Guide End-game Assassin Dps Build

Not always -12 but yep, it is guaranteed to minimize Attack Speed without boosts on other gear.

 

Unless you have something that gives a melee % boost.

For example a friend of mine used the statue with -120% walk speed, but has 100% walk speed from the rest of his gear. He's an uber tank

 

Few problems.
Skill points have a soft cap of 100; you cannot put 105 points into dexterity. With the build you've posted now, you would not be able to equip cancer.
As stated before, Cancer gives huge % reductions. This makes Taurus pretty useless, as well as Taurus giving negative attack speed. You've just debuffed yourself into oblivion. Also, negative health regen causes you to LOSE health over time. Poison, apparently, does not stack either. So you're limited to doing whatever amount of poison every few seconds. Yeah, not very effective.

Secondly, I believe both Intensity, Prowess, and Infused Hive all require master vouchers. That's four classes worth of Qira things. Could be used on other things. If intensity isn't, then that's still two.



Allow me to suggest something else. This build is primarily PvE, and meant for bossing. You'll need party support (namely a tank and a mage to make sure you don't fall over and die), but given that, it is EXTREMELY effective simply because you'll never run out of mana (this is a mana steal build. it works. Trust me, i'm level 100.)
I will not post the skill points, cuz guild secrets <3


Helmet
Shimmersight (Rare)
Level 93, 2900 HP
5% Earth/Thunder/Water/Fire/Air Defense
+3 Strength/Dexterity/Intelligence/Defense/Agility
-10% XP/Loot Bonus
+1/4s Mana Regen
Quite possibly one of the best helmets in the game. Gives percentage buffs to every elemental defense, +3 to every stat, and a little bit of mana regen. XP and Loot bonus debuffs are nearly useless at Level 100. Kind of a filler helmet, but I took this for a little bit of survivability, since this build has fairly low amounts of HP.

Umbral Mail (Unique)
Level 87, Int/Dex Min: 25, 2250 HP
-120 Fire Def
+80 Water/Thunder Def

Spell Damage +8%
Mana Steal 1/2s
+8% Water Damage
+8% Thunder Damage
-8% Fire Damage
-8% Fire Defense

Given that the skill points and the build itself revolves around Thunder/Water damage due to multihit, this is perfect. Plus, it gives Mana Steal. EVEN BETTER!

Trench Scourer (Rare, Hive Water Floor reward)
Level Min 94
Dex Min: 20
Int Min: 25
+110 Water Def
+80 Thunder Def
-130 Earth Def

Mana Steal 1/2s
XP Bonus 8%
Loot Bonus 15%
Stealing 3%

Haven't really found better mana steal pants. This is probably the most useless part of the build, but like i said, i haven't found replacements.

Scaldsteppers (Unique)
Health 2075
Fire Def +75
Water Def +110
Air Def -90
Thunder Def -100
Level Min 90
Int Min 35
Def Min 25

Spell Dam +12%
~+12% Exploding
1/2s Mana Steal
+6% Fire Damage
-13% Air Damage

Kind of a weaker choice, but, it provides mana steal and spell damage, and exploding. This is unique to the defense variant of the build, the Agility variant has a different one. I don't know because I use the defense variant.

Weapon

Tougher choice, but it comes down between
Infused Hive Dagger
Lv. Min 100
200-300 Neutral, Very Fast Attack Speed
+2/2s Mana Steal
+2/4s Mana Regen
+10% All Elemental Damage

and

Waterspout
Lv. Min 95
Int Min 35
Dex min 25

55-120 Neutral
80-95 Water
45-155 Thunder

-10% Melee Damage
-10% Thunder Defense
-10% Air Defense
+1/4s Mana Regen
+1/2s Mana Steal
+10% Spell Damage
+10% Water Damage
+10% Thunder Damage

Hive Dagger is for things with elemental resist, and Waterspout is for a more general use, although they are interchangable.

Accessories
Haven't found any really viable rings.

Tidal (Bracelet, Unique)
+1/2s Mana Steal
+5% Water Damage
+~4 Int
-5% Earth Damage.

Int, Water Damage, and Mana Steal? Yes please.

Abyssal Amulet (Necklace, Eye of the Storm Quest reward)
-125 HP
+30 Fire/Thunder Defense
+1/2s Mana Steal
+12/2s Life Steal
-20% SP Regen

Gives mana and life steal at the cost of some HP and possible Soul Points.

Total Stats (taken directly from my assassin, so, this may vary depending on your ID rolls)
Health: ~9710
+3/4s Mana Regen
-11% Melee Damage
+24% Spell Damage
+12/2s Life Steal
+8/2s Mana Steal
-1% XP Bonus
+5% Loot Bonus
+12% Exploding
-20% SP Regen
+3% Stealing
+3 Str
+3 Dex
+8 Int
+4 AGI
+3 Def
-17% Fire Damage
+11% Water Damage
-13% Air Damage
+13% Thunder Damage
-10% Earth Damage
-1% Fire Def
+11% Water Def
-10% Air Def
-7% Thunder Def
+7% Earth Def

145 Fire Def
-30 Air Def
-190 Earth Def
60 Thunder Def
160 Water Def

So yeah. Pretty weak on the defensive side, especially towards Air and Earth, and reduces a good chunk of Smoke Bomb damage; however, you're trading that for essentialy infinite multihits as long as you vanish in between them to keep the mana cost from increasing, as well as increases to Water and Thunder (which Multihit scales off of), and Spell Damage. This build is less effective when alone, as your lower defenses will be more apparent, but when partied up against bosses, is a huge chunk of DPS against the boss.

This is not a perfect build, as evident by some weak armor choices and lack of rings. I'm still kinda working on it, but my attention has shifted to my Full Tank Archer build.

 

Shhh, archers not op ;;3

 

Your archer build isn't really good as well. -A level 100 archer.

 

I made no reference to my archer build, and i never insulted any other build, yet they still initiated it. Thus i think it is completely justified.

 

Yea, it's always justified to be immature right?

 

So everyone suddenly forgot how Strength and Dexterity don't mix in the fucking slightest? Aight.

Now you know they don't.

 

This build is terrible, as there is a lack of logic in each part.

Nothing counteracts cancers loss of dmg, unless you suggest swapping midfight

Poison overkill for days

Poison with no lifesteal, or little to none

Using a very fast item with a taurus

Virgos over scorpios l0l

Here is my build

Cancer with atleast -100 or 110% melee dmg
Chestplate of Ineptitude with atleast +60% melee dmg
Static-charged legs or Kratkes
Scorpios

Qira Dagger or Crossroad Killer (preferably Crossroad Killer) Just any weapon with TONS of dmg, without regards to atk spd, cause I don't think you can go over super fast, so you cant do like Super fast +15, and that'd be complete overkill, because nobody can click that fast, and you shouldn't have to jitter to make the most out of your wep.

 

Also I think there's a bug where if something dies via poison, the mob doesn't drop anything. Fun, isn't it qq

 

There is no way to kindly or maturely tell someone to fuck off. The proper way to do that, is not to tell them to fuck off.

He didn't call you out. He pointed out that your build isn't that good. And I'm outta here, gotta run before the Moderation Nation attacks.

 

True. Salted confirmed that Strength and Dex do not stack.

 

... And then suddenly poison stops working!

 

Why would he state something that doesn't even relate to what I was saying. I never stated anything along the lines of "oh my archer build is so good ;;3" now did I? it makes no god damn sense why he would even mention it. And if you wish to judge the way i speak, Then so be it. And i didnt want to start a fuckin war, but god damn what they said was completely uncalled for.

 

It annoys me when people run around saying "OMG USE ARROW STORM BEST ABILITY" Stop calculating like you're going to hit EVERY SINGLE ARROW

Chances are you can only hit 17 of them, then, you'd use bomb arrow instead, deal atleast 4-5k dmg, bounce back, get manasteal, and get you 2 more bomb arrows, and its not like your jungle artifact idea will work against bosses, and even if you did get a higher neutral dmg bow, like a bob's mythic or Qira, the group on the boss would be so big it wouldnt even be a viable option to use arrow storm, and the 2 bosses you could even fight would be Orphion, which isn't even released, or Qira, which nobdy does now because leech exp doesn't exist anymore. Arrow storm is completely impractical, and isn't as op as it was

 

go fur tem bild

 

In my experiance, arrow storm does do more than bomb arrow if you can corner the enemy. If used properly, it can be used indefinetally

 

also, ik its not my business, but although i thought you were pretty cool for making interesting builds, honestly, you're an asshole :D
especially when people say that your build isn't that great. Like, dude, it was uncalled for. He didn't straight up call your build trash at all, ok? And yeah this'll start a flame war, but it pisses me off when people do this.

 

Look, ill accept criticsm, hell, its welcomed. I woudlnt mind if it went to my thread and told me what he didnt like. Thats fine, and if you with to start and argument, message me privately please.

If you notice, if you go to the thread, he already told me that he didnt like it. Didnt have to mention again for no reason on another thread, thats also why i got a bit pissy

 

Yes, but the times dex doesn't work (100 points in dex gives you +60% crit chance) you still get the strengt. So you get +60% dammage (strength 98 points) for every 40% of your basic attacks. Maybe i should listen to you and max uit air or something ;p