Poison crit EK Nova Assassin (Dual Curse/Dodge/Eva/Life)

Hey guys, just want to present my current build to you. I decided to use EK for my league starter because my first charakter ever used EK and that kinda fits to the legacy theme.
Because this build works surprisingly good for me, I want to share it with you.

This will start out as a rather small guide but I will add things when I find enough time.
I'm not finished gearing my character as you will see...or leveling the gems..
but it's going great so far.

Aspects of this build
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-using EK as main skill
-scale physical damage
-scale poison and make use of double dips with projectile damage etc.
-Lifebased because I wanted to use Cospri's Will and eventually Winds of Change
-Evasion
-Acrobatics
-Vaal Pact
-Freezes
-100% Chance to pierce

Pros:
-Very good clearspeed
-Doesn't require anything specific to get started
-You don't need to aim
-good range/ good AoE. Clearing double beyond breaches just feels so good with this.
-Vaal Pact
-Reflect rares are no problem
-can run almost all map mods

Cons:
-Squishy. Only 5k life at max
-Is to much fun...destroys the real life
-Not HC viable



Stats
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Lvl90

270k buffed Tooltip DPS at this state (5 power charges, 4 frenzy charges, vaal haste, aziris promise)
with the clearspeed gem-setup
+~1 million Poison DPS after 2 seconds of stacking

currently only 4,75k life, will go up to 5k with better gear
45% chance to dodge spells
40% chance to dodge attacks
41% chance to evade

pictures will follow


Tree


Gear
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Required for the build to be very effective are
-Pledge of Hands (you can use a rare spell dagger + Death's Hand before)
-Cospris Will (Gives us Poison and since our only source of Leech comes from warlords mark, we need to be able to curse hexproof mobs. You can use any life armor until that and simply use a poison gem)
-Atziri's Step (Evasion, movespeed, spell dodge, Life. We dont need more resists)
-The Green Dream (Free Frenzy Charges, placed in the scion section. and some chaos dmg)
-Atziris Promise (Cheap, good Damage, Leech)
-The Ring of Blades (Makes EK a Nova9

But you can level with almost any gear until tier 6 maps

For the future i want to opt in Winds of Change with the curse enemies with vulnerability on hit corruption.
Also Sins Rebirth and Taste of Hate will be good


Gem links
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In the Optimal setup
6L
EK-Inc Crit Chance-Inc Crit Damage-Faster Casting-Pierce-Empower
Use Spell Echo instead of crit damage if you dont have a Pledge of Hands

4L
Blasphemy-Warlords Mark-Hatred-Enlighten
Warlords sustains our Life and mana, Hatred is nice because it makes freezes possible and even gives us a little chaos damage through the green dream

4S3L
EK-Curse on Hit-assassins Mark
This is our Power charge generation

6S4L
Lightning Warp-Rapid Decay-Lesser Duration-Faster Casting+Summon Flame Golem+Vaal Haste

4L
Cwdt-Immortal Call-EK-Power Charge on Crit

0L
Summon Flame Golem

0L
Vaal Haste



Try it out! It's worth it
Last edited by Powerlenny#5323 on Apr 14, 2017, 12:55:10 PM
Last bumped on Apr 14, 2017, 12:41:37 PM
Interesting build! How is your life management? Is it too low? I am going to give this build a shot!
How does it freeze?
had some trouble in real life the last 2 weeks and couldnt work further on it.

It freezes through hatred and crit.

Life Management...well..it's okay. you have to be careful tho

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