Looking to trade +2 assassin coronet, +9 to min dam, +105 AR, +20 Dex, +19 all res, Level 4 dim vision charges.
It’s a nice melee asn circlet. I don’t know why people don’t build melee sins.
Tiger strike/dragon tail build, 90k+ dmg with 3 charge tiger strike, dragon tail finish for aoe
Ya as coooley would say it’s a 5 pointer thought maybe someone would want it.
I recently got a 2os CoA which I am using probably for good unless a perfect circlet comes
Imma make a MA sin, any tips for early leveling? Did you do MA the entire playthrough? Looked fun.
I leeched my lvls in hell CS, for earlier levelling, the left side phoenix strike route may be better for aoe.
My final skills is as follows
max - tiger strike, dragon tail(fire aoe dmg one), phoenix strike, claws of thunder, currently working on maxing blades of ice
1 point in - weapon block(i dual claw), burst of speed, fade
Experience with the skills:
I never use fade, even when I am cursed on 8 players vs might/fana cows, I just charge in and charge/dragon tail, dragon tails knocks back. My merc is a defiance merc because I thought the sin lacked def. High def does wonders, don’t get hit much.
Phoenix strike is fine on lower player count, on p8 cows I find it not doing much dmg(but good crowd control from third PS charge), I even thought about dropping blades of ice altogether and just use claw of thunder when it comes to physical and fire immunes.
On p1, you will breeze thru all of the content, with the right gear, you will one shot Diablo in hell with 3 charge.
Burst of speed is what I use because with my plus skills, I get to +50 ias and I use upped bartuc(runic talon) so no need for any ias from gear.
On p8, physical immunes and fire immunes will slow you down a bit. My merc uses infinity so dragon tail finish does more dmg. If you don’t invest in blades of ice, then you got some points you can play around with.
I got 0 points in trap or shadow warrior/master but I know some people like to have them so it may be an option for you. Claw mastery will boost dmg and ar a bit, would love to have it if I had the points.
I have wondered if it would be better to replace offhand claw with Phoenix rw but I think you will take a hit in res unless you use CoH.
Finally, all my MA skillers are 38,39, rest are mostly 40 life with 1 45 life, I spend less than a ber for all of them. I have as much as possible in my inv except for 8 spaces for loot. Good luck
Edit: I can support you with a 200/7 bartuc
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Cool, I’m staring a MA sin in NL, so I have some decent gears to start me off. I’ll save this and try out some of your suggestions!
I was actually thinking of making a kicksin. But I rather make a MA assassin as described above. I will bookmark this and slowly building my way towards it.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me what gear setup you’re using. So I could start collecting items. Thanks in advance.
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Kick sin had a nerf I believe, where you need to have a charge for a guaranteed hit. Before it was always hit but now you need attack rating lol
Hey Proe, what’s your equipment setup? I finally finished her and tried out your build, it is fun, kill boss fairly quick. I normally use claw of thunder for mobs and tiger strike for boss, works well.
I recommend the assassin forum here, much of Infos from tastysoup, and others.
After a sorc at the beginning of ladde, to farm quickly, I only play sin right now.
Having a Phoenix Strike sin and a blade fury sin, both are super fun.
The next one will be a Tiger Strike sin, I already tested on NL 
Depending on your finisher, you will most likely go gface, upped gore’s, Lacerator, Phoenix for ts/Dt.
I use tiger strike/dragon tail most of the time until there is physical immune. For PI, I use phoenix strike, but claws of thunder is just as good if not better until you max blades of ice. tastysoup’s setup is different from mine, I got 0 in traps.
For gear I have
CoA with fire jewels
Enigma
3/20 MA gloves(20ias is not needed)
Shadow dancer boot
Arach
Mara
Raven frost
Rare ring with dex and res currently but want to replace this with mana leech res ring
Bartuc on Mainhand
Jade talon on offhand for res
Merc - Infinity merc since Dragon tail does fire dmg and phoenix strike does elemental dmg.
MA skillers with life and other scs depending on what you need
I would like to replace the offhand with a Plague claw with useful skills but have not found any. Only mainhand weapon ll/ml counts, that 10+ ml on Jade does not work unless you put it on mainhand which is why I need mana leech ring. You only need 3% mana leech on hell which I had in my 2/20 glove lol
If you go with the lacerator setup, it is good due to the amp proc. Amp does wonders for this build, in 8p cow if there is a necro amping stuff, it’s 1 shot everything with 3 charges. but there is going to be a lack of res if you go with lacerator, you may need to change armor. Even with lacerator I would not use phoenix as the +2 skills from shield is more damage in my opinion.
You can experiment and see what works best for you. Due to the high dmg output normally, I don’t go the lacerator route, plus I like the 2 claw look.
I think the best claws you can get for dmg is something like
3 tiger strike, 3 dragon tail, 3 phoenix strike(Plague it after) but that isn’t possible on a claw.
Sweet, i was actually running very similar setup to yours.
I’m actually using claws of thunder as main skill and tiger strike for boss.
Other than Griffon for helmet (I heard that +damage does not count, but - light res does, I find it kill faster with claws of thunder), I have pretty much same setup as yours.
I’m swapping SoE and Arach back and forth, kinda like the damage reduction and extra ll; at the same time, I enjoy faster teleport. Ring wise, I was running SoJ, but I was having mana issue, I’ll give ml ring a try.