[2.2 Theorycraft] Crit Facebreaker Assassin

the assassin class for reference


The Assassin provides us with three important nodes.

Ambush Insane crit chance and crit multi

Assassinate Destruction of anything on low life

Toxic Delivery 10% of phys damage as extra chaos.


This build is made possible by Rigwald's Curse amulet



I believe the top three contenders for this build are Ice Crash, Cyclone, and Infernal Blow

Core supports: Melee Phys - Faster Attacks - Blood Magic - Fortify

Jewel spots for 2 Pugilists

Since we have so much offense, we need to focus heavily on defense.

Enfeeble on blasphemy, Dodge/Block, Arctic Armour, Eva/Armour, Fortify, 4k+ life.

Trees


Gear considered


Auras:

If we go with legacy lightning coil, Blasphemy + Enfeeble, Purity of Lightning, Arctic Armour.

If we go BoR, tempest shield on cwdt, Blasphemy + Enfeeble, Arctic Armour, Purity of Elements

Reserved

*Update

Tree, added 2 spots for pugilists.

So not challenge league viable then. I honestly think they need to add that ammu to the general game.

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Joo wrote:

So not challenge league viable then. I honestly think they need to add that ammu to the general game.

It can still be done, it's just very difficult to obtain. GGG has stated that they'll choose leagues to be available from zana's map device, unfortunately talisman is not on the rotation for the coming league. Think of it more as a voll's devotion when talisman is in the normal rotation.

As for legacy meginord's, lightning coil, and facebreakers; their non-legacy variants will work but be strictly worse.

*Update

Updated tree, added support for 2 addtional jewel slots for Martial Artistry and Warlord's Reach.

BAD NEWS

after asking around as to whether Talismans were going standard in Ascension, i got THIS response

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Alysma wrote:

Looks like Talisman won't be added to the core game but will be available as a mod from Zana. However, since Zana will undergo some changes in 2.2.0 it might be a while until it becomes available (basically, leagues from Zana will be put on rotation and Talisman won't be among the ones for the first round).

Source

Key sentence in source is "maybe one day Talismans will return and people will have another chance at a best-in-slot amulet". Shows over folks, No Rigwald's Curse in ascension for the forseeable future.

I'm not convinced that trickster is any good for this build. It's easy enough to run cyclone on mana,and the other trickster nodes seem lackluster for the build.

Assassin would be a far better choice, and would allow you to cap crit, which I feel is far more important than some random evasion/dodge bonuses.

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Etherfire wrote:

I'm not convinced that trickster is any good for this build. It's easy enough to run cyclone on mana,and the other trickster nodes seem lackluster for the build.

Assassin would be a far better choice, and would allow you to cap crit, which I feel is far more important than some random evasion/dodge bonuses.

Agreed, it is still in theorycraft phase. I might as well just go assassin.