Assassin rework BUT.

While some of the nodes look pretty good one of the main reason why assassin was always so weak for poison remains unchanged.

That is the prolif. I always felt assassin super weak for clearing against pathfinder for obviously the prolif. Sure you can use bino's but it is a rather weak weapon otherwise specially now with the new node "all damage can poison".

Even playing something like poison Blade vortex was always so much better on occultist because of the explosions.

I don't know I think this was a huge missed opportunity not adressing the clear.

Unless you play Mamba, which is likely gonna be the strongest poison build on Assassin besides maybe PBOD

Different ascendancy, different builds. I believe that is intentional :)

Well yes mamba but mamba needs bino which I would want to avoid. It will probably be expensive and with the new node "all damage can poison" it makes tri ele claws rather interesting.

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Ispita#4020 wrote:

Well yes mamba but mamba needs bino which I would want to avoid. It will probably be expensive and with the new node "all damage can poison" it makes tri ele claws rather interesting.

You can run Pestilent Strike instead if you dont want / cant afford Binos. People were already running that with the "all damage can poison" Heist dagger base and it's promising

ivd tired pointing out the problem with shadows and poison single target things before, people say this or that poison skill is fine... yeah if you play it on a ranger it is, and thats not good when its core identity is a shadow skill.


they need to just move master toxicist from the pathfinder to the main passive tree, same way they did with ghost dance and wicked ward. give pathfinder something else.

Tri ele claw lol why not just use the all damage poison dagger. Or is it worth an accendancy point to get 40 life gain on hit

actually, if I decide to play this league, my league start is Perfect Agony Explosive Arrow Assassin (Infused Toxins + 2 other nodes I really cannot decide because they are all pretty meh) (level as Poison Arrow).

it will Poison AND Ignite. Poison for single target damage, Ignite Prolif (via Gloves) for clear. they share some supports and passives, I will focus poison, Ignites getting only accidental scaling - it should be perfectly enough for trash clearing

ele Solarine Bow, elder for the more damage poison mod for endgame version

sadly, no defences but should be enough for solo 3 voidstones, Maven i simply will buy carry as I hate memory game

but again, this is still the 'poison crit', but with a twist. as a rework, it is a flop because no new archetypes were added to the pool

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Tggltn#8101 wrote:

Tri ele claw lol why not just use the all damage poison dagger. Or is it worth an accendancy point to get 40 life gain on hit

Claw nodes > Dagger nodes

Pneumatic Dagger has 1.4 base AS. Even with perfect Triple T1 prefixes and T1 attack speed you end up with ~890 eDPS where an Imperial Claw would reach 1,000+ eDPS as well as grant some kickass recovery

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Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

ivd tired pointing out the problem with shadows and poison single target things before, people say this or that poison skill is fine... yeah if you play it on a ranger it is, and thats not good when its core identity is a shadow skill.


they need to just move master toxicist from the pathfinder to the main passive tree, same way they did with ghost dance and wicked ward. give pathfinder something else.

Great idea actually.

Asenaths can help in a pinch, of course if you're trying to do the degen farming strats that take ridiculous builds this wont help much. For the average player sticking asenaths on a half decent build helps a lot.