1) Run ahead of your team


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2) Go Guns blazing


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3) Magically reload from the unlimited supply in your jacket


SOURCE: Equilibrium

LVL 5 => THP ON MELEE CRITS AND/OR HEADSHOTS: Since you'll be using your pistols to deal with almost all elites, thp on melee kills is quite useless. THP on crits is, in combination with the rapier, a very good thp source since you swing fast and most attacks start from above.

LVL 10 => 20% EXTRA DAMAGE TO ENEMIES YOU CRIT: allows you to kind of act like a witch hunter captain.

LVL 15 => 7% EXTRA POWER: since this is a range focussed build, this also increases ranged damage. Try

LVL 20 => BLESSED SHOTS CONSUME NO AMMO: This allows you to keep firing for a longer time without reloading. Also, when shooting into hordes with a blessed shot, you'll regain 2 ammo instead of 1, in the end it's the best talent to keep topped up on ammo.

LVL 25 => 20% EXTRA MOVEMENT SPEED ON RANGED CRITS: this talent allows you to stay ahead of the team, so you don't shoot your teammates in the back all the time. It's also great for kiting enemies. You can literally outrun everything, so use it to clutch! The ammo regain talent isn't as good as you would expect and with scrounger + no ammo consumption on blessed shots, you'll find it quite difficult to run out of ammo. If you're low, just let of single shots into hordes when your blessed shot is ready.

LVL 30 => COOLDOWN REDUCTION ON RANGED CRITS: this allows you to have your ult up sooner, which you can use to oneshot body shot chaos warriors (with a crit on cata, without on legend). ALTERNATIVELY: the double shotted talent can greatly increase your boss dps if you manage to hit the head multiple times in a row together with a purple potion or any other potion in combination with concotion.

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* Crit power and power vs armoured for increased damage, especially against stormvermin, crit chance to increase ammo regain and damage output.
* Scrounger for ammo sustain
* Concotion in order to afflict maximum boss DPS from a potion: wait untill your ult is ready, drink a pot, fire your ult, empty all your pistols (12 shots at least) and ult a second time as it's ready right before the potion effect ends. In comparison, a strength pot with decanter would barely give you a few more shots as half of the pot duration you'll have to be reloading.

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It's easy to hit heads with rapier light attacks and because of the high swing speed, you'll be hitting a lot of heads and landing a lot of crits in a relatively short timeframe, which synergizes with your temp hp talent best.

Natural bond: remember that you'll mostly be taking damage from running attacks while you have your brace of pistols out. That means that you'll usually be low on thp when you actually need it! This is why I prefer natural bond, just for this once. Normally I'm a huge barskin/boon fanboy.

Movement speed: this really synergizes with the extra 20% movement speed you get from your talent. Going faster allows you to stay ahead of your team so you have a clear shot and also allows you to kite hordes/other enemies while shooting at more important targets like elites and specials.

Grenadier (25% chance to dupe your bomb): since the effect of shrapnel is already applied through your lvl 10 talent (20% dmg against enemies hit with blessed shot), you don't need shrapnel in boss fights. Picking 50% extra bomb range is a bad idea since it doesn't help against bosses and it makes it way easier to teamkill your teammates. The grenadier talent is thus the best choice for this build.

Crit chance/curse resistance: on legend I switch out crit chance for curse resistance, but on cata the extra crit chance can help you increase your DPS a bit, as well as triggering scrounger more often and thus leaving you with more ammo to spend (which is very useful on cata since most elites take 3 hits instead of just two).