Deadeye - Power DPS P/P

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Overview

A pistol/pistol

spamming Deadeye build.

Despite being one of the oldest memes in Guild Wars 2, this build deals decent sustained ranged damage, isn't reliant on

Alacrity or

Might uptime, and is far more mobile than Deadeye - Power DPS Rifle. This makes it viable for kiting mechanics (such as flak on Sabetha) or doing ranged strat on Deimos.

If you are actually able to melee the boss Deadeye - Power DPS D/D will usually perform better.

Skillbar

Pistol/PistolHealingUtilityElite

Traits

Variants

if you're having trouble surviving. This is a ~10% DPS loss.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

18x

Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Consumables

Food

- if you don't have

Utility

/

Usage

This build doesn't have a real rotation and follows a simple DPS priority. The basic idea is to use

and hold down

with Netflix on your second screen.

If you are at max malice, you should use either

or a stolen skill to gain stealth, then reset your malice with

. This procs

and allows you to start building up malice to proc

again, which gives you the initiative to sustain

.

Press
and
off cooldown.
Try to attack the boss from the back or sides to maximize your
uptime.
Although you are ranged you should still try to stay in range of your Chronomancer's
. This is so that you can maintain boons for
.
If possible, precast
a few times with Trickery traited before the fight begins. This lets you have
up at the beginning of the fight for more burst damage.

Video "rotation" example with 30.7k DPS benchmark