Death Strike Sharpshooter Build Guide

Builds

Raids

Chaos Dungeons

Need some tips for general content? Check out our Guardian Raids and Abyssal Dungeons guides.

• Snipe, Sharpshooter, Charged Shot, and Arrow Wave are your damage skills.
• Hawk Shot is both a high damage skill and a meter generation skill.
• Deadly Slash and Moving Slash are your meter generation skills.
• Atomic Arrow is your Synergy from Damage Amplification.
• Deadly Slash is also your Counter.
• Fenrir's Messenger is your Awakening. It is used to generate max meter at the start of raids to have a comfortable start.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

Arrow Wave can be swapped for Blade Storm, using Silver Master, Lightning Blade, Blade Dance, and Galewind.

• This is used for Specialization builds to fit in an extra Last Rush (X) and maintain a similar damage output to Swiftness builds.
• Wealth - Can be used alternatively for more comfortable meter generation.

Moving Slash

• Purify - Can be used for utility if you have your meter generation under control.

Sharpshooter

• Overwhelm - Can be used if you are struggling with Stagger and can handle the increased mana usage.

Check the Rune Guide for more details on Runes and how to obtain them.

This build is optimized and meant to be used only in Chaos Dungeons. For Ebony Cube please use a Raid build.

• Snipe, Hawk Shot, and Arrow Wave are your best skills for clearing elites.
• Arrow Shower, Claymore Mine, Blade Storm, and Charged Shot are your best mob clearing skills.
• Moving Slash is your mobility skill.
• Golden Eye is your Awakening. It does a huge amount of damage in a wide area of effect, great for bosses or mobs.

Recommended Engraving Setup

Acquiring additional engravings leads to a faster clear potential, but the build can perform quite well with the bare minimum.

Minimum requirements

• Preemptive Strike causes your attacks to deal immense amounts of damage to monsters that you haven't attacked yet, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.

Additional engravings

• Contender is a stacking Attack Power effect that increases in strength once you kill a monster, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.

Gameplay & Skill Rotation

Basic Rotations

Standard Damage Rotation

• This rotation follows a simple core principle, you are mainly trying to keep 100% uptime on the debuff provided by Last Rush (X). You first apply the debuff, fit in some damage skills, and then use two meter generation skills to generate more meter for another Last Rush (X) to keep the debuff going. It is a bit confusing at first but if you understand this core principle it will become obvious on how your rotation will adapt to slightly different raid scenarios.
• Last Rush (X) assumes you are using Summon Silverhawk (Z) then Wings of Storm (Z) anytime it is available as it has no animation and it just gives free bonus damage to the rotation. Never hold a rotation if Wings of Storm (Z) is not available.
• Try your best to maintain your Synergy using Atomic Arrow, even if you aren't planning to attack immediately after.

Stagger Check Rotation

• Simply follow this rotation to do great Stagger. Remember you can also use a Whirlwind Grenade if you have one equipped!

Tripods and Gems

Tripod Levelling

Gems

Stat Priority

• Crit is the primary stat. It is our highest damage gain by increasing our Crit Rate and working with our Crit Damage tripods.
• Swiftness is a secondary stat. It helps by making the rotation more fluid by giving Attack and Movement speed and reducing cooldown reduction, this is the standard option most go for.
• Specialization is a secondary stat. It makes the build harder by not having the Attack and Movement speed from Swiftness but easier by helping you with more fluid meter generation, for some players this is easier but requires more uses of Last Rush (X) to be efficient.

Gear Set

Hallucination Set

Salvation Set

Engravings

Engraving Explanations

• Death Strike grants significant increase damage to our build and much needed meter generation to upkeep our debuff.
• Grudge increases damage done while also increasing damage received. The engraving is a highly effective damage increase without needing specific positioning, making it worthwhile even with the penalty.
• Hit Master since nearly all of our damage is non-directional this engraving becomes very efficient in any build.

• Cursed Doll is a significant Attack Power increase at the cost of 25% healing. The healing penalty can be punishing for inexperienced players who are not familiar with boss mechanics, but it becomes easy to overcome with time.
• Keen Blunt Weapon is a good option later in the game once our build has sufficient Crit Rate using Hallucination Set, it can also be ran early on it is just slightly less efficient. This engraving loses a lot of efficiency due to the high Crit Damage in our build however there are not many other good options.
• Adrenaline this is only ran at level three in early builds or builds using Salvation Set due to the stat and Crit Rate sources we have early game being slightly lackluster.

• Adrenaline provides an additional source of Crit Rate and Attack Power. It is fairly easy to upkeep. It is used for the highest damage potential.
• Ether Predator is the best damage increase only when you are using a Salvation Set that is using Adrenaline level three.

Bracelet

Elixir

Card Sets

• Deep Dive is used early on as it is fairly easy to obtain.
• Light of Salvation is the standard endgame option, but it can take a long time to acquire 30-piece Awakening.
• Kazeros's Legion Commanders is used as an alternative to Light of Salvation, in content where enemies have a weakness to Dark Damage.

End Game Damage Card Set