I have a deadeye alt at 1385 and I don’t even run into most of these issues.
I MVP about the same amount of times as my other martial artists, and maybe a little bit less than my assassins.
I use maybe 2-3 30% pots on yoho at most (mostly gotta wait for the tail-swipe before going in, as well as stopping dps on falling blue orbs phase) having grudge and about 600 swiftness.
Sniper skills don’t do as much dmg, but they are not useless at all. Very good destruction and sub dps for when you can’t approach the boss or when shotgun skills are on cd. The spec stack for armor pen is nice.
The class is designed to be extremely difficult and I understand why you feel like tapping out, but so far I’ve found it extremely enjoyable and rewarding when I cycle through my skills perfectly and get 45%+ cruel fighter mvps in my raids.
I play with my friend who is a Pistoleer deadeye and he almost always gets cruel or upright fighter on Argos and Oreha’s prior to the flat 10% buff they just received. I think this is a you issue, not to say Deadeye is top tier, but its usable.
When I play Argos P1 and P2 this very easy for me to evade 95% of the boss attacks, but when you get to P3 you can’t evade most of the boss attacks and this is the problem.
I think you just need to learn attack patterns of the bosses, the class is weaker compared to some other but i wouldnt say its bad to the point of needing a rework.
Imagine a party only with dps, everyone is correctly builded and are doing everything right, even you. In this situation, you just can’t get MVP, it’s impossible, even playing perfectly, because the class is a meme.
My friend plays deadeye in our 4 man group of sorc (me), gunslinger, and bard. We were doing velganos daily before the patch and he definitely had a hard time for the first like week but he only brings 45%s to velganos because he’s gotten better. He’s always neck and neck on damage with our gunslinger and even though neither of them MVP often they are still contributing.
I honestly think deadeye is specifically designed to be hard as a squishy close range back attacker, you really rely on that mobility. Me on reflux sorc I can stand a mile from the boss with no positionals and better mobility options and vastly out damage due to pure uptime. But in trixion we’ve tested and he does WAY more damage in a perfect scenario. Obviously you’re not going to get to just attack a scarecrow in actual content but it means the more you improve the more you will catch up in damage with lower skill ceiling classes (reflux sorc, Shadow hunter, berz)
We did Valtan last night and he was having no trouble staying alive or dpsing. Of course the two sorcs and two bards were on the MVP screen but I believe he did his part because I only got 22% damage.
Keep at it friend, the class is just hard, and you will git gud.
Deadye is a really really challenging class to play. This is partially the reason why he has such a low play rate in Korea.
Deadeye DPS is actually fairly high, its just challenging to perform said dps in a boss fight. Hence high skill ceiling.
I think the general point is just that the class is really hard. Once you get relic sets, the class actually becomes even harder because you now HAVE to hit back attacks (relic set gives 50% crit dam, 20% crit chance and 18% damage for hitting back attacks). You have to struggle to do good dps. Positional classes also tend to underperform while learning content, while beating out hitmaster classes after you’ve learned the bosses patterns.
If you don’t enjoy that playstyle, then I would recommend playing gunslinger. You get to use sniper skills, and you can do damage from anywhere due to not needing back attacks.
