Build:Deadeye - Power Deadeye

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:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on June 07, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A general open world deadeye build focused on flexibility, performing good enough in every scenario without really especializing in one purpose.

It builds on thief's core themes of in-combat mobility and burst damage, inviting the use of differet weapons and their Dual Attacks.

When chain killing, this build can maintain permanent Fury, Might, and Quickness with no boon duration.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Pistol

Shortbow

Utility

Weapon Variants

This build really invites the player to make use of different weapons, making use of the thief's profession mechanic of Dual Attacks.

• The suggested Dagger/Pistol focuses on mobility and burst damage.
• Sword/Pistol - good cleave damage and evasive playstile.
• Sword/Dagger - good single target damage and evasive playstile.
• Dagger/Dagger - accobratic playstile that focuses on Backstabing enemies.
• Pistol/pistol - alternative playstile that focuses on chain killing by pew pewing enemies.
• Rifle - alternative playstile that focuses on very high single target damage.
• Pistol/dagger - not recomended, focuses on condition damage.

Skill Variants

Heal Skill

• Withdraw - shorter cooldown heal with an evade.
• Malicious Restoration - condi cleanse and huge heal.

Utility Skills

• Shadow Flare - alternative damage option and teleport.
• Smoke Screen - blinds enemies and destroys projectiles.
• Tripwire/Binding Shadow/Shadow Gust - if struggling with defiance bars.
• Shadowstep - alternative stun break that cleanses conditions and is a long range teleport.
• Haste - alternative stun break that grants offensive boons; good on bosses
• Shadow Refuge - to escape from enemies or stealth past them, or channel Hero Challenges.

Elite Skill

• Dagger Storm - a 4 second evade.
• Basilisk Venom - strong crowd control if there are allies nearby.
• Thieves Guild - high burst damage on a long cooldown

Specializations

Variants

• Invigorating Precision - a litle bit of sustain, not that great after the huge nerf in End of Dragons.
• Malicious Intent - when fighting against single targets
• Maleficent Seven - on long fights against single targets.

Equipment

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.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Pistol
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Shortbow is used only for mobility and tagging mobs in group events, thus the suggested sigils.

Variant Equipment

Gear

• Knight - defensive trinkets
• Marauder - trades some damage for higher health

Runes

• Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget DPS
• Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - defense

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Air - budget DPS
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - Strong defensive sigil that allows for more dodges.
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Fire - can be used on the shortbow for even better mob tagging.

Tagging
Equip your shortbow with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Fire and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Frenzy for an excellent tagging build.

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

Usage

General

• This build focuses on using Deadeye's Mark to proc several powerful traits, including:
  • Kleptomaniac, Thrill of the Crime, Sleight of Hand, Bountiful Theft from Trickery
  • Collateral Damage, Renewing Gaze, Be Quick or Be Killed in Deadeye
• Because of these interactions, every time you steal you will gain Fury, Might, Quickness, Swiftness, Regeneration, Vigor, +200 Power and Precision, and +2 Initiative.
• Because none of the listed traits that grant these boons have an internal cooldown, and Renewing Gaze refreshes your Deadeye's Mark (which counts as a Steal) every time you kill your marked target you can instantly re-apply these buffs to yourself, making this build amazingly good at killing groups of mobs.
• You deal increased damage to your market target, and take less damage from it, thanks to Iron Sight.
• Killing your Marked target will fully reset your Mark (Renewing Gaze) and cause an explosion around them that deals damage and blinds nearby enemies (Collateral Damage).
• This build also features a considerable amount of Stealth from Hide in Shadows and Shadow Meld, allowing you to disengage from dangerous situations or use Backstab without spending Initiative. This stealth does have a long cooldown, however, so be aware of this.

Damage

Your playstyle will depend on your current set of weapons:

Rifle

See Build:Deadeye_-_Rifle_Deadeye

Pistol/Pistol

• Spam Unload to deal damage.

For a build focused on pistol pistol deadeye see Build:Deadeye_-_Pistol_Pistol_Payback__Deadeye.

Dagger/Pistol

This variant is used primarily for chain-killing and running around in the open world. It has almost no cleave/AoE damage, but has very good single target burst.

To deal damage with Dagger/Pistol:

• Shadow Shot is both your gapcloser and spamable damage skill.
• Heartseeker is used to finish off targets, use it against enemies below 50% HP. Otherwise, use Shadow Shot or auto attacks.
• Double Strike when out of innitiative.

Your stealth attacks is Malicious Backstab, which deals very high damage when hitting from behind. You can gain stealth to use this attack by using your stolen skill while at or above 5 malice or by using Heartseeker as a combo finisher through a smoke field like Black Powder.

Sword/Pistol

This variant provides better cleave damage than dagger through its Dual Attack and auto attack, and good crowd control.

• Pistol Whip is a long-duration evade and can be quite useful for soloing harder enemies. It also stuns.
• Infiltrator's Strike is your gap closer.
• Your stealth attack is Malicious Tactical Strike that dazes if you hit from behind, while regaining endurance.

Sword/Dagger

This variant deals good cleave damage through auto attacks, and good single target damage with its Dual Attack. It performs best against enemies that gain boons, most notably enemies in End of Dragons.

• Flanking Strike attacks while evading, and then Larcenous Strike deals high damage and steals their boons, doing higher damage if they have no boons to steal.

Defense

This build has access to a number of defensive options, though it mostly relies on killing enemies before they can deal much damage.

• Invigorating Precision provides okayish sustain, especially since this build has permanent Fury.
• You have several sources of stealth, which allow for repositioning or disengaging
• Collateral Damage is an area blind
• Black Powder is an area blind. If you are just auto attacking, you can keep this up permanently, though it only affects 5 targets and will not affect enemies with Defiance Bars.
• Pistol Whip (Sword/Pistol only) is a long-duration evade that allows you to easily dodge predictable attacks.

Crowd Control

• Headshot
• Sleight of Hand
• Malicious Tactical Strike (sword 1 in stealth)