New Assassin player here. Suggestions?

[midevillw]

if you use psn charms. Do not use venom because the XXXpsn dmg in XXsec time from the charms is droped to the 0.4sec duration of venom and the dmg delt will be brought down to the amount that the charms would deal in that time aswell.

no you dnt have to max fof it is his sugestion to do so because of the fire damage that you would obtain from the third charge of fof and the meteors fire being combined into massive fire dmg applied ofver an area.

fof also converts some of your physical dmg into fire dmg to get around the physical imune monicer which will make your ts/dtail combo useless because you will be dealong zero physical dmg whitch translated to zero aoe dmg from your dtail

 

[muzzz]

You'll have to max FoF if you want to use the meteor charge of PS, yes. If you go that route you might want to experiment with using a single FoF charge in addition to the single PS charge. I'm thinking the physical-to-fire conversion will actually up your fire damage a good bit, more than the damage on FoF itself.

If you're going to use poison charms solely for preventing monster heal you'll just want to be looking for the longest duration. Don't even bother looking for high-rate ones for this character. Note though that OW or PMH will probably work better. OW is likely to do more damage, whereas PMH seems to last longer.

 

[CrimsonDuckling]

Well, the poison charms are just something I got for now. I can't imagine clogging up my inventory with them forever. Currently I'm using Blackthorn's Face which prevents monster heal.

I didn't invest any extra points in PS, FoF or Venom yet so I'm still able to go any way I want. TS and Dtail serve me well sofar. Investing in BoS and SM now.

 

[stephan]

Don't invest more than 1 point in BoS, unless you really have to.

If you can't figure out the IAS breakpoints for TS, I'll calculate them for you.

 

[PrkChopXpress]

If you want to use PS for PI's, you don't necessarily have to also max FoF but it would probably be a good idea. In hell, an unsynergized PS will be like tickling the PI's to death. It'll get the job done, but it won't set any kill-speed records.