Guild Wars 2

I am a support guardian and run full nomads. I keep getting one shot by dead eyes. I was wondering what build are they probably running to make that possible. I’m not crying for a nerf theif deserves some power love. But I would like to learn more about it to counter act it in the future.

I’ve experimented a bit with the Deadeye spec myself. Basically it’s a full zerker build that’s easy to counter if you know what to look out for.

Step 1: The Deadeye will mark you and go invisible until 7 stacks of malice are reached. If you notice the mark, just running around will make it difficult for the Deadeye to keep up while maintaining stealth.

Step 2: The Deadeye will switch to rifle (maybe pop the sigill for extra damage), position themselves and press 4. This skill reveals the Deadeye, has some cast-time and draws a straight line between the Deadeye and you. When you see this line, just dodge. If you dodge/block or even reflect this one skill, the whole build falls apart.

or simply take advantage of terrain and get out of line of sight. Bam the whole 20 sec is wasted for the deadeye
tbh death judgement is an overrated skill, with zerkers I can kill anyone with just spamming 3 and autos most of the time

Thanks for the responses I appreciate it

The advice here sounds like you should drop whatever you are doing and run and hide for 20 seconds. If that’s the case, the Deadeye doesn’t even need to shoot you. Are there other things you can do?

Wall of Reflection?

DaShi.1368:

The advice here sounds like you should drop whatever you are doing and run and hide for 20 seconds. If that’s the case, the Deadeye doesn’t even need to shoot you. Are there other things you can do?

If it sounds like that to you, then you didn’t read carefully enough. Anything that can stop a projectile at the right moment makes the 20 seconds the Deadeye used to build up malice wasted. Dodges, reflects, projectile destruction, blocks or just a pebble between the Deadeye and you will have this effect. At the price of keeping 1 skill or 1 dodge roll open until the moment is right, you can completely counter an enemy player. If that sounds useless to you, then I don’t know how you’re ever going to fight any other spec.

Thing to note: During the weekend, reflects on deadeye skills were buggy and frequently you’d fail to reflect them.

On the other hand, revealing the Deadeye does nothing, as they have counter-counter-stealth as their elite.