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Those claws are stuuuupid good

Question: I’d like to build an assassin (lvl 30).
I’ve read the guides in this section (Light Trapper by user-name, Hybird by KnightXeno, Ghost Sin by breakbeatz2, Trapper by RedNight).
Those guides are quite old – partially.
My question is, which of those builds are the most competitive (in a very general sense)?

Thanks.

This post was edited by MrHandsome on Apr 1 2021 02:23am

A pure LS trapper (with df gained via claws and not hard skilled) is your best bet in 1v1 and team vs team duels. Wof sin is also strong in team vs team.

Heavy investment into martial arts skills is terrible vs whirlwind and smite (relatively common builds), as well as hammerdins (extremely common builds).
Martial arts will give you an edge vs sorcs and weaker zons, but you will feel gimped vs a majority of the meta without strong trap damage.

That being said, Pure mindblast sins are incredibly fun in team vs team if you get top level gear for them.

Have to agree with lld_mayhem. When I made that guide lvl29 was the standard dueling format@EU, light traps were extremely uncommon in that environment. Light just to scales better with levels and +skills than WoF.
So with +2Traps affixes (Amy, Circlet) and claws being an option at level 30, the difference in damage is much more pronounced than at level 29.

This post was edited by VoltTackle on Apr 1 2021 06:06am

Yeah, and the more hardstats you can save on claws like mindblast/clawblock/shadow warrior, the more points you can cram into synergies to boost trap dam. You can even precast burst of speed if you invest the time to get the claws

Thanks. Your remark is very reasonable. So is your opinion, that hybridsins are not available at all, or just not (that) competitive? I'm very intrigued of a "ghostsinlike" assassin. Guess there are many ways to build them.

This post was edited by MrHandsome on Apr 1 2021 12:25pm

at 30 anything other then a trapper is not an all round character, and therefore while fun to play it won't stand a reasonable chance vs the top tier builds (Sorc;Pala;Ama to a degree)

i can put you on my nonladder trapper if you want
i can also put you on my nonladder mld ghost if you want
i dont have an assassin on ladder



This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 1 2021 12:41pm

Hybrid sins can be good and fun, just weaker than ls sin and harder to pilot properly

he killed my main MLD bowa with a non teleport windy 10 years ago. i think he can pilot just about anything tbh.