Mercy Deadeye

October 2024

Build Fundamentals

Power Deadeye is a strong roamer that takes advantage of and to lock down and eliminate targets quickly. Deadeye benefits from the baked in mobility of any thief spec, however is is vulnerable to focus and gets countered by projectile block from builds like Tempest or Catalyst.

Damage

As a roamer, Deadeye focuses on moving around the map and quickly getting kills. In order to do this, you need to lock down and eliminate your target as quickly as possible. Deadeye relies on a mechanic called malice to do damage. Whenever you mark a target, hitting them with an ability will generate stacks of malice. At maximum malice, your stolen skills will give you and will do 75% more damage. Try to build malice as quickly as possible after marking a target for maximum effect. You can get a random stolen skill by using one of your cantrip thanks to .

is your best source of damage and building malice. Every critical hit generates 2 stacks of malice, meaning three shots with will give you maximum malice.

Always make sure to precast a before using . If you’re fast, your will start casting before lands and reveals you, adding 3-4 thousand damage to your hardest hitting skill (see the Single Target Opener for more details).

Crowd Control

Deadeye has good single-target cc in its kit from . is a ranged version of that gives you access to unique Deadeye stolen skills that inherits a daze from and can be used to interrupt important cooldowns or to focus a target. can be reset with to let you ‘double steal’ on a target or change target and passively with when you kill your marked target.

You have other hard and soft cc, but it is used less commonly. is a daze if you hit from behind, but it spends your malice for relatively little impact. gives access to which can be used in conjunction with to immobilize and blind a target.

Sustain

is your best source of sustain both for its healing and cleanse. Keep in mind that is also a mobility skill, and can be used with camera control techniques like About Face as a positioning tool. , , and are also valuable as defensive tools, but they depend on your matchup.

For cleanse, you have , which removes conditions, and your two mobility skills, and which remove one condition each. Entering and exiting will also cleanse 1 condition.If you’re struggling, you can take an additional or on your rifle.

Your best damage mitigation comes from using to avoid damage. Entering and exiting will also provide you . In addition to , Deadeye has access to unique stealth abilities such as stealthing on dodge thanks to and removing revealed with . is especially valuable into classes with active reveals such as Soulbeast , Dragonhunter or Spellbreaker.

Alternatives

Marauder Amulet + for more health, less damage.

against condition stacked teams.

is a viable option.

on Sword is a viable option.