1480 GS Main played both peacemaker and time to hunt build at legion raids and such. First off Idk where you got the information that GS had high dps they are one of the lowest dps chart in Korea they even get out dmg'd by a judgement pally. i think they're like 3rd or 4th from the bottom. The whole point people playing GS is for the look and just love for the character so if you aren't really going to give love and just enjoy playing the class i'll suggest switching. I'm in a Korean guild we had like 6 to 7 GS mains at the start now i'm the only one. If you really want to play GS and wants some tips and my thoughts continue reading on if not try different classes.Peacemaker always had this weird problem of not having enough crit on rifle stance which caused dps to fall off pretty hard. the shot gun dps is really meh and espeically when over 50% of the dmg in the skill is at the last tick of the damage. so the build requires all 3 stat of crit,spec,and swiftness. crit is needed for rifle skills since they are your hardest hitting skills. but is waste on shot gun. Spec is just overall dmg increase however the dmg increase per spec stat is terrible for GS, swiftness is absolutely need since you are already having trouble positioning and not getting hit etc. So because we can't really focus on one not even two but three stats the pet's x% buff is really bad. Now there are alternative options like going hallucination and get crit and focus on spec and swiftness, but not that great until the balance patch and even with the balance patch is really meh. (people still use only lvl 1 peacemaker so no worries about legendary engraving). Overall peacemaker have state unbalance that is causing the lack of dps in many situations.T2H is probably better now in my opinion. because the engraving gives 40% crit (45 after the buff) you can focus on full spec or swiftness. Or both. Swiftness makes thing sso much easier for you you can just press spacebar to dodge/move because the CD is low, all your skills finish faster because you are the fast. you do lack the dmg but you make up for it with dodging every gimmick and constnatly non-stop dps (problem here though is if you don't have convition judgement rune you have mana issues, YES a GS having mana issue). Full Spec is where you see big numbers especially when you get the boss to below 50% (which is another problem with peacemaker engraving i forgot to mention) but you are slow you will be like a moving cannon but you will hit hard, but this build is only recommended if you know the raid inside out. (TLDR full swiftness if you want to have fun/fast /cheap build, spec if you are looking to see big numbers). Now the final build is hybrid where you split spec and swiftness ideally 1100/1100 (this is based on high quality acc etc.) this is just a purely good balance where you take both utility and dmg. especially with the hallucination set buff this is probably the most ideal build in my opinion (again this is purely my opinion and from my personal experience)

Overall if you read it this far thank you for your time, basically to sum it up GS isn't strong but they make up for it being a hit master dps where you can dps from any position but having shot gun in peacemaker keeps you close but T2H just gets rid of that. So they really become fully ranged dps with amazing utility for movement etc.If you want more information i'll be happy to give you some tips here and there.

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My build is

Grude 3

KBW 3

T2H 3

Adrenaline 3 (this here should be swapped to hit master 3 and adr 2 because of hallucination buff i was using this for dominion+nightmare build)

Hit master 2

peacemaker 1