I’m having a ton of fun with Dance of Knives, even though it isn’t optimimal. It’s a lot of fun. It is reminiscent of the WW assassin from D2 and the Spin Demon hunter from D3. However, my gripe is that the skill is incredibly awkward.
It scales damage value from attack speed but not necessary from actually attacks per second and it uses its own resource. So the rogue has to build around some arbitrary scaling of damage numbers without being able to scale into monster volume. Then on top of that, we have energy, combo points and now these charges. It’s just inelegant and a bit frustrating. Really love the visual and play style though, I just hope they can make the skill fit a bit more naturally into the rogues already existing mechanics and resources instead of being this “island build” and introducing a third resource.
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im playing that build too this season. anything past torment 2 is a lost cause. this build falls off real quickly. i think snapshot is broken because as soon as my ultimate wears off i go from critting 25m down to 5m.
the build is reliant on ultimate to deal damage and my ultimate is only up roughly 33% of the time.
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Oh yes, if I could like this thread more I would!!!
The build is really fun but…
It looks awkward…
It feels fragile…
Its mechanics is CONVOLUTED.
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I agree 100% 
reached T2, it’s very fun for farming in the overworld but looks like I will have to find another build to be able to progress further in the torments
Thank god the armory is here
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Thanks! I love the assassin spin to win theme and play style and I’m thankful for some implementation, but this is a pretty strange way to do it.
It feels too automatic, too much resource convolution and the way it scales damage is unintuitive.
They should make it work more like a short but ranged whirlwind either with pulses of knives ( like a continuous nova) or a swirl of knives (like blessed hammers). The Strafe style seems not only tough to work with, it feels out of the players control.
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at t4 eternal with trash gear 1shotting everything (281).
to the guy who said ult dmg reliant lol, druid paralysis is just to reset prep?
you only need cowl & ashearas to come online- you maybe are doing it wrong?
you need to potx2 auto stealth imbue spin, stack as/crit & watch yourself glide into t4 - didn’t get max res roll on my dok boots doesn’t even matter, dark shroud uptime 100%.
How do you get a qax rune?
By praying to the RNG gods. It still hasn’t dropped for me yet.
The builds fine last season I had t4 on easy farm just takes a few gimmicky items to make it work.
I ended up that zoomy with the build I had to drop all talent points out any speed buffs as I was constantly 200% capped and could spin to fin forever.