Deadeye - Pistol Pistol Payback Deadeye

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.

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.

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.

• 密室死斗 + 提前布局 + 致命火力

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Budget: 龙息小面包
• Ascended: any Steak food.
• 盘装辛辣陆行鸟翅膀 / 碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤
• 超级磨刀石 / 罐装水果蛋糕

Defense

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲
• 煎扇贝三明治
• 碗装柠檬草贻贝意粉

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)

Heal Skill

is suggested as it works great with the multihitting Unload attack.

• - defensive option
• - low cooldown, good heal, evades, and disengages.

Utility skill

is your only real AoE damage, it is advisable not to swap it. and are both stun breaks and utility skills, but they are not mandatory. You can consider other skills:

• boon removal, minor CC, and good vulnerability application.
• - good when chain killing trash mobs to teleport to your next target.
• - stunbreak, evade, and initiative.
• - long duration of stealth for channelling Hero Challenges.
• - if conditions are a problem.

Elite skill

We recommend for its great damage and crowd control, and allies that can tank for you. It also has superb syneryg with allowing you to have permanent Thieves Guild when killing groups of trash mobs.

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

• Note that you need 0% boon duration for the quickness variant to provide permanent boons.
• With and you achieve 100% critical chance.
• You can use whatever sigils you want on the shortbow.
• counts as a weapon skill so it triggers .
  • For bosses and fights where you don't reset Deadeye's Mark, use for more damage, or to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain.

Deadeye's Mark and Malice

The most important part of the build is correct usage of . Make sure to mark your target before you start firing to deal extra damage to them, and receive less damage from them, due to . It also gives you from , which increases your power and precision by 200.

By killing your marked target, you will proc , which greatly reduces the recharge of your skills, most notably and . You also reset Deadeye's Mark, letting your mark your next target.

When killing groups of trash mobs, you will achieve permanent and .

Priority

4. spam this

Quickness variant

The quickness variant provides permanent , , and 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 , , and . Change your utility skills to , , , and , use whatever skill you want on the open slot, such as for mobility or for crowd control or for condition removal.

Your Stolen Skill will always be , which will provide the aforementioned boons to yourself and nearby allies. Using any Cantrip will give you another Steal Time thanks to . This has a small delay so you can fire one in between the Cantrip and the new Steal Time.

Opener

This opener will give you and nearby allies very long durations of , , and . 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 and .
• When fighting non-defiant enemies in a group, try to attack from behind to benefit from .
• Each bullet from 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 . Landing all 8 shots will replenish 2 initiative.
• The food 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.