Assassin/Ninja I Want An Assasin Build

Please someone create a not so expancive build for assasin​

 

Want, not need. @Terunalix u have a customer.

 

Just give me an idea of what you are looking for and im gonna start working on it

 

In this Dark Souls 3 build guide, we’ll suggest a good starting point for players who aren’t ready for or keen on challenging twitch-based action. It is intended to serve as a companion to our step-by-step walkthrough.

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This stealthy, ranged PvE build is designed for players who have not mastered the split-second timing, tell reading and twitch reflexes required to duel enemies toe-to-toe. It cuts down on the frustrations of dying repeatedly to grunt enemies as you make a run on the boss, while providing a solid foundation for more advanced builds as your character grows. It assumes you are willing to accept help from other players or NPCs in boss battles, and also to cheese difficult encounters. We call it Cheeseburger Assassin.

This is not an advanced build guide for expert players, and nor is it a PvP build. This is about helping new players survive and hopefully enjoy a game that can be super punishing for those not blessed with oiled steel reflexes.

It’s also a work in progress; it’ll see you through the first half of the game, but we reserve the right to return and update with intel from later stages.

Update 1: We’ve added some information on later game equipment and infusions, how to grow your character, and magic tips for those wanting to evolve their assassin in a magical direction.

Starting class: Assassin
In Dark Souls 3, as in past Souls games, your starting class mostly affects your initial equipment. We recommend the Assassin.

The Assassin wears lighter armour, which makes them both stealthier and quicker than heavier classes – but they’re not as fragile as some of the other light builds. They have access to some very useful spells, but they can hold their own in melee combat better than any of the magic starters.

As an Assassin, you can immediately begin putting our play advice into practice. Let’s talk about that.

Stealth and aggro control
Really high-level Souls players just charge into knots of enemies, fearlessly cutting them down as they perfectly dodge attacks, chain backstabs and nail parries and ripostes.

This is not us. What we do is manage aggro. Most enemy AI in Dark Souls is easy to exploit, and this is by design. Enemies have four states:

• Passive
  The enemy stands still, staring gormlessly at nothing. It does not know you are there.
• Patrolling
  The enemy wanders back and forth on a set route. It does not know you are there. Some enemies only begin to patrol when you pass specific geographical points.
• Suspicious
  The enemy has heard you or suffered damage and is investigating the area, but does not know you are there. If it does not find a threat it will drop back to a passive or patrolling state, and will often return to its original position or route.
• Hostile
  The enemy has spotted you and is actively in pursuit. It will attempt to kill you. If it loses you, it may return to a passive or patrolling state, but is less likely to return to its original position or patrol route.

Enemies have three ways of detecting you: they can hear (footsteps, attacks, breaking props, arrows), they can see (line of sight) and they have a search zone around them while hostile which you will need to escape in order to lose them.

This can be manipulated to our advantage. You can approach and smack an enemy, then run away from it before it can react – or even before it actually detects you. If you get outside the enemy’s search zone and it cannot hear or see you, the enemy may well forget you exist, dropping back from hostile to suspicious to passive or patrolling. You can repeat this until the enemy is dead.

No every encounter can be cheesed in this way, but so many of them can – especially once you have a decent bow – that you can get through most of the game outside boss arenas without ever having to duel. Backstab it or put an arrow in it, then run away. Take this approach on any enemies who frighten you, and when you’re making a boss run and don’t want to take damage on the way to the arena.

Several factors affect your success in evading detection. Different enemies have different vision distances, hearing detection radii, search zones and speed – making it easier or harder to get out of their search zone. If you stagger an enemy, knock them down or ping them with a headshot, they’re far less likely to spot you as you whisk out of sight, which means they’ll become suspicious but not hostile. Ranged attacks (bows, crossbows, throwing weapons and magic) make it easier to get away with sneak attacks, and some spells allow you to sneak up on enemies more easily.

To increase your chances of sneaking successfully, stick to light and medium armours. Walk, rather than run, as it makes less noise. Lower equip loads will help you roll and run away quickly. Use Spook to your advantage in getting close to enemies or to use ledge routes to circumnavigate them completely. Aggro one enemy at a time, and lure them away from their friends so that your battles don’t alert the others. Later in the game, you’ll be able to acquire spells and items to distract enemies, to disguise yourself and to do damage at a distance with magic. For now we need to find some starting equipment.

Update: We realised we mentioned back stabs but didn’t detail this. Backstabbing is a matter of getting behind your enemy and being right up on their tail before hitting the attack button. Except with very sensitive enemies, using Spook will allow you to brush right up against the enemy, pressing your character model against theirs; this is when you want to hit the attack key. You’ll know you’re successful because you’ll see a unique animation.

As with a headshot from a bow, a backstab will cause the enemy to stagger for a few frames, allowing you to GTFO. However, backstabbing results in a full aggro to hostile, whereas a headshot only makes an enemy suspicious as long as they don’t actually catch sight of you. You can also backstab in active combat.


Tools of the trade: bow
The most important tool in this build’s collection is a good bow; ranged attacks are the easiest way to lure single enemies away from groups, and to cheese them without risking a duel. As you progress through the game vendors will offer bows for sale, but at the start the easiest way to get one is to collect the Longbowguarded by a snake beast in High Wall of Lothric. This is a very difficult fight for beginners, so if you can’t do it, just run up onto the tower and grab the item before the enemies kill you. When you revive at the bonfire, you’ll have your bow (and can immediately use it to take revenge).

You’ll want to replace this bow later on, but in the meantime there’s no harm in upgrading it; Titanite Shards and Large Titanite Shards are very common in later locations, and can even be farmed on high Wall of Lothric if you’re very patient. When you get to the Keep Ruins bonfire, Black Bow of Pharis is well worth the effort, as it has longer range than other bows. Later on you may want to upgrade to a greatbow; they’re rubbish for quick fire but do huge damage, so if you are running out of patience but loaded with cash, you can cheese much more quickly.

It’s important to carry a lot of arrows. Every time you rest at a bonfire, you should return to Firelink Shrine to stock up. The Shrine Handmaid offers Wooden Arrows, and when you unlock Greirat, he’ll sell you Standard Arrows. These are cheap enough that after a few hours of play you can easily max out your inventory and storage space for both, just by spending the souls left over after you level up. Later, when you’re a much richer Unkindled, you can invest in more powerful arrows. As you progress through the game, you’ll find it much easier to take down standard enemies with melee attacks so you can save your arrows for when you need them most.

Equip your bow in your secondary left hand slot. You can lock onto enemies and hammer the right trigger to attack quickly, but generally you’ll be sniping. Press the left trigger to ready it, and then press again and hold for manual aim. Zoom with the d-pad up and down. If your arrow doesn’t quite reach whatever you’re trying to lure, aim slightly above it and you may squeeze out a few more metres of range.

Most bows scale with dexterity (we explain scaling in the melee weapon section below), so if you’re using your bow to inflict damage rather than just to lure enemies, you will want to invest in this attribute. Many also have a strength requirement; check this before purchase.

Bow damage decreases over distance once you get past their primary range.

Update: In later game we chose to evolve our assassin towards intelligence scaling, so rather than waste points on the strength required for a greatbow we grabbed the Darkmoon Longbow available via transposition after beating Aldrich. It inflicts magic as well as physical damage, and its weapon art allows it to pierce shields.


Tools of the trade: melee
Since arrows do come at a price you don’t want to be using a bow as your primary weapon when you’re fighting less tough enemies. No matter how good your bow is, a melee weapon will almost always do more damage, and when you can’t cheese an enemy for whatever reason, you’ll need something to smack them with.

Since bow damage scales with dexterity, it makes sense to pick a starter weapon that will take advantage of your high dexterity attribute. To check a weapon’s scaling, view it in your inventory and look for the “attribute bonus” section. From left to right, the icons are strength, dexterity, intelligence and faith. If one of these icons has a letter by it, it means the weapon’s output will be increased by a bonus amount derived from that attribute. The effectiveness of this bonus is indicated by the letter. E and D won’t provide much of a bonus, while C is average and B and A are very good. (The screenshot above shows an example of poor strength scaling, good dexterity scaling, and zero intelligence and faith scaling.)

Initially and ideally you’ll want a primary melee weapon that scales well with dexterity, such as a spear, dagger, thrust-type sword or katana, because you’ll need reasonably high dexterity to use a bow effectively – but it’s more important to find one you feel comfortable using, because you can always use a Sharp Gem to transform a weapon to scale better with dexterity if you decide to pile all your eggs in that basket.

What you’re looking for in a weapon is one you can use well. When you find a new weapon type, try it out and see how you like it. When you find a move set you fancy, you can begin looking for powerful examples of that particular weapon type, and then infuse them to fit your build.

Our walkthrough suggests you cheese the NPC outside Firelink Shrine once you have a bow, and take his Uchigatana. This weapon is quite powerful, has low requirements, and scales with dexterity. Its broad slashes make it perfect for crowd control, and it has medium range so you can keep your foes at a reasonable distance when duelling. It is capable of both slash and thrust type damage, so it’s quite versatile, and its weapon art is easy to use and will help you take down shielded enemies. In the screnshot above, we’ve infused it with a Sharp Gem to make it scale more effectively with dexterity.


Update: As we evolved our assassin to take advantage of sorcery and intelligence scaling, we dropped the Sharp infusion for a Simple infusion instead. Although it reduces physical damage and strength and dexterity scaling, the intelligence scaling resulted in a higher damage output – and the constant replenishment of our FP, for use with our Darkmoon Longbow and spells. Nice.


Tools of the trade: shields and armour
You should also seek out a shield. Twitch-reflex players generally prefer to dual wield or two-hand for extra melee output, but we’re interested in survival. Look for a shield with 100% physical damage absorption, such as the Silver Kite Shield near Tower on the Wall.

Also keep an eye out for shields with special attributes such as magic or fire absorption for those bosses and enemies who don’t just do physical damage. As long as you have some stamina and are facing the source of the damage, a good shield of the right absorption type will protect you from taking any harm. There’s no reason not to keep every shield you find and switch the right one out when you need it.

Armour choice really comes down to personal preference. Since we’re doing our best to avoid engaging enemies toe-to-toe, you don’t need to stick to the lightest armours, but the heavier sets should be avoided as they’re significantly less stealthy and will slow you down hugely when you’re trying to run away – and the increase in protection is rarely that impressive.

Armour scales with your character so you don’t need to worry about upgrading it, which is liberating: you can freely mix and match and chop and change as you find new pieces or encounter new situations – a location where you need fire or magic protection, say, or perhaps poison resist. Carry all your armour around and adjust as necessary.

The Assassin set you start with is actually a pretty decent set you can use in many situations. Some pieces of the Dreng set found in Cathedral of the Deepoffer a great weight to protection ratio. The Black Leather set sold by Unbreakable Patches is extremely sneaky, but very light – change to something heavier in non-stealth situations like bosses. The lightest proper armour set in the game is Shadow, found in Consumed King’s Garden.

Bosses
“Hang on VG247,” you’re thinking. “This sneaky shit is all very well, but no matter what I do, the boss detects me. And then it smashes me while I’m nocking an arrow.” Yes, indeed – and that’s why we bring a friend.

Bosses are deliberately very difficult, and are balanced for co-op. From Software wants you to work together. There are whole covenants designed around helping each other fight bosses. Do not hesitate to summon co-op assistance for boss fights. Even if you live in some distant future when Bandai Namco has deactivated the Dark Souls 3 servers, you can still summon help for boss fights in the form of NPCs.

To summon, you need to be in Ember form (“alive”). When you kill a boss or consume an Ember, you take on Ember form, with more health and the ability to summon player and NPC phantoms – but you also run the risk of invasion by hostile player and NPC phantoms. It’s best to take your Ember at the boss gate; you’ll usually find a stack of summon signs waiting for you, unless you’re egregiously over- or under-levelled.

To complement your Assassin build, you’ll usually want to look for big, tanky characters rather than fellow archers and spell casters. Unusual weapons and armour frequently indicate a skilled and knowledgable player. (By the way, red summon signs invite invaders in, and pink ones summon a player who may elect to help you or may just murder you for your vertebra. Seriously.)

Most of boss battling is just learning a series of tricks or having the best gear to protect you from or dish out specific damage types. But “give them another target” is an excellent strategy; with two players, you can keep the boss turning between you, allowing whoever isn’t in the target zone a chance to unleash hell while the other just survives for a few moments at a time, and take turns doing this. With three or more players, it just becomes a rout: you will triumph magnificently.

It’s a good idea to have a go at a boss on your own when you first encounter them (or to watch a few videos of the encounter) so you have some idea of what’s going to happen and what you need to do; otherwise you’ll waste your summon partner’s time. But when you’re ready to have a go, summon away with no regrets. If you defeat a boss easily, why not volunteer for summoning and help someone else? It’s good practice and very rewarding.


Levelling up and evolving
We’ve talked a bit about how your weapons scale with dexterity, but that doesn’t mean you should pour all your souls into that attribute. With this build, your patience, stealth, aggro control and supply of arrows are far more important than how much damage you do with each individual shot or blow. You can play this build as a glass rogue, investing all your points in damage output, but it’s very frustrating when you get to boss fights.

In the early game, while you’re getting used to playing, it’s far more important to spend points on Vigor, to increase your available health pool. Although you’ll want to balance it out with other attributes as you progress, you will almost certainly not regret building this stat up as far as 16, and we’d even recommend aiming for about 20 by level 50. You should also regularly place points in endurance, as stamina is a hugely important resource for guarding with a shield, rolling and running away as much as swinging a sword.

Beyond this, adjust your attributes to meet equipment requirements and then just plug holes in your play style – running out of stamina constantly? More endurance. Still feel too fragile? Vigor. Equipment too heavy? Vitality.

Updates: Beyond this, you can continue to up your damage output by stacking points on dexterity if you want to keep it simple and stick to bows and the Uchigatana. But! You can achieve much greater damage output by chasing strength, intelligence or faith scaling.

You probably don’t want to do this until you find the weapon and play style that suits you best, so as to avoid wasting levels on attributes you don’t need. If you’re not sure what to do with your level up, spend the money on new equipment and goodies instead; souls come and souls go, and you can usually get the same amount back pretty quickly by running a familiar environment a few times.

In late game you may want to start adjusting your build to take advantage of a strength-scaling weapon, miracles (faith) or sorcery (intelligence). Aiming for both schools of magic or for pyromancy (faith andintelligence) is not recommended; you’d need to have three primary damage attributes (dexterity, faith and intelligence), which is spreading yourself a bit thin (save pyromancy and double school builds for a second run where you want to focus on spell casting right from the get-go and are not interested in melee).

The good news is, the Rosaria’s Fingers covenant will allow you to respec up to five times per playthrough – but if you’ve been conservative with your levelling, as we’ve described above, you should find it pretty easy to adapt for anything even without resetting your attributes manually.


Tools of the trade: spells [NEW]
So you’ve been piling on the dexterity but your bow and sword still aren’t cutting it (ha ha)? You want to try something else? Excellent. Let’s take advantage of the assassin’s natural propensity for sorcery to supplement our skills. Sorcery is a magic school that draws on and scales with intelligence, so if you pursue this build you’ll want to focus on increasing this stat once you meet the minimum requirements for your gear.

• Spook, which you start with, is one of the cheeseburger assassin’s greatest tools, allowing you to backstab, make escapes, and just sneak around enemies with ease.

• Aural Decoy is sold by Orbeck. You can use it to pull enemies away so you can slip past them.

• Pestilent Mercury is sold by Orbeck. It releases a cloud that gradually eats away HP. The first amazing thing about it is that enemies will not step out of its area of effect. The second amazing thing about it is it usually penetrates walls. Stand on the other side of a wall from an enemy, unleash it and step away. The baddie on the other side dies.

• Magic Weapon is sold by Yoel, Yuria and Orbeck. Its upgrades Great Magic Weapon and Crystal Magic Weapon are sold by Orbeck after collecting the appropriate scrolls. These are incredibly useful enchantments for those times you have to confront an enemy with melee attacks.

• Chameleon is available before Anor Londo if you pursue Anri of Astora’s sidequest – even if you don’t chase the third ending. It will allow you to sneak past frightening enemies with ease.

• Twisted Wall of Light is sold by Orbeck and provides incredible protection against magical attacks; good for fighting Crystal Sages, Aldrich, Pontiff Sulyvahn and other enemies who use magic type damage.

As your intelligence increases, many of the offensive spells become seriously damaging, so you may want to consider adding them to your arsenal. We ourselves tend not to bother with them, and instead leverage our intelligence attribute for Crystal and Hollow infusions on our melee weapons; melee weapons that already have good intelligence scaling are a great starting point.

Although it can’t be infused, the Darkmoon Longbow mentioned in the bow section update above scales well with intelligence when fully upgraded.

Catalyst-wise, we tend to stick with the Sorcerer’s Staff the assassin starts with as it’s nice and light and provides a decent spell buff when upgraded.


It’s okay to cheese. Really
Some people will pooh-pooh the approach detailed in this guide, but you can quietly ignore them. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this play style, and From Software does not want to prevent you seeing all this game has to offer just because you’re less physically gifted than twitch-reflex players.

The Souls family of games have a great deal to offer: beautifully mysterious locations, carefully crafted atmosphere, unravelling layers of subtle story, magnificent dungeon and creature design. Exploring these worlds is a pleasure nobody should miss out on.

Unfortunately, lots of people do: the difficulty curve is just too off-putting. The half-joking but unfortunately too frequently serious reply to this is “git gud”: learn to play the way the real hardcore do, at a level of action gaming closely approaching that of versus fighters, where split-second twitch reflexes, instantaneous tell reading and perfect timing are a must.

You don’t have to do this. You do not have to git gud.

The Souls family of games was designed to evoke a feeling similar to that of Japanese players sitting down with western RPGs way back in the early days of gaming, when the unfamiliarity of the systems, poor or absent localisation and frequently flat out broken games made the whole thing bafflingly mysterious, utterly painful and intensely difficult. When you work your way through a dungeon by trial and error or figure out what an item does in spite of its vague description, you’re doing what those players did; when you check and share messages, you’re emulating the experience of rushing off to bulletin boards to offer and beg for assistance.

The point of this is: the Souls games are not designed as purely masochistic experiences for the best of skilled action players. The much-lauded “difficulty”, which boils down to the unusually high amount of damage enemies dish out, is just one of a number of systems which serve to provide an atmosphere where exploration feels risky, where every enemy is terrifying. It’s all part of From Software’s ambition to provoke particular feelings.

In this context, you may begin to comprehend that it is perfectly legitimate to play a Souls game without ever getting into the intense action combat some of the most fervent fans claim is the only way to play. You can absolutely crawl your way through, working the game’s systems to your advantage, and doing as little hand-to-hand duelling as you can.

If you feel the fear, if you feel a battle is too much for you: you are experiencing exactly what you are supposed to experience. You are enjoying the game in one of the many ways it is intended to be enjoyed.

 

I want a build aroud level 90 better without mythics because i dont have too much money, with high melee damage probably using taurus and cancer and if u can with life and mana steal

thank you

 

Just be patient. Teranulis will eventaully make a all unique lvl 90+ build for assaisian, as he has done for other classes.

 

melee with cancer shouldnt work too great since it Sets your damage to 0 basically. Im gonna try to make one melee based without it if that is ok for you ?:)

 

yes you can make anything just have to be a little cheap cuz i just have 25le and things to sell

 

Yes, but we're not talking about dark souls, we're talking about Diablo III

 

Diablo III? I thought this was dark sides III );

 

Nope it's Diablo III

 

I got a melee based build prepared for you,however I am not 100% sure if it will work since I cant try it out due to my assasin being level 97 only ;)

Anyways,here we go

Spoiler: Helmet

The

Spoiler: Chestplate

The

Spoiler: Leggins

The

Spoiler: Boots

After we are done with the main armor,lets get into the rings and stuff ;3
The

Spoiler: Rings

The

Spoiler: Bracelet

The

Spoiler: Necklace

And last but not least the

Spoiler: Dagger

For the skillpoints you want to go 100 def and 98 str

I hope I was able to help you ​

 

Once attack speed Teir is fixed this build will work:
Cancer (Low- Melee)
Chestplate Of Inptitude (High +Melee)
Clock Leggings
Scorpio
Jester Ring
Rainbow
Jester Bracelet
Golumus Core

And use a weapon with very slow to super slow attack speed, this build is designed to increase your attack speed by a lot without losing too much melee percentage.

Pros:
High Dex
Great Posion and Lifesteal
Health Regen
Insane Melee DPS
Not bad health
Cheap

Cons:
No mana regen
Spells will do almost no damage at all
No walk speeds: Use a horse

Ha, @Terunalix I beat the Build Making King for once! :D
Those unique builds op doe

 

Well,I was faster than you,hue ;)

 

Hey, I was typing my comment before you posted your build, but I got a question on ur build: why would Taurus be good if it makes al weapons super slow? Wouldn't Chestplate of Inpetitude be better, increasing attack speed Teir by 2 and 50% melee?

 

Trust me,1.3k neutral and 26% are much better,not forgetting about the fact that it gives strength and some pretty good health.
Btw your build makes no sense with cancer+inneptitude :-: it caps at some point,and cancer+ineptitude is a bit overkill. that is why I dont recommend cancer in melee builds

 

But if i dont use cancer i gonna have a so slow attack speed and i think the boot is from the hive i dont have it

 

The boots are from hive to keep it as cheap as possible.
Also,melee builds arent meant to be dealing 5000 damage every 0.25 seconds :/ You can't always have everything,specially not if you have a low budget

 

Nah cancer is for attack Teir and Chestplate of Inpetitude is too cancel out cancers'S -Melee along with clock leggings,

 

But your build will die in 5 sec combat.
str/dex/def isnt that good of a mix for melee,have you ever tried surviving with that in close combat ?