Mosaic kicksin - sharing own experiences as someone who hates bright screen - its playable

Hello everyone,

I have to say I always hated those Phoenix Strike assassins because of full screen turns to VERY bright White (most of the time I left that game when they joined). So I have decided to make it to see how it is.

My gear is totally crap, atm I dont have anything really good on me (Lore, skullders, some MF gloves, verdungo, amu with +1assa skills and resists, rings for resist) and two Mosaic and gore riders (not even upgraded yet).

What makes my eyes sore is if u combine fire and cold charges. Thats very bright White around you everytime you attack. And with kicks you get 6,58attacks per second!

If I get charges for lighting Nova, but high amount of kicks makes it kinda ok-ish bright and to be honest to watch on 6lighting novas per second for several hours for me is not possible to sustain.

2 charges on Phoenix Strike for chain lighting is even more annoying because they fly all around your screen, but 3charges of Phoenix Strike which makes them cold are very OK for me.

My build is:
20 points into: Tiger Strike (physical dmg), Dragon Talon (5kicks finishing move), Phoenix Strike, Claws of Thunder (lighting)
1point into Dragon Flight (teleporting finishing move), Claw Mastery, Burst of Speed, Fade and Weapon Block (I dont think u need this skill)
remaining points I will put to Blades of Ice (because it is synergy for cold Phoenix Strike)

How I play:
I get 3charges for Tiger Strike(physical dmg), 3 charges for Cobra Strike (leeching), and one Charge for every element (because one Charge will just add element dmg to ur kicks - no extra animation) - so far thats insane single target dmg (you get 2300+% dmg from Tiger Strike and finishing move + all elemental dmg compare to kicksins which only gets 200% from finishing move)
to get AOE which wont hurt my eyes much is either 3charges of Phoenix Strike (thats more like crowd control with my gear its 900-1000dmg) or two charges of claw of thunder to get lighting Nova (kinda OK-ish eyes hurting aoe) or you can just go 1charge of Phoenix Strike for meteors but it would be nice if u put more points into fist of fire (synergy)

When I face immunes or bosses I can simply add charges and after that I will swap weapons make one kick so I drop all charges and start over. Or you can actually keep kicking because you have high elemental damage.

If you hate bright flashes on the screen you can play it like kicksin on steroids.

With 1 Charge from every element you wont get problem to kill any immunes, because from maxed lighting I get 1-4500light dmg, and even from Blades of Ice lvl17 (9hard points) you get 550-620cold dmg.

Enigma is really must have here, but for those who are on budget, if u get Cats eye's amulet, Hustle armor, Peasant Crown (+1skills, 15frw) and maavina tenet ( Belt with 20frw) you will run really fast - 16,4.

And if u need resists just click on Fade, you will be kicking a bit slowly, but it will be still OK (depends on your gear - if u have that FRW gear you wont need Burst of Speed for dmg, just for running and because we dont Teleport, so when u are about to attack and you will need resists just switch to Fade and when u run switch to Burst of Speed).

After few hours with Mosaic I switched to my fully maxed kicksin on NL to see the difference and Mosaic kicksin is infinite amount times stronger than normal kicksin - even without those eye hurting skills.

Also I would like to add, when I made Mosaic and respec, I put 1 point into each of dmg skills and it was even OK to clear p1 cows (it took me like 10mins - all charges maxed, but it was faster than using traps with same gear).

If you are like me and you see assassin with red spheres around her, leave the game, because she will paint whole screen White

This build is VERY cheap. All you need is 2gul, 2mal and rest you can get by selling pgems or if lucky you will find it on your own.

What are your thoughts about Mosaic assassin?

(I know that Mosaic RW is two years in the game, I just made it today and my friends which helped me this ladder told me that they never played it, so I assume most of you guys didnt.)

I am playing it for the first time this ladder and so far I really enjoy it.

I use the 2nd level Phoenix Strike, 3 Blades of Ice, 3 cobra and 3 Claws of Thunder and don't find the flashing too bad. If I come across a cold and light immune I will add some Tiger Strike charges to speed it up.

I have maxed Fade, Phoenix, thunder and Ice, 1 point to each of the finishers and 1 to Mind Blast. All the rest I am dumping into claw block, have found this combined with Fade were huge to survivability.

Gear wise I am on 2x greater talon mosaics, Bulwark, resist ammy and rings, resist Belt, Hustle armour, 3/10 gloves and gore riders. Did a deathless Uber Tristram with this setup (swapping in a Cure and Hearth or Ground Helm when they suited best).

Act 1 merc with Harmony is gas.

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 year ago

[..] IIRC, @Schnorki once did a theorycraft/experiement where he was close to a million DPS, but I don't know the specifics [..]

I believe it was something like 3.4 million actually. Been a while though..
Definitely well beyond a measly million. ^^

(Though it'd take like 500 years of farming to actually get the gear required to truly optimize that)

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 year ago

Ah right it was a million per kick, wasn't it?

Something like that.

Can't remember the exact build off the top of my head but a quick rough reconstruction got me back to this:
So...close enough.
It was crazy boring to play though. That part I vividly remember.

Dragon Tail build is MUCH easier on the eyes. I've played it a lot and it's very strong and simple. Only requires Tiger Strike and Cobra Strike.

Its not quite as strong as Phoenix Strike for sure. No full screen effects, but won't give you a headache.

When I okay Phoenix Strike Mosaic I tend to just go 2 charges to get Chain Lightning and nothing else.

The Chain Lightning doesnt bother me or lag my Playstation.

Isn't Cobra Strike useless with Dragon Tail?
(as it converts all Physical damage to fire )

Spectie wrote: 1 year ago

Dragon Tail build is MUCH easier on the eyes. I've played it a lot and it's very strong and simple. Only requires Tiger Strike and Cobra Strike.

Its not quite as strong as Phoenix Strike for sure. No full screen effects, but won't give you a headache.

When I okay Phoenix Strike Mosaic I tend to just go 2 charges to get Chain Lightning and nothing else.

The Chain Lightning doesnt bother me or lag my Playstation.

Spectie wrote: 1 year ago

Dragon Tail build is MUCH easier on the eyes. I've played it a lot and it's very strong and simple. Only requires Tiger Strike and Cobra Strike.

Its not quite as strong as Phoenix Strike for sure. No full screen effects, but won't give you a headache.

When I okay Phoenix Strike Mosaic I tend to just go 2 charges to get Chain Lightning and nothing else.

The Chain Lightning doesnt bother me or lag my Playstation.

My DTail assa doesn't have and doesn't need or use Cobra Strike at all.
Instead i'm giving her some nice lightning traps to make sure she can deal with anything and have more options.

No it does a physical kick that you buff with Tiger Strike and leech with cobra. Then it does a fire explosion based on the damage of the physical kick.

That's why physical immunes are rough with Dragon Tail

fredkid wrote: 1 year ago

Isn't
Cobra Strike useless with
Dragon Tail?
(as it converts all Physical damage to fire )

Correction, it ADDS fire damage BASED on the ACTUAL physical damage done.
No Conversion.

this is new to me

FULCRUM75 wrote: 1 year ago

Correction, it ADDS fire damage BASED on the ACTUAL physical damage done.
No Conversion.

fredkid wrote: 1 year ago

Isn't
Cobra Strike useless with
Dragon Tail?
(as it converts all Physical damage to fire )

fredkid wrote: 1 year ago

this is new to me

It's why you can ramp it up so much, if say you add Fanaticism and Might for example, and then have a way to constantly trigger Amp damage, you can reach insane levels, while if monsters are phys immune and you have nothing to break that, you do zero physical and zero fire damage, and if they're fire immune, you still do the full normal kick damage, but no fire damage.

Just to clarify, I already knew that Dragon Tail damage was based the full Physical damage you are dealing
What I misunderstood was that I thought that Dragon Tail also converts all Physical damage to fire, so your attack would deal no Physical damage in the end (probably I imaginated that because of the way Fists of Fire works and not because I explicitly read that in some place.... )
But Dragon Tail do not change your kick "original damage" it just add a bunch of fire damage based on the physical part of the "original damage"

FULCRUM75 wrote: 1 year ago

fredkid wrote: 1 year ago

this is new to me

It's why you can ramp it up so much, if say you add Fanaticism and Might for example, and then have a way to constantly trigger Amp damage, you can reach insane levels, while if monsters are phys immune and you have nothing to break that, you do zero physical and zero fire damage, and if they're fire immune, you still do the full normal kick damage, but no fire damage.

Id love to try Mosaic assa, but as long as the engine has the limits to particles and objects; Mosaic causes my game to close. I dont know why the engine has these limits. It happens in every setting I use, let it be lowest of the lowest or highest of the highest. Nothing fixes it and ive blamed myself for having this issue only to find out now later on that this is infact an issue with the game engine and nothing I can do to fix it.

Killing shenk in act5; I go kill it and leave the area, wait for the bombardment to stop and then go back. If I go during the bombardment; game closes itself. This was old news as its been a thing always, but finding out that Mosaic assas cause this to happen aswell is kind of a game breaking imo. Cant be in games with Mosaic assassins at all if they attack.... Idiotic.
They really need to rewrite this game again on a better engine :'D

There are some reports of Poison Creeper crashing the game too

fredkid wrote: 1 year ago

There are some reports of Poison Creeper crashing the game too

Really?? this is something ive not seen. Ive even played druid. Seriously this engine wasnt the best option for this game. Its just nuts they went for it knowing there are limitations. They just figured, if people have issues; boo hoo...

Tornado_OLO wrote: 1 year ago

Semirotta wrote: 1 year ago

Killing shenk in act5; I go kill it and leave the area, wait for the bombardment to stop and then go back.

On my PC, game lags at 60 fps during bombardment...

I cant run the game most of the times as it launches unless I press ctrl + alt + del and open task manager, go to the Details tab and change priority from normal to REAL TIME. If I do not do this most of the times; the fps keep dropping from stable 75 (I use vsync to 75 as my screen is 75hrz) down to 50-60 and it stutter lags. Its weird. Turning it "real time" and no problems what so ever.
This game is so darn poorly coded, or perhaps its the engine, most likely a little bit of both.

Have you tried turning the game into real time priority instead of normal if that helps for you? at least you CAN remain in the area, I have to leave so the bombardment isnt in my screen.