Build:A/any Wastrel's Collapse Daggers

This build is provisionally vetted great pending more votes. This build has received a provisional rating in the range from 4.75 to 5.0 and thus qualifies for the highest category of working builds: Great. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE general

A dagger spam build which has high mobility and resiliency. It sacrifices a small amount of damage compared to other elites, but balances this with its ability to connect with targets more quickly.

Attributes and Skills

Assassin / Any 12 + 1 + 3 Dagger Mastery 12 + 1 Critical Strikes You have an additional 13% chance to critical hit. Whenever you critical hit, you get 3 Energy. Wastrel's Collapse NightfallAssassin. UnlinkedWastrel's CollapseElite SkillShadow Step to target foe. If that foe is not using a skill that foe is knocked down. All your non-dagger attack skills are disabled for 10 seconds.5¼20 Jagged Strike FactionsAssassin. Dagger Mastery 16Jagged StrikeLead AttackIf Jagged Strike hits, your target suffers from Bleeding for 21 seconds.5½1 Fox Fangs FactionsAssassin. Dagger Mastery 16Fox FangsOff-Hand AttackMust follow a lead attack. Fox Fangs cannot be blocked and strikes for +37 damage if it hits.5½3 Death Blossom FactionsAssassin. Dagger Mastery 16Death BlossomDual AttackMust follow an off-hand attack. If it hits, Death Blossom strikes target foe for +47 damage and all adjacent foes take 47 damage.52 Critical Eye FactionsAssassin. Critical Strikes 13Critical EyeSkillFor 32 seconds, you have an additional 13% chance to land a critical hit when attacking. You gain 1 Energy whenever you score a critical hit.530 Asuran Scan EotNNo Profession. Asura rank Asuran ScanHex SpellFor 9..12 seconds your attacks cannot miss target foe. Killing a foe hexed with Asuran scan removes 5% death penalty. PvE only.55 "I Am Unstoppable!" EotNNo Profession. Norn rank "I Am Unstoppable!"ShoutFor 16..20 seconds, you have +24 armor and cannot be knocked down or Crippled. PvE only.530 Drunken Master EotNNo Profession. Deldrimor rank Drunken MasterStanceFor 72..90 seconds, your movement and attack speeds are increased by 10..15%. If you are drunk while activating this Skill, your movement and attack speeds are increased by 25..33% instead. PvE only.560   Template code

Equipment

Weapons

• Zealous daggers of defense with "Strength and Honor!".
• Shield set.
• Any flat or longbow.

Armour

• 5 nightstalker insignias or blessed insignias.
• Rune of superior vigor.
• Rune of vitae.
• Rune of clarity.

Usage

• Shadow step to your target with Wastrel's CollapseNightfallAssassin. UnlinkedWastrel's CollapseElite SkillShadow Step to target foe. If that foe is not using a skill that foe is knocked down. All your non-dagger attack skills are disabled for 10 seconds.5¼20.
• Maintain your buffs/effects.
• Use the dagger attack chain Jagged StrikeFactionsAssassin. Dagger Mastery Jagged StrikeLead AttackIf Jagged Strike hits, your target suffers from Bleeding for 5..17..21 seconds.5½1→Fox FangsFactionsAssassin. Dagger Mastery Fox FangsOff-Hand AttackMust follow a lead attack. Fox Fangs cannot be blocked and strikes for +10..30..37 damage if it hits.5½3→Death BlossomFactionsAssassin. Dagger Mastery Death BlossomDual AttackMust follow an off-hand attack. If it hits, Death Blossom strikes target foe for +20..40..47 damage and all adjacent foes take 20..40..47 damage.52↺ on recharge.

Counters

• Standard anti-physical.
• Standard anti-melee.

Notes

• Compared to a WotA Dagger Spammer, this variant provides a more spammable shadowstep, and uses a stance which provides both IMS and IAS, allowing for greater mobility. The trade-off is reduced critical strike occurrences, but this should be offset by the build's greater mobility.
• Compared to a Shadow Theft Daggers, this variant provides greater versatility, as it takes 3 very powerful utility/resiliency PvE-only skills. It has the potential to have increased mobility compared the Shadow Theft Daggers, but in general, you are left making less give-and-take choices between PvE-only skills. The trade-off of Wastrel's is that it will have slightly reduced damage and critical strike occurrences under ideal conditions.
• This build does require a small amount of external battery (Blood is Power), but in 2020 it is assume that a BiP will be available, as they are present on many/most meta team setups.

See also

• A/any Dagger Spammer Hero

Dagger Spam Player Builds

• Build:W/A Seven Weapons Stance Daggers
• Build:W/A Warrior's Endurance Daggers
• Build:R/A Together as One Daggers
• Build:Mo/A Dagger Spammer
• Build:N/A Soul Taker Dagger Spam
• Build:E/A Dagger Spammer
• Build:A/any Dagger Spammer
• Build:A/any Wastrel's Collapse Daggers
• Build:A/any Shadow Theft Daggers
• Build:Rt/A Spirit's Strength Dagger Spammer
• Build:P/A Heroic Refrain Daggers
• Build:D/A Dagger Spam