Assassin/Ninja Build Advice

How do you guys make melee assassin builds with daggers with slower attack speeds? I've tried a few using elemental and melee damage percentages, but my damage ranges are really low.

Any examples of slower attack speed assassin builds are appreciated.

 

4 words: main attack neutral damage (with quake)

 

https://wynndata.tk/s/u3w8d7
Essentially for melee unless you're doing tierstack (taking slow weapons and using +tier items to bring your attack speed up) you want to focus on raw melee, as it is way more effective than melee % with the quantities we have of it in today's items. Raw also gets multiplied by 4 when you use quake.

 

Whats the point of %melee then?

 

It pretty much only has purpose when you're tierstacking a weapon with really large base damage (alkatraz is an extreme example), since in that specific case it can be more effective than raw melee.
The problem is the quantities of melee % on items just aren't enough to compete with the quantities of raw melee on pretty much any other build type. At the moment it's what some people call a "flavour stat" most of the time, which is a stat that doesn't really do anything almost all of the time, like soul point regen.

 

What about having a lot of elemental damage percentages? What is it good for?

 

Same case as above except it applies to melee and spell in reference to the boosted element(s)

 

Ok thanks!