[3.14] CoC Poison Bladefall / Blade Blast Assassin | SSF Viable

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buttcaake เขียน:

I went with wither totems for bosses. For now. I need more practice to manage pressing withering step and plague bearer efficiently too. Need to get more evasion gear. Getting hit a lot rn. Other than that, build feels really good.

Why did u take mistwalker instead of opportunistic btw?

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efun เขียน:

I definitely prioritize withering step micromanagement over plague bearer micromanagement. I sometimes go entire maps forgetting about plague bearer tbh, but it can be a huge clearing bonus if your DPS isn't high enough to clear packs yet. Wither totems of course work if you prefer that!

Every assassin build should take mistwalker imo. Being immune to crits and gaining a buff for 45% move speed and 20% attack/spell dodge is just too good. It also synergizes nicely with withering step tech because withering step can override your elusive buff from crit, and then you can regain elusive on crit once withering step elusive decays. Withering step elusive effect is also ~200% because mistwalker gives you elusive effect, so that's 60% move speed and 30% attack/spell dodge at the beginning.

If anything, if you could find enough crit chance elsewhere you would drop unstable infusion for opportunistic.

In terms of survivability getting more evasion is nice, but you'll be tankier if you find a life gain on hit ring (or two!). I try to juice any early baran maps I get to try and drop a crusader ring. Shaper scarabs and shaper/elder trinket incubators are also useful.

edit: btw the 70% spell damage on your shield does almost nothing for this build, so you could definitely upgrade that to an evasion or eva/es shield with some better life and resists. Only phys as extra chaos or +1 to phys gems are good shield dps mods, and both are pretty rare.

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buttcaake เขียน:

Will soul tether work well with this build? Or not worth it? I got a random drop. I also learned about atziri's acuity just now. Seems like a cool glove for this build.

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Besk1 เขียน:

loved the build! HC Viable?

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buttcaake เขียน:

The life gain on spell hit isnt quite working that well for me. The life gain is too less and I die before I get healed. Mayb Im missing something for it to work properly?

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efun เขียน:

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buttcaake เขียน:

The life gain on spell hit isnt quite working that well for me. The life gain is too less and I die before I get healed. Mayb Im missing something for it to work properly?

In what kind of content are you dying? If you have two life gain on hit rings you should have really good regen on single target (30 life gain * 10 aps * roughly 3 bf/bb hitting per cast = 900 regen). More attack speed with also give you more regen. I see you're also trying it on an ice nova character which will be less regen than bf/bb (because it hits less often).

For survivability you could try endurance charges (if you have the oils for "smashing strikes"). You will get 12% phys reduction and your immortal call will be a lot beefier.