Kick/Trap Hybrid Siiiiinnnnn!

[TheBassman]

Kick/Trap Hybrid Siiiiinnnnn!

Decided I'd strip my perfect gear off my druid and build an assassin.

Now I think I have my gear worked out but a second opinion (3rd, 4th, 5th... and so on) could considerably help my build since I'm not very experienced with this class.

Gear:

Headgear:
+2trap or +2sin/20fcr circlet (not building off stats here for switching purposes, shael'd)

Switch: Kira's and Guillame's Face

Weapon:
Kingslayer Phase Blade (not building off any weapon stats for switch)

Switch: Death's Web and Beast

Shield:
Stormshield Monarch (eld rune'd)

Switch: Sanctuary Monarch (only facing conviction)

Armor:
Enigma Mage Plate

Belt:
Arachnid's Mesh Spiderweb Sash

Switch:Thundergod's Vigor

Boots:
Gore Rider War Boots

Gloves:
Trang-Oul's Claws Heavy Bracers

Rings:
1. Ravenfrost
2. Rare FCR ring

Amulet:
Rare (+2/stats/life/res)

Charms:
Torch
Annihilius
? x Trap GCs (dependant on my wealth atm and on comfort with damage)
? x Life/Mana GCs & SCs (fill in the remainder of my inventory)

Switch:
CTA + Spirit Monarch


Skills
5-DTalon (taking into account plus skill + bc from cta, 17 is 4 kicks iirc)
1-DClaw
1-DTail
1-DFlight
1-Claw Mastery
1-BoS
1-Fade
20-Venom
1-Psychic Hammer
1-CoS
1-Mindblast
1-Fire Blast
20-Shockweb
1-Charged Bolt Sentry***
20-Lightning Sentry
20-Death Sentry

***That's a total of 96 skills (level 84) and I'm planning on hitting 90 so all remaining points will be spent in Charged Bolt Sentry.

That is the plan friends.

Any comments, criticism, advice, flaws, unexpected pregnancies?

:wink:

EDIT: I believe the FCR breakpoint is met, unsure about FHR, Trap laying speed and Kick speeds so if someone can help me out there as well, thanks.

 

[Silent Shaddow]

hmm everything seems very water tight, but ill throw a few ideas around,

But firstly a very important thing to always add is, BoS or Fade?

Spirit monarch as an alternative shield, the 2 skills and the fcr are always very helpful and it depends on your wants for DR, also spirit automatically hits 48% fhr and nets you some pretty heavy resists as well.

Consider a different base for your sanctuary shield as you don’t need the 4 sockets you might want the better blocking from a tower shield or perhaps even just a different graphic to enable you to easily distinguish between the two.

At 17 kicks you have 4 kicks; at 1 you have 5 kicks. I assume you know this, but still...

King slayer, an interesting choice I must say, I do feel the need to say that weapon damage makes no difference kick damage, even if you knew that.
Taking that into account, I think it is an ok weapon but perhaps you would like to consider a couple of unique weapons like storm lash?

upp those gores.

the 5 in dragon talon is worrying me, with torch+eni+amu+anni that’s 8 skill points, 5+8=13 which is just about 4 kicks, add on top of that you arach, battle combat and your helm which you might only have sometimes, and you have 17 skill points both get you 4 kicks, is this how you intended? and why four kicks?

Consider dracks gloves, I use them all the time for the ctc life tap, works wonders for everything not only bosses. With out them you might find that you lose a lot of life quite fast which could be avoided.

as for trap damage, my sin has ~7k LS damage and huge DS explosion radius your trap damage should be fine.

As for kick speed, that king slayer will hit the 3 frame follow up and 8 frame initial if you running fade, if you run BoS your fine. Again with trap laying if you use BoS you will be at 9 frames but if no BoS then you will get 10 frames.

 

[TheBassman]

1 Point in fade seems fine to me with +skills. But that's just my opinion. Since I'm hitting 50%DR easy with SS.

But I'm considering dumping the remainder of my points until 99 into Fade for the resistances as I will be running Fade 100% of the time.

Yeah I realized a tower shield would be better for the blocking and to distinguish.

Kingslayer for OW/CB.

Can't up, NL.

4 kicks because it's the easiest number to hit without using too many skills and enough for a quick attack so i can jump in and out quickly in PvP.

I duel GM only so therefore dracs are against my ways. Dracs for PvM only, and the poison damage bug ups my damage significantly and the 20%FCR hits me the 65%BP.

I can stand 8/3... trap laying too but we'll see I might have to socket with my SS with an IAS jewel, not sure if that hits BP but I believe so iirc.

thanks.

more input needed guys.

Also thinking of going Kira's as my main helm, for the FHR/CBF/RES/1os

 

[Silent Shaddow]

1 Point in fade seems fine to me with +skills. But that's just my opinion. Since I'm hitting 50%DR easy with SS.

But I'm considering dumping the remainder of my points until 99 into Fade for the resistances as I will be running Fade 100% of the time.

Yeah I realized a tower shield would be better for the blocking and to distinguish.

King slayer for OW/CB.

Can't up, NL.

4 kicks because it's the easiest number to hit without using too many skills and enough for a quick attack so I can jump in and out quickly in PvP.

I duel GM only so therefore dracs are against my ways. Dracs for PvM only and the poison damage bug ups my damage significantly and the 20%FCR hits me the 65%BP.

I can stand 8/3... Trap lying too but we'll see I might have to socket with my SS with an IAS jewel, not sure if that hits BP but I believe so iirc.

Thanks.

More input needed guys.

Also thinking of going Kira's as my main helm, for the FHR/CBF/RES/1os

good to see some proper thinking your build through :thumbsup:

things I would observe:

personal choice: eld the storm shield over that last break point. Not sure how you would feel about that though. Look in the IAS tables stickies, its all in there. I checked your breakpoints in must have been under 30 seconds. Obviously it’s not only newcomers that don’t read the stickies.

beware diminishing returns on the resists from fade, it could take many skill points to make up for a 5all res sc. by my counting you have +12 all skills, netting you a level 13 fade with out prebuff, 13+35+8=56 DR with out prebuff. I’m not sure that spending you remaining points in fade is a good idea, I'm not going to bother to count your resists but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t either.

I would stick with your remaining points CBS unless you would like to switch out storm for spirit... 13+2(spirit) +6(claws) +3(helm) +15(remaining points)+8 eni=47%DR

hmmm, other then those I think your all set to go.

 

[BattleQueen]

I'd second that opinion on Stormlash. Having ctc Static is esp nice when you're facing mobs. I'm not sure how critical having a 65FCR is in PvM since I get by with much lower FCR... Alternatives could be a crafted FHR/OW/Str/Life belt or Dungos or even TGods.

If you must teleport I guess you gotta wear that Enigma. I prefer Treachery though. ctc Fade, Venom, 45IAS, 20FHR, +2 Skills...they all rock!