Assassin/Ninja 1.19 Max Assassin Build Help

Hey, I’ve been searching for an assassin build but a lot of them seem to be outdated. Does anybody know any good assassin builds? Please no mythics.
Thanks in advance.

 

https://wynndata.tk/s/rl5c7x

Most important pieces are the earth powders on wallbreaker (or any weapon with a reasonable amount of exploding or lifesteal; I consider wallbreaker to be optimal but it's by no means a necessary piece as most of your damage is coming from the quake powder special), at least 2 of the four armor pieces (the build is optimal with all 4, but writhing growth requires beating the eye twice, obsidian framed is a hive reward, and blind thrust is a bit pricey on the trade market), and as much lifesteal and mana steal as you can get on the remaining pieces (it doesn't particularly matter which pieces, as long as you've got at least 7k-10k main attack damage and at least 5 mana steal without negative mana regen).

The build works by maximizing quake damage with main attack damage and vanish. Let x be your current main attack damage. Quake deals 415% of this, so a little over 4x your normal melee hits. Vanish further doubles this, so you end up dealing 8x your main attack damage per quake if you use it coming out of vanish. With a measly 7k-10k main attack damage as shown above, this deals 56k-80k damage per quake. When optimized, you'll have around 15k main attack damage (might be more or less, depending on how good your taurus and blind thrust are, but this is a fair estimate). This equates to 120k quake damage, over a third of most endgame boss' health bars. The mana steal lets you keep vanishing, which combined with the exploding and lifesteal makes you almost unkillable. The end result leads to shenanigans like this.



If you do pick this up though, there are two things to keep in mind. First, a few nerfs happened for a few items (most notably, taurus' max is about 3k main attack damage instead of the 7k in the video). In the video, writhing growth (the leggings) weren't released yet, so adding them made up for most of the dps loss. Having said that, there's no way a build like this will survive another patch or two without another nerf. It will likely remain a viable endgame option, but don't expect something this broken to exist unchanged for much longer.

 

thanks man, appreciate the effort