounding dagger should be better since you probably spam Vault, having extra dps on dodge might not be so bad idea.
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shadow refuge, no shadow step, what?! o.O
Are impairing daggers even viable o.O
Even if you kill people with this build i guess it is more likely because nobody experienced playing against such a thief. If it was meta everyone and their dog would know how to counter you.
All you have with this build is the element of surprise. Other than that marauder staff meta teef seems better at first look.
EDIT: Bounding dagger should be better since you probably spam Vault, having extra dps on dodge might not be so bad idea.
It’s really not that different than what’s on metabattle.
Impaling daggers is nice to stop someone kiting and then pound them w/ as many vaults as i have initiative for.
I like shadow of refuge for 2 reasons:
It’s a way to escape when i’m about to go down.
It allows me decap a point right after the other team caps it by sneaking by the enemy as he moves to rotate.
What i like the most is the 50% damage increase from traits.
It is very glassy though. My main defense is mobility and evades.
So, there’s some problems with your utilities:
1) You have no stun break.
2) Shadow’s Refuge has fallen out of the meta for a reason. There’s too many anti-stealth moves to make a long term stealth like this worth while, especially with heralds and scrappers so strong in the current meta. It’s also too small to allow for you to really dodge within when traited for Dash.
It may be nice to be able to snare people running, but not only are you making a major investment for chasing people when you probably shouldn’t be chasing people running that much in the first place, but you’re doing so at a terrible expense.
Shadow step is much superior for the following reasons:
1) Double stun break.
2) Allows you to trigger DH traps and escape without dying to them.
3) Allows you to safety stomp.
4) Is a major mobility skill, allowing you to decap faster than anyone else.
Blinding Powder has pretty much become the replacement for SR, although it works much better on a D/P build. With D/P, you can drop black powder from pistol, then blast it with Blinding Powder, then leap through for a stealth almost on par with SR, but in a wait time and shorter cd. It’s also a lot less obvious. =P
Oh, and if you really want to be able to immob someone running away, just swap to short bow, hit Blinding Powder, then use the stealth attack for that.
However, you really shouldn’t do much chasing as a thief anyways. Thieves shine when they jump in and out of fights quickly or map travel to decap. If someone’s running so far away that you’d need a ranged immob, you’re probably better swapping targets and taking advantage of a fight which now has 1 less enemy in it.
i mainly use the immob from impairing daggers to set up my staff burst. Some players like to run in circles around the outside edge of the point.
I’ll try shadow step
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