The missing things :
- weapon : Rifle
- utility : Mercy
-traits : one in the chamber + Peripherical vision+ Be quick or be killed
How to play :
kneel -> use mark -> spam 2 -> use mercy -> use mark again -> spam 2
Your target will get perma imob + 10 stacks of confusion + ~12-15 stacks of poison.
Viper can be swapped with carrion on small maps when kiting is difficult
main ~ Esper Jace (Thief )/ Ellundril Jiluan
(mesmer ) – EU [Teef]
I also found the power on rifle to be pretty weak compared to other weapons. With everything set to do max power dps I was only seeing 3-5k crits with rifles stealth attack (which is a condi attack.) I then swapped to d/p and was able to do a 10k backstab with the same build. After messing around I started noticing several of the DE traits/ skills focus around a hybrid playstyle so I converted my build to vipers. Rifle was still meh with this, but it atleast was a decent opener. I ended up using an old p/d condi build from pre HoT but with DE for Shadow Meld. With Shadow Meld, the pistol sneak attack skill can be used 3 times in a row. Combine that with spider venom for more burst condi damage. As for rifle, it seems to be a pretty tactical weapon. It can convert boons to condis for fighting boon spammers so it can be a massive amount of condi dmg.
I’ve been using the DE without rifle and the effect is pretty decent. I’m playing around with the traits but the main thing is Shadow Meld. It is a much stronger elite than the others for stealth based gameplay and a good addition to a build that doesn’t take trickery.
I will say that the addition of so many revealed skills made this elite inevitable and I don’t think it was the best choice to avoid powercreep.
I will need to try out the condi rifle variation of the build but I like the P/D for the versatility and autoattack bleed pressure.
Northern Shiverpeaks (NSP)
Thief (Daredevil)
Commandant of Pistol-Dagger and Apex Predator
Using P/d with the DE spec with Rifle in a Condition build utilizing trappers runes will give a whole lot of stealth and AA damage. That said, the spec is something I want to use in a P/d build going the hybrid route with either the new grievers spec or carrion.
All that might access begs for this and coupled with Vuln stacking it might work out very well. Potent poison with the Immob will be very useful here and Revealed training boosts raw power.
Shadowstrike damage in p/d is as strong as shadowshot out of D/p. While the rest of the power damage weaker in the set there is still CND and the more Power friendly Rifle to swap to as the need arises. DA/SA and DE should work nicely as traitlines. Binding Shadow will be a killer utility and would be used with the new elite, A trap (needle) and and one of a venom or Shadow gust (stunbreak and yet another stealth) . Trait up respite and you have in essence 5 stealth sources just on the utility bar.
This is a whole pile of sneak attacks for bleeds and sneak attack POWER damage is significantly higher then is the regular attack.
It something else I will try before the weekend is up.
I tested this for hours last night. I could not get access to trappers runes in the beta as they have to be forged so the build I want will be better once the real thing comes along.
This build WORKS. It will be more effective then my older p/d build where I found DrD lacking as far as condition damage concerned. This build will also allow me to drop Trickery as the Confusion not really needed due to the ability to get into stealth more often and use sneak attack and immobs on either weapon.
The might access pushes my ticks up much higher then before and all of that nice power attack damage is NOT going to waste as using Carrion you can get some pretty nice power damage strikes.
One thing I did find about going power using the Rifle was that once marked and in trouble the enemy would run out of range and having no port on steal it could be hard to catch him and apply the finishing blow. With hybrid they will often turn to run with bleed or poison stacks on them and ticking. As the video above demonstrates (and this was my experience too) you can get a whole lot of poison stacks on using the Rifle and P/d combo. Coupling that with higher power damage , while at the expense of higher armor, just makes it deadlier.
It’s not that the poison was that much higher than on DD. It’s more that the mark provides more flexibility (with 1500 range and no teleport) and consistent access to boons.
Northern Shiverpeaks (NSP)
Thief (Daredevil)
Commandant of Pistol-Dagger and Apex Predator
