Deadeye - Poisonous Rifle Roamer

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Focused on: Condition damage and Mobility

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

A condition Deadeye build focused on kiting with Stealth to wear down opponents over time.

Skill Bar

Rifle

Pistol/Dagger

Utility

Template Code

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Specializations

Variants

• Shadow's Embrace - against condition builds this is a must, swap in when necessary.

Equipment

Head
Trailblazer

Shoulders
Trailblazer

Chest
Trailblazer

Hands
Trailblazer

Legs
Trailblazer

Feet
Trailblazer

Backpiece
Dire

Accessory
Dire

Accessory
Dire

Amulet
Dire

Ring
Trailblazer

Ring
Dire

Rifle
Trailblazer

Sigil

Sigil

Pistol
Trailblazer

Dagger
Trailblazer

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Consumables

• - required for Template:Gw2wiki uptime.

Usage

• This build is all about kiting, use many short bursts of Template:Gw2wiki to reposition often with Shadow Meld, Hide in Shadows, Blinding Powder and Silent Scope. Shadowstep is also an excellent kiting tool to make melee builds waste 2 mobility skills just to get to you.
• Death's Retreat is your main mobility tool along with Template:Gw2wiki due to Meld with Shadows, be sure to have an "about face" keybind to be able to use it towards any direction freely.
• Maleficent Seven and Mercy allow this build to excell in longer engagements without being resource starved.
• When you need to disengage/engage without being seen you can quickly swap around your Pistol and Dagger to keep up permanent stealth after going OOC/before engaging, you do this by using Kneel > Sniper's Cover swap weapon and jump through the cover 2 times with Heartseeker swap weapon then dodge twice. Don't forget to swap them back once you have reached the safety to mount up/engage the enemy to not be left with a useless weapon set.

Damage

• Your main damage will come from Template:Gw2wiki which also has 33% antiheal on it allowing you to outlast your opponents over time, which on rifle will come from Spotter's Shot due to Panic Strike. You will need to use Kneel to use this skill which will imobilize you which is why kiting is of upmost importance, luckilly Spotter's Shot also applies Template:Gw2wiki making the job way eassier. On opponents with little to no cleanse you can often spam Spotter's Shot, use Mercy to refresh initiative, use Deadeye's Mark and spam Spotter's Shot again to kill them.
• The secondary weapon set has a strong stealth attack in Malicious Sneak Attack once you have reached 7 malice and are out of initiative to continue kiting with rifle. The damage on Repeater is also big due to Deadly Ambition, this is probably your highest spammable damage source. It is also an excellent source of stealth with Cloak and Dagger.

Sustain

• Your stats make you very durable but don't overestimate it and get CC locked as you will still die very soon when rooted in place.
• A big source of your sustainability is kiting with Template:Gw2wiki or shadowsteps, you have almost permanent Template:Gw2wiki as long as you have initiative so don't blow all your cooldowns too soon to kite, as long as they don't reach you you are fine.
• Sitting in Template:Gw2wiki heals you due to Shadow's Rejuvenation which can add up to be a surprising amount, don't be afraid to sit in stealth for a while if you desperately need the health.
• You are a Deadeye so if things go south you can always blow all your Template:Gw2wiki cooldowns and use Death's Retreat to get out of there and mount away.

Counters

• Any build with spammable little cleanses as the build relies mostly on a single condition to do damage.
• When dueling for fun poeple can ruin your day by swapping in every cleanse utility or trait their profession has available after facing you once.

Gameplay Videos

• Youtube: Duels

• Youtube: Duels

• Youtube: Roaming, first half of the video.

If you have any questions reach to me ingame, Anput.4620