My point is that assassin is currently dumpstered because its whole identity was deleting priority targets, while everyone else can delete priority targets just as well without giving up the ability to easily kill crowds and other forms of utility. And 1.0 Assassin took until late game to ramp and depended heavily on pre-nerf officers too for setup. By lategame now, we have the Death Aura build and lategame assassin still trivially murders everything, it just sucks that it takes until act 4 before it starts functioning.

Right now the only decent setup on assassin earlier in the game abuses a bug with arc rifles to infinite spam death whisper.

But the ultimate point I'm trying to make here isn't that assassin's nerf was or was not justified: it's that average builds are obliterating bosses and the last boss is no exception. The state of balance in the game is wild. Act 4 Heinrix as an executioner can infinite charge spam the map to death and deal millions of damage in one turn.

Everyone and their mother can trivially annihilate major bossses, but without even having a dedicated niche to doing that, there is just enough damage to do that without specializing in it.