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

By Lost Sinner

★ Rogue & Ranger (Gunhawk) - Build Guide for Maia Rua.

★ Main role: Striker

✎ Team comp: play well with a Chanter and a Paladin. Paladin can mark and support aura, while Chanter can pocket buff Maia while also disabling enemies with their crowd controls, both has sharing bonus burn damage lash.

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✖ Artwork by: Penett Penett

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Category: Characters, Classes, Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Weapons

Languages: English

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28 May, 2018 @ 12:47am

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Guide Index

Overview

★ Showcase Video

✎ Leveling Progression

✎ Equipment / Gear

✎ Abilities Preview

Comments

★ Showcase Video

✎ Leveling Progression

♦ Leveling:

Level 2: Marked Prey
Level 3: Arms Bearer
Level 4: Two Weapon Style & Gunner
Level 5: Marksman
Level 6: Dirty Fighting
Level 7: Finishing Blow & Marked for the Hunt
Level 8: Accurate Wounding Shot
Level 9: Blinding Strike
Level 10: Confounding Blind & Two-Handed Style
Level 11: Bull's Will
Level 12: Debilitating Strike
Level 13: Deep Wounds & Driving Flight
Level 14: Devastating Blow
Level 15: Uncanny Luck
Level 16: Improved Critical & Survival of the Fittest
Level 17: Strike the Bell
Level 18: Pierce the Bell
Level 19: Death Blow & Evasive Roll
Level 20: Tough

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♦ Civil skills:

Active: Alchemy & Stealth (leading)
Passive: Diplomacy

♦ Weapon Proficiency:

Blunderbuss, Scepter, Arquebus, Pistol

✎ Equipment / Gear

✦ 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.

✎ Abilities Preview

♦ 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.

✦ AI Behavior Script:

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8 Comments

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Vinny 15 May @ 6:26am

what about acina tricorn? why blackblade's hood over that?

JeeRaa 18 Nov, 2023 @ 7:48am

Hello sinner.What's stats if want to start this build for my main?rase and stats please.I know its 5 years ago:)but i want to play this game now:) hehe.Thanks for answer and sorry for my english

Fool of a Took 15 Nov, 2021 @ 2:07am

Lets be honest, Maia + Red Hand + Passives basically breaks the game on POTD upscaled. Build her however you like.

Jdz 20 Mar, 2020 @ 3:27pm

Amazing!

Lampros 27 Sep, 2018 @ 10:03am

Wouldn't you want to change up now that the Ranger class got a few potent goodies? ;)

Sephiroth 11 Aug, 2018 @ 8:43am

@Lost Sinner, could you provide a download for the AI script as you did for the Tekehu build? Also, downloads for the AI scripts of your other builds would be great.
And of course, thank you for all your builds, they have been a great help for me.

SkyWølf 15 Jun, 2018 @ 2:52am

You can also play her with serafens dual grenade launchers (hand mortar and fire in the hole) as an AOE monster. Just don't take the distracting cone attack on crit for the hand mortar as it has friendly fire and will distract your teammates.

Bezdvadvashnost 2 Jun, 2018 @ 11:50am

AWESOME

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