The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on April 03, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
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遁入暗影 provides good healing, cleanses damaging conditions, and gives stealth.
恶意复原 - in rare situations, this skill can be useful to transfer conditions to your enemy. But you lose access to 
潜行.暗影疾风 provides both 潜行 and melee range Crowd Control (CC). 
战斗冲动 is an offensive stun break. 
暗影闪烁 provides AoE damage. Other options can be considered should the situation require it.
束缚暗影 - if you need boon removal. It also applies a good amount of vulnerability.
致盲药粉 - defensive stun break with Stealth. However, be very careful to use this skill after your bullets hit the enemy or you will be 
现身 since Blinding Powder has no cast time.
毒蝎钩索 - very situational. Extremely good for pulling the bomb in Battle in Tarir south lane meta event.
暗影疾步 - amazing mobility plus stunbreak and condi cleanse.
暗影庇护 - long duration of stealth for channelling Hero Challenges.
敏捷纹章 - if conditions are a problem, though its passive precision is not needed due to 
敏锐观察.
暗影融合 removes 现身 and gives 潜行. It's very useful for rifle, but not so much for dagger which already has access to stealth. Other options can be considered.
Power deadeye focuses on the use of dagger and rifle. The build revolves around marking a target for assassination with 
神枪手标记, and striking it to generate 7 Malice to regain initiative and get lots of boons, most notably permanent 25 
威能 and 
激怒. That Malice is then consumed to empower the Stealth Attacks 
恶意背刺 or 
恶意死亡审判 to inflict massive damage. The build makes frequent use of short bursts of 潜行, has good mobility, and is very fast paced.
Its main downside are that it has low amounts of cleave/AoE damage, and is relatively fragile.
This build focuses on marking your target with to build 7 Malice and assassinate them with or . Every attack that you make against a Marked target generates 1 Malice, and 1 additional Malice if the attack is a critical strike, so this build really wants to have 100% critical chance. Thankfully, and help with that. Marking the target is extremely important, not only to start generating Malice with your attacks, but also because you deal increased damage to them, and take less damage from them, thanks to . Killing the target refreshes the cooldown of Deadeye's Mark thanks to .
Reaching 7 Malice provides a plethora of boons through , most notably and . This synergyses amazingly well with . You also apply a few conditions on your enemy through , , , , and , which synergyses with . This trait becomes even better when playing in groups, as nearby players will be applying more conditions to the enemy.
This build makes frequent use of short bursts of to deal damage with the very strong stealth attacks or . Your sources of stealth are stolen skills used above 5 Malice, your utility skills, your elite skill, and your weapon skill . If you're going to focus extensively on using the rifle weapon, consider using the trait . If also using , be very careful to use it after your bullets hit the enemy or you will be since Blinding Powder has no cast time.
Rifle can attack from 1500 range, but has no AoE damage. However, bullets pierce, so with good positioning you can attack multiple targets at the same time.
Rotation opener
Loop
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
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: "Exterminator" rifle, "Usoku's Needle" dagger, "Shattered Short Bow" shortbow. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide to Gear a Character.
Daggers are melee range and have innate access to stealth. They have slightly higher AoE damage than rifle, and their damage is amplified against low health targets.
Rotation opener
Loop
Mastery of this build requires management of your sources of , which are the only way to use your Stealth Attack to reset your initiative. While dagger/dagger has that covered with , rifle will require you to use other sources of Stealth.
This build severely lacks defense, and relies on killing enemies before they can deal much damage.
