Deadly Aim (trait)

This article is about the trait. For the Deadeye's rifle skill, see Deadly Aim.

Your pistol and harpoon gun attacks now pierce and have increased strike damage. — In-game description

Deadly Aim

Specialization

Critical Strikes (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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8

Deadly Aim

Your pistol and harpoon gun attacks now pierce and have increased strike damage.

 Damage Increase: 10%

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pierces

— In-game description

Notes

• The damage modifier stacks multiplicatively with other damage modifiers.

Anomaly:

Recharge listed has no effect and was left over from Ankle Shots.

Bug:

Tooltips still show the the damage being decreased instead of increased.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	This trait no longer reduces damage and now increases damage from pistol and harpoon gun attacks by 10%.
May 11, 2021	Text on many damage-increasing profession traits, runes, and sigils has been clarified to indicate whether they increase outgoing strike damage, condition damage, or all damage, as appropriate.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Deadly Aim has been added to the game and replaced Ankle Shots. This new trait causes the pistol and harpoon gun skills to pierce, affecting up to five enemies but reducing the damage inflicted by those skills by 5%.