SKILL TREE SPOTLIGHT – THE GUNSLINGER
Do you have the skill to fill the boots of the Gunslinger?
Welcome back to our closer look at each of Heroes of Ruin’s playable character’s skill trees, showing you how every additional experience point you invest in each skill improves that ability as well as the XP you’ll need to unlock a new level for each skill.
This week, we’re shining a light on the cunning Gunslinger. A former criminal turned wandering nomad, the Gunslinger’s every action is plagued by the massive monetary debt he must repay. He seeks riches and takes on the mission to save the Lord Ataraxis hoping to find a way to repay his debt.
The Gunslinger excels at ranged combat. He has ways to ensure range is kept, and ways to regain it when lost. He is fast, accurate and deadly, using a wide array of ranged weapons. He excels at the use of all firearms but also brings to bear explosive incendiaries and ricocheting throwing knives to bring down his foes.
Another specialty of the Gunslinger is to reduce the effectiveness of the enemies he targets with his deadly arsenal, using wily tricks in conjunction with focused gunfire to deal death from afar. Hailstorms of bullets, home-made explosives, and well-placed shots go a long way towards weakening and taking the fight out of his opponents.
How will you choose to level-up your devious mercenary and what effect does each skill point have? Read on to find out.
| SABOTEUR SKILL TREE | ||
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Blaze Wave
Unlocks: 1, 6, 12, 18 |
Blaze Wave shoots a volley of shots in an arc, with a chance to light enemies on fire.
• Additional Ranks increase Flames damage |
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Bolas
Unlocks: 3, 7, 13, 19 |
Bolas allows you to throw a whirling cord. It slows an enemy, with a chance to stun them that gets more likely the longer you charge the attack.
• Additional Ranks increase damage and durations |
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Adrenaline Rush
Unlocks: 5, 9, 15, 21 |
Adrenaline Rush boosts your energy regen and your speed. At max rank, it does the same for nearby party members.
• Additional Ranks increase duration and enhance buffs |
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Crowd Stopper
Unlocks: 9, 13, 19, 25 |
Crowd Stopper throws a homemade explosive at your feet, stunning nearby enemies and giving you a quick boost of speed.
• Additional Ranks increase damage and durations |
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Armor Piercing Ammo
Unlocks: 12, 16, 22, 27 |
Armor Piercing Ammo allows your shots to pierce targets. At max rank, it confers the same benefit to nearby party members.
• Additional Ranks increase duration |
| WILDCARD SKILL TREE | ||
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Fortune’s Favor
Unlocks: 2, 7, 13, 19 |
Fortune's Favor allows you to regenerate health whenever you find gold. At max rank, it does the same for nearby party members.
• Additional Ranks increase duration and enhances Health gain |
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Luck of the Draw
Unlocks: 3, 8, 14, 20 |
Luck of the Draw gives you a chance to apply a random status effect to a target on hit. At max rank, nearby party members can do likewise.
• Additional Ranks increase duration and debuff chance |
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Rupture Blade
Unlocks: 1, 6, 12, 19 |
Rupture Blade is a ricocheting projectile that wounds enemies that it slices, dealing damage over time.
• Additional Ranks increase wound damage, blade speed and duration |
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Shrapnel
Unlocks: 8, 12, 18, 24 |
Shrapnel makes all of your bullet attacks use explosive ammo, causing damage in a small area when it hits.
• Additional ranks increase damage bonus |
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Escape Artist
Unlocks: 14, 18, 24, 28 |
Escape Artist reduces the duration of restrictive status effects against you, and reduces the energy cost of Explosive Retreat.
• Additional ranks decrease debuff durations and reduces Explosive Retreat energy cost |
| COMMANDO SKILL TREE | ||
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Explosive Retreat
Unlocks: 2, 6, 12, 18 |
Explosive Retreat hurls you backwards, while simultaneously tossing a stunning grenade at targets in front of you.
• Additional ranks increase damage and stun duration |
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Sharpshooter
Unlocks: 4, 8, 14, 20 |
Sharpshooter gives you a chance to gain a bonus to critical strike chance and damage, as well as a small bonus to speed whenever you kill an enemy.
• Additional ranks increase speed, crit chance, and crit damage on enemy kill |
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Battle Hardened
Unlocks: 7, 11, 17, 23 |
Battle Hardened makes you tougher, increasing your damage resistance and your health regeneration rate.
• Additional ranks increase health regeneration and reduces damage taken |
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Bullet Barrage
Unlocks: 10, 14, 20, 26 |
Bullet Barrage is a channeled attack that allows you to move and shoot at the same time.
• Additional ranks increase damage |
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Bulletswarm
Unlocks: 15, 20, 25, 29 |
Bulletswarm unleashes attack after attack against all enemies nearby. Each kill earns you a shield that absorbs damage.
• Additional ranks increase damage |
Come back next week when we’ll be lifting the lid on everyone’s favourite spell caster, the eerie Alchitect!
COMMENTS
Commando Skill Tree FTW!
Best Friend game in the world
awesome.
awesome. i hope to get the game soon.
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The Gunsligner is REALLY useful, it saved my ass many times against the shadow reaper, wich allways kill someone in one hit, ans also really useful against the final boss. Ranged in this game is rlly FTW!
Bolas have saved my butt more than once, good utility ability!
Armor Piercing Ammo, Shrapnel and Bulletswarm.
Here's my usual set-up:
Bullet Swarm
Crowd Stopper
Bolas
somtimes when I'm playing friends I replace Crowd Stopper with one of my maxed out buffs so I can help them out by sharing the effects of said maxed out buffs
power:
blaze wave for rapid damage
explosive retreat great to stun
crowd stopper speeds increase comes in handy
passive:
shrapnel good for crowds
sharpshooter critical,damage and speed cant beat that
battle hardened defence is a must
sounds cool
bulletswarm sounds fun lol
Explosive Retreat is definitely my favorite skill of the gunslinger but the other are nice too :) .
Site isn't updating much lately, speaking of Gunslinger (using him a bit lately on dailies and weeklies.).
On the issue itself: Bolas, Rupture Blade, Shrapnel, Escape Artist, Explosive Retreat, Sharpshooter, and Battle Hardened.
More skills? Need more levels for the ones we have now.
My next nefarious creation, right after my beloved magick-user, ha, ha, ha!!!
I just wish there was more skills...more varity.
and my gunslinger is Grein.
ya I know so original....(-:
I don't feel that Rupture Blade is an effective attack, but I do like the animated blood flying in every direction.
BTW, I went with the name "Django" for my Gunslinger ;)
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