Daredevil: Double Staff Vaulting

Daredevil: Double Staff Vaulting

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Posted by: lordhelmos.7623

lordhelmos.7623

I was playing with this as an experiment but it started to work better than I anticipated:

This started off with me running a staff/shortbow build. I realized that I wasn’t swapping to my shortbow much to get the sigil of energy proc. I figured, why not go double staff?

My setup was:

Trickery: mid > mid > top
Acro: mid > low > top
Daredevil: mid > mid > low (bounding dodger)

Every 10 seconds when I weapon swapped, I was getting 3 initiative. I also put sigil of intelligence and sigil of energy on my staff. I was getting another dodge back, and 3 auto crits.

I was running a non stealth tickery build with withdraw > scorpion wire > roll for initiative > infiltrator sig > impact strike. My whole build was focused on as much dodge and initiative as possible for vault spamming.

Engaging combat I would signet/steal in. Point black scorpion wire > staff 2> vault > weapon swap (x3 crit) > vault > vault > vault > dodge as necessary > roll for intiative > vault > vault > weapon swap > vault > vault.

I basically became an endless chain of dodges and vaults, removing conditions with every dodged attack and trick use. My vaults were hitting for 4800-6000k on a marauder amulet and autocritting off intelligence. Every 10 seconds I can swap to my other staff for more vaulting and more dodging.

I’m not the most skilled player, but I do think that I’ve come across some out of the box play that might have some merit.

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Posted by: Carn.9473

Carn.9473

I tried your build just one game. Looks good if you can place vaults correctly.

Actually I liked s/d daredevil more, its super fast

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Posted by: King Noob IV.3560

King Noob IV.3560

ya but that sounds so booooring

D/D Elementalist takes no skill but is good at everything in the game.
Mesmer is unfun to play against and does everything better than thieves.
Hoping those two get gutted with nerfs

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Posted by: yolo swaggins.2570

yolo swaggins.2570

ya but that sounds so booooring

don’t pay attention to the gameplay, pay attention to the numbers [/problem]

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