[3.0] Assassin Cospri's Discharge | BOSSKILLER VARIANT | 1M Shaper damage PER CAST | 5M Shaper DPS

The only items you need are Cospri's Malice and a Voll's Protector (don't need 6L or +1 gems).



The next 5 items are very powerful items for this build. Voll's Devotion (don't need +1 curse) grants you an endless supply of endurance charges. Inya's assists greatly with charge generation in bossfights. Flow Untethered (don't need +1 corruption) is just all round an amazing belt. Insanity gloves (doesn't need to be legacy) boosts clear speed to insane levels. Starkonja's is best in slot with 30% chance for Discharge not to consume charges.

Alternatives are just rares with life and resist for HC.

is of course the best clearing belt.

is also a very powerful item due to bleed immunity (allowing you to swap a flask) and an extra endurance charge, but Inya's is straight up better for Shadow Assassin. You can use Death's Door for Scion Ascendant instead.



The rest of the items, you just want them to have life on them and as much accuracy and crit as possible. At least 1 Elreon ring is required if you do not want to run out of mana while shield charging across the map, 2 are needed if you do not take the Quick Recovery cluster on the skill tree. Disagree with Lycosidae because accuracy shouldn't be a problem with two decent rings/decent gloves.



Vinktar's is ideal, whether legacy or not (grab VP on tree if non-legacy). I opt for Wise Oak here to maximise boss damage.

is the replacement for clearing.

You need a staunching flask unless you're running Death's Door, then can be used instead. You can skip the staunching flask for a dousing flask when farming Shaper so you can toggle RF.

4L Starkonja's Head


A low set-up level matters so that Firestorm is being cast as frequently as possible. Don't worry about IC not lasting long enough because you have endurance charges from Voll's Devotion and also Flow Untethered lowering the cooldown of the gem.

6L Voll's Protector


3L Cospri's Malice


Swap out for when killing bosses.

3L Fossilised Spirit Shield


Swap out for when farming Shaper.

4L Fingerless Silk Gloves w/ Insanity essence mod


4L Inya's Epiphany


Swap out for if no +1 curse Voll's Devotion.

Bandits: Eramir (2 passive points), preferred over Alira's mediocre 15% crit multi.

Pantheon: Brine King major and Yugul minor.

PoePlanner skill tree: poeurl.com/bAd2

Path of Building Assassin: https://pastebin.com/nGEVbYNU

Path of Building Ascendant: https://pastebin.com/g6sQSD4S

for power charge and endurance charge at Templar's side.

Rest rares. The best mods to have on the jewel are on these jewels:



To maximise damage, you generally want jewels with 3 crit multi mods and 1 damage mod (either spell damage, area damage or damage) or 2 crit multi mods and 2 damage mods. Common misconception is that you want 4 crit multi mods, but this is wrong because your base damage before critting is low, so you need a base damage boost before adding on the crit multi boost. However, I do not recommend stacking too much of these unless you only do shaper, because you can one-shot yourself to reflect while clearing maps (unless you're running Scion Ascendant with Elementalist + Yugul minor pantheon + Ash, Frost and Storm cluster).

If you have not hit the ideal APS (around 5.0 if you don't have 90% chance to hit and 90% crit chance) then you need some attack speed as well. Resists and life are also very good.

Jewels are VERY IMPORTANT. Grab as many as you can. They're what makes this build have acceptable single-target damage (in fact if you have GG jewels this build has very good single-target). However, for survival purposes in clearing I recommend specing into all the life nodes on the tree before you start pathing for jewels.

• Q: Can I run another class?
  A: Scion Ascendant, Assassin-Elementalist. Lower damage but higher reliability due to lower reflect damage and higher crit sustain.

• Q: Which class is better?
  A: Personally, I think Scion Ascendant is better. I'm just posting the build under the Shadow forum for old times' sake.

• Q: How do I make this temp league HC viable?
  A: Run Scion Ascendant, Assassin-Elementalist. Take Death's Door over Inya's. Swap a rare shield with Lycosidae. Make sure you run 2 Elreon rings. Replace damage jewels with life jewels. Ignore accuracy nodes on the tree and spec for more life and jewel slots. You'll get around 6.4k life and 700 ES.

• Q: What's your life?
  A: 5.1k. Pales in comparison to the CI and LL versions of this build but I personally feel that it is a much better boss killer, and can have more survivability than those versions provided that you spec Scion Ascendant, Assassin-Elementalist.

• Q: What do I do about my uncapped resists?
  A: I have strangely low resists because I want to accommodate for Wise Oak. You can get resists on all your other gear if you want to and it shouldn't be difficult to cap at all (run Purity of Elements if you need to), I cap mine when I take the endurance charges into account.

• Q: Do you cap crit on every set-up?
  A: No, but I come close at around 90% with 7 power charges. Assassin's Mark puts it at 100%.

• Q: What's your chance to hit?
  A: 90% with Ice Golem. You could hit 91-92% with a 350+ acc pair of gloves.

• Q: Why 2 Discharge set-ups?
  A: One's for clear speed (Cospri's 3L), the other (Voll's chest 6L) helps with single target damage.

• Q: Why CwDT-Firestorm set-up?
  A: Power charge generation so that you always have all 7 up.

• Q: Why are you not running Level 4 Empower in your 6L +1 Voll's?
  A: It's worse than running Ele Focus.