GW2. Rifle Deadeye WvW Roaming Build. Thief WvW 2023.

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Shadow Arts Variant

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Overview

Rifle Deadeye is a long ranged burst build for thief WvW roaming. While the Rifle weapon is not as good as the melee thief weapons for chasing kills, it can maintain its damage for longer from a safe position.

Malice is generated whenever you hit the target you cast Deadeye’s Mark on with an initiative costing weapon skill. If they crit, you get 2 malice instead of 1. Gaining 7 malice will give you tons of boons and initiative due to the Maleficent Seven trait. Higher malice will also make your sneak attack from stealth, Death’s Judgment, deal more damage. You should aim to mark a target and then spam the rifle 2 until maximum malice is achieved, then go in stealth by dodging, using the Kneeling Rifle 4 + Standing Rifle 4 for a combo, Blinding Powder, or using the F2 stolen ability when above 5 malice.

Prioritize landing your Death’s Judgment so that you can burst your enemies and refresh your malice to be able to gain the boons and initiative bonuses again. You can teleport in the middle of your Death’s Judgment animation with Shadowstep or Signet of Infiltration to make it harder for enemies to predict or line of sight it. Use the sword to gain extra mobility and to do AoE damage, since the rifle lacks that.

Basic Combos: F1 > Rifle 2 2 2 > Dodge or F2 (stealth) > Rifle 1

Safe Opener: Sword 2 (In) > F1 > Sword 3 > Swap > Rifle 22 > Dodge > 1 > 222 > Dodge > 1 > Swap > Sword 2 (out)

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Equipment

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Alternatives:

• Weapon: Dagger instead Pistol as secondary off-hand for more melee damage
• Sigil:  instead Rage sigil on rifle
• Sigil:  instead Celerity sigil on sword
• Sigil:  instead Absorption sigil on pistol
• Food:  for more dodges

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Skills

Rifle / Kneel	Heal / Utility / Elite
Sword / Pistol	Stealth Attack

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Traits

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Build Template

Chat Code: (copy/paste into in-game chat)

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Gameplay

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Critical Strikes Variant

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Overview

The Critical Strikes Deadeye is a long range heavy DPS version of thief that gets its sustain from Invigorating Precision and Maleficent Seven traits. You feed yourself more initiative the more malice you roll through and reset with Death’s Judgment, and heal off of your critical hits. The Infiltrator Signet and Infiltrator Strike on sword also allow for lots of mobility to stay on your target to keep your sustain rotation going or to disengage by porting to distant neutral mobs or siege.

Synergy

Getting maximum malice is important to generating boons and initiative to sustaining this build, spamming Skirmisher’s Shot gets to maximum malice the fastest.

Playstyle

Use Infiltrator Strike intelligently to kite and position, and when the moment is right and you found a good target swap to rifle and use Deadeye’s Mark and then Skirmisher’s Shot until full malice, then use the stolen ability or dodge to get stealth into Death’s Judgment. Repeat getting malice, or swap back to sword to kite or retarget. Using Death’s Retreat with “About Face” for positioning is required to master this build.

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Equipment

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Alternatives:

• Food:  for more dodges

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Skills

Rifle / Kneel	Heal / Utility / Elite
Sword / Pistol	Stealth Attack

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Traits

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Alternatives:

• Deadeye:  for more burst

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Build Template

Chat Code: (copy/paste into in-game chat)

[&DQUjOiwnOhUKAQwBWABYAVcBVwFYATMBnwEOAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]

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Gameplay

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