Advice for fastest Assassin farming build

I'm looking for some guidance from Assassin class experts regarding the fastest farming build with extra points for being mindless.

Right now I'm specced as classic trapsin level 90. I have all the cookie cutter gear (HotO,

Shako, Spirit

Monarch, 3xTrap GCs...), running 300% MF. I'm farming for my Enigma at the moment and I'm not having any problem doing Pit, Cows, Pindle+Eldritch+Shenk (that's my usual farm route). My dmg is 2600-3100 fireblast and ~5k LS trap dmg. The Merc is rocking

Tal's

Mask,

Eth Treachery (~700def) and

Eth

Thresher Insight (~700dmg). If he has

Fade and no decrep, he can push through anything practically.

My question is, can I create a faster build? I feel that the trapsin loses a lot of time on every pull to set down traps and once they're down they also take time to start shooting. In the Pit I mown the packs pretty fast and I've started to feel that it's not worth to set down traps because it wastes time and have started resorting to

Fire Blast which also feels bad because it's supposed to be a backup ability for Light immunes... Should I maybe look into Kick+

Death Sentry? Riftsin? Hopefully these won't require a massive gear swap, I'd prefer to be able to reuse some/most of my stuff

Extra points for a mindless build! Right now on every pull I have to set down LS, DS and start aiming my

Fire Blast skill. Ideally i'd like to play this with only one hand on the mouse!

Thanks

Your build is optimal. It's just not as good as you thought.
You're always going to be lagging behind pallys, sorc in DPS and clear.

I agree with you on fireblast though, it clears cows faster than my traps do.

Ugh so boring! The whole point of Assassin was to not make another Sorc or HDin as a first character... It's like the game is forcing everyone to start as Sorc in order to farm the items for the character they actually want to play. Once that's done however you've already quit the game!

I feel exactly like you. I wanted to play something that wasn't sorc (which 99% of players rolled) but once you actually start playing you find you're crippled without

Teleport to such a large degree it doesn't even make sense to play another char. Everyone's just farming for Enigma while sorcs just run meph and sell us all their loot.

Inb4 people say oh tele staff easy fix. Having charges to have to manage and repairing constantly adds up real quick.

Telestaff doesn't work because you don't have enough FCR without HotO + Spirit to tele safely. You'd have to do Tele Amulet which again is garbage as the mean

Teleport casts to for serious farming is much greater than 25 (which is the classic Amulet

Charge count) and in general I don't want to incur 86k repair cost on every run (which is the repair cost for a lvl 2 Tele amulet I think).

Use Nats go Phoenix you set

422 is insane

I play a trap/kicksin hybrid.
My default route is

Arcane Sanctuary/

Travincal/

Nihlathak/

Baal. The build is fast, efficient, doesn't care about any immunity combination, doesn't need Enigma or Infinity to work, can farm ubers easily and is overall a blast to play.
On the downside there is not much room for MF on gear so I mainly use my assassin for base/rune/

Key hunting. Imo nothing can beat a sorceress for MF until you get your hands on Enigma anyway.

Zelym wrote: 3 years ago

I play a trap/kicksin hybrid.
My default route is

Arcane Sanctuary/

Travincal/

Nihlathak/

Baal. The build is fast, efficient, doesn't care about any immunity combination, doesn't need Enigma or Infinity to work, can farm ubers easily and is overall a blast to play.
On the downside there is not much room for MF on gear so I mainly use my assassin for base/rune/

Key hunting. Imo nothing can beat a sorceress for MF until you get your hands on Enigma anyway.

Are you playing Rift sin?

make sure you are stacking you

Lightning Sentry too. ups the kill speed emmesly. as they will focus fire down enemies. having them spead out takes longer. this is really tough to do on controller as you auto target so it wants to put the trap on top of the enemy you may need to stack traps and kite enemies to them if thats the case.

also after the last patch traps

Teleport to you so you can keep moving.

MarcWizard wrote: 3 years ago

Zelym wrote: 3 years ago

I play a trap/kicksin hybrid.
My default route is

Arcane Sanctuary/

Travincal/

Nihlathak/

Baal. The build is fast, efficient, doesn't care about any immunity combination, doesn't need Enigma or Infinity to work, can farm ubers easily and is overall a blast to play.
On the downside there is not much room for MF on gear so I mainly use my assassin for base/rune/

Key hunting. Imo nothing can beat a sorceress for MF until you get your hands on Enigma anyway.

Are you playing Rift sin?

This type of assassin works best with a Crescent Moon runeword instead of kicksin. Slap a

Shael

Um

Tir in a 3os PB and you get CtC Static and CL, ITD, -35% enemy light res and pretty much hit all required IAS break points with a little bit of help.

MarcWizard wrote: 3 years ago

Are you playing Rift sin?

Not really, I play a similar build but the weapons I use are

Azurewrath and

Stormlash.