(Ranged/Energy/Direct/Single-Target/Instant)This ability is only usable on targets that have less than 30% of their max health, but it still hits pretty hard, much harder than Charged Burst or Trickshot. In PvP, you are limited by the "Book of Coordination" which grants you a total of 340 skill points to distribute between your skills. Thanks to the Agitating Energies tactical, this ability accounts for a gigantic proportion of your total damage output. Shatter Bullet with Cannon Pistol deals a beautiful 280 Impact in one shot, more than enough to knock down most enemies and allow for an easy backstab. As a defensive cooldown, its your cheese ability. It gives you 100% defense/resist chance for the duration of the roll, meaning youre completely immune to taking damage during your roll, provided that its damage that is mitigable, so it wont work against things like 0 damage kills and typeless damage. It doesnt always work, but its worth trying to figure out which circles will kill you and which you can survive completely, or at least survive long enough that you can get to a point in your rotation where you will lose minimal DPS from moving. Gunslingers have a slightly shorter cooldown duration on their hard stun than most other classes. This is important because Charged Burst is far too expensive to use as often as we want to use it without this passive. In addition, it can also be used while moving if youre taking Hot Pursuit. Gunslingers are basically like snipers, so dexterity and agility are the way to go. You can also utilize this higher DR so you dont have to move out of certain circles when other classes would. These choices are almost always the same for all disciplines. In addition, when you arrive at the gap in your rotation where you only have time to use a single Charged Burst, youll still get one stack of this proc to increase the damage dealt by your next Trickshot, which will typically be the one after using Aimed Shot or Penetrating Rounds, which helps with your burst in some cases. Charged Burst will typically be used twice in a row or when the gap in your rotation comes, youll use it once. You can also swap out the Improved Targeting Implant, Ballistic Redistribution, and Relic of Serendipitous Assault for the Energy Regulator Implant, Lucky Thoughts, and Relic of Devastating Vengeance (dont forget to fix your Alacrity). Diversion works wonders against adds. Stringing together attacks with the relatively low AP cost of pistol shots is the best way to deal maximum damage. Guild leaders, I personally recommend using the Fortune (yellow) guild perk set bonus instead, which grants 5% critical chance and also boosts the critical rate and time efficiency of all Crew Skills by 2%. The more notable distinction is that youll have to use Cool Head if you dont use Trickshot. If everyones health is getting low or theres a heal check in the current phase, do not hesitate to use your Medpac if you can take full benefit of the health provided or need to be above a certain health level to survive an imminent mechanic. You can check at the top of the guide to see if the guide has been updated for the most recent patch. It is a raid buff. 3 choices which are just old Utility effects. Int: Dump. Without the Lay Low ability tree buff, Hunker Down has 30% uptime if its activated on cooldown. Bag of Tricks works great as your emergency panic button, but if youre out of DCDs and about to take a hit that youd rather have a DCD for, do not hesitate to activate this ability. (Ranged/Energy/Direct/Single-Target/Channeled)This ability accounts for an absolutely gargantuan proportion of your damage output thanks to its dedicated ability tree buff choice, tactical item, respectable base damage, and tight integration with the rest of your rotation. Each discipline has 8 choices where they pick 1 of 3 options. For Sharpshooter, the unique effect is that it has 2 charges. Illegal Mods is pretty weak for Sharpshooter in PvE. This build makes use of the Time To Hunt Engraving, although there are Raid builds for BOTH Class Engravings. (Tech/Internal/Periodic/Single-Target/Instant)Vital Shot also helps to diversify the damage output of Sharpshooter which would otherwise be entirely direct weapon damage (besides the very occasional Bombing Run). Your contribution helps us provide content you enjoy. The best time to use Hideout is when you know of a specific location that you are certain you will want to return to at some point later in the fight that will be generally safe to return to. There are 3 different tiers to consider. Next up you have to enter cover. Remember, Bombing Run is a tiny bit stronger than Sweeping Gunfire for AoE, but it wont ever be essential to taking down groups of adds and you cant spam it, so youre better off not taking it for group content if you only need to AoE. The dedicated guide contains tips for all roles in both PvE and PvP. This build can kill groups of trash quicker in solo content, but you miss out on feeling like a Gunslinger. Author of a ton of SWTOR Class Guides for VULKK.com. Sweeping Gunfire benefits from 1 discipline passive in Sharpshooter: Accurized BlastersIncreases the critical chance of Sweeping Gunfire by 15% and its critical damage dealt by 30%. This build doesnt eliminate the gap in your rotation and still offers a good sustained DPS increase. If youre having to use Sweeping Gunfire consistently during the fight and there isnt a huge single-target DPS check, definitely use this tactical, but single-target DPS checks almost always take priority over AoE DPS checks. Stacks up to 3 times. Battle rezzes in general are now healer-only, but there is no longer a global 5 min lockout on those abilities, so its treated just like any other ability, albeit with a much longer cooldown. There should be no need to save Cool Head for emergencies in case you mess up your rotation. In all builds, youll need to use it sub-30% after youve used Quickdraw a few times. When it comes to survivability, most disciplines got defensive nerfs with the launch of 7.0, but Gunslingers got hit particularly hard. As a bonus, it never breaks, removing the issue of how much durability dagger skills eat through. Arcane Gunslinger gone Rogue is a Character Build in Outward, created by NuclearEeg. If the damage is force/tech, youre okay to activate your other DCDs and since its RDT, not DR thats being provided, the 75% feels like it isnt doing as much. It also has some fairly strong procs that help to compensate for its low damage and there isnt really anything else you can use that isnt weaker. She is a versatile DPS class, unlike her other half (Deadeye) that requires Close Range and Back Attack for optimal damage output. I dont know why they decided it would make sense from a lore perspective for a Tech attack to apply a Ranged debuff. Outward Wiki. Stacks up to 2 times. When Burst Volley is available, you will not see a gap in that cycle since youll be using Burst Volley before you would observe it. A Character Build refers to the Skills, Quests and Items which players obtain or progress through to build their character in Outward. One final thing to note, you do not need bullets for this setup. 2 choices where youre picking between 1 ability or 1 of 2 passives. If you arent in cover, you will run out of Energy. Explore. Its pretty straightforward, it increases your alacrity by more than enough to get you from the 1.4s GCD to the 1.3s GCD and lasts long enough to allow you to get an extra ability in the same amount of time, which means you can fit Penetrating Rounds alongside the additional Trickshot into the gap in your rotation. Vital Shot is applied prior to your first Trickshot because you only need to use Trickshot before your next ability that procs it and Vital Shot does not proc Trickshot. The 2 charges give you a lot more flexibility with your burst since you can save them up without losing sustained DPS until after you have both charges available. For any Combat Style in any fight, your most effective DCDs should be mapped to the most damaging attacks in the fight while weaker DCDs should be used against weaker attacks. You can learn more about Legendary Items in SWTOR 7.0 from my dedicated guide. Its great for burst DPS checks are tight enough and frequent enough to where you need 2 charges of Smugglers Luck for each one and cant get that with the normal cooldown. you can put 1 point into it since you get a lot of bonuses from the questline and some passives but having let's say 100 Mana will make the build a lot stronger and deadly - you can use more spells . You do need to be mindful of what type of damage youre mitigating with Surrender because it changes what other defensives youre allowed to use at the same time. The Build Essentials are what I consider to be the core components that make the build viable. Hideout isnt always useful as a movement ability, but its incredible when you can use it. Some DPS is better than zero DPS. One of the abilities is almost always one of your primary CCs, either the 8s mez or 4s hard stun, though Gunslinger has their hard stun locked away in a different choice instead. Most of the benefit can be had for pretty cheap, but if you need that extra performance boost and are willing to fork over the credits, you do have access to more powerful gear. The teleporting animation is significantly longer for Hideout because theres an actual teleportation animation you have to do prior to teleporting but after pressing the button rather than Phase Walk where you just wave your hand and pop up somewhere else instantaneously. If I missed anything or got something wrong, don't hesitate to tell me.-----The armor can be acquired from finishing the Berg faction story quest line. The 3 abilities are almost always the same for each discipline. The only reason I can see is that its a debuff that gets used by all 3 specs. You will lose a massive amount of DPS if you cant be in cover since your APM will be much lower because all of your casts will take much longer to complete. The most important component of this passive is the pushback protection and in general, this is the most important reason to be in cover at all. Ready for AnythingUpon entering cover, your stealth detection level begins to increase gradually, reaching up to 30 additional levels of stealth detection over the following 30 seconds. Only use the Dodge Stance option to mitigate damage from the adds. It doesnt really matter when you use your second charge of Smugglers Luck so long as its after your first Aimed Shot and before the next. It would still be imperfect though since the worst of these DCDs still grant 35% defense chance while the others grant 50%. It really doesnt matter when exactly Burst Volley gets used in relation to Trickshot and the next Penetrating Rounds, though it will probably help your sanity if you keep things consistent. No level 80 mods or moddable gear will be available with the launch of 7.0. Please note that for Gunslingers, Thermal Grenade only deals AoE damage to Standard and Weak enemies, which you usually dont see at all in raids. Definitely still try to use it and be as preemptive as possible, but this ability really only works when you can predict when and where AoE will be needed well in advance, so this ability is better suited to fights with constant adds. The vast majority of damage that bosses deal in raids is considered AoE damage. Gunslinger PvP Skill Build Lost Ark lets players customise characters by levelling up skills and giving them special attributes via "tripods", functioning like a talent system. Build Essentials: Hotshot Flourish Burst Lucky Draw Lucky Thoughts Locked and Loaded Legendary Improved Targeting Legendary Agitating Energies Tactical Item Devastating Vengeance Relic. Browse through Cube, Chaos, Leveling and Raid builds to find the one that fits your unique playstyle. Outward Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Youll probably need a lot more accuracy and alacrity augments to reach the associated stat thresholds. Choosing not to use a Medpac for financial reasons and subsequently dying is not a valid excuse. Since this build uses Relentless Shots, the gap in your rotation is completely eliminated. Also note that Frost Bullet has an AoE component, and will actually apply your pistol's effects in that explosion radius. Your email address will never be shared or sold. Gunslingers are renowned for their extremely high ASPD and HIT using Guns. The Adrenal should always be paired with 2 charges of Smugglers Luck and a double Penetrating Rounds Burst Volley. There are two main builds stat wise - dex/agi and dex/vit/int. They can offer some AoE, but it comes at a great cost to single-target sustained damage. This ability technically does not do any AoE damage, but it will only ever be used in AoE situations so I am going to talk about it here. This forces you to read through what everything does so that you can understand what all of your passives and abilities do as well as locate these abilities in-game. Completing the quests for a given faction will net various rewards, some of which are detailed below. Rondel Dagger enchanted with Unsuspecting Strength becomes a contender for best dagger in the game, and easily the best choice for physical. You can also just do a single GCD of the channel in your gap, though sometimes you really do need to channel it for a while. When one of the tanks or healers just died, pop it instantly, especially if a tank just died, because theres a good chance that the boss is about to hit someone else or the group really hard. Discerning the damage type relevant to what Surrender mitigates is fairly easy; if the attack is coming directly from a lightsaber swing or blaster, its a Melee/Ranged attack and if its anything else, its probably force/tech. Cannon Pistol + Shatter Bullet inflicts Pain and Confusion in a single shot, perfectly setting up your Opportunist Stab for absurd damage. Bombing Run is used as your first pre-cast ability because it has a 3 second delay before it actually deals its first tick of damage, enabling you to precast another ability before pulling. There isnt much of a discernable DPS difference between the two approaches and if youd rather not have to worry about this sort of thing at all, its okay to just never use Trickshot if its procced by Quickdraw. It isnt the end of the world though if you cant take the utility since Heads Up is still pretty strong. The Relic of Serendipitous Assault is generically good, but the Relic of Devastating Vengeance is better specifically for the Burst and Versatility Build. Now were basically transitioning into the normal rotation once we start doing Charged Burst. Make a habit of reading through all of your Ability Tree choices each time you log in. (Ranged/Energy/Direct/AoE/Channeled)This is your spammable AoE. Activating Smugglers Luck twice in a row will just refresh the duration of the buff. This Energy regeneration is essential to you being able to do your rotation. The Gunslinger Build offers you a variety of benefits that make it one of the best builds in Lost Ark. You should practice on the dummy if youre not able to consistently execute the rotation correctly. The Build Essentials are what I consider to be the core components that make the build viable. A long time ago, they could cleanse with Dodge, just like Operatives can. (Yes, I know Arsenal also offers the armor debuff, but that spec is in such bad shape, I dont consider it to be fully functional at the moment). Thanks to their non-stop Aimed Shot autocrits, youll truly feel like a Gunslinger as you pick off every single enemy from afar with a single shot. As a movement ability, Hightail It does help you cover a fair bit of distance, but it does cost a GCD to use, so it is best used when youre out of range of the boss so you couldnt deal damage anyway or after your other movement abilities have been used. Even if you mess up, keep doing the rotation! In general, Hideouts animations are much smoother and happen more sequentially while Phase Walks animations just kind of happen on top of everything else. To get the full benefit, youd use Illegal Mods anytime on a tank or another role thats using a DCD that increases their defense chance, like Deflection for Assassins, Saber Ward for Warriors, or Chaff Flare for Mercenaries. While it used to be the case that you couldnt use most of your abilities unless you were in cover, nowadays the only abilities you have to be in cover for are Sweeping Gunfire, Pulse Detonator, and Hunker Down. This build is designed to do AoE damage and will not be viable for sustained DPS checks. Due to the Trickshot ability and how all the different procs and damage boosts interact, it doesnt really help to just use all your abilities on cooldown. Operatives are in a similar situation where they lost Surrender, but have access to a passive that gives effects they lost to Dodge. This is a short build guide and I hope you enjoy it. The third option is less consistent, it seems to be there as an extra balance lever for BioWare since some abilities that got locked away are more impactful than others. Carrying Cool Potions will let you load multiple Frost Bullets per fight, and they're cheap to mass-produce. You may want to consider using the AoE build for Heroics. We will cover the Peacemaker Engraving in a later guide update. Without them, the build no longer accomplishes its primary function. When you do Burst Volley > Penetrating Rounds > Trickshot, you can treat it as if the gap just doesnt appear; if that makes more sense. Neither effect works in MM raids or PvP, so if you do either of those activities, youll need to tweak your gear to reach the desired threshold, which I find to be super tedious. Most notably, Sharpshooter is the only ranged spec that offers the armor debuff, so if your group needs ranged DPS and lacks the armor debuff, the group DPS gain from the armor debuff can be enough to compensate for the reduced output from Sharpshooter itself. Here are the Legendary Items you should use as a Sharpshooter Gunslinger. In addition, when you enter cover after using Hightail It, you gain Hunker Down for the first 3 seconds. It still significantly reduces the effectiveness of their DCD, but not all the way. To be clear, Operative / Scoundrel DPS is by no means required and is not the only Combat Style that provides the DPS debuffs used by Sharpshooter, they are just the most efficient and allow greater flexibility in terms of what the other group members can bring. Please note that properly timing subsequent Smugglers Lucks can result in a slightly shorter cooldown duration. 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