The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World, Open World General and Open World Specialist
Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds
Difficulty: Easy
Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.
This build was last updated on April 03, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A power deadeye build that dual wields pistols and spams 
弹幕倾泻. This build is absolutely fantastic for basic open world content, map completion, and story content, but has low AoE damage and is vulnerable to enemies that block or reflect projectiles.
When chain killing trash mobs, this build achieves permanent 
急速, 
激怒, and lots of 
威能. Killing your Marked targets triggers 
报应 which lowers all your cooldowns, letting you spam any skill such as 
同仇敌忾 for friendly thieves to help you.
With little changes, the build can be adapted to provide permanent 急速, 激怒, and lots of 威能 to nearby allies, which is very useful when playing in groups. This is the quickness variant.
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神枪手标记Stolen skill
Weapon Variants
You don't really need a second weapon set since you're going to be spamming 弹幕倾泻 on pistol-pistol. You can use shortbow for mobility, or whatever else you want.
Skill Variants
Heal Skill
恶意纹章 is suggested as it works great with the multihitting Unload attack.
Utility skill
暗影闪烁 is your only real AoE damage, it is advisable not to swap it. 
战斗冲动 and 
暗影疾步 are both stun breaks and utility skills, but they are not mandatory. You can consider other skills:
束缚暗影 boon removal, minor CC, and good vulnerability application.
渗透纹章 - good when chain killing trash mobs to teleport to your next target.
先攻翻滚 - stunbreak, evade, and initiative.
暗影庇护 - long duration of stealth for channelling Hero Challenges.
敏捷纹章 - if conditions are a problem.
Elite skill
We recommend 同仇敌忾 for its great damage and crowd control, and allies that can tank for you. It also has superb syneryg with 报应 allowing you to have permanent Thieves Guild when killing groups of trash mobs.
Specializations
Variants
重生精准 - little bit of sustain at the cost of damage and fury generation.
妙手生花 - when fighting low health enemies. For example, core Tyria map completion.
扳回劣势 - when fighting low health enemies, improves your burst.
灵感一现 - useful when killing low health mobs for more cooldown reduction on your utility skills like 暗影疾步 or 渗透纹章 for more mobility. Don't use it when fighting high health enemies.
Quickness variant
Provides permanent 急速, 激怒, and 威能 to yourself and nearby allies. See this section.
Equipment
Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats. This set uses gear similar to Daredevil - Power DPS, making it excellent for general PVE.
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Nika" armor. Then search for the weapons you want to use: "Venomstriker" pistol, "Usoku's Needle" dagger, "Shattered Short Bow" shortbow. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.
- Note that you need 0% boon duration for the quickness variant to provide permanent boons.
- With 激怒 and
敏锐观察 you achieve 100% critical chance. - You can use whatever sigils you want on the shortbow.
- 神枪手标记 counts as a weapon skill so it triggers
烟花古物.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
生日爆破枪 / 
令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐-
薄荷怪异莓棒
锐磨颅骨 (and variants)
Usage
Deadeye's Mark and Malice
The most important part of the build is correct usage of 神枪手标记. Make sure to mark your target before you start firing to deal extra damage to them, and receive less damage from them, due to 
钢铁瞄具. It also gives you 急速 from 
非快即死, which increases your power and precision by 200.
By killing your marked target, you will proc 报应, which greatly reduces the recharge of your skills, most notably 同仇敌忾 and 暗影闪烁. You also reset Deadeye's Mark, letting your mark your next target.
When killing groups of trash mobs, you will achieve permanent 急速 and 同仇敌忾.
Priority
Quickness variant
[&DQUjHxw9Oj/xFQwBrBYZASAXIBdYAFgBPRY9FgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACNgBVAAA=]The quickness variant provides permanent 急速, 激怒, and 威能 to yourself and nearby allies with 0% boon duration. It should be played when fighting with nearby players, or when fighting bosses and other durable enemies where you cannot keep refreshing your Deadeye Mark by killing enemies.
Change your deadeye traits to 
密室死斗, 
提前布局, and 
致命火力. Change your utility skills to 
恶意复原, 
怜悯, 暗影闪烁, and 
暗影融合, use whatever skill you want on the open slot, such as 暗影疾步 for mobility or 
毒蝎钩索 for crowd control or 敏捷纹章 for condition removal.
Your Stolen Skill will always be 
汲取时间, which will provide the aforementioned boons to yourself and nearby allies. Using any Cantrip will give you another Steal Time thanks to 密室死斗. This has a small delay so you can fire one 弹幕倾泻 in between the Cantrip and the new Steal Time.
Opener
This opener will give you and nearby allies very long durations of 急速, 激怒, and 威能. Continue weaving Cantrips and Steal Times periodically through the fight to maintain these boons permanently.
Notes
- Try to stay above 50% health to benefit from 敏锐观察 and
双牙撕咬. - When fighting non-defiant enemies in a group, try to attack from behind to benefit from 双牙撕咬.
- Each bullet from 弹幕倾泻 has a 20% chance to be a projectile finisher so, when fighting with nearby players, try to make your bullets fly through a combo field for some additional bonuses.
- Never cancel 弹幕倾泻. Landing all 8 shots will replenish 2 initiative.
- The food
龙息小面包 provides a good damage boost when killing trash mobs and is very cheap.
Defense
The best defense is to kill your enemy before it can kill you. This build is very aggressive and has little defense.
- You are a fully ranged build, always keep your distance and stay on the move.
- Dodge incoming attacks.
- Disengage with stealth.
- Against trash mobs, you can always use
火药喷射 to blind them.
