NM Chaos

So started an assassin and I still suck due to crap gear. Is NM Chaos runs good for farming or should I try elsewhere? Hell is not really an option as it takes way too long and I will die cuz I am bad. Any help?

Nightmare Chaos especially nightmare Chaos TZ could get you some decent stuff and potentially even some high runes.

Repec to

• Max Lightning Sentry
• 1 Death Sentry
• 1 Mind Blast for convert
• maybe 3 or 6 points into Fire Blast for Death Sentry synergy (so you don't have to recast it too often as it gets more explosions per trap)
• some points into Burst of Speed for casting speed of traps
• Maybe 1 Shadow Warrior to get an additional distraction for monsters
• Max Lightning Sentry synergies with points left

...get used to the routine of

• Mind Blast until some monsters convert
• into Lightning Sentry
• into maybe another Mind Blast if convert expires
• into maybe Lightning Sentry if traps expire
• into Death Sentry after one or two monsters die

...and rock in hell even with bad gear.

Boss fights:

• Hell Andariel: Kill packs, Death Sentry, if not dead cast traps and walk in circle
• Hell Duriel: Cast traps, walk in circles
• Hell Mephisto: Lure him to his side of the moat near the portal, position yourself on the other side at the lower Edge of the screen so he cant hit you but stays in position. Cast traps
• Hell Diablo: Get fire resist, cast traps, run in circles
• Hell Baal: Avoid Nova, cast traps, run around, avoid hits from tentacles

After killing Hell Baal, farm hell cows like crazy with this setup and get a huge boost in killing speed once you find Um for building Crescent Moon

Diablo Clone: Possible even naked after applying Prevent Monster Heal, look his page for a tactic with this setup

Personally Ive never understood why people take Mind Blast for Assassin. Its just in the way when you convert enemies and personally have NEVER needed it. I hate when my assassin shadow guy keeps using it or using wrong traps... I wish there was option of some kind to allow / disallow usage of spells on the clone.

Mind Blast has plenty of use, but perhaps not so much for all builds or in all game modes.

You can stunlock enemies. Champs/uniques won't be converted, just put into hit recovery and/or stunned. Makes dealing with frenzytaurs or other tough enemies a piece of cake.

You can convert mobs to make them fight each other while charging up your Mosaic charges safely (combine with Cloak of Shadows for best effect).

You can convert mobs to "bridge" the time gap during Baal waves or while waiting for Diablo to spawn in Chaos Sanctuary to not lose your Mosaic charges (the converted enemies will come to their senses mid time gap, allowing you to hit them and refresh your charges).

And finally - when I did my HC SSF playthrough, I used it extensively. Like, all the time. It's a safety thing. Converted/stunned mobs won't fight you.

But sure, if you're on softcore, and you don't play with Mosaic, there are far less situations where you'd need it.

Hardcore sure might have more use for it to make it safer and the close combat assassins perhaps aswell for the same reason.

As a trapsin, its just in the way ^^