Assassin/Ninja Post Id Patch Melee Build

Hey look it's another weird build by an even weirder person!
This is a melee build made for after the ID patch, meaning lots of melee builds have been severely debuffed. What I have made is a solution, that while still imperfect, is quite powerful.

I present, the Cancer-Taurus poison build.

https://wynndata.tk/s/VFntUS

Armor Pieces-
Cancer: People are saying this is about to be nerfed in terms of damage %, and while that may be true, it won't affect this. This is a very important piece, you need to get a 13 tier piece with high poison. The life steal may also be important for long term survival.

Taurus: The other main piece for this build. Make sure it's attack speed is -14 and raw melee is very high, or else you won't reach it's full effectiveness.

Leggings of Desolation: These leggings have very high poison which increases damage further and also has a small amount of life steal which may help with survivability.

Humbark Moccasins: "Oh, meme! Why don't you use Scorpio instead of these weird boots?" Cause Scorpio costs too many skill points, and using other skill point items lowers damage without increasing much else. These boots, while missing Scorpio's hefty amount of poison have life steal instead, helping with survivability once more.

Acid: Highest poison ring in the game at the current moment.

Krolton's Cruelty: High poison, as well as some raw melee and skill points. VERY IMPORTANT: It must have at least 5 dexterity, or else you will be unable to equip Cancer, and you will be depressed because you now need to spend time getting one that has 5 or more dexterity.

Diamond Static Necklace: The ONLY reason this is being used is for the +1 attack speed. There's also a small amount of walk speed and raw melee if you really care that much.

Chakram: These daggers have a small amount of poison, but that's not why I'm using them. They can have a super fast attack speed with their +1 attack speed (post ID patch), combining that with the boost from the Diamond Static Necklace, and you now more than made up for the -1 attack speed loss from Cancer-Taurus.

Suggested powders: I suggest that you put 2 or 3 T6 thunders on to Chakram. This is because when you use chain lightning, you will poison tons of mobs quickly and efficiently.

Pros:
Good damage
High life steal
Somewhat high walk speed
Doesn't require master hive
Over 9000 poison

Cons:
Negative health regen
Low elemental defenses
Can be somewhat difficult to get proper stats on armor pieces
Requires multiple completions of LI

Thanks for looking at my build! Make sure to leave feedback in the comments!

 

Ehhh I've seen Cancer-Taurus done better, the Dia Static Neck isn't necessary; you'll get super fast. There are ways to get all positive defenses too. The ls focus doesn't make up for the defenses. Also the damage isn't that great really.

 

Keep in mind that this was using the stats as they would be calculated after ID rounding is fixed, which makes a lot of current melee builds worse than this. The diamond static is necessary because after the patch, Chakram will have a max of +1 attack speed instead of +2. Some of the elemental defenses could be fixed with some powders as well.
Also, poison was changed so making the poison super high adds quite a bit of DPS to the build.

 

I'm not talking about regular melee builds, I'm talking about Cancer Taurus being better.

Okay I forgot about the thing with Chakram, however there are still otherways to do this better; namely in building decent tankiness.

Also poison is only stronger in that it works with exploding now, which you lack much of other than Taurus, which is 13%.

To top that, most of this is really just stacking a poison build with Taurus, Dia Static, and Chakram, which is not innovative. You call this a melee build, but in reality it's mostly poison-based, seeing as how you neglect the melee aspects of requiring tankiness, albeit dedicating some things to it.

 

This really isn't a melee build if you are relying on poison for the dmg but ok

 

It's sort of a poison melee hybrid, The melee comes in with the Taurus base damage and super fast attack speed.

 

Except the poison won't tick if you keep meleeing

 

It does now, check the thread in the news about poison