"Last minute" Assassin rework for 3,27

The actual patch didn't change the assassin much.
With the 3/10 boss ascendancy and 4/20 unique items shown, I don't feel like starting on Assassin yet. At least until the mark is beyond the curse limit.

P.s. This thread was created to help GGG, who have been unable to move the Assassin from the bottom for a LONG time, and is now no longer relevant.

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sidtherat#1310 wrote:

nobody gives a slightest f.. about damaging ailments on Trickster. you have CI, 15k+ ES + overleech, you dont give a slightest f about some ailments, no Trickster ever will get that FF. yeah, Golden Rule and stuff - thats poor man's toys

True, coffee hadn't fully kicked in....don't really know what I was thinking. Duh...CI negating poison, Ignites never being an issue anyway, and a corrupt blood jewel being better than wasting 2 jewel slots for it lol.

However, I think you are underestimating the potential of these changes. They simply don't align with your narrow vision of how you want your assassin to be. You aren't looking at the "new" possibilities thanks to the changes.

And you seem to be mostly stuck on poison, which I understand. But the assassins don't have to go with poison.

For sure, Trickster is still overall better, but BOTH reworks narrow the gap even if just a little. We will see a rise in assassins, and a bit of a dip in tricksters. Especially if new tech favors non-trickster builds.

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Vaqic#7503 wrote:

The actual patch didn't change the assassin much.
With the 3/10 boss ascendancy and 4/20 unique items shown, I don't feel like starting on Assassin yet. At least until the mark is beyond the curse limit.

P.s. This thread was created to help GGG, who have been unable to move the Assassin from the bottom for a LONG time, and is now no longer relevant.

Hey....part of your idea was adopted though, congrats!

All damage can poison.

Though I don't think many will be picking up assassin if they want to leverage that node. I can see some funky saboteur poison builds using this in a flesh/flame combo. Or even tricksters trying some things out with it coupled with their usual lightning tech.

i do not have narrow expectations - but the nodes are very focused on 'crit' 'poison', so there is very little else to work with

crit got trivialised by GGG - getting 100% crit is no longer impossible. it is more like a norm with how much crit you get from charges, flask, tincture and the like. 11% crit weapons are not rare nowadays. so the one of two major specialisations is 'win more' rather than 'something extra'.

defensive nodes that require me to fight bosses on cloudy afternoon, second Wednesday of April (aka conditionals) i just skip. defenses cannot turn off every few seconds or simply never work because map got twin bosses.. these mods do not exist for me.

- elusive on crit. cool, but you are using Nightblade, right? for spells it might be interesting. but is that IT? entire notable gives me that? nope.
- reflect from crit immunity - WORTHLESS on attack build, the risk is too high. VERY RISKY vs spells. requires so much prep to make it safe, not worth it.
- Opprtunistic 4pointer - ~10% more damage from cull (that you can get elsewhere..) and 25% vs single target + 100% multi half of the time. but some, not that few, bosses have adds, so you spent 4 points to get more damage sometimes and a cull you get elsewhere. how am i going to explain to myself picking this up? (crit chance you have already maxed out, right?)
- Unstable Infusion is just +1 PC, the gain chances are irrelevant as you get PCoC anyway. Ascendancy passive is equal to a corruption outcome
- the mark one.. kina okay for CoCS as you just spew so many things, some will hit even with 60% accuracy, this one might actually be good in practice despite looking HORRIBLY in POB

i really tried hard to like these changes - but.. other than Cast on Crit and Perfect Agony i simply cannot imagine anything that I can do on Assassin even SLIGHTLY better than on alternatives. hell, i do not even mind better as I am not after power (my latest build is Glacial Swipe..) but after something interesting, maybe little crazy or jank.

sadly all it has now is 'crits' and 'poison', kinda hard to escape stereotypes esp when there is pretty much nothing else

alternatives being busted doesnt help

Looks good on paper but execution I don't feel would be good.