Power Deadeye

Published Sep 1, 2022 •Updated Jun 2, 2023 •February 2023 Balance
Thief Builds

Power Deadeye is an extremely high single target DPS Power build with no cleaving capabilities.

This build has simple gear and a straightforward but constantly punishing rotation due to its reliance on and your Initiative and Malice handling.

Power Deadeye is not very beginner friendly due to the rotation requiring extreme precision and pristine conditions.

This build is reliant on:

  • Condition for
  • Boons for
  • Above 90%/75% health for , and
  • Using Dagger, standing 180-degrees behind your target without losing boons/healing from allies
Power Dagger Deadeye
Power Rifle Deadeye
Item Stat

Berserker'sHelm

Berserker'sShoulders

Berserker'sCoat

Berserker'sGloves

Berserker'sLeggings

Berserker'sBoots
Item Stat

Berserker'sBackpiece

Berserker'sAccessory

Berserker'sAccessory

Berserker'sAmulet

Berserker'sRing

Berserker'sRing
Primary Weapon Set

Berserker'sMain Hand

Berserker'sOff Hand
Secondary Weapon Set

Berserker'sMain Hand
Other Items

Infusionx18

Food

Utility
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Below 50% target health, use instead of

Opener

  2. x 2
  5. during
  6. x 3
  8. Stolen Skill

Loop

Cast when available.

  1. x 2
    • Use when above 50% health
    • Skip when you cast

When comes off Cooldown.

  1. x 2
    • If you are revealed
  3. Follow from step 3 in Opener

Sub 25% Health

Continue with the loop, but when your target nears death:

  1. Complete your current loop, to reset Malice to 1
  2. x5/x6
  3. Stolen Skill

Notes

deals half damage from the Front—you must stand 180-degrees Behind your target, not merely Flank (270-degrees "not in front").

Don't be too quick, don't be too slow:

  • The pulsing damage of can Reveal you if you're not quick enough.
  • will interrupt if cast too quickly.
  • You cannot queue from your auto-attack into , and if you are slightly too fast you will still be Revealed.

locks you for 600 miliseconds. Be mindful of this when fighting near dangerous mechanics.

Aggressively queue .

If there is one enemy target near your target, use from 50% — 25% to hit your target twice.

Swap to to demolish any Breakbar.

is useful to fix your rotation, but using this skill regularly is a DPS loss.

helps sustain your HP above the crucial 90% threshold.

To swap out for one of the following utility skills, equip an Assassin's :

  • to allow target-switching on most fights that do not refund your when the boss becomes Invulnerable
  • for CC
  • to quickly handle mechanics.

If you plan to use Rifle often throughout the fight for valuable Ranged DPS uptime, you should bring , , and . Consult this build's Rifle variant for your rotation.

It is exceedingly important that you stay above 75% HP at all times to maintain the +15% Critical Chance from . Without this, you are not guaranteed to get 2 Malice from your Initiative skills. Avoid all unnecessary damage.

Item Stat

Berserker'sHelm

Berserker'sShoulders

Berserker'sCoat

Berserker'sGloves

Berserker'sLeggings

Berserker'sBoots
Item Stat

Berserker'sBackpiece

Berserker'sAccessory

Berserker'sAccessory

Assassin'sAmulet

Berserker'sRing

Berserker'sRing
Primary Weapon Set

Berserker'sMain Hand
Secondary Weapon Set

Berserker'sMain Hand

Berserker'sOff Hand
Other Items

Infusionx18

Food

Utility
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After the opener, cycle between a Stealth Loop and a Mercy Loop.

Opener

  2. x3
  3. +
  4. x3
  5. Stolen Skill
  7. +

Stealth Loop Priority

Use your Stealth skills with the following priority, while using to reach 7/7 Malice:

  4. Stolen Skill

After the opener, activate to cover your last two casts.

Mercy Loop

Fill time until and come off Cooldowns.

  1. Spend excess Initiative on
    • Sparingly fill time with . Consult the benchmark video/log, but do not commit to these casts if you are slower than the benchmark.
  2. Stolen Skill
  4. +

Notes

  • It is strongly advised that you disable auto-cast on skill 1, . With auto-cast enabled, can be interrupted by the following ; with auto-cast disabled, you can smoothly queue while casting your Stealth Attack.
  • and will interrupt the preceding , so don't use these skills too quickly.
  • You cannot queue from ; pause very briefly between your skill inputs.

On the golem, the Cooldowns of your Stealth skills will gradually fall out of alignment—the rotation does not loop perfectly. After approx. 100 seconds spent in a single phase, you should swap to your Daggers; fights with downtime delay this swap.

Between 25%-0% boss HP in real fights, if you cannot benefit from the ranged DPS uptime of Rifle and you can comfortably land by positioning behind your target, you should swap to Dagger.

Dagger/Pistol allows you to contribute to Breakbars via . If this is unnecessary, run two Daggers. If using offhand Pistol, use your Stealth skills after reaching 7 Malice.

Your Stealth utilities are locked-in to provide enough DPS uptime with Rifle.

On multi-phase fights that heavily favor burst, you can swap for . See the Kite Deadeye rotation for implementation.

You must flank your target to benefit from +7% Critical Chance. If you have 0% flanking uptime on an encounter, swap to at ~2.8% damage loss.