Guild Wars 2

Hello Thieves,

Thief has been my most favorite alt besides Mesmer. Since I have now fully maxed out and geared up my Chrono, I am going to start working on my DareDevil next.

I used to play a P/D condi trap build using Carrion gears with Trapper Runes. It works reasonable well in most contents. But now Staff has completely won me over and I am starting to enjoy a more melee orientated play style. I still carry two Pistols for some nigh-impossible-to-melee fight but I have a Staff as a primary nearly most of the time.

Now that I have experienced DareDevil at around +70% unlocked, I come to realised that Staff DareDevil combining with some of Physical skills are leaning towards a Hybrid (with decent CC support) than a pure Condi build. Of course, pure Condi still possible but that does not seem to take full advantage of Staff.

So, is a Hybrid Staff DareDevil possible?

I have made this experiment build to test it out. I am thinking of using Marauder armours with Condi based trinkets and weapons. But I cannot decide what Runes to use yet. I know it is not the most optimal build; an experiment after all. Please feel free to criticise.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAW4YnsMBNmidmCuNBkmilWCz7N0GiCznwU4LULA0FWAA-TRxBAB9pbAgnAQjKBx4iA0lyPA-e

Traited Staff + D/D with three dodges will provide sufficient evade. I suppose I can swap some of the more defensive gears for more offensive ones.

What do you guys think?

An untrained monkey with a horrible build can do 99.9% of the PvE in this game so it really doesn’t matter just play what you like there.

Now if you are taking this into WvW or sPvP… you will probably get destroyed with this build as it is not optimal and will hit like a wet noodle.

Pointers:

1. Use sinister, viper, or carrion for a hybrid. Mixing marauder and other condi stats is a bad idea.
2. Staff will do nothing for a hybrid. You don’t have enough direct damage for staff to shine, and the traits and utils work just as well if you take something else like P/D or SB that actually applies condis.
3. Distracing daggers is a poor hybrid choice unless running the interrupt traits.
4. Use the interrupt traits! They are perfect for a hybrid set.
5. X/P is a great choice when running interrupt traits. Try P/P with bound instead of staff.

Edit: formatting.