playing assassin and having a blast. i’m running elementalist claw striker martial artist, but duriel is like the worst matchup for me since duriel slows me down so much. i just can’t hit him fast enough.
do i need to get a “cannot be frozen” ring? would that prevent the cold debuff?
You could also stock up on thawing potions
Hello ,no cannot be frozen mod does not work vs Holy freeze aura that Duriel has.
So drink up thawing potions +50cold res for 30seconds, duration stacks per each potion.
Also you can give them to your merc for same benefit.
As assasin Wake of Fire with leaf build can easily kill duriel but that is not what you are using. Alas you must persist and slowly beat him down. Good luck.
As noted above Thawing potions help.
But the slow is an aura and it will affect you no matter what.
1 point in Cobra strike usually helps a lot.
Now I don’t mean to scare you away from having fun, just want to warn you ahead of time. MA sin is ok for normal and nightmare but when you hit hell it’s going to be painfully slow. It goes from fun combo point finishing move skills to… spamming crushing blow as fast as possible or being glacially slow (and more likely, both).
Just wanted to let you know before you get to hell and get disappointed by the lack of damage on the build. It sucks, it’s a fun build, that’s just how it is post 1.10 though. On the bright side you can use one of the free respecs to go trapsin which is one of the best solo clear builds in the game.
This, and get your merc to drink some too. Then just enter the chamber, make a portal just in case you die and need to go back. And just kill it, take tons of pots with you and keep the merc alive to tank it for you while you do the dmg
Hey, can you tank him? do you have weapon block or shield and some dex? You can buy 2 socket helm and 3 socket breast plate from Fara dn socket it with emeralds to improve your shield block. Then equip mercenary with some decent weapon from gamble and if you be bait for duriel standing close to him, tanking him, you merc can actualy kill him.
drink thawing potions before fight you and your merc.
ahn, i disagree. MA is slow and bad for nm and nightmare, it gets much better in hell. It is hard to play and it doesn’t beat a trap assassin. But it is pretty good
yeah i knew that goin in after doin some readin. but i found two jade talons and i wanna goof off widdit. i got my cold sorc and my hammerdin for when i need to killfastfastfast, the assassin is mainly for fun on the side
thaw potions and give one to your mercenary too, spam traps
is it? i’m doing baal runs now that a friend killed duriel for me. i’m going for pheonix strike because i figured i’d always have an element on hand to deal with immunes no matter the flavor, since maxing out the three basic elemental claw attacks are part of the synergies of the build
i know it’s probably slower than super specialized builds like a kicksin ubers-killer, but i’m a very mediocre skill level player, i’ll never see an ubers boss, let along kill one solo
If you really wanna play MA sin, I have a bartuc’s I’ve been trying to offload for ages.
Yours for free if you want it.
that would match perfectly with my jade talons, i’ll hit you up when i get back to my desk, i’m running errands right now
No its not, i am playing it right now at level 50 nightmare and its extremely fun, i expressed myself poorly.
What i meant to say is that MA is worst in normal and nightmare and much better in hell, what you call late game. I think MA is very underrated and he was saying it was a normal/night build, so i said no, its more of a hell build.
By like 10 thawing potions and just take them all at once before you go in. Each one lasts 30 seconds and they stack.
I still think MA needs a bit of TLC. When the “meta” on a class designed specifically for claws and MA is essentially a passive cannon spec, you know there’s a problem.
this, so much this, oh my god this
it’s heartbreaking that the only truly “viable” end-game builds for the class are the kicksin or the trapsin, neither of which utilize the signature weapons the class is supposedly built around. you’re basically equipping weapons as stat sticks with +skills to support traps, or kicks, which base their damage off your boots. which is just beyond stupendously idiotic.
it sucks that there’s not a top tier build that’s actually based off the assassin’s skills like claw mastery and the martial arts abilities. yeah, i know i’ll be able to kill anything in hell mode and immunes won’t pose a problem, but unless i go meme build i won’t be able to roflstomp like a sorc/zon/pally
Whats TLC? Oh don’t get me wrong i think the assassin, MA specifically needs some real buffs. But i meant she’s playable, i would say kind of underrated because people think she’s bad. Shes not bad but she needs buffs for sure
I agree 100% with that, and that is how i feel. The assassin to me looks like the class that could be amazing but fell a little short. I still enjoy MA but it is hard to play and need changes.
you still got that bartuc’s up for grabs?
eithris#1592
add me if you just want to get it out of your inventory. i got a jade talon, bartucs would go perfect for dual wield until i can farm the runes for chaos