S.T.A.R. Single Target Assault Rifle
A Nightmare Dungeon DPS Build
By Braz
S.T.A.R. is a DPS build prepared by Braz and submitted through our Submit a Build form. It is designed for nightmare dungeons. The build is one of our more popular DPS builds.
Weapons: Assault Rifle, Shotgun
Active Abilities
- Safety Off - Burst builder
- Three Round Burst - burst finisher
- out for a kill – shotty finisher
- suppressing fire - aoe builder
- frag grenade / tear gas / high explosive grenade – aoe finisher (choose based on group synergy)
- breaching shot - party penetration buff
- do or die – 45 sec cd personal 25% bonus damage buff
Passive Abilities
- Twist the knife – 9% damage buff
- Ferocity – 9% damage buff
- Live wire – crits build charges to 4 then discharge for big damage
- Sudden return – extra damage on penetrate
- One in the chamber – extra damage on crit
- Fever pitch – 50% buff to hit (absolutely clutch)
- Extra bullet – adds an extra hit to safety off burst
Key Features
This deck is based on maximizing your chances of proccing extra damage from passives while keeping your overall damage as high as possible. Basically, each time you hit your builder you hit four times within a second. That gives you 4 opportunities to crit/pen every second. This is perfect timing for the internal passive cooldown of one second, so you’re not wasting any time or losing out on any potential passive procs. Also, you can get by with a relatively low hit rating thanks to fever pitch (which will probably be nerfed, but hey, use it while you can) which should be up at all times considering that even with only a 10% chance to proc, you’re looking at a 40% chance every second. Once it gets rolling, the damage is obscene, consistent and ranged.
Looks something like this:
safety off – sudden return – one in the chamber
safety off – sudden return – one in the chamber
safety off – sudden return – one in the chamber
three round burst – sudden return – one in the chamber – live wire
out for a kill (maybe with an SR or oitc)
If you can afford to stand in melee range for the entirety of the fight, you can swap out shotgun for chaos and use four horsemen for your secondary consumer for even more chances to proc passives, and (if you’re having trouble with hit rating) you can use pulling the strings to give yourself another 10% hit rating)
NOTE: this is a PURE dps build and parts of it are reliant on your teammates providing support like debilitate (note from Ryahl – or any other weakened state).
Rotation
Start fight – 5x safety off – breaching shot – do or die – three round burst – out for a kill – safety off x3 – three round burst – out for a kill – safety off x3 – and so on until buffs are off cd then build to 5 weapon resources before hitting buffs and repeating rotation.
Gearing Needs
150 hit?, but it could be relying on Fever Pitch)
500+ crit
500+ pen
