Deadeye Gas Arrow Leveling Guide

Select Herald of Thunder from your first Uncut Spirit Gem as you earn your first +30 Spirit for large amounts of damage through Coming Calamity. If you get another Uncut Spirit Gem select Herald of Ash as you need it for your swap to Gas Arrow. Select Wind Dancer once you get to 60 Spirit further into the campaign for a nice boost to survival.

Once you hit level 22 and earn your first Uncut Skill Gem VII and select Gas Arrow, you stop using Lightning Rod into Lightning Arrow entirely.

From this point forward your damage combo is to use Gas Arrow with Scattershot and Fire Infusion support, followed by Flame Wall with Spell Cascade and Fortress supports to explode the Poison Gas Clouds created by Gas Arrow.

Once the enemy has an active Ignite on them, you can freely repeat Gas Arrow into them to have them instantly detonated.

For particularly strong enemies, use Stormcaller Arrow to affect the enemies with Shock causing them to take 20% more damage. After receiving your first Uncut Support Gem III select Overcharge and attach it to Stormcaller Arrow along with Lasting Shock for a long duration 35% Shock causing the enemies to take even more damage.

To increase your speed through the campaign even further. Find and equip a Shield in your second weapon set and equip the Shield Charge skill with Martial Tempo and Ingenuity. This stops when hitting enemies so use it for traversal between packs of enemies or when backtracking to save significant amounts of time.

Once you reach Act 3, kill Ignagduk, The Bog Witch for +30 Spirit, cut the Uncut Spirit Gem into Wind Dancer for extra Evasion and a small push to enemies after being attacked allowing you to escape more easily.

Skill Rotation

1. Fire a few Gas Arrow attacks
2. Cast Flame Wall to ignite the enemy and explode the Poison Clouds
3. Use Stormcaller Arrow to apply Shock
4. Repeat using Gas Arrow until you see the enemy lose Ignite
5. Repeat from Step 2 as many times as needed

Engraving Priority

Active Skills

Support Skills

• By far the best way to get better gear in the campaign is to check the Vendor in Town each time you level up! As vendors change their offerings based on your level this is your best way to find upgrades. If you are desperately in need of a Weapon upgrade, check the previous Act's vendors as well.
• Prioritize +#% to Fire, Cold and Lightning Resistance as well as attributes and +# to Maximum Life on your gear. This build requires high attributes as you reach the end of Act 3, so finding gear with it early pays dividends in the future. Having Life Regeneration on just a couple pieces as well allows you to be more conservative with your Life Flask usage.

• Bows with % increased Physical Damage or Elemental Damage can last you a very long time if they are very well rolled. Prioritize Dualstring Bow Bases for the additional Projectile with Bow Skills, even if the Tooltip DPS is lower. You increase your DPS by looking for the following stats, sorted by order of importance:
  • % increased Physical Damage
  • Adds # to # Physical/Fire/Cold/Lightning Damage
  • + Levels of Projectile Skills
  • % Attack Speed
  • % increased Elemental Damage with Attacks
• A great source of gear is checking vendors occasionally for promising bases to craft on with Orb of Transmutation, Orb of Augmentation and Regal Orb
• To finish off your item use one or two Artificer's Orb and socket defensive Runes like Body Rune or Glacial Rune
• Be sure to pickup all items with Rune Sockets regardless of color and salvage them for Artificer's Shards
• If you are still struggling check out our Survival Guide for additional useful information!

Bows

• % increased Physical Damage
• Adds # to # Physical/Fire/Cold/Lightning Damage
• + Levels of Projectile Skills
• % Attack Speed
• % increased Elemental Damage with Attacks

Boots

• +#% to Movement Speed
• +#% to Fire, Cold, Lightning and Chaos Resistance 
• +# to Maximum Life
• #% increased Evasion +# to Evasion
• #% increased Rarity of Items found (Luxury stat, do not prioritize)

All Other Gear

• +#% to Fire, Cold, Lightning and Chaos Resistance 
• +# to Maximum Life
• #% increased Evasion +# to Evasion
• #% increased Rarity of Items found (Luxury stat, do not prioritize)

When should I swap from Lightning Arrow to Gas Arrow

At level 22 as soon as you get can cut Gas Arrow. Gas Arrow Deadeye Leveling starts outperforming other skills immediately.

I struggle with running out of mana, what should I do?

If you are having mana issues, it is important to use Inspiration support along with having the best Mana Flask available to you at your level. Having at least one source of Mana Leech or Mana Regeneration on gear helps a lot as well.

I keep dying! Is there any way to solve my defense?

You Your best friend is scaling life and resistances along with gear with Evasion on it. Acrobatics offers a great defensive layer once you have enough Evasion nodes selected on the Passive Tree. I recommend only selecting Acrobatics once you have selected most of the Evasion nodes on the tree and still have 40%+ Evasion while it is applied.

I want to play Magnetic Salvo, can I play it with this build?

Both Magnetic Salvo and Gas Arrow use the same tree so you can freely swap to Magnetic Salvo at level 52 when you unlock it.

Video below shows the final version of the build as you finish the campaign.

• Use Gas Arrow at level 22, combo your Gas Arrow once or twice into Flame Wall to detonate the gas for multiple explosions.

• Most of the enemies die to a single Gas Arrow combo. Use Stormcaller Arrow on difficult monsters to apply Shock, drastically increasing damage against them.

• Gas Arrow has high mana cost that can be hard to sustain. Support it with Inspiration and make sure to use the best Mana Flask possible at your level.