[2.5 Video Guide] Assassin CI Blade Flurry End-Game Build! [HC/SC]

Thanks a lot for the comments, quite helpful! Completely overlooked the boots, just equipped them today, also had a crystal belt that I was waiting to swap to at 79. Flasks, yes I need a lot of improvement there, can't afford the more expensive yet but getting close. I didn't realize the implications of double curse without the passive so I've swapped in Ash for now and it does feel better already!

As for strength, I have 151 strength, not sure what you're missing, but I need it for the warlords mark anyway I believe.

As for my CWDT, I just kinda went based on what lifting has displayed in the beginning, probably to allow the other spells to be stronger. The difference in damage threshold from 6 to 11 is pretty big but I feel like it pops almost instantly in the higher tiered stuff anyway. IDK.

Appreciate it!

I mean how did you get to 151 strength? I only see 75 with your gear and passives :/
I'm struggling myself to keep up with that amount of strength. Had to pick up 30 str nodes but in your full tree you aren't using them

If you were going to upgrade from the Bino's to something better... how would you do so? Does it break the build to move from the Bino's and its poison spreading?

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ride1226 wrote:

If you were going to upgrade from the Bino's to something better... how would you do so? Does it break the build to move from the Bino's and its poison spreading?

I think just higher pdps dagger with high crit/atk. speed. I saw by the way on one streamer similar tree, but based on double scourge (pretty expensive)

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ghostempire wrote:

I mean how did you get to 151 strength? I only see 75 with your gear and passives :/
I'm struggling myself to keep up with that amount of strength. Had to pick up 30 str nodes but in your full tree you aren't using them

Try looking at his profile. He gets 65 strength between his jewelry, only levels gems to 19, and gets one 30 STR node. I gave some solutions to this issue within the last couple pages. A passive tree link doesn't explain anything. You need to look at a character and gear to understand.

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ride1226 wrote:

If you were going to upgrade from the Bino's to something better... how would you do so? Does it break the build to move from the Bino's and its poison spreading?

Search poe.trade for a high pdps dagger with good crit and attack speed. Obviously look for something that beats Binos. It's not going to come cheap. I would recommend sticking to Binos for most maps. Swap to a higher DPS dagger for really difficult maps or bosses like Guardians/Uber/Breachlords.

Guys what additional dmg mods i can search on jewels, or only phys+area dmg?
I entered in search like:
- Global multiplier
- Multiplier with one handed melee weapons
- Melee critical strike multiplier
- Inc. phys dmg
- Inc. phys dmg with daggers
- Inc. phys dmg with one handed melee weapons
- Inc. area dmg
I bought for now 2 these, but im not sure, if that melee critical strike multiplier works same as global multiplier.. On the gem there are a tag for blade flurry "melee":

Now im not sure, if these with daggers/one handed melee weapons calculates my flat bonuses from rings?

Hiya! :)

I followed this build quite literaly and i got around 10k es and nice damage, and i am very pleased with it. :)

I am wondering should i switch to "The Scourge" Claws.
Would that improve my dps a bit?
Or am i better trying to find dagger that out-dps Binos? :)

Thx for answer in advance!

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Matematikas wrote:

Guys what additional dmg mods i can search on jewels, or only phys+area dmg

I recommend looking up some of the damage mechanics on the wiki. All "increased" affixes work the same and are added together when they make sense. If you look at the top of Blade Flurry you see Attack, AOE, Channeling, Melee. The skill gains bonuses for these cases.


Global modifiers apply to all skills. Local modifiers only apply to items. Examples of local affixes include weapons with Crit Chance and Physical damage. Phys% and +damage are local affixes on Binos but it doesn't specifically say local. It's implied. Local affixes are also on armor. ES% and +ES are local affixes on the armor below.


Phys% on jewels affects all physical spells such as Blade Vortex as well as attacks like Blade Flurry. Melee/attacks are not spells so a jewel that gives bonuses to Melee/Attacks will not help with Blade Vortex.

For those wondering if Voidheart is a good investment, I just got one and can say it helps my clear speed immensely. Better than Death's Hand at least.

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ffhighwind wrote:

Search poe.trade for a high pdps dagger with good crit and attack speed. Obviously look for something that beats Binos. It's not going to come cheap. I would recommend sticking to Binos for most maps. Swap to a higher DPS dagger for really difficult maps or bosses like Guardians/Uber/Breachlords.

Thats what I was thinking. Binos is around 240pdps I believe so anything in the 300 range should be a major upgrade. That being said they are between low end 4ex and top end 15ex. Bino's would be for trash, weapon swap for bosses and high end boss content.

Voidheart is def worth it. I have been rocking a low rolled one and am thinking about trying to pick up a much higher rolled one as an upgrade.