Deadeye's Mark

Mark a target, causing your initiative attacks to generate malice when they hit or critically hit your mark. Lose all malice when the mark ends or when this skill is recast on a new target. Malice is only gained once per skill use. — In-game description

Deadeye's Mark

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Deadeye

Slot

Profession mechanic

Game link

API

43390

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0.5½  25  

Deadeye's Mark

Mark a target, causing your initiative attacks to generate malice when they hit or critically hit your mark. Lose all malice when the mark ends or when this skill is recast on a new target.
Malice is only gained once per skill use.

 Maximum Malice: 5

 Malice Gained upon Hit: 1

 Malice Gained upon Critical Hit: 1

 Duration: 30 seconds

 Range: 1,500

— In-game description

Stolen skills

Primary article: Stolen skill

• Each stolen skill will grant 3 seconds of stealth if used with 5 or more malice.
•  One in the Chamber will randomize and refresh the stolen skill after using a cantrip.
•  Fire for Effect will grant ₈ Might and  Fury around the Deadeye and the mark if the stolen skill hits.

Skill	Profession	Description
Steal Defenses	Guardian	Grant aegis to allies around you and poison your marked target. Gain stealth if malice is at or above the threshold.
Steal Resistance	Revenant	Grant resistance to allies around you and inflict torment on your marked target. Gain stealth if malice is at or above the threshold.
Steal Strength	Warrior	Grant might to allies around you and weaken your marked target. Gain stealth if malice is at or above the threshold.
Steal Durability	Engineer	Grant protection to allies around you and inflict vulnerability on your marked target. Gain stealth if malice is at or above the threshold.
Steal Mobility	Ranger	Grant superspeed to allies around you and immobilize your marked target. Gain stealth if malice is at or above the threshold.
Steal Precision	Thief	Grant fury to allies around you and blind your marked target. Gain stealth if malice is at or above the threshold.
Steal Warmth	Elementalist	Grant vigor to allies around you and chill your marked target. Gain stealth if malice is at or above the threshold.
Steal Time	Mesmer	Grant quickness to allies around you and slow your marked target. Gain stealth if malice is at or above the threshold.
Steal Health	Necromancer	Heal allies around you and inflict bleeding on your marked target. Gain stealth if malice is at or above the threshold.

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Serpent's Touch — Stealing inflicts poison. While in the downed state, your attacks apply poison.
• Mug — Deal damage and gain life when stealing. This attack cannot critically hit enemies.
• Even the Odds — Apply vulnerability when you steal. Gain might when you hit with a stealth attack.
• Improvisation — Use stolen skills twice. Reduce the cooldown of all equipped utility skills when you steal. Cooldown effect will only trigger if all utility slots are filled and if at least one of your active utility skills is on cooldown. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.

Shadow Arts

• Hidden Thief — Stealing inflicts blindness. Stealth Attacks inflict weakness. Cannot affect the same target more than once per interval.

Acrobatics

• Swindler's Equilibrium — Gain power and additional power when while wielding a sword or underwater spear. Successfully evading an attack while wielding a sword or underwater spear recharges Steal.

Trickery

• Kleptomaniac — Stealing gives you initiative.
• Thrill of the Crime — When you Steal, you and all nearby allies gain fury, might, and swiftness for 10 seconds.
• Bountiful Theft — Stealing grants you and all nearby allies vigor. You rip boons from your target and grant them to nearby allies. Grant additional boons to allies if your target has no boons.
• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.
• Sleight of Hand — Stealing also dazes the target. Reduces the recharge of Steal.
• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Deadeye

• Deadeye's Gaze — Steal is replaced with Deadeye's Mark, which unlocks new Stolen skills and malice generation. Stealth attacks consume malice for bonus effects. Gain access to rifles and cantrips.
• Malicious Intent — Marking a target or striking your mark with a stealth attack will immediately grant malice.
• Collateral Damage — Trigger Burst of Shadows at your target's location if it dies while marked.
• One in the Chamber — When you cast a cantrip, gain a random new stolen skill. Stolen skills deal more damage. (Requires a marked target. Overwrites existing stolen skills.)
• Renewing Gaze — Deadeye's Mark recharges if your mark is defeated. Gain regeneration when this recharge occurs.
• Iron Sight — Strike damage dealt to your marked target is increased, and strike damage taken from your marked target is reduced.
• Be Quick or Be Killed — Gain quickness when marking a foe. Your power and precision are increased while under this effect.
• Fire for Effect — Using a stolen skill grants additional boons to allies around you. Stolen skills will always be Steal Time, regardless of the target's profession.

Notes

Bug:

Cannot be used on large object-based foes such as Octovine.

• Your character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines upon using this skill: "Target's marked"; "You're in my sights"; "Contract accepted".
• Upon the death of a Marked target:
  • Your current stolen skill will be removed.
  • Your character will occasionally shout the line: "Contract complete".
• Any related traits which affect Steal also affect Deadeye's Mark, as it replaces and inherits from it.
• Deadeye's Mark cannot be activated without a target.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	Deadeye's Mark is no longer removed when the deadeye goes into the downed state.
May 08, 2018	Malice no longer generates over time. Instead, 1 malice is gained whenever the player hits their marked target with a skill that has an initiative cost, and they can gain an additional 1 malice if that skill critically hits. These gains can only occur once per skill use. Malice no longer increases damage to the player's marked target.
February 06, 2018	This skill no longer drains malice when marking the same target again. Reduced the recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds. Increased the mark duration from 25 seconds to 30 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Deadeye's Mark has been added to the game.

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