Help with build

Hi there:) i am following this build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2284176 and i have problem with damage being too low. I use two rare daggers, i know that my character does not have all the gear and that the passive skill tree is not complete, but i want to know why my damage is so low before i invest more time in it. My account name is Zulfarrack and my character name is Ziccz.

Best regards Zulfarrack

The weapons in the budget version of the guide have ~400 pdps, yours have 100. You have 38% crit chance with 495 crit multi, he has 85% crit chance with 786 crit multi.
You are also lacking a bunch of mastery nodes as well as 6 out of 8 ascendancy nodes. Where do you expect your damage to come from at this stage? Your build is still in it's infancy both gear and skill tree wise.

Thanks for the help :)

You didn't ask but since you seemed to have your doubts about the build i've checked the guide and the POB a bit more indepth. Note that this is just my personal impression/opinion, nothing more nothing less. I had my fair share of following guides that were "not ideal" as a beginner so i can somewhat imagine what you'll run into with this one.

I don't know what exactly you expect from the build so it will also depend on that, but what i can say is that the guide is well suited to give wrong expecations. The build itself is what you'd call a melee glass cannon, one of the worsth things you can play honestly. Glass cannons feel bad in general but melee glass cannons are the worst because dodging stuff is quite difficult from up close. The only way for them to somewhat work, is to have A LOT of damage.

With that out of the way, now how does the guide look on the damage side? The "budget" pob, which is probably the best you can get as a beginner, has barely 2 mio dps. The build version he used to kill the feared in the 3.18 video used legacy gear (i.e stuff not available in league and most likely absurdly expensive in standard) and had 32 mio dps. And he died 5 times in the process.

So yeah, i don't know whether you noticed this or not and what your expectations are, but you won't be beating the feared with this build anytime soon. You'll also have one hell of a time trying to beat any of the other endgame bosses unless you have all their mechanics perfectly mastered. Tier 16 maps might work but it's probably going to end with at least 1-2 rips per map even if you manage to copy the budget version to the letter.

Well i guess i picked the wrong build. Could you recommend some builds that are melee based for an Assassin that does not break the bank, in standard. Also i like delve just so you know:)

best regards Zulfarrack:)

Sorry, but frankly i can't bring myself to recommend an assassin based melee build. That class struggles hopelessly with survival by default and survival is the key point if you want to have fun playing melee. At least in my opinion. You can probably fix that by throwing enough currency at it, especially in standard so if you have that money, go with that guide. If you don't have the money... well prepare to wipe a lot.

Okay. Thanks for your help and time:)

best regards Zulfarrack

OP: As general advice (as I'm guessing "melee assassin" is coming from this), if you are trying to "roleplay" some type of class this is the wrong game to do that. You will get murdered again and again to the point where you get fed up and quit. To do well in this game, you need to play something that works well and works well with a playstyle that you are good at.