Daredevil
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“Training in the path of the Daredevil does not come easily, but those who dare are rewarded with the reserves that will help them endure as they enter the jungle. Specializing as a daredevil will allow you to wield a staff as a melee weapon and utilize hand-to-hand combat styles with the physical skill category. Additionally, you’ll gain access to a third endurance bar and be able to greatly modify the effects of your dodge ability.
— Daredevil release notes
Daredevil is an elite specialization for the thief that focuses on physical skills and dodging. It also allows the thief to use a staff.
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List of daredevil skills[edit]
- See also: List of thief skills
Profession mechanic[edit]
Daredevil's mechanic is the increased endurance and dodging that can have a different effect depending on the active grandmaster trait as well as reduced range on the skill Swipe replacing Steal.
Required trait | Skill | ![]() |
Description | |
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Lotus Training | Impaling Lotus | Evade attacks and hurl damaging daggers, dealing multiple conditions to enemies. | ||
Unhindered Combatant | Dash | ¾ | Remove conditions and gain swiftness, then rush forward and evade attacks. | |
Bounding Dodger | Bound | ¾ | Leap into an area, and deliver a massive blow to enemies. |
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Description |
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F1 | Swipe | 25 | Shadowstep to your foe and steal from them. |
Weapon skills[edit]
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Description | |
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Staff[edit] | |||||
1 | Staff Strike | ½ | Strike your enemies with your staff. | ||
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½ | Swing your staff a second time, striking multiple enemies. | ||
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1 | Whirl your staff around, striking nearby enemies. | ||
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¾ | 1 | Stealth Attack. Attack your foes with stealth, knocking enemies down. | |
2 | Weakening Charge | ½ | 3 | Deliver multiple strikes, weakening foes. | |
3 | Debilitating Arc | 4 | Strike enemies in front of you and roll backward, breaking immobilizing effects. | ||
4 | Dust Strike | ¾ | 4 | Sweep the ground, blinding enemies in front of you. | |
5 | Vault | ¾ | 5 | Leap toward your destination, damaging foes upon impact. |
Slot skills[edit]
Healing[edit]
Skill | ![]() |
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Description |
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Channeled Vigor | ![]() |
¾ | 20 | Physical. Channel your energy to gain endurance and health per pulse. Heal for more if your endurance is full. |
Utility[edit]
Skill | ![]() |
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Description |
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Bandit's Defense | ![]() |
1 | ½20 | Physical. Briefly block incoming attacks. Blocking an attack grants access to a retaliatory attack. |
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½ | Physical. Deliver a massive kick that knocks enemies down. | |
Distracting Daggers | 1 | Physical. Fire a dazing dagger at your enemy. If this ability interrupts a skill, that skill's recharge is increased. | ||
Fist Flurry | ![]() |
1 | 20 | Physical. Strike your enemy multiple times. If all attacks hit, gain access to Palm Strike. |
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½ | Physical. Strike your foe once to deal massive damage and stun them, marking your target with a Pulmonary Impact. | ||
Impairing Daggers | ½ | 25 | Physical. Fling multiple daggers at a single enemy, inflicting conditions. |
Elite[edit]
Skill | ![]() |
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Description |
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Impact Strike | ![]() |
½ | 40 | Physical. Strike your enemy and stun[sic] them. |
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¾ | Deal a heavy blow with your fist, sending enemies flying. | |
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1 | ½Deal a downward strike on your foe. Downed enemies struck with this ability are finished. |
List of daredevil traits[edit]
- See also: List of thief traits
Tier | Trait | ![]() |
Description |
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Minor Proficiency | ![]() |
You can wield a staff. | |
Minor Adept | ![]() |
Gain access to physical skills. Your maximum endurance threshold is increased, while Steal is replaced with Swipe. | |
Major Adept | ![]() |
Gain vitality based on a portion of your power. Damage is decreased from foes within the range threshold. | |
Major Adept | ![]() |
1 | Gain health when you successfully evade an attack. Remove a condition whenever you evade an attack. |
Major Adept | ![]() |
Physical skills grant endurance when activated and gain reduced recharge. | |
Minor Master | ![]() |
Your next attack after dodging causes weakness to foes struck. Weakened enemies deal less damage to you, and you deal more damage to them. | |
Major Master | ![]() |
While wielding a staff, gain endurance for each initiative point spent. Gain bonus power, which is increased when wielding a staff. | |
Major Master | ![]() |
Damage is increased based on endurance that is missing. | |
Major Master | ![]() |
Enemies that you interrupt suffer a pulmonary impact. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval. | |
Minor Grandmaster | ![]() |
Gain endurance when you successfully steal from an enemy. | |
Major Grandmaster | ![]() |
Your dodge ability now uses Impaling Lotus, firing daggers at nearby enemies. Gain increased condition damage for a period of time when dodging. | |
Major Grandmaster | ![]() |
Your dodge ability is replaced by a long-range dash that removes inhibiting conditions and grants swiftness and damage reduction. Removing conditions in this way temporarily reduces endurance gain. | |
Major Grandmaster | ![]() |
Your dodge ability is replaced by Bound, dealing damage to the area after you evade. Physical damage is increased for a period of time after you dodge. |
Associated items[edit]
Related achievements[edit]
Specializations: Adept Daredevil — Begin training the thief's daredevil elite specialization. (5
)
Specializations: Master Daredevil — Completely train the thief's daredevil elite specialization. (10
)
Specialization Collections: Bo — Collect these 14 items and skins to receive the daredevil's staff, Bo. (3
)