[2.6][Assassin] TheAmigoReach! Reach of the Council Insane Poison DPS! -UBER/TWINNED CORE DOWN

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JoopO wrote:

Would you suggest replacing Faster Attacks with increased critical damage in the 6L, something like:
Tornado Shot - Pierce - Physical Proj Attack Damage - Increased Critical Strikes - Slower Projectiles - Increased Critical Damage?

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TheAmigoBoyz wrote:

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JoopO wrote:

Would you suggest replacing Faster Attacks with increased critical damage in the 6L, something like:
Tornado Shot - Pierce - Physical Proj Attack Damage - Increased Critical Strikes - Slower Projectiles - Increased Critical Damage?

you could do that yeah :D dont know if its worth it or not though

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HikaruYami wrote:

Hit 91 with this build so far. It's ridiculously fun. Regular atziri farming is trivial and fast, uber izaro farming is fast as well (though I have gotten oneshot with Izaro's buffs up thanks to being super careless). All I can say is: occasionally dying like an idiot has never been so fun. Reach of the Council is too insane.

I'll have to be a little more careful when I hit higher levels, or else I'll stop progressing, but for now a death is still only like 20 minutes of grinding because this build is SO FAST.

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TheAmigoBoyz wrote:

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JoopO wrote:

Would you suggest replacing Faster Attacks with increased critical damage in the 6L, something like:
Tornado Shot - Pierce - Physical Proj Attack Damage - Increased Critical Strikes - Slower Projectiles - Increased Critical Damage?

you could do that yeah :D dont know if its worth it or not though

It's pretty easy to check the tooltip DPS; you only need to get 2 blue sockets vs 1 to test it, so it's cheap.

With my variant, where I have maligaro's virtuosity instead of facebreaker's (it was a 5ex price difference for a nearly-perfect vuln-on-hit virtuosity vs any vuln-on-hit FB, so I went for the cheaper option), critical strike damage is probably worth more (since I'm stacking more aspd and less crit multi, presently). When you have FBs I could see it going either way. It's worth noting that neither gem double dips on the poison, so the effect on your tooltip DPS is perfectly representative of the effect on your overall DPS.

That's if your primary concern is just DPS (with charges up; without charges up the aspd will probably look better).

But faster attacks is always always better for leech. You're instantly leeching your entire health bar anyway, against most mobs, even without critical damage. So faster attacks makes there be less time in between those moments when you're "vulnerable", ie, the quarter-second where you're not leeching becomes a fifth of a second with faster attacks. That kind of thing. For that reason I'm sticking with faster attacks even with virtuosity.

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KiizeN wrote:

Hi!

First of all, thank you for an awesome guide, loving the gameplay and everything it has to offer.

Just one suggestion;

Under the "Budget gear", it could be worth adding the physical dmg atziri belt(Doryiani's). A cheap but really solid belt with triple resist and %phys life leech that adds up great with vaal pact. It's really only missing the +life.

Of course there are rare belts that could potentially be better in the end-game, but the triple 40+% resist and life rolls on a rare belt makes it so expensive, and the Doryianys has a guaranteed trires (30-35%) with phys dmg and bonus life leech for a mere 4-10 chaos.

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Akimbow wrote:

Why should we link assassins mark to curse on hit if we are already generating power charges with the ascendancy class?

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HikaruYami wrote:

Suggestion: your ice golem is not intended for DPS, so linking it to faster projectiles is silly. You can instead recolor your facebreakers to be BBGG, take out blasphemy which you aren't using, put in ice golem on the FB, and then add faster attacks to blink arrow.

In my experience, it makes a huge survivability difference, for blinking out of a situation to be that much faster.