[2.4] - The slammer - Crit CI Sunder Assassin

Hi All,

So I'm pretty sure there are builds like that out already, and its not really a meta build, but I enjoyed it very much. As I'm taking a longer break from playing PoE i thought I may as well share my last build, if anyone would fancy to give it a go.

The build revolves around sunder skill, scaled with poison and bleed (duh?) and attack speed, as well as crits.

I got my assassin to level 80 in essence (only) as I stopped playing. So here are all the details:

Build:
current tree:


planned tree:


In a planned skills, I gone for 2 curses, I would drop hatred and run a second curse on blasphemy and use herald of ash instead. the second curse would be vulnerability. If I could drop warlord's mark I would either run temp chain for the dot bonus and defense or go for Punishment - for more damage.

bandits
kill all - oak or Kraityn - power charge

Skills:
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Sunder - melee phys damage - multistrike - conc effect - melee damage on full life
for 6 link there are few options: faster attacks, increase crit strike chance, fortify or rapid decay

leap slam - faster attacks - fortify/endurance charge on stun

cwdt (lvl 2) - artic breath (lvl 5) - summon lightning golem (lvl 4) - gmp (max lvl)
this is a utility setup and in no way its mandatory, just help to cc mobs and resummon golem to give me a dmg boots via increase attack speed

cwdt (lvl 4-5) - immortal call (lvl 6-7) - increase duration (max lvl) - depending how tanky you are can level the setup more to proc less often

Discipline - hatred - enlighten (min lvl 2) - this is enough together with the tree to let you run this together with blasphemy

blasphemy - warlord's mark - this is my leech setup, endurance charges are a nice bonus, this of course could be dropped for vulnerability if you would have leech somewhere else

vaal discipline - increase duration - your "oh shit" skill


My gear:
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additional pieces (that I was planning to use in offhand maybe:


I never got to roll good stats on:



Some gear notes:
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I feel that Soul Taker is only mandatory to this build, as with all the auras and attack speed, its hard to keep enough mana, this solves the problem and also is a really decent weapon to use.

I use voidheart too, but this is just a QoL for me, as its provide additional poison and bleed chance to proc my assassin skills.

The chest Im using is the best you can get (unless you can get a pure ES chest with 4-5 red sockets) - it of course make it harder to roll well, as you would need that 500+ es on there.


Alternative off hand:
After a bit of thinking about the skill tree and off hand Im currently using, I realized that I could drop Bino for a claw with leech instead. A good rare claw with high crit and physical damage would work well, but of course you may want to use a unique claw that gather dust in your stash. from uniques I would consider are:
- Rive Terror Claw
- The Scourge Terror Claw

I would suggest to get a claw with at least 220 pDPS.
This should let you drop warlords mark and use vulnerability instead.


Sadly I dont have any video (only ever made one :)) but the playstyle is pretty simple.
You hop around with leap slam and try to not get into a middle of packs, instead stay a bit in front of them to get max damage out of sunder. As the skill is very much directional its better to have mobs only in front or you will be loosing damage output when you slam all the way around you.

I gone with this build to t11 maps without any problem, and I feel with better gear optimization and getting it to somewhere around lvl 90 would push the build to its full potential.

I hope you guys will like it.

If you got any questions drop a comment will try to answer to the best of my knowledge

Good Luck !







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Lab still sucks balls.

I miss Zana already.
Last edited by Miazga#7204 on Nov 9, 2016, 3:29:45 AM
Last bumped on Nov 10, 2017, 12:24:56 PM
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YES I support the game, NO I don't agree with many GGG decisions

Lab still sucks balls.

I miss Zana already.
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Miazga wrote:
Alternative off hand:
After a bit of thinking about the skill tree and off hand Im currently using, I realized that I could drop Bino for a claw with leech instead. A good rare claw with high crit and physical damage would work well, but of course you may want to use a unique claw that gather dust in your stash. from uniques I would consider are:
- Rive Terror Claw
- The Scourge Terror Claw

I would suggest to get a claw with at least 220 pDPS.

As far as i understand, the offhand's damage doesn't matter, as it is not used with Sunder. So go for utility stuff.
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