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 Be Quick or Be Killed Power  Deadeye

Build Rating (Subjective)

Criterion	Rating
Burst Damage	5/5
Sustained Damage	5/5
Utility Options	4/5
Survivability	4/5
Difficulty	2/5

Power Deadeye with  Be Quick or Be Killed has a simple-to-learn rotation and is lots of fun to play in open world and instanced content. It can provide itself with good amounts of all essential offensive boons:  Quickness, 25  Might and  Fury. With Dual Pistols, it becomes one of the most effective roamers in open world and event tagging. With just two trait changes, it can provide  Quickness,  Might and  Fury for allies while dealing strong damage, making it one of the most straightforward  Quickness dps options. It's main weakness is that it does not offer much utility aside from those boons and damage, and the frequent interaction with Stealth can cause issues in some encounters.

Link to the DPS Build in the Build Editor

Playstyle & Skills

Skill Type	Skills
Mark & Stealth Attacks Skills
Dual Daggers
Dual Pistols
Utility

Thieves are – together with Revenants – the only profession in the game with a resource bar that determines how often you can use skills. On this profession, skills have different Initiative costs, but no internal cooldown. You regenerate 1 Initiative per second, but there are other ways to increase the inflow. Since skills have no internal cooldown, this often means that the skill that does the most damage per cast and initiative spent is repeated (like   Twilight Combo on this build), making most rotations on Thief relatively simple to understand.

Rotation Concept

Careful:This build scales with the number of conditions on the enemy and boons on yourself. For guidance on setting up the training area, see my guide for it.'
You can find my most recent rotation showcase here.

• Always maintain   Deadeye's Mark on your target.
• The general rotation concept evolves around stealthing yourself with   Cloak and Dagger and then using   Malicious Backstab right after. You can only stealth yourself when you do not have the  Revealed effect on you. It lasts 3 seconds after you exit Stealth, so you need to monitor the effect.
• Use   Cloak and Dagger into   Malicious Backstab as much as your Initiative allows.
• In order to maintain Relic of the Deadeye, use   Shadow Flare (both casts),   Mercy and   Malicious Restoration whenever it is about to run out. Prioritize   Shadow Flare for this. Only use   Malicious Restoration when the other two aren't available.
•   Mercy is important for Initiative management.

Utility Skills

Utility Skills

Skill Choice	Notes
Malicious Restoration
Shadow Flare
Mercy
Assassin's Signet
Thieves Guild

CC Skills for Breakbar Damage:

•   Head Shot should be prioritized whenever CC is needed.
•   Binding Shadow can be taken over   Shadow Flare or   Assassin's Signet for another Knockdown and  Immobile at a small dps loss.

Gear

Important Stats (descending in Importance):

1. ~53% Critical Chance in the Hero Panel -  Fury,  Keen Observer,  Be Quick or Be Killed and  Twin Fangs provide the remaining 47 %.
2. Maximize  Power
3. Maximize  Ferocity

Gear

Armor	Prefix	Rune
Head	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Shoulders	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Chest	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Gloves	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Legs	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Boots	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Trinket	Prefix
Amulet	Berserker's / Dragon's
Ring 1	Berserker's / Dragon's
Ring 2	Berserker's / Dragon's
Accessory 1	Berserker's / Dragon's
Accessory 2	Berserker's / Dragon's
Backpack	Berserker's
Weapon	Prefix	Sigil
Dagger	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Force
Dagger	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Impact
Pistol	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Force
Pistol	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Impact
Purpose	Item Type	Source
Damage	Ascended Food	Cilantro Lime Sous-Vide Steak
Damage	Non-Ascended Food	Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
Survivability	Ascended Food	Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak
Survivability	Non-Ascended Food	Oysters with Zesty Sauce
Damage	Utility	Potent Superior Sharpening Stone
Survivability	Utility	Potion Of Karka Toughness
Damage	Relic	Relic of the Deadeye
Survivability	Relic	Relic of Zakiros

• For a budget variant, simply replace all armor pieces of Berserker's with rare/exotic Berserker's.
• Ascended gear is always ideal, but exotic gear is fine for everything aside from higher-tier fractals.

Traits

Full DPS Build

Deadly Arts
Critical Strikes
Deadeye

Sharing  Quickness

Deadeye

• The  Quickness variant plays very similar to the full dps variant, but uses  Fire for Effect and  One in the Chamber for easy  Quickness coverage.
• All you need to do is to use your Cantrips and  Deadeye's Mark to generate   Steal Time casts and use it on cooldown. Everything else stays the same.

Open World Build

You can find my most recent open world build showcase here.

Link to the Open World Build on the Editor

Increasing Survivability

• For OW, it can make sense to make a build more forgiving, so that you can sustain on your own.
• The first step for increased survivability is to use Dual Pistols and stay at range to kite incoming damage.
• You can use  Deadly Aim to make your pistol skills pierce, but  Practiced Tolerance is the more useful option when you also use daggers.
• Spam   Unload for self- Might and damage. When you hit with all bullets, it restores Initiative. That way, you can spam it indefinetely.
• The healing skills of choice are   Malicious Restoration or   Signet of Malice.   Malicious Restoration triggers Relic of the Deadeye and is a very strong heal and condition transfer, while   Signet of Malice provides easy passive healing.
• For more passive self-healing, you have several options:

1. Relic of the Deadeye and   Invigorating Precision.
2. Relic of Zakiros and   No Quarter.
3. For even more survivability, you can use both Relic of Zakiros and   Invigorating Precision.

• I use the first option, since it is similar damage, more healing and doesn't require another Relic. We're covering  Fury without   No Quarter and use a lot of Cantrips anyway, so you don't need to think about Relic of the Deadeye.
• Use the survivability food and utility item listed above for -10% damage taken and 150 Toughness!

Boon Coverage

• This build shares all boons listed below in an area around it, making it a great choice for group gameplay in open world.
•  Might and  Fury are covered by  Fire for Effect and   Unload.
•   Steal Time applies area  Quickness and maintains a good uptime on  Slow on the enemy, dealing persistent Defiance bar damage.
• With   One in the Chamber, you gain a Stolen skill every time you use a Cantrip. This allows you to easily maintain Relic of the Deadeye and  Quickness on yourself and allies.
•  Power Deadeye has no useful source of  Protection on itself. Therefore, using   Jade Tech Offensive Overcharge and   Jade Tech Defensive Overcharge will massively increase your survivability in solo gameplay.
• These give for 150 additional Toughness, Vitality, Condition Damage and Power as well as all boons aside from  Stability,  Resistance and  Resolution on entering combat every 30 seconds.

Dealing with Incoming Conditions and Control effects

• For condition transfers, make use of   Malicious Restoration.
• If you need additional cleanses, slap on another Dagger with a Superior Sigil of Purity.
•   Mercy is a Stun break, so you can save one count of this for safety.