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Overview:
A tiger strike assassin is a very strong LVL 9 dueler because of its incredibly fast attack, high dmg and attack rating that scales from the skill tiger strike and from claw mastery. The main strategy here is to use Tiger Strike to charge up your attack until you have 3 charges, and then switch to normal attack to offload the charges. With the changes in 2.4, each normal attack only costs one charge, so after you've accumulated 3 charges from tiger strike, you have 3 empowered normal attacks.
Pros-
High Dmg/AR
High Life
Low STR/Dex Req
Cons-
Low Defense

Throughout my build, I followed a few guiding principles:
1- Maintain 7 FPA (fastest attack frames possible for lvl 9)
There are a couple variations to attain 7 FPA
- Blade Talons with Death's Combo (LVL 2 Burst of Speed)
- 10% IAS Blade Talons with Death's Combo (LVL 2 Burst of Speed)
- 10% IAS Blade Talons with Bloodfist (LVL 4 Burst of Speed)
Blade Talons & Death's Combo (7fpa)
2 Burst of Speed (BoS)
9 Claw Mastery (CM)
9 Tiger Strike (TS)

10% IAS Blade Talons & Bloodfist (7fpa)
4 Burst of Speed
7 Claw Mastery
9 Tiger Strike

2- Leverage Minimum Damage to scale total dmg
Instead of using max damage jewels, I elected for a pure minimum dmg build. If you think about it, once your min damage exceeds max, then your max damaged essentially becomes min+1. So really, every +1 min that you have on a jewel is actually +1 min and +1 max damage. 8 min damage jewels are the highest possible rolls while staying under lvl 9. Each of these 8 min damage jewels act as a +16 dmg jewel.

3- Obtain the highest life possible by keeping the build at 40 Str. With this build you are running very low defense, meaning that you are going to take alot of hits. You need to be able to tank as many hits as possible to build up charges and offload them. That's why I shoot for 20 life rep and 600+ life.

Imbuing:
Eth Blade Talons should be imbued at level 18

Gambling:
Rare Boots and Belts should be gambled at lvl 19.
Ideally you want to have:
3 dex on your boots
15 AR on your boots
10fhr on either your boots or belt.
CTC Frost Nova on boots or belt
+5 Rep Life on your belt

Rerolling Jewels:
Rare jewels for lvl 9 are very scarce and so rerolling is the most efficient way to farm rare jewels. Once you've acquired a rare jewel with an ilvl of 12 or higher, you can use the cube recipe with 6 PSkulls to reroll the mods. You want to use a lvl 20-22 character when rerolling because it will lower the ilvl down to 12, which has the highest odds of getting desirable mods.
6x PSkull Method
ilvl = int(.4 * clvl) + int(.4 * ilvl)
ilvl = int(.4 * 20) + int(.4 * 12)
ilvl = int(8) + int(4.8)
ilvl = 12

This is my build right now:


This post was edited by ThisDonger on Nov 23 2022 02:36pm

perfect - will tidy it up and we can revisit tomorrow

This post was edited by ferdia on Nov 23 2022 02:40pm

re: thesnipa - its fine. He is adopted. He was also dropped when he was very young. 2 days ago. We do love him though.

This post was edited by ferdia on Nov 23 2022 02:46pm

TS sin and jabber are the reason i created the min dmg shiver sac sorc, the only two builds it consistently beat.

maybe something for Gambling Shields as well?

Gambled items are only affected by character level with the item levels of the gambled items being anywhere from -5 to +4 of the character level.

Rare Bone Shields should be gambled at lvl 25
Desirable mods include:
10 to 17 fhr (must have)
30/20 deflecting (must have)
2 sockets (must have)
40%ed
1dr
7 to 12 DTM


Rare Rings and Amulets should be gambled at lvl 17

Decent Rings:
- 60 AR / 2 STR / 2 DEX
- 60 AR / 2 STR or 2 DEX / 5 life rep
- 2 STR / 2 DEX / 5 life rep

End-Game Ring :
- 75+ AR / 2 STR / 2 DEX / 10 mana / 5 life rep

Decent Ammys:
- 4 STR / 4 DEX
- 2 STR / 5 DEX / 7 DTM
- 5 STR / 2 DEX / 4 life rep

End-Game Ammy:
- 20 AR / 5 STR / 5 DEX / 10 mana / 5 life rep / 12 DTM