Pre-Build for Assassin

just checked out your build. i def have all that except the small charms and the fire facets and

Helm. but i could for sure get a hold of that. not super poor with runes to trade.

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

oh wow. nice. my question is do you do the

Charge ups rotation when fight them or just spam kicks? which is best?

I tend to be lazy and just

Charge to 3, kick a few times,

Charge to 3 again, kick a few more times to 0.

Theoretically though, the highest dmg comes from charging to 3 and then alternating so you never kick at less than 3. Kick at 3, tiger back to 3, kick at 3 and so on and so forth.

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

just checked out your build. i def have all that except the small charms and the fire facets and

Helm. but i could for sure get a hold of that. not super poor with runes to trade.

Well, the charms were more of a theory. I didn't actually use a sunder in testing which in turn means there was no need for the fire res charms which would only act to even out the res loss from the sunder. If you do use one (which I'd still suggest, mainly for adds), then yeah. But it works perfectly fine without it as well since you can just kill fire immune stuff with the physical part of your kick.

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

oh wow. nice. my question is do you do the

Charge ups rotation when fight them or just spam kicks? which is best?

I tend to be lazy and just

Charge to 3, kick a few times,

Charge to 3 again, kick a few more times to 0.

Theoretically though, the highest dmg comes from charging to 3 and then alternating so you never kick at less than 3. Kick at 3, tiger back to 3, kick at 3 and so on and so forth.

right. but the build is clunky in its own way (its not THAT bad) so i tend to do the same . just seems like if you miss with tiger you are gonna die. but my res wasnt capped so that may have played a big role

Well, with that one, you have to miss like 50+ times in a row to die.

(And you really don't miss that much)

@schnorki what would you "upgrade" to for your starter build

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

@schnorki what would you "upgrade" to for your starter build

As in 'improve from the patchwork crap'?

Just had a quick look (in an effort to keep performance while dropping Infinity). The single biggest thing you can do from there I believe is to take the time to keep begging

Anya for solid

Claws. That may take an hour. It may also take days or weeks to get something that fulfills the minimum requirements for them. Think hunting for 3/20 gloves except worse because at least one of them needs to upgrade to excep or elite in order to meet the breakpoint without too much

Sacrifice.

If you get those, you not only get a massive dmg boost off the bat but you open up the rest of your gear a bit (primarily because it allows you to drop Treachery) which in turn then becomes a massive dmg boost as well. Essentially, once you get to a working baseline, the single best way to farm for half of your remaining BiS gear (

Claws, gloves, armor) is to keep checking vendors. Not the most fun way to farm..but hey, at least you don't die doing it. (Except maybe of old age)

[Replacing only the claws and armor results in more dmg without infinity than you would have with infinity but without those 3 pieces changed]

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

@schnorki what would you "upgrade" to for your starter build

As in 'improve from the patchwork crap'?

Just had a quick look (in an effort to keep performance while dropping Infinity). The single biggest thing you can do from there I believe is to take the time to keep begging

Anya for solid

Claws. That may take an hour. It may also take days or weeks to get something that fulfills the minimum requirements for them. Think hunting for 3/20 gloves except worse because at least one of them needs to upgrade to excep or elite in order to meet the breakpoint without too much

Sacrifice.

If you get those, you not only get a massive dmg boost off the bat but you open up the rest of your gear a bit (primarily because it allows you to drop Treachery) which in turn then becomes a massive dmg boost as well. Essentially, once you get to a working baseline, the single best way to farm for half of your remaining BiS gear is to keep checking vendors. Not the most fun way to farm..but hey, at least you don't die doing it. (Except maybe of old age)

what about making Plague in a +3 D-tail claw for a total of +5 to DT. and 20 ias
those arent nearly as hard to get a hold of as a blue worth using. but our res drops pretty hard without

Jade Talon. i guess i could just make one and keep the talon(instead of dual wielding plagues)

That'd be nice for the +skill and probably not a bad interim idea but 20 IAS is kinda low and you get no -res out of it. Magic

Claws fix both of those problems while (in a perfect world) providing even more +skill.

Also, the lower res proc would override your

Life Tap (or later amp) which..kinda sucks.

So, I'm kicking twice at full

Charge and killing P8 Diablo and making people in pub games ask about the build xD.

Sherloc09 wrote: 2 years ago

So, I'm kicking twice at full

Charge and killing P8 Diablo and making people in pub games ask about the build xD.

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made some changes (maxed out my res and increased my ias) and was able to handle dclone much easier. was still on the slower side but i could facetank everything he was throwing at me and my health didnt move much. maybe ill switch some items around so i have more crushing blow. in the mean time im slowly building up to better and better stuff. current set up has my sheet damage in the game at 75 k with max charges.