[3.6] Acid Molten Strike Assassin - Uber Elder-viable Poison Build

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FKNalpha wrote:

3.8 viable again or...?

i started to try this with volks and viper strike but got busy and didnt hit end game, it sure didnt feel as great as the old version with MS pre nerf

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I feel like you also didn't take into account the ancestral call buff. No damage penalty at level 20 gem? seems pretty insane.

Can you explain to me how multistrike is clunky/bad, I do not understand as last league all I played was cyclone. (I took a league off from what normally is my starter; this build). As soon as I saw poison/assassin buffs, I was SUPER STOKED for this build, and am a little sad that the creator thinks its bad, and genuinely don't understand why.

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UntoTheCruel wrote:

Well, I played this build on Legion, basically only this build, i didn't knew what to build and this was one of my favourite builds ever back when i did it first time (think it was bestiary) - and for this I thank you - and what I've got to add is, although the playstyle didn't make it very safe against legion monoliths, the damage was still pretty good. When I hit the guardians I was impressed that I downed minotaur in like 5 seconds, did all the shaper and elder guardians, shaper, red tier elder - all deathless - and my first uber elder kill (i've not played much since uber elder came out) was in Legion with this build; I died like 20 times to them, but i never did it before and was bacause of positioning and learning things, when I finally got him with my 3rd shaper set I died only 2 times and definitively could done it without dying; also did uber atziri, lvl 83 mastermind, lvl 80+ breachlord and lvl 84 lich: all done with ease (apart from uber elder ;p). I did volkuur following your suggestion about the nerfs and added fire damage, but after the league finished I got my old items from the fenumus build and put on the character, and it still basically the same, I think even more damage came because of blasphemy with despair and the double duration for not using volkuurs. Another thing I got to mention is that the more bonus for repetitions on multistrike works on poison, so it's a pretty large damage modifier (50 then 100% bonus poison damage) and it should compensate (in part) for the loss of ancestral call extra target projectiles. The atk speed nerf really make it clunky until certain point, but after you get enough attack speed it feels almost the same as before, it just take more investment on atk speed on tree and jewels.

So, looks like the mechanics on this league won't require that much area coverage like legion, and the buffs to assassin are insane in both damage and survivability and, furthermore, I can testify that even last league the build was good for both volkuur and fenumus. I don't know if I gonna do the build this league 'cause I just did it, but I put my money on it that it will be extremely good.