Power Deadeye with Staff and Daggers is a build well suited for beginners to the Deadeye Elite Specialization. It features solid cleaving damage, and it can be played with either or both of its weapon sets.
[&DQUcPSMbOi/xFQwBIBcgFzMBMwGsFjQBKAA9FgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]Power Deadeye with Staff and Daggers is a build well suited for beginners to the Deadeye Elite Specialization. It features solid cleaving damage, and it can be played with either or both of its weapon sets.
Build Difficulty: ● ○ ○ ○ ○
| Staff | Default Keybind |
|---|---|
1 | |
2 | |
| → | 3 → 3 |
| Dagger & Dagger | Default Keybind |
|---|---|
1 (Stealth Attack) | |
2 | |
4 | |
Deadeye focuses primarily on one main target via . You'll want to cast this on your target to trigger , then spend your Initiative to deal damage. Follow this basic rotation for now:
Striking a marked target with an Initiative skill will build Malice. You can do two things with this:
For now, we'll focus on .
Stolen Skills are very good damage even just by themselves, but their most important use is to enable access to Stealth when you have enough Malice. This is where your Dagger set comes in!






5After you've spend all that Initiative and both charges, you'll end up with a fresh and leftover Initiative, with which you can do the following:
's damage scales with your accumulated Malice, making it a big payoff. on Staff is instead a more utility-oriented Defiance Break tool.
Even though is strongest when loaded with Malice, it's no slouch by itself! This will be your main damage skill on Dagger. You can't spam it, however, since you have limited resources and will be gated by Revealed, so you'll want to pace yourself with the following simple loop:
*If you have no Stolen Skill available, replace it with or . Remember, since you have , these will generate a Stolen Skill!
When is about to come off-Cooldown, swap back to your Staff set! A new charge of won't be far behind, allowing you to start the process all over again.
If you've followed the steps so far, you can summarize what you've learned as follows:
Combining these concepts leads into the formal Power Deadeye - BQoBK Staff/Dagger build.
We recommend practicing the steps on this page sequentially, slowly adding one onto the other; following the process from start to finish several times helps significantly!
Once you find yourself comfortable with them, be sure to check out the Main Build Page. There, you'll apply these concepts to learn: