Buff for condition Daredevil

[Stavros.8249]

I saw some serious buff at 08/06 to condition dodge trait and a bug fix to dagger 3.

Are those changes increase dps by  a lot? 

I come from staff mesmer, and I am interested in making a condition Daredevil. 

Is it suitable for fractals? 

[Infusion.7149]

Why would you run condi in fractals generally ?

[Lucinellia.9247]

In raid content, cDD is in a strong place right now. It has a straightforward and forgiving rotation for up to 40k DPS with allies and can bring CC and some utility without too much of a loss in DPS. That utility is restricted to Stolen Skills in raids primarily though.

 

It is likely fine in fractals but will have lower DPS uptime than cDE on Sunqua Peak CM and will be outclassed by power DPS on the other CMs. cDD will suffer from the usual Thief condition build weaknesses in T4s.

 

If you want a condition option for CMs and T4s, Scourge or cFB will be a much better choice.

[Stavros.8249]

Well condition Daredevil went to the first place in dps after the buffs. 

https://snowcrows.com/benchmarks

[Lucinellia.9247]

For some odd reason the SnowCrows site is inconsistent in labelling with allies numbers. The Daredevil benchmark is lower than Devastation Renegade with allies which is about 43k.

 

 

 

[Zhaid Zhem.6508]

Death Blossom + the lotus dodge are both Whirl Finishers.

So actually, you don't only win DPS with allies but also with fields. It's a lot of RNG as both are still very hard to lead with placement and you can whirl into ligh fields or things like that, but far from negligible.

Renegades* don't have this.

Edited June 14, 2021 by Zhaid Zhem.6508

[Lucinellia.9247]

Yes, fields further increase the DPS of cDD which obviously aren't reflected in the benchmark but typically that isn't taken into account in benchmarks. Taking into account actual encounters shows cDD as being really quite broken though, especially when you can stack cDD and use Explode Plasma. 

 

Regardless, I think it is intended that SC will show either with or without allies when ranking, not one or the other, but that is still being worked on.