Cloak of Shadows: Uber Viable?

[Teleportato]

Cloak of Shadows: Uber Viable?

I was highly considering investing heavily in Cloak of Shadows for my uber running kicksin. I have a few questions for anyone that might be able to help... Thanks...

Does Cloak of Shadows lower the defenses of unique monsters like Pindle and bosses like Uber Meph?

Is it possible for CoS to break physical immunities?

Is CoS a good choice for an ubers kicksin?

Side Questions:

What is the best crowd control ability for an Assassin (As in, taking out clumps of enemies rather than one at a time?

What is the best way for an assassin to deal with physical immunes? Is venom strong enough? Can the shadow master summon deal with them? How about death sentry?

Does venom transfer to blade sentinel?

Thank you very much for any answers.

 

[PrkChopXpress]

Yes, CoS lowers unique monster's defense. The blind effect does not work on them, though.

Physical resistance and defense are two completely different things. Defense affects their chance to be hit. Physical immunitie nullifies any physical damage that gets past their defense. CoS does nothing to physical immunities.

I wouldn't invest heavily in CoS, but a few more points than would normally be advised isn't a bad idea.

If you want to know how to kill many enemies at once, then you want either Phoenix Strike or traps (traps being the stronger of the two). But CoS allows you to widdle away at a mob in relative safety. Add if Mind Blast (if you don't mind the conversion), and there isn't a mob you can't handle.

Venom, Phoenix Strike, or Death Sentry are the thee most common PI solutions. PS is the most skill pt intensive (cause you probably want to max FoF, too), but if you're a martial artist, you should probably already have maxed Venom and at least a point in DS.

 

[oakienko]

CoS does not work on bosses, period.

 

[PrkChopXpress]

Oops, sorry about that. Oakienko is correct. It still may be worth putting a few points into it to keep the minions off your back, though.

 

[Teleportato]

However, it does provide a defense bonus does it not? Regardless of whether or not you are fighting a boss, your D goes up when you use it.

 

[Kijya]

I was highly considering investing heavily in Cloak of Shadows for my uber running kicksin. I have a few questions for anyone that might be able to help... Thanks...

Does Cloak of Shadows lower the defenses of unique monsters like Pindle and bosses like Uber Meph?

Yes (link in case someone isn't convinced)

Is it possible for CoS to break physical immunities?

No, CoS does nothing too enemies resistance. It will only lower enemy defense, increase your defense, causes a darkness to fall, a blinding effect, and illumination effect.

Is CoS a good choice for an ubers kicksin?

Yes, but but maxing it might not really be necessary.

What is the best crowd control ability for an Assassin (As in, taking out clumps of enemies rather than one at a time?

Death Sentry, once you get two kills the rest will usually soon follow, unless it's a multi player game with many players. Lightning sentry on it's own will often provide quite some speed in your damage is high enough.
Material arts can provide fast crowd clearing too but the speed of death sentry really is beyond it.

What is the best way for an assassin to deal with physical immunes? Is venom strong enough? Can the shadow master summon deal with them? How about death sentry?

Material artists usually have a number of skills to fall back on, CoT is gives the best damage of those. Venom alone is limited to only what you hit with your weapon (+blade skills), and therefore will do the job slower. For trappers fire blast can usually do the job great.
But in the end SM can indeed kill pretty much anything once you got an ok level, some packs will however have to bee softened up with mb and cos.

Does venom transfer to blade sentinel?

Yes but at the same penalty as your weapon damage. It transfers to kicks too, but the character screen doesn't show that.