Guild Wars 2

As long as you connect the first cahin hit on the daredevil elite, it works like any other chain skill.

Meaning you can can purposefully miss the 2nd and/or 3rd hits in the chain by not facing enemies then reactivate it before the chain resets. Basically the same thing rangers do on Greatsword.

However, what makes more sense in the case of the daredevil is continuing to face your enemy and stowing just before the hitbox comes out if you see or are expecting an evade/defensive cooldown that would get around your daze. You can then reactivate the current part of the chain you are on since it’s like any other chain skill.

Additionally, something else is that you can do is start the elite chain, begin activating another skill and cancel cast it before it completes so you don’t reset the elite chain then continue the elite chain. I’ve only found this useful thus far for mixing in evades via skills/dodges between the elite chain’s activation, but for mixing in evades you have to have a weapon swap available because the activation of any skill will reset the chain. Weapon swapping cancelling any current action means you never fully activate a skill and therefore the chain persists.

There is one exception, disabling shot will not reset the chain as long as your arrow doesn’t hit anyone.

Bounding Dodger and Impaling lotus dodges will both unfortunately reset the elite chain if mixed in between chain attacks. However Dash will not reset the chain. That said if you cancel the dodge via weapon swapping and you don’t land a dodge attack your elite chain will not reset.

In most cases though if you are trying to mix in evade frames between the elite attacks it’s my opinion that initiative is the better resource to gain evade frames from if it’s available.

tl;dr

• Daredevil physical elite chain has some skill cap play to it
• You can cancel/whiff the 2nd and 3rd chain attacks and have time to reactivate them again
• You can mix in evade frames between the elite chain attacks without resetting the chain by weapon swap cancelling evade skills and dodges. (Withdraw and roll for initiative can be fully activated without fear of resetting the chain, disabling shot can be used without resetting the chain as long your arrow doesn’t hit anyone)

You should be posting this on the main thread. IF all the info is complied at one place it will be much quicker for the dev’s to read through it all.
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Highlie.7641:

You should be posting this on the main thread. IF all the info is complied at one place it will be much quicker for the dev’s to read through it all.
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Meh, I’m not posting this for the devs. It’s for the thief players out there. Posting it in that thread means less visibility for the players..