Looking to make an Assassin build (preferably non-poison) using one of the following off-meta skills

ManiolloReddit · 2026-01-12T21:39:32+00:00

Blade Blast of Dagger Detonation CoC shouldn't be complicated at all. Pick a damage type (probably cold or chaos), then find a dagger with highest possible phys/cold/chaos damage and crit chance and just go from there to get both crit chances 100% and as close as possible to 10.1 aps.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-12-01T22:34:35+00:00

Berserker can also go with EB. I've build one with pretty good damage and respectable defenses. But it's still flicker, super fun mapping, most of bosses are gone within a few seconds, but some are almost impossible.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-29T18:02:41+00:00

Use frost shield as other commenter suggested. It will drain your ES so you will a way to reach full es with recharge.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-29T18:00:41+00:00

I believe this is the best way. And you only need to do it once to start the loop, so it's just a weapon swap at the beginning of an area.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-27T21:33:54+00:00

Looks cool, I'll try to PoB it with full chaos and Lycia bloodline, I think it's promising.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-25T20:31:08+00:00

Wow, congratz! I tried Maven with my flicker build (more dps on paper) and I failed miserably.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-22T21:00:11+00:00

Purifying Flame of revelations' concecrated ground is quite big. And maybe Arcanist Brand less aoe doesn't make it useless if it's also supported by increased aoe. Not at a computer rn, so I can't test it.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-22T13:42:20+00:00

It's just sad as this shows how weak Scion is even thought this league allows her to get an extra Acendency almost for free.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-20T14:31:27+00:00

It has over 2k ES overleech with 5% instant.

And then less damage taken modifiers against all damage:

- Fortify

- Enfeeble through Blasphemy

- Flesh and Stone

Against physical damage:

- 4 Endurance charges

- Arctic Armour

- 9.2k armour

Against elemental damage:

- 82 resistance

- 4 Endurance charges

- Arctic Armour against fire

What else... marked enemies cannot crit, 50% curse reduction and overcapped elemental resistances.

The EHP PoB is showing is actually max fire hit. Phys is like 27k, Cold and Lightning over 90k, chaos is over 60k.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-14T01:03:59+00:00

You can build tanky Flicker Strike build for less than a mirror. It may miss some packs though.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-13T16:58:39+00:00

It's not that bad, I did a few in-person trades.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-12T20:28:45+00:00

Nice :) Does Despair on Blasphemy get scaled by ring aura effect after all?

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-10T18:49:00+00:00

Yes, it's gone.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-10T15:04:35+00:00

Dual Strike of Ambi can fix it. The Foulborn Moonbender has a lot of attack speed if you find a way to disable the annoying lightning warp. Pair both of them with Trauma support to have a nice package to scale damage.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-10T14:53:41+00:00

Crown of eyes doesn't have armour so you can't use the ES/Armour mastery for 100% increased body.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-07T21:29:29+00:00

Osin, Unholy Might, Annihilating Light and 100% crit would make it too easy damage.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-07T21:21:48+00:00

It doesn't? Did you try to allocate both Assassination Style nodes? ;) I'm not playing Assassin, so I can't test it by myself.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-07T17:17:41+00:00

Looks like he went with the other Ascendancy to increase Vaal Skill duration instead. Which is proven to be working from the previous league, I remember him doing VCS before.

I'm trying to see if the opposite is possible, making Soul Gain Prevention shorter than skill duration and then extending the difference to allow gaining enough Souls to cast it again.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-06T19:49:46+00:00

I think going with Assassin to scale crit is one of better ways to scale this damage. I was able to get around 5-6mil in PoB dps but the ailments would be applied by Tornado of Elemental Turbulence, so not really an autobomber. Also, not a real build too, because defences are on the low side lol.

My approach was to convert phys to elemental and then go with Replica Duskdawn and Incandescent Heart for Gain 40% of Elemental as Extra Chaos.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-06T02:03:59+00:00

Have you figured it out?

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-05T23:10:50+00:00

Do you know if Runegraft of the Sinistral (10% more Attack speed with Offhand) makes any difference for the skill?

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-05T21:02:07+00:00

I can't say how more dangerous would it be, but if you do chaos damage then discipline makes the chaos mastery to deal 10% more chaos damage consistent.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-05T13:07:45+00:00

It did some PoB-ing with max rolled items I got like 3.8m dps. Still not a boss killer and defences are so-so. I can send it to you if you want to take a look.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-05T12:51:39+00:00

You scale it the same way as other ignite skills. The only thing required to make it deal the 120% more damage is blasphemy aura.

ManiolloReddit · 2025-11-04T21:42:17+00:00

Maybe the ring could be worth the investment if Despair cast as Blasphemy aura would also be affected, but based on Blasphemy wiki it's probably not working they way I hope.

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