CI 2xClaws Frenzy/Flicker Assassin

Am lvl 32 and things go really well.


Current tree:



Going for Ghost reaver atm.

Build at lvl50:



Basically pumping my Defense and getting ES, as well as int and Mana I need for skills-spamming, and some damage on the way. Depending on how well it goes, I'll either prepare for CI and go down for the 40% ES, and maybe get the 20% faster energyshield-recovery and go down the way to Vaal Pact and grab some buffs and resistense further on.

Else I'll get Dead Eye for accuracy and/or eagle talons for dmg, don't know when I go for the additional frenzy + 4% evasion/stack nods yet. My goal to go for CI is lvl 60, is that a good goal or should I wait longer or can I even get it earlier if it goes well?

Sit at 350 Life, 515 ES atm and around 38% Evasion. Frenzy damage at about 210 dmg and dual strike at 400 dps unbuffed.

Took passive SKill point from normal, probably gonna take the skill point from cruel as well, what I can get with that point is better than 12% phys dmg I suppose, and frenzy from merciless.


Using frenzy, dual trike + evasion, flicker, whirling blades, blood rage, LL/ML curse and lightning strike a bit, but its a bitch to use 3 melee-attacks but only having LMB/RMB, middle button is crap too. Maybe I can use the side-button on my razer-mouse.

To Lightningstrike: only possibly AoE I suppose with LMP+Chains, but few questions:

dmg only calculates through my physical damage right? But I dont leech life for the 50% converted light-dmg or the lightnings that are released, right?

No more feedback, I suppose the build's perfect then :-DD

What sort of armor do you use?
ES only or EV/ES hybrid?

I primary look for high ES, but I'll use ES/EV armors, with ES as priority tho.

Also using Discipline+Grace

I've noticed that you placed no points in any resistance nodes, how does your character do vs elemental damage?
I always died due to being frozen when trying a very similar build.

Yes I gotta be careful against those, but all the res nods I pick up are yet to come. I'll have around +65% to 2 elements and +47% to one, only +20% to all atm, gear excluded ofc.

Does all the life leech benefits of Claws get turned into ES leech with this build?

edit: I didn't know about Ghost Reaver. My bad.

Yep it does. Atm got 11% Lifeleech without Blood Rage and it all goes to ES. Works pretty good, I think I'll get CI at lvl 50, I'm 38 now and got 690 ES and 380 Life, While, when my ES is gone, death is quite near, so it doesnt make much differents by now allready, allthough I'll crab 42% ES and 30-40% ES recovery + some mana until the next 12 lvls until lvl 50 and get CI, maybe earlier if it works well, so I can have blood-rage up all time and still benefit from +melee dmg on full life. Whirling Blades + melee dmg + melee on full life is quite good for filling up my ES in groups :P

Since I have respec points left, I decided to try CI with lvl 38, and it works pretty well. Just started act 2 almost lvl 41, dual strike DPS without frenzycharges is 980, frenzy around 500 and with bloodrage and marks curse around 18-20% LL.


Running Discipline, Clarity and Grace atm. No mana problems at all, can spamm flicker/whirling blades as I want.
But only 570 ES only atm and 49% chance to evade, am going for more ES and ES revovery now, looking for items with ES until lvl 50 but got quite good slots atm and I wanna keep them actually.

Hi,

I'm currently 46 with a very similiar build .

For late game, I would go into a different direction. You have taken much if not all of the ES nodes, while i have encountered many situations where i could have had 5 mil ES and died anyway. So i wanted to get that far away Unwavering Stance in addition with Iron Reflexes, because ES/EV armors seem to be the best deal in every case. I focused much more on offensive nodes and have taken all of the claw dmg, but i don't see any sense in taking those extra frenzy charges. 3 are more than enough and attack speed can be found at closer nodes.

Here is my final build:

Keep on posting :)

/discuss!