Time to Hunt Gunslinger Build Guide

Welcome to the Time to Hunt Gunslinger Build Guide! This build revolves around unleashing devastating long-range shots using your Rifle stance and swiftly evading your enemy's attacks using your Handgun stance. The Shotgun stance is disabled for this build.

Time to Hunt Gunslinger struggles to inflict reliable amounts of Destruction, mainly due to her best contribution skills being part of her main rotation. However, her Stagger potential is good, and her Counter is readily available.

Raids

Kurzan Front

Ark Passive

Options

• Limit Break Level 3 can give you a little more damage, but will leave you at around 92% Crit Rate - slightly less consistent in short fights.
• Optimized Training instead of Keen Sense gives you lower cooldowns, including on Assault Sniper, but will leave you at around 92% Crit Rate - can be better in longer fights that don't phase quickly.
• Unlimited Magick Level 2 gives you lower cooldowns and reduces the waiting time between rotations, but you lose some Attack Speed and Damage - can be better in longer fights that don't phase quickly.

Skills Setup

• Focused Shot, Bullseye, Target Down, Perfect Shot, and Catastrophe are your main damage skills.
• Bullet Rain and Meteor Stream are secondary damage skills.
• Dexterous Shot and Spiral Tracker are your Synergy (Weakness Exposure) skills.
• Peacekeeper is your Counter skill.
• Somersault Shot and Quick Step are used as mobility skills.
• Eye of Twilight is your Awakening. It is preferred over High-Caliber HE Bullet thanks to its higher damage, but both can be used.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

Spiral Tracker

• Purify - Allows you to cleanse your debuffs.

Perfect Shot

• Bleed Effect - Increases damage potential, at the cost of Paralysis Immunity.

Target Down

• High-Capacity Magazine - Increases damage potential, but makes the skill significantly slower.

Meteor Stream can be replaced with Equilibrium, using Weakness Exposure, Ranged Shot, Burn Effect, and Poison.

• Alternatively, you can use Decimation Shot for more damage.

Ark Passive

Skills Setup

• Sharpshooter, Shotgun Rapid Fire, and Equilibrium are your main ways to deal with large packs of enemies.
• Last Request, Catastrophe, Focused Shot, and Meteor Stream can all deal with Elite monsters on their own.
• Dexterous Shot serves as a quick mobility option.
• High-Caliber HE Bullet is your Awakening. It is preferred over Eye of Twilight thanks to its wider area of effect.

Recommended Engravings

• Preemptive Strike
• Contender
• Raid Captain
• Cursed Doll
• Magick Stream

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Warning

This build is optimized and meant to be used only in Kurzan Front. For Ebony Cube use a Raid build.

Time to Hunt Gunslinger uses her Rifle and Handgun stances, but most of her damage comes from Rifle skills. In exchange, Handgun skills provide exceptional mobility and utility. The Shotgun stance is disabled.

In exchange for losing access to the Shotgun stance, you gain the following buffs:

• +45% Crit Rate
• +27% Crit Damage
• +15% Stagger
• +12% Damage

This build focuses on empowering your Rifle skills and taking advantage of their range to inflict highly concentrated damage.

Gunslinger Identity

Standard Damage Rotation

• Using skills in this specific order is recommended at the beginning of the fight. However, due to the chaotic nature of encounters, you may have to improvise and adapt. Make sure to use a few Handgun skills at the start to help stack Adrenaline.
• Assault Sniper should be used whenever available, and it takes priority over other damage skills.
• If you're running Equilibrium, it can either be used in the same spot as Meteor Stream, or it can be used at the start of your rotation to guarantee your Synergy.
• Try your best to maintain your Synergy using Spiral Tracker and Dexterous Shot, even if you aren't planning to attack immediately after.

Stagger Check

• Using skills in this specific order is recommended for most stagger checks. However, each check can vary in duration, so you may need to readjust depending on that and your party's composition. Remember you can also use a Whirlwind Grenade if you have one equipped!
• If you need more stagger, consider using High-Caliber HE Bullet.

Gems are another significant aspect of your build, as they directly impact the damage and cooldowns of your skills. You can equip up to 11 gems at a time. Here are the ones you should focus on to maximize this build's potential, listed according to their priority.

Engravings are a core part of your build. You can equip up to five at a time, freely swapping between them. Engravings are listed in order of importance.

Recommended Setup

• Grudge
• Hit Master
• Keen Blunt Weapon
• Cursed Doll
• Adrenaline

Tripods affect your skills directly by providing utility, damage, cooldown reduction or gauge generation. These are the ones you should prioritize:

• Focused Shot: Double Tap and Final Strike
• Target Down: Semi-automatic Rifle and Steady Aim
• Catastrophe: Cutthroat and Eternal Calamity
• Perfect Shot: Cutthroat and Enhanced Shot

Bracelets provide beneficial effects to yourself or to your party members depending on the rolls they have.

The primary goal is to get the main stats used by your build. After that, you should be aiming for Special Rolls to get more damage. Here are the effects you should look out for, in no particular order:

The recommended Elixir Set for this build is Critical.