Guild Wars 2

I’ve found some reasonable success with this build. What does Rifle do best out of all weapon sets on Thief? That’s actually stealth. So I built my Deadeye around it. The role of the build is general skirmishing and harassment, teamfighting, team stealth via Shadow Refuge, support via stealth rezzes, decapping with SB5.

Traits:

Deadeye – Iron Sight / Silent Scope / Maleficent Seven

Shadow Arts – Shadow’s Embrace / Hidden Thief / Shadow’s Rejuvenation

Equipment:

Rifle / Shortbow (DPS, stealth, mobility)

Mara Ammy / Scholar Runes

Exploitation / Parting Sigils on Rifle, Cleansing / Energy Sigils on Shortbow

Heal: Withdraw. Still solid, especially with the reduces recharge and cleanse.

Utilities:

Shadowstep

Mercy. Extra initiative for Rifle 3 spam or emergency stealth and a stun break.

Shadow Refuge. New and improved. This baby from 2012 no longer inflicts Revealed when you exit it, becoming much less punishing to use in the middle of a fight.

Elite: Shadow Meld. Your “get out of jail card”. A set of two, actually.

It plays like you would imagine. DPS people, steath up to recharge resources, run away or sustain up, Shadow Refuge on downed people and rez them. The main thing to remember is that Rifle 4 is a trap. Both of them. The shadowstep is really wonky and requires you to memorize all of the spots where it doesn’t bug out or it simply gets you killed. Death’s Judgement is easily avoided and costs too much. Your bread and butter is Rifle 3 for damage and Rifle 2 for pinning targets down in a team fight. I mark someone, spam Rifle 3, use Mercy, mark again and spam 3 some more. Rifle 4 is only worth using if you have 7 Malice and you know it will hit, which is rarely the case.

Been playing something similiar but with P/P and Hide in Shadows instead. It really feels like DE is supposed to be played with SA.

Using SR to stack stealth, mark someone and then wait out until he has a couple of stacks to instagib them out of stealth is pretty hilarious. P/P is pretty strong too with all the stealth you have and the damage unload does these days is pretty crazy.

If you mark someone and then start on P/P to get some stacks up then stealth up switch to rifle and then rifle4 them out of stealth really gets people by surprise aswell.

It’s funny how different we make builds

I’m playing DE rifle like S/D with DA/TR/DE
TR : bottom,mid,mid
DE : all middle traits
DA: all middle
utilities : withdraw, roll for initiative, shadow flare, shadow step

This is quite fun to use and make a good chunk of damage. As usual it relies on not getting hit using shadow flare/shadowstep aggressively to position yourself and spam 3 round burst.
Nice 1v1 potential so far and ok mobility.

I find CS/Acro/De to be very effective with S/D rifle as a off weapon.