Maia Rua, Reaper (Heavy Gunner) - POTD Build Guide

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♦ Leveling:

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♦ Civil skills:

♦ Weapon Proficiency:

✦ Gear:

Blackblade's Hood (Head): +1 Perception, +5% Hits to Crits conversion with Ranged weapons.
Precognition (Neck): +25% Crit Damage Dealt for the first few hits you made in combat, -75% Crit Damage Taken for the first few hits you take in combat.
Sharpshooter's Garb (Light Armor): -20% Reload Time with Arbalest / Arquebus / Crossbow attacks, +5 Deflection against Ranged Weapons (increase with Stealth skill), +1 Crush & Slash Armor Rating.
Ring of Minor Protection: +5 Fortitude, +5 Will, +5 Reflex
Ring of Marksman: +8 Ranged Accuracy, +1 Penetration with Ranged weapons.
Boots of the Stone: +1 Dexterity, +1 Resolve, +Resistance to Might afflictions
The Marker's Own Power (Belt): +1 Might, +1 Crush Armor Rating
Kiler's Gloves: +10% Critical damage with weapons.
Mirrorback (Cape): +10% chance to Reflect spells, +5 Deflection against ranged weapons, +2 Stealth
Cutthroat Cosmo (Pet): +5% Damage with firearms

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✦ Weapon:

Main Weapon Set: Death Blossom
- Xefa's Empirical Explication (Blunderbuss): -25% Range, +15% Damage, +1 Penetration, +15% Damage as Slash, +15% Damage as Raw
- Kitchen's Stove (Blunderbuss): -15% Reload time, +5% Damage as Lash, +5% Damage as Crush, Grants Will Barrage (Ranged Attacks bounce +2 times, +10% Damage, -20% Reload Time)
Second Weapon Set: Death Door
- Dragon's Dorwy (Arquebus): +30% Damage as Burn & 15% chance for wielder to suffer 15 Burn Damage on attacks, Grants Blazing Fury (+40% Action Speed, -5~9 Burn Damage per 3s)
Third Weapon Set: incase enemies are immune to Piercing
- Keybreaker (Scepter): Frighten Kiths on Critical Hits, +10 all Defenses except Deflection on kills, 20% chance to reflect Punishment / Condemnation attacks.
- Amaliorra (Scepter): +10 Accuracy against Vessels, Frighten Kith & Wilder on Critical Hits, +20% Damage against Vessels.

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✦ Equipment:

Drugs:
- Mouth Char -% damage taken, +% damage with weapons.
- Motion of Deftness: +X Accuracy, +% Action Speed
- Razorgill Dust: enemies +5% damage taken for 45s.
- Potion of Merciless Gaze: +% Hits to Crits conversion.

♦ Hawkgun Subclass:

Bonus:
- All firearms (Arquebus, Pistol and Blunderbuss) have increased range.
- All firearms has a chanc to Interrupt on Hits.
Penalty: none

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✦ Ranger:

As a Ranger: Maia will have good base Accuracy, alot of passive bonuses from ranger skill tree and from the active ones, allowing her to crits alot with some hits to crits conversion.
Driving Flight: Ranged Attack bounce 1 times, and then you also have Wild Barrage which grants Ranged Attacks bounce 2 times, +110% Damage, -20% Reload Time making her really well at dealing with multi-targets as well.
Marked for the Hunt: +10 Accuracy on target, will transfer on Kill. Use it first in combat then just shoot along to whoever got marked.
Accurate Wounding Shot: a Full Attack that has +20 accuracy bonus, also deal 20% Weapon Damage per 3s, with Rogue you will be stacking alot of DoT. Because it's based on weapon damage, Arquebus will naturally has stronger ticks.
Evasive Roll: use it to either engage enemies in the backline or disengage out of bad position, the roll also grants +5 Dexterity for a short duration.
Blazing Fury: granted ability when you use Dragon's Dorwy Arquebus which boost your action speed by 40%, if you prefer a safer spot at the backline while still being able to hit hard and fast.

✦ Rogue:

As a Rogue: Maia will have alot of spike damage from weapons thanks to Sneaky Attack (+60% damage with weapons against targets affected by Flanked / Body / Mind Afflictions), Deep Wounds with 20% damage as Raw then overtime and Death Blow ( +50% damage with weapons against enemies with 2 or more aflictions)
Debilitating Strike: a full attack with good pen (+2 bonus penetration, +25% damage) and apply 2 decent debuffs (Hobbled: -5 Dexterity, can't run & Distracted: -5 Perception, Flanked / -10 Deflection, - 1 Armor Rating)
Confounding Blind: a full attack that apply debuff with stacking penalty to the target Deflection everytime you attack them when the debuff is up, useful to make high deflection enemies become vulnerable.
Pierce the Bell: a full attack with +5 extra penetration, +45% extra damage will allow Maia to overpen even the hardest armor.
Devastating Blow: a full attack with +50% extra damage by default, then +200% damage by percentage of target Heath lost.