Looking for quick opinions on creating a Deadeye.

[Cvxbio]

Hello everyone.

I've been wanting to create a Deadeye recently after watching a friend of mine play Pistoleer, I started a gunslinger as my first character back doing the early access days but I kinda regret making one now.

I have 1 stronghold boost left ( out of the 9 ) but I'm torn between using It on Deadeye now, or save It and use It on one of the other new classes coming ( assuming we aren't gonna get another powerpass with It ).

Anything Is greatly appreciated, I'd just like to hear you guys thoughts on this.
Thanks for stopping by In advance.

[scoorh]

its rather hard class to play which does not forgive mistakes

either you go only pistol class engraving that require high end gear to do numbers but its easier to play as you dont have to swap weapons

or you go pistol + shotgun route which requires back attack from very close range to do big numbers and is heavy animation locked

deadeye has same armor rating as gunslinger which is paper tier, if you position yourself badly you simply die or lose 3/4 hp

his pistol build stagger and destruction is non-existent, shotgun is better but not the greatest either

[Kinshou]

I love Deadeye.

However, since you have a Gunslinger and dislike the Gunslinger, I wouldn't recommend it. Realistically, you are getting more of the same with Deadeye.

Try doing an early guardian raid or so on your Gunslinger using pistol only. A lot of the skills have crossover. If you enjoy that playstyle, then go for it. The Deadeye's engraving will add a good 70% damage to the skills, but messing around with your 'Slinger will give you a vague idea of whether you'd enjoy it without having to commit fully blind.

I will say though, I have played all the classes and I partially regret having both a slinger/deadeye and a striker/wardancer. For me, I'd use the knowledge transfer on an entirely different class than something that feels similar.

[Cvxbio]

Originally posted by Kinshou:

I love Deadeye.

However, since you have a Gunslinger and dislike the Gunslinger, I wouldn't recommend it. Realistically, you are getting more of the same with Deadeye.

Try doing an early guardian raid or so on your Gunslinger using pistol only. A lot of the skills have crossover. If you enjoy that playstyle, then go for it. The Deadeye's engraving will add a good 70% damage to the skills, but messing around with your 'Slinger will give you a vague idea of whether you'd enjoy it without having to commit fully blind.

I will say though, I have played all the classes and I partially regret having both a slinger/deadeye and a striker/wardancer. For me, I'd use the knowledge transfer on an entirely different class than something that feels similar.

The reason why I fell In love with the deadeye playstyle was because of the Pistoleer class engraving, I have no Issue playing gunslinger swapping between all weapons ( muscle memory every ability on swap ). I'm just looking for a little more laid back gameplay and Pistoleer caught my attention, but It's hard for me to decide on using my last boost.

[Cvxbio]

Originally posted by scoorh:

its rather hard class to play which does not forgive mistakes

either you go only pistol class engraving that require high end gear to do numbers but its easier to play as you dont have to swap weapons

or you go pistol + shotgun route which requires back attack from very close range to do big numbers and is heavy animation locked

deadeye has same armor rating as gunslinger which is paper tier, if you position yourself badly you simply die or lose 3/4 hp

his pistol build stagger and destruction is non-existent, shotgun is better but not the greatest either

I've pretty much muscle memoried all 3 weapons on gunslinger to where I can swap Instantly to whichever weapon I want and use the skill right away depending on situration, deadeye caught my Interest because of Pistoleer, It just looks like so much fun to play. But It's a hard decision for me because I only have 1 boost left, I was curious to what you guys would do If you were In my shoes. Save the boost for a new class ( like scouter which I'm looking forward too ) or use It on deadeye now ( assuming we will or will not get a powerpass with the next class ).

[MASTERNIKOFTW]

how about soulfist?

[Cvxbio]

Originally posted by MASTERNIKOFTW:

how about soulfist?

I have one already, the only classes I'm missing to gear up Is Deadeye and striker as of what we have available atm. Feel like an Idiot for zooming destroyer up semi wasting all my mats through T1 and T2 to make It 1340, you live you learn.

[Septimus Prime]

Yup deadeye is pretty good class but needs abit skill too!

1 pvp video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19BYE42FKWg

2 pve vids for pistoleer OP'ness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBAY4anLqbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSUZ1-jbquA

[ALosingPro]

I recommend making it, just gotta put more work in that others, and expect to see a lot of haters too, but overall the class is very fun. I recommend going pistoleer engravings because the damage is so nice, but you can also go shotgun and pistols too if you wanna try.

[Crank Stanis]

Deadeye is pretty average. I love Piano-skills and mained him for 600 hrs.
Many classes have much better damage and less effort than Deadeye.

On 3v3 PVP, he is meh. Shotgun is practically weak, since it has long cast time and get cancel easily or they dodge fast. There is no Superarmor on Shotgun, nor Tripod offers.

[Cvxbio]

Originally posted by 𝔖𝔢𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔲𝔰 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢:

Yup deadeye is pretty good class but needs abit skill too!

1 pvp video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19BYE42FKWg

2 pve vids for pistoleer OP'ness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBAY4anLqbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSUZ1-jbquA

Originally posted by ALosingPro:

I recommend making it, just gotta put more work in that others, and expect to see a lot of haters too, but overall the class is very fun. I recommend going pistoleer engravings because the damage is so nice, but you can also go shotgun and pistols too if you wanna try.

Originally posted by Crank Stanis:

Deadeye is pretty average. I love Piano-skills and mained him for 600 hrs.
Many classes have much better damage and less effort than Deadeye.

On 3v3 PVP, he is meh. Shotgun is practically weak, since it has long cast time and get cancel easily or they dodge fast. There is no Superarmor on Shotgun, nor Tripod offers.

I appreciate all of you guys comments, I decided to use my last boost on It. Thank you again and have a really nice day/evening/night wherever you might be.

[Xianxia]

if you do go with Deadeye i only recommend Pistoleer otherwise just use Gunslinger.

its a very fun class to play if you use Pistoleer that is.

[Heart In Light]

Originally posted by Cloudy:

Originally posted by scoorh:

its rather hard class to play which does not forgive mistakes

either you go only pistol class engraving that require high end gear to do numbers but its easier to play as you dont have to swap weapons

or you go pistol + shotgun route which requires back attack from very close range to do big numbers and is heavy animation locked

deadeye has same armor rating as gunslinger which is paper tier, if you position yourself badly you simply die or lose 3/4 hp

his pistol build stagger and destruction is non-existent, shotgun is better but not the greatest either

I've pretty much muscle memoried all 3 weapons on gunslinger to where I can swap Instantly to whichever weapon I want and use the skill right away depending on situration, deadeye caught my Interest because of Pistoleer, It just looks like so much fun to play. But It's a hard decision for me because I only have 1 boost left, I was curious to what you guys would do If you were In my shoes. Save the boost for a new class ( like scouter which I'm looking forward too ) or use It on deadeye now ( assuming we will or will not get a powerpass with the next class ).

I put some time into pistoleer deadeye, used a knowledge transfer to vern and used him to push up to where he is now at 1330 t3. And im loving it honestly. They also recently buffed his pistoleer engraving for 10% more damage at lvl 3. I pretty regularly get mvp in guardian raids and stuff. Not every time, but waaaay more often than when i was getting my striker up.

Pistoleer deadeye has a counter, and 1 skill for destruction that hits 2 times lvl 1 weak point, so its basically 2, which isnt bad at all. Most of his hardest hitting skills have range to keep you out of harms way as well. Its kind of a mid range class, which I like alot.

Its all up to you, he's definitely a pumper especially when you get him to tier 3 and start getting better geared.

[RooTT_]

my main was a deadeye. Fun to play but extremely under powered. You will have to do 3x the effort of any other dps class to output the same damage. Also prepare to die a lot. You have to be on melee range 80% of the time with extremely long skill animations and you are extremely squishy.

[Pozzy Vibes GGHF :)]

Originally posted by Cloudy:

Hello everyone.

I've been wanting to create a Deadeye recently after watching a friend of mine play Pistoleer, I started a gunslinger as my first character back doing the early access days but I kinda regret making one now.

I have 1 stronghold boost left ( out of the 9 ) but I'm torn between using It on Deadeye now, or save It and use It on one of the other new classes coming ( assuming we aren't gonna get another powerpass with It ).

Anything Is greatly appreciated, I'd just like to hear you guys thoughts on this.
Thanks for stopping by In advance.

He revolves around the shotgun, so he's more of a close range fighter.

[Herflik]

Originally posted by 𝔖𝔢𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔲𝔰 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢:

Yup deadeye is pretty good class but needs abit skill too!

2 pve vids for pistoleer OP'ness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBAY4anLqbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSUZ1-jbquA

Those 2 PVE videos prove nothing at all. The first one doesn't show gameplay, just some setup.
The last video is some really high gear score that nobody here can relativly compare too.
I play Gunslinger and the class share most skills with Deadeye. Pistol skills for Gunslinger have like 30% dmg of shotgun/sniper skills. I am aware that Deadeye have some better pistol skills, but still their base dmg is low. Even with +70% increase from engraving their base dmg is still just like half of the shotgun/sniper skills.
If I see person do over 3-5 million dmg with those crap skills on the higher gear score, it means that shotgun/sniper skills will do over 15-20 million dmg.

But like I said, we cannot relativly compare to them, since nobody here have such high gear score.
It would be better to show off video of someone doing current 1415 content and then we would clearly see what numbers they put off and what numbers we can put off with other classes.