Deadeye - Condi DPS

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on January 19, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A condition DPS build for Deadeye. Higher DPS than Daredevil, but Shadow Strike can be awkward to use in actual encounters and does not gain the powerful stolen skills.

Skill Bar

Pistol/Dagger

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility Skills

• Devourer Venom can be used on bosses that move too much to reliably hit with Needle Trap.

Elite Skills

• Use Basilisk Venom for fights that have breakbars.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

• Uncatchable for slightly higher DPS if you think you'll be dodging a lot.
• Burst of Agility for better personal DPS when group boon uptime is poor.
• Malicious Intent if you need to bring Basilisk Venom as you won't have a cantrip in this case, and Malicious Intent will allow you to build up malice stacks faster if your rotation is disrupted.

Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Pistol
Viper

Dagger
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

• Rune of The Afflicted can be used instead of Rune of The Nightmare at a tiny DPS loss, and are much easier to obtain.

Consumables

Food:

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Utility:

• or

Usage

After hitting a target with Shadow Strike, it flips to become Repeater for four seconds.

Your goal is to quickly build up seven stacks of malice and 15 stacks of Lead Attacks with Shadow Strike and Repeater, then stealth to use Malicious Sneak Attack and reset.

Opener

1. Needle Trap
2. Spider Venom and Skale Venom
3. Deadeye's Mark
4. Thousand Needles
5. Shadow Strike
6. Repeater x3
7. Cloak and Dagger
8. Malicious Sneak Attack

The third use of Repeater in the opener is just to guarantee that we reach seven malice stacks in case Shadow Strike or Cloak and Dagger don't crit, so you can interrupt the cast with Cloak and Dagger.

Use Cloak and Dagger in the opener to build up Lead Attacks stacks faster. During the loop you can prioritise your stolen skill (all deadeye stolen skills grant stealth if used when above five malice stacks).

Loop

1. Shadow Strike
2. Repeater x3
3. Stolen skill, Shadow Meld or Cloak and Dagger
4. Malicious Sneak Attack
5. repeat

Prioritise Shadow Meld to gain stealth if you don't have a stolen skill available, or if you messed up and Revealed yourself.

Notes

• If you jump immediately after using Shadow Strike such that the attack hits while you are in the air, then the shadowstep will not trigger, which can be very useful!
• Use Weapon swap, Needle Trap → Thousand Needles, venoms and Deadeye's Mark off cooldown. Make sure to only use Needle Trap and Deadeye's Mark between steps 1 and 2 in the loop, otherwise you might miss your chance to use Repeater.
• If the phase goes on long enough that you run out of initiative, use Hide in Shadows at step 4 in the loop to recover.
• Try to only use venoms while four other allies are in range, or their potential will be wasted. Allies includes Mesmer clones, Necromancer minions, and Ranger pets.
• You can pre-cast venoms on allies if you know the encounter will start within 24 seconds.

Breakbar

• Basilisk Venom