神枪手 Deadeye - SA Rifle Roamer

特性 Specializations

装备 Equipment

装备变体 Equipment Variants

Relics

• - worth considering when playing with at least 2 utility Cantrips.

• - less damage, more cleansing.

• - a damage boost that can be maintained somewhat passively, but might not be active for stealth bursts or when you're trying to catch enemies offguard. Works well in prolonged 1v1s however.

• - defensive relic with synergy, restoring 1 dodge roll's worth of endurance after using 。

Stats

• Replacing some Marauder pieces with Berserker for a higher risk/reward playstyle is also a viable option.

Sigils

• over - better burst on your main set, but less synergy. Good option if you find yourself camping Rifle a lot.

• over - in case you don't want to bother with a stacking sigil.

• over - more damage, less defense against conditions. Air is better if you don't already have it on D/P, but if you've already replaced Bloodlust with Air then go with Blood.

消耗品 Consumables

食物 Food

• - great synergy with ，this food provides not just more evasion but also higher Stealth uptime.
  • Budget version:

• - better burst damage and some extra life steal.

增强 Utility

• 或

使用说明 Usage

Elite specialization basics

• is replaced by ，which has greater range but also a cast time. We're still going to refer to this as steal.

• Stolen skills are also replaced by new ones for each profession, although these are much less situational and can be used more freely. One thing to note is that you cannot pick the target freely for the new stolen skills, they will always be used on your marked target (even if they are in stealth, which can be useful for finishing off low HP stealthed targets)。
  • If you want to know more about these skills, here's a list of them from the official wiki.

• Your specialization resource is called Malice。 It's built using attack skills with initiative cost on your marked target and you can have up to 5 stacks of Malice, each increasing your damage by 3%. Stealth attacks such as consume Malice and are further empowered based on the number of Malice stacks.

• At the 5 Malice threshold stolen skills such as grant Stealth on activation, which is going to be their primary purpose - but be wary that they also do damage, so if you were already in stealth these will reveal you instead. There is a workaround for this however: stolen skills need line of sight (LoS) to deliver damage, if you intentionally break LoS then you can use them for the stealth without drawbacks.

General

• Start fights with to begin passively building Malice.

• provides easy stealth access on rifle, the only limiting factor will be endurance.

• recharges 。 Use it when you either run out of initiative, have to switch targets, or need to interrupt via 。

• is easily the most versatile skill in the build. Couple of applications include:
  • Extending the reach of rifle by 1200 range instantly.
  • Escaping from melee, and then doing it again with when they get close.
  • Stomping downed opponents with Shadowstep ⇒ Shadow Return.
  • Breaking stun and cleansing conditions.

• is good for more than just cleansing conditions or boosting your precision, its active effect restores an entire dodge roll's worth of endurance which can be turned into stealth.

• D/P is the set you use if Rifle's either getting countered by projectile denial for an extended period of time but you want to go for the kill, or if you need to stack stealth and resustain.

• procs the damage bonus of ，creating a burst window for you.

步枪

Main weapon set. Burst, mobility, easy stealth access.

• Rifle technically has 10 skills, but most of them won't be used much if at all.

• The basic game plan is the following: spam until you reach the Malice cap, then enter stealth and follow up with a 。

• swaps your rifle skills for more powerful ones but limits your mobility. The cost usually doesn't justify the payoff, so stick to your spam. The only real scenario where you'd use Kneel skills for damage is if you're in a safe spot somewhere up on the highground from where you can snipe targets passing below, quickly taking them out with while having proper line of sight. In that case:
  • (TRB) will be the main skill to spam on the weapon if you do get to Kneel. This is where most of your damage comes from, not to mention Might and Malice stacking.
  • can be used either to set up burst with the Immobilize，or as a cheaper way to reach the Malice cap (Spotter costs 3 Initiative and gives the same amount of Malice as the 6 initiative TRB)。 The boons provided are also quite good.

• The only reason most people ever use Kneel is to drop (skill #4) - Kneeling inside flips your 4th skill over to which you can then use for stealth access and some mobility. This is one of the best Stealth stacking methods in the build, use it whenever you're pressured.

• is basically the of this build when it comes to mobility, but that's just one aspect of it. In combat this serves as a spammable condition cleanse or even combo tool for stealth access when used in a smoke field.
  • We recommend that you set up a bind for "about face" (Options ⇒ Control Options ⇒ Movement)。 This makes it easier to teleport forward with this skill using the following sequence: about face ⇒ ⇒ about face.

• At maximum (5 stacks) of Malice you should enter stealth and do a 。 Exceptions include targets at very low health, in that canse it may be quicker to just spam them down with other skills.
  • At maximum Malice prioritize using stolen skills for stealth access, don't waste dodges if you don't have to!

• could be useful against other ranged specs, but a more common application of it is stealth stacking. It's a combo field which can be utilized by you or your team. After dropping SC at your feet, either cancel kneeling and use to combo stealth (the two skills are also tied to the same button), or use its chain skill which is cheaper but doesn't cleanse conditions (and teleports you in the opposite direction)。

Rifle burst rotation example:

1. ，which already puts you at 1/5 Malice with
2. x2
3. Stealth using either a stolen skill or a dodge

Stealth

• Entering and exiting Stealth removes conditions and grants some Initiative.

• Rifle's is the cheapest way for you to enter stealth, endurance being the only limiting factor.

• provides easy stealth access when no other method is available or you want to extend the duration of stealth.

• Stacking longer duration of stealth on rifle is rather expensive but doable, you can do this with the ⇒ while also mixing in a dodge or two.

D/P stealth stacking rotation

2. x4 in Black Powder
3. Swap to rifle, dodge

相关配装 Related Builds

• Marauder Rifle (sPvP) - the Conquest PvP version of this Deadeye WvW Roaming build.