Pre-Build for Assassin

Feral Claws Unique - Phoenix

Monarch - Dragon

Archon Plate -

Circlet 3os 30%frun/walk + 3x Rainbow Facets 5/5 Fire-Death - 3/20 Gloves - 2x Bul-Kathos 5%ll - 1x Rising Sun Amulet -

Shadow Dancer

Boots

Build:

Fists of Fire = 20 Points

Dragon Tail = 20 Points

Claw Mastery = 20 Points

Burst of Speed = 15-20 Points

Fade = 10-20

Non-Trapsin only high dmg output.

Proper armor here is CoH, not Dragon. Headgear - Flickering Flame for the cause as well.
Weapon - Plague claw (LR proc boosts your fire output a lot).
Phoenix shield is correct, yes.
Mara will beat Rising Sun for sure.

Dragon Tail is most powerful when

Tiger Strike is charged - this is how you maximize the explosion. Elemental charges must be synergized by

Phoenix Strike.
And you nn to develop both BoS and

Fade. With CoH armor, just 1 base point each will do good already. (I'd suggest adding high Venom instead - Plague weapon will boost it further).
Just my 5 cents here. Hope it'll help a bit.

Thank you. Just wanted to take profit of the Phoenix -28%fire res. Flickering Flame of cause. How good is

Claws of Thunder? With

Griffon's Eye and others.

Asha wrote: 2 years ago

Weapon - Plague claw (LR proc boosts your fire output a lot).

That sounds like a neat alternative! I'm using

Lacerator rn for amp proc. I can hit around beyond 20k - 40k with

Tiger Strike charged.

This is my current setup for my

Dragon Tail assassin. https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/ky0106ll#1
(along with other future plans for my current characters, ignore that waves hand )
(Also, not actually lvl 99 just yet. i never bother to try changing the lvls in the planner.)

CoT is also a way - this is where mart assy really benefits fron griffon, unlike trapsy.

Phoenix Strike should be maxed here as well. (Not sure about proper finishin kick here tho).

For pheonix strike / CoT and the likes, i've used

Dragon Claw in the past, but I feel you could honestly take any kind of finisher and still do the job right. I would probably use something like Dragon kicks or

Dragon Flight. If the

Claws you're considering using surpasses kicks in dmg,

Dragon Claw.

I tested sincerely many alternative builds. Like

Zeal-Sorceress (Dream build) or HoJ and Dragon +

Enchant.
Or Smiter with Grief.
Am testing Principle Runeword with

Holy Bolt and

Azurewrath Zealot.
Made barb with dual LastWish. (2k-5k melee dmg).

I Made Paladin using

Zeal and the runeword Principle together with Last Wish

Phase Blade and Phoenix

Vortex Shield. This does delete any possible Mob. Because the

Holy Bolt does Lot of damage to physical immunes. I played this Pala today and won solo gainst the ancients in hell mode in First try.
Sanctuary is Aura. Infinity Merc with Holy Frost.

Zeal for Attack Casting X many Holy

Bolts. And Last Wish gives

Life Tap and Phoenix does reg your health.

Lawbringer or

Azurewrath could be a possible boost.

Lawbringer is nice with Spirit Shield and

Concentration

With sunder charms, the kingpin build seems to be either Lightning Dragonsin, or CE Dragonsin. One maxes

Lightning Sentry with synergies, one pt in

Death Sentry, then maxes

Tiger Strike and

Dragon Tail, one point in

Dragon Flight and

Cobra Strike (like self proc

Redemption that can stack with

Tiger Strike as the charges aren’t mutually exclusive), points up to one in

Fade and

Mind Blast. This gets you maxed lightning traps with

Dragon Tail as a lightning immune killer. Your other option is similar but you max

Burst of Speed and put up to 9 hard points in

Fire Blast, and avoid

Lightning Sentry.

The thing about the dragonsin that is so appealing is that the gear options are huge, you can literally

Skull f

Baal with pretty budget gear. For instance before a Flickering Flame is available, you could use

Stormshield socketed with a pruby/

Ral rune and use a Firelizard’s talons with +3 martial arts, +70% fire res. Socketed with a fire facet or even go cheap with a pamethyst for 150 ar.

Bis gear is going to probably be

Lacerator, Phoenix shield, Flickering Flame,

Metalgrid or maras, ravenfrost, soj, 3/20 martial arts gloves, upped gore riders,

Belt slot is tricky could go arachnid or

String of Ears depending on if you’re teleporting or not. Armor is Enigma/Fortitude/Chains of Honor depending on where you’re farming and if you’re doing solo or group play. Enigma is always nice, but coh is probably better overall for obv reasons. Fort gives huge defense bonus when

Chilling Armor kicks in, so on cow farming is king.

I’ll link my build, but right now with unoptimized gear, I do 56k

Dragon Tail on

Charge 3, probably 40k

Charge 2, and 25k

Charge 1. With -19% lower res from Flickering Flame and -5 facet in

Stormshield that boosts to effective 138% dmg to 50% fire immune enemies. Can one shot p1 cow packs all day, and when me and a bud do duo

Baal runs, when i unleash the Dragon, baals health looks like he’s being staticed.

Sherloc09 wrote: 2 years ago

With sunder charms, the kingpin build seems to be either Lightning Dragonsin, or CE Dragonsin. One maxes

Lightning Sentry with synergies, one pt in

Death Sentry, then maxes

Tiger Strike and

Dragon Tail, one point in

Dragon Flight and

Cobra Strike (like self proc

Redemption that can stack with

Tiger Strike as the charges aren’t mutually exclusive), points up to one in

Fade and

Mind Blast. This gets you maxed lightning traps with

Dragon Tail as a lightning immune killer. Your other option is similar but you max

Burst of Speed and put up to 9 hard points in

Fire Blast, and avoid

Lightning Sentry.

The thing about the dragonsin that is so appealing is that the gear options are huge, you can literally

Skull f

Baal with pretty budget gear. For instance before a Flickering Flame is available, you could use

Stormshield socketed with a pruby/

Ral rune and use a Firelizard’s talons with +3 martial arts, +70% fire res. Socketed with a fire facet or even go cheap with a pamethyst for 150 ar.

Bis gear is going to probably be

Lacerator, Phoenix shield, Flickering Flame,

Metalgrid or maras, ravenfrost, soj, 3/20 martial arts gloves, upped gore riders,

Belt slot is tricky could go arachnid or

String of Ears depending on if you’re teleporting or not. Armor is Enigma/Fortitude/Chains of Honor depending on where you’re farming and if you’re doing solo or group play. Enigma is always nice, but coh is probably better overall for obv reasons. Fort gives huge defense bonus when

Chilling Armor kicks in, so on cow farming is king.

I’ll link my build, but right now with unoptimized gear, I do 56k

Dragon Tail on

Charge 3, probably 40k

Charge 2, and 25k

Charge 1. With -19% lower res from Flickering Flame and -5 facet in

Stormshield that boosts to effective 138% dmg to 50% fire immune enemies. Can one shot p1 cow packs all day, and when me and a bud do duo

Baal runs, when i unleash the Dragon, baals health looks like he’s being staticed.

yeah link that shizzle. Im looking to roll a kicksin after my sorc is finished.

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

Sherloc09 wrote: 2 years ago

With sunder charms, the kingpin build seems to be either Lightning Dragonsin, or CE Dragonsin. One maxes

Lightning Sentry with synergies, one pt in

Death Sentry, then maxes

Tiger Strike and

Dragon Tail, one point in

Dragon Flight and

Cobra Strike (like self proc

Redemption that can stack with

Tiger Strike as the charges aren’t mutually exclusive), points up to one in

Fade and

Mind Blast. This gets you maxed lightning traps with

Dragon Tail as a lightning immune killer. Your other option is similar but you max

Burst of Speed and put up to 9 hard points in

Fire Blast, and avoid

Lightning Sentry.

The thing about the dragonsin that is so appealing is that the gear options are huge, you can literally

Skull f

Baal with pretty budget gear. For instance before a Flickering Flame is available, you could use

Stormshield socketed with a pruby/

Ral rune and use a Firelizard’s talons with +3 martial arts, +70% fire res. Socketed with a fire facet or even go cheap with a pamethyst for 150 ar.

Bis gear is going to probably be

Lacerator, Phoenix shield, Flickering Flame,

Metalgrid or maras, ravenfrost, soj, 3/20 martial arts gloves, upped gore riders,

Belt slot is tricky could go arachnid or

String of Ears depending on if you’re teleporting or not. Armor is Enigma/Fortitude/Chains of Honor depending on where you’re farming and if you’re doing solo or group play. Enigma is always nice, but coh is probably better overall for obv reasons. Fort gives huge defense bonus when

Chilling Armor kicks in, so on cow farming is king.

I’ll link my build, but right now with unoptimized gear, I do 56k

Dragon Tail on

Charge 3, probably 40k

Charge 2, and 25k

Charge 1. With -19% lower res from Flickering Flame and -5 facet in

Stormshield that boosts to effective 138% dmg to 50% fire immune enemies. Can one shot p1 cow packs all day, and when me and a bud do duo

Baal runs, when i unleash the Dragon, baals health looks like he’s being staticed.

yeah link that shizzle. Im looking to roll a kicksin after my sorc is finished.

BIS gear choice. Again this one is subjective, as you could opt for other amulet, ring,

Belt, small charms, etc. I aimed for fire, light and cold absorb since you'll be using Enigma and running lean on resistances. Did a check on Diablo for the dps, looks like it's around 550,000 dps, with mid 200,000

Dragon Tail once you have three

Tiger Strike charges. This presumes amp dmg is also on Diablo. Then you would have 5 traps each dealing 10,000 lightning.

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/750106f2

how did you do skill progression as i think a more realistic level would be like 89-90

You have a bunch of options, but dual angelic rings plus amulet with

Duriel’s shell,

Lacerator of any ed,

Stormshield is a good option. Low roll

String of Ears, upped gore riders,

Laying of Hands and guillaume’s face. That plus full inventory of ma skillers, torch, anni and you can do cows. Don’t put anything into

Lightning Sentry or it’s synergies, one point

Death Sentry and nine points

Fire Blast. That puts you at like level 50 plus skill quests.

Hi all! I want to build a martial arts assassin based around using

Claws because it's cool but the assassins

Confuse me and I'm a total noob when it comes to the MA tree, can someone give me a dummies guide for what I should be aiming for? Skill distribution, basic gear aims, etc. It will be pretty much untwinked too.

Janet the Java wrote: 2 years ago

Hi all! I want to build a martial arts assassin based around using

Claws because it's cool but the assassins

Confuse me and I'm a total noob when it comes to the MA tree, can someone give me a dummies guide for what I should be aiming for? Skill distribution, basic gear aims, etc. It will be pretty much untwinked too.

leveling up as a MA assassin is rough. especially untwinked. highly recommend finding a starter trapsin guide and leveling up with that then after you get some

Key pieces you can respec. that being said you can def do a MA sin on a budget.

couple things to note. if kicking. damage comes from your

Boots. they have their own special rules for what they can/cannot trigger/use. (they dont get flat atk boost from Grief for example) so make sure to "up" those

Boots!

Claws are normal combat except for the skill

Weapon Block. (you need

Claws for it) it blocks ALL damage not just physical.

you can wear

Claws (and look cool) and kick things.

MA has a unique play style in that you use one skill to

Charge up and another to release the charges called a finishing move. depending on the skill the charges do different things.

I've done assassins before (mainly Riftsin, which I love), so I may do the usual fire trap levelling through normal, although I also enjoy picking a build and trying to level with it for the extra challenge.

My main problem is not really knowing about the MA skills beyond

Dragon Talon. I want something different to a kicker, and I want to utilise

Claws as much as possible, but I'm not sure what these builds are called so I haven't found any good guides. Is there a standard build or a few options?

Dragon Claw?

Phoenix Strike? I just don't know!

If looking for a Claw sin a budget option is Nat set with Bartuc on offhand. Add

Laying of Hands gloves and

String of Ears and you reduce tons of damage - allows BoS over

Fade.

Sherloc09 wrote: 2 years ago

nihilninja wrote: 2 years ago

Sherloc09 wrote: 2 years ago

With sunder charms, the kingpin build seems to be either Lightning Dragonsin, or CE Dragonsin. One maxes

Lightning Sentry with synergies, one pt in

Death Sentry, then maxes

Tiger Strike and

Dragon Tail, one point in

Dragon Flight and

Cobra Strike (like self proc

Redemption that can stack with

Tiger Strike as the charges aren’t mutually exclusive), points up to one in

Fade and

Mind Blast. This gets you maxed lightning traps with

Dragon Tail as a lightning immune killer. Your other option is similar but you max

Burst of Speed and put up to 9 hard points in

Fire Blast, and avoid

Lightning Sentry.

The thing about the dragonsin that is so appealing is that the gear options are huge, you can literally

Skull f

Baal with pretty budget gear. For instance before a Flickering Flame is available, you could use

Stormshield socketed with a pruby/

Ral rune and use a Firelizard’s talons with +3 martial arts, +70% fire res. Socketed with a fire facet or even go cheap with a pamethyst for 150 ar.

Bis gear is going to probably be

Lacerator, Phoenix shield, Flickering Flame,

Metalgrid or maras, ravenfrost, soj, 3/20 martial arts gloves, upped gore riders,

Belt slot is tricky could go arachnid or

String of Ears depending on if you’re teleporting or not. Armor is Enigma/Fortitude/Chains of Honor depending on where you’re farming and if you’re doing solo or group play. Enigma is always nice, but coh is probably better overall for obv reasons. Fort gives huge defense bonus when

Chilling Armor kicks in, so on cow farming is king.

I’ll link my build, but right now with unoptimized gear, I do 56k

Dragon Tail on

Charge 3, probably 40k

Charge 2, and 25k

Charge 1. With -19% lower res from Flickering Flame and -5 facet in

Stormshield that boosts to effective 138% dmg to 50% fire immune enemies. Can one shot p1 cow packs all day, and when me and a bud do duo

Baal runs, when i unleash the Dragon, baals health looks like he’s being staticed.

yeah link that shizzle. Im looking to roll a kicksin after my sorc is finished.

BIS gear choice. Again this one is subjective, as you could opt for other amulet, ring,

Belt, small charms, etc. I aimed for fire, light and cold absorb since you'll be using Enigma and running lean on resistances. Did a check on Diablo for the dps, looks like it's around 550,000 dps, with mid 200,000

Dragon Tail once you have three

Tiger Strike charges. This presumes amp dmg is also on Diablo. Then you would have 5 traps each dealing 10,000 lightning.

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/750106f2

do you think this can do dclone or

Uber Tristram? maybe swap a few

Key items?