Hawkeye Lazy dps hawkeye leveling pve pvp
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Gear


Slot 1 – Trickshot's Bow (Hawkeye Unique) - 500+ crit rating (wow), Some procs, damage on physical/energy (so covers everything), +to all Trick Arrow powers (Explosive/Claymore turret). The +to Energy damage is the only wasted affix on this item. Its pretty fantastic, and is certainly our choice for Slot 1.

Slot 2 – Goliath Serum (Hawkeye Unique) makes you extremely tanky, and gives you +physical damage (everything we use, basically) with an additional +2 Strength (buffs Physical damage, which includes our arrows). Reserve Quiver (Hawkeye Unique) gives -straight- damage rating, and also sports a +to all Archery powers (which goes a -long- way). Unfortunately we do not use Wave of Arrows, so the big buff to that is pretty useless. Honestly if you're having trouble surviving, the 3k+ health on the Goliath Serum is hard to pass up. Your discretion here.

Slot 3 – Hulkbuster Arrows (Hawkeye Unique) - Amazing Unique. These arrows give an additional 25% damage based on range, making it an Advanced Neth Jewel and a half, basically. In addition you'll see major damage on crit, and big +skills to his Archery powers and the three with our crit/brutal passive and our defensive passive. A must have.

Slot 4 – Ronin's Ninja Boots (Hawkeye Unique) - Physical damage, crit, dodge, chance on hit to cause amodest bleed, health on kill, and a +a bunch to Combat Skill powers (Crit passive/defensive passive). With this and the Arrows alone, we're eyeing up level 32 on our crit passive. Huge.

Slot 5 – HawkGuy Shades (Hawkeye Unique) are pretty bad here. Health, crit rating, and +1 to all powers are meh. You get some Dodge and regen, but its not incredible. The proc is...lame to say the least. I'd rather go for a well-rolled Cosmic or Purple that gives you +Explosive, +Three Round Burst. You'll get the +1 t all powers anyway if its a cosmic, and really buff your damage skills.

Artifacts


1. Standard DPS Setup
Advanced Meta (Attack Speed/Damage)
Meta (Attack Speed/Damage) or Hand of Doom
Xerogen (Attack speed/crit/etc.)
Ziggurat of Kargul (crit/crit damage)

2. Shotgun DPS Setup
Hulkbuster Arrows give you +25% damage up close
Ziggurat of Kargul (crit/crit damage)
A Neth / Kun'Lun Talisman / Advanced Neth
Advanced Meta / HoD / Xerogen - whatever to finish the build off.

3. Tanky option - for ranged characters.
Serum of the Seraphim gives you bonus defensive stats while at max range. Pew pew from far away and die less.
A Super Soldier Serum
Advanced Meta or Xerogen, etc, etc.
I'd slot one tanky artifact for sure in there to maximize survivability.

Other


Blessings: Helas. We crit a lot, so Helas are good!

Costume: +1 Fighting +1 Strength if you can. This build relies mostly on Hawkeye physical damage, so we want to boost that (his strength is slightly low, but with a Goliath Serum we can super boost it at +3). Legendary: Gungir or Apollo, really leaning towards Gungir. We already have lots of crit, however, so Apollo might be better.

Insignia: O'Gradysaurus Rex with some Ranged on it.

Medallion: We probably won't need Bullseye. If you are still lacking crit before you get Uniques, get Bullseye. If not, I'm in favor of Grim Reaper since we melt trash so much or even a tanky Medallion like Sabretooth to keep us up. I know it sounds silly, but he does pretty good damage on his own-I want to keep him alive for harder content.

Relics: Take Lemurias. With Twin Pym Arrows you should be able to regen a ton of life on hit.

Uru item: Ranged damage Uru

Leveling Strategy


We've got to make it a few levels before the Twin Pym arrows, but not many. Use Serrated Arrow until then, and Taser Arrow will AOE clear until you get Explosive. Weave his passives into your point buys as they come, and be sure to do the story-he eats up every point. Use Explosive Arrow to melt bosses until you get your Three Round Burst, and spend some time getting used to rolling and avoiding attacks. Practice makes perfect!

Playstyle


A. Roll around.

B. Shoot Explosive Arrow to blow up trash or Three Round Burst for single target shred.

C. Drop your turret for moar damagez.

D. Shoot your Twin Pym arrows for moar Spirit and Health as needed.

E. Try not to die!