Assassin/Ninja Nullification Hybrid Shadestepper

Shadestepper sucks.
To be specific, "Spell" shadestepper is bad.


When common endgame builds are made around raid usage, spell shadestepper itself had very bad performance in it.

Too short backstab range, no free damage source for midrange, too situational damage, Satsujin waste for backstab miscast, unworthy damage from Satsujin + Backstab compared to Satsujin + Powder Special..
For these reasons people just tend to use heavy melee build for Shadestepper.

But nah I think full melee is boring + you'll struggle if you're unable to combat well while charging powder special. Which means...

Hybrid Time!



https://hppeng-wynn.github.io/build...o0Z1D0y1g0+1g00001001ZO16190+0+0+0+0--ztUtIGC
WynnBuilder build:
> Darksteel Full Helm
> Future Shock Plating
> Anxiolytic
> Dawnbreak
> Finesse
> Draoi Fair
> Remikas' Authority
> Contrast
> Nullification [f6e6e6]
> (Has Tomes)


About the weapon choice... pretty cheap weapon choice, Nullification. Big life/mana steal and defense slap for playstyle which risks on close combat.

Even though Oblivion is the well-known choice for Shadestepper, making build with it takes me to glassy ETW easily and it's pretty difficult to counter that negative mana while boosting melee damage at the same time, so I refused to make with it.

I also thought about Inferno, and I'm still trying to make builds with it. It's hard to care other stats with such defense requirement... but still seem to be possible.




Now about the item choice..
I had trials and errors to make decision lol

Spoiler: Trials and Errors

https://hppeng-wynn.github.io/build...o0x110y1f0e1g00001001Z616160+0+0+0+0--ztUtIGC
WynnBuilder build:
> Darksteel Full Helm
> Libra
> Earth Breaker
> Dawnbreak
> Photon
> Draoi Fair
> Succession
> Contrast
> Nullification [e6e6e6]
> (Has Tomes)

https://hppeng-wynn.github.io/build...o0y110e1f0y1g00001001Z615150+0+0+0+0--ztUtIGC
WynnBuilder build:
> Darksteel Full Helm
> Far Cosmos
> Anaerobic
> Dawnbreak
> Summa
> Draoi Fair
> Sacramentalia
> Contrast
> Nullification [e6e6e6]
> (Has Tomes)

https://hppeng-wynn.github.io/build...o0Z110U1u0t1g00001001ZO16190+0+0+0+0--ztUtIGC
WynnBuilder build:
> Darksteel Full Helm
> Future Shock Plating
> Greaves of the Veneer
> Dawnbreak
> Draoi Fair
> Photon
> Misalignment
> Contrast
> Nullification [f6e6e6]
> (Has Tomes)

https://hppeng-wynn.github.io/build...h0U110e1u-b1g00001001ZO19160+0+0+0+0--ztUtIGC
WynnBuilder build:
> Cancer֎
> Anima-Infused Cuirass
> Greaves of the Veneer
> Dawnbreak
> Draoi Fair
> Summa
> Remikas' Authority
> Royal Stormy Amulet
> Inferno [f6e6e6]
> (Has Tomes)
(Including Inferno e)

Slapping Libra for sp and investing them to intelligence could be better for spell cost and overall... but Future Shock is BASED!! So whatever
(and intelligence slap alone can't reach such spell cost easily)


Leave a feedback please ty
I'm expecting about some damage boost since it looks like I barely have general spell/element damage boosts other than str/dex or mythic tomes
(hmm maybe don't question about spell tree... I personally think 'Better Smoke Bomb' is necessary for TNA stuffs, when it's not really always close combat so I'm not sure if I'd change tree easily.. but still leave an opinion)

 

Ooh, I literally just got onto fourms again to look for Shadestepper alternatives other than hmelle lamfoo, I like build just curious tho, why not last laugh? Is the cycle smthing like Smoke -> Clones -> Spin while na?

 

I haven't really think about using Last Laugh cuz I may lose clones randomly and that could not help in damage much but hmm considerable

Also I barely think about spell cycle for such stuffs so :shrug: (smoke - spin - spin - spin while having melee randomly in between? I can't think of adding Vanish in cycle between cuz I'm not sure if I'd not have vanish while Quake is ready.... idk fjsohdiaodjfk situational stuffs)

 

I haven't tested but the main reason I asked about last laugh was that I was pretty sure it adds a mark so >.>