Hi, i’m making for the new ladder season, one HC WW barb (of course), and then my first martial arts HC Assassin, I wanna give it a go as i’ve always gone traps before. Now, i’ve been messing around on D2 Max roll with martial arts builds, but want advice on which skills would make a good martial arts assassin?
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unfortunetaly none.
But I’d suggest you look on maxroll which of the builds sounds most fun to you.
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Yea i’ve been messing around with ideas and in theory, i’ve come up with something quite good, making use of maxed out tiger strike, with dragon claw finishing move. If I focus on IAS, it’s looking pretty damn good.
Claw mastery at lvl 27 gives dmg buff of 120% and AR of 260%
Tiger Strike at lvl 27 gives charge lvl 3 dmg buff of 1860%
Dragon claw at lvl 13 gives dmg buff of 310% and AR buff of 360%
Burst of speed at lvl 27 gives IAS of 54% and faster run walk of 63%
on char calc, it gives dmg of over 10,000 with fairly good equipment, with the caveat of a might merc.
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llama just put up a guided playthrough for a phoenix strike sin. Worked very well through Normal and Nightmare. Got through hell, but with a lot of work. But that was all SSF without much farming for runes or items.
Worth a look, anyway.
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ok thanks i’ll check it out.
I did a claw assasin in ladder season 1. It worked relatively well. 20 claw mastery, 20 dragon claw, 20 venom, I ended up puttin one point in death senty, 1 in mind blast, 1 in blade fury, 1 in tiger strike and the rest in shadow master.
The gear was a little expensive but very effective.
Primary weapon: plauge runeword claw
Second weapon: chaos claw
Swap: dual + 3 shadow skills claws
Amulet: seraphs hymn
Armor: Acanes valor wiyh um rune
Boots: shadow dancers
Helm: shako
Gloves: soul drainers
Belt: trang ouls
Ring 1: dual leach, AR, mana
Ring 2: carrion wind
Act 3: fire merc
Helm: flickering flame
ARMOR: oramus robe +3 enchant with perfect amethist
Shield: Ethereal monarc spirit
Weapon: lawbringer
The act 3 merc gives level 38 enchant 400% AR +350 fire damage to me and shadow. Lawbringer removes all physical resists from undead + 108 fire restist party wide from flickering flame
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Nice, I might consider some of this, especially the act 3 merc.
Otherwise 1 in blade fury if i need a ranged attack. Shadow master is one heck of a tank and spams traps which i an not using. Dragon claw has about 18k Attack rating. Venom adds 1000 poison damage and i am procing frozen orb , poidon nova, twister, and weaken very regularly. Last we have level 10 whirlwind too.
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This is end gane and not budget as you need cham , ohm, vex and you do not have teleport. But you can farm anywhere and you dragon claw will do over 4k per hit
Yea the build I experimented with on maxroll I only chose reasonably good equipment instead of god tier, just to get a reasonable expectation for an end game build.
There are a few different builds.
Claws of Thunder + Pheonix Strike for elemental splash damage. Could go with either Dragon Talon, Dragon Claw, or Dragon Tail for a finisher.
Tiger Tail + Dragon Tail for big single target damage, and fire splash damage. You don’t even need claws, can go one handed with a shield. Could even use Tiger Strike alone for single target damage if you get enough AR to hit with a normal attack.
Crushing Blow + Dragon Talon for a kicker build.
1 Point in Dragon Flight for teleport substitute.
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