Guild Wars 2

6 Runes of the Eagle,

2139 Power,

2025 Precision,

916 Toughness,

1245 vitality

57% crit chance. Gain 20% crit chance when enemy falls below 50% health. Deal 20% more damage if they’re below 50% health and cause immobilize if you hit them and they’re below 50% health.

My Steal deals damage and I improved the range of it. And if I really need to go far, I also have the Shadowstep utility skill to chain with Steal.

I don’t use Haste in my spike unless I’m with teammates that can help me finish them off, which is why my other utility skill is Scorpion Wire. Pistol Whip spike, Scorpion Wire, Pistol Whip.

I use Basilisk Venom as my Elite. I steal, causing Basilisk to proc, then I let 1 autoattack in to allow Basilisk to run its course (stacking Basilisk on top of any other crowd control abilities wastes all of the abilities’ time). Immediately after the autoattack I Pistol Whip.

Dual Skills deal 5% more damage and have a 5% extra chance to critical hit.

I read through most of your text then saw where you said you don’t have haste. IMO for a pistol wil spike build you really need haste. The combo takes a while to execute and haste helps you get every hit in. I’m not a fan of pistol whip myself, but I equate it to hundred blades in that the majority of the battle is trying to lock someone in place for the duration of the combo. I haven’t personally used it with scorpion wire so that might help, but then again it just pulls them in, it doesn’t immobilize or lock them in. Also while you have basilisk venom on cool down you are not going to have any way to lock them in for that combo.

Haste is certainly powerful in a PW build, but it isn’t a requirement. I don’t use it because it makes me feel like a sitting duck for a few seconds. I prefer the passive sources of chance-on-crit quickness instead.

About Panic Strike … apparently if you hit someone below 50% with Scorpion Wire it won’t pull them if you have that trait. I tend to just PW, Steal, PW again, which is nice since the steal can happen during the 2nd PW cast, and the extra damage (4-8k crits) is welcome. I also prefer to shadowstep to them rather than pull since the pull can be evaded. But Scorpion Wire is good and fun as hell to use.