course its a joke with an op toon like a hammerdin. thats not the point of this though. this is a "fun" build to play pvm. not some cookie cutter gaydin

I finally made a Rift War Scepter for my assassin, so I'll give you my 2-cents here.

she has a +15/-5 nightwings but not facet shield, and I must say I'm a little disappointed with the orb damage. don't get me wrong, the effect is stunning, but it seems like the bark is worse than the bite. I didn't build exactly according to your guide here, I made a Chaos Ice hybrid. 20 points death sentry, light sentry and shock web with an infinity merc is more than enough by itself, you wouldn't need rift at all so the effectiveness of rift would be overshadowed. She was hitting 1400 chaos ice (since i have trap sk's not martial arts. even that ice orb seemed weak. I believe that is due to not being able to sweet spot the orb like a sorceress could, the assassin is limited by where she can cast from, it takes more to setup your attack to even get the orb to go the right direction at all. Your guide says to use shadow master, personally dislike her because of the mindblasting/convert, it only slows you down. these points could go into LS synergies or even fireblast as far as I'm concerned. I also

Not to say rift sucks, it's just that the skill build does not suffer if you choose to not use it. I know, your aim was to be concise but there are two weapons that I feel are worth mentioning which have more to offer than rift.

1) Lawbringer phaseblade works wonders, if you haven't tried that on a kicker, I highly recommend it. decrepify + sanctuary and built in life leach are great safety and damage boost for DS and merc. the rest in peace gets annoying, but it works fine if you and your merc are attacking the same monster, let him finish while you lay out some DS. this works great with more synergy points in LS, and bosses go down quick with decrepify, and sanctuary makes short work of wisps and vampires, but mostly you use it to cast decrep and let DS do the rest.

2) Death phaseblade is also a great weapon. glacial spike is awesome for safety. back me into a corner please. you get built in mana leach and a nice damage boost from ds and cb, however the glacial spike can break corpses for the same effect as rip essentially. love the glacial spike with blade shield. could have made in an eth zerker for a nice blade fury hybrid, but that seemed unnecessary. I like using max fireblast to get more out of each DS and shock web and have something to use against the stone skin unbreakable lit immunes.

according to faqtoids library, critical/deadly strike do work with kicks.

Well, the 2 best weapons, without any further discussion are, of course, the Stormlash and the Azurewrath. Lawbringer sucks because it makes Death Sentry obsolete. Death is ok, but not even close to a Lash. I did a Riftkicksin as well and i do like it this far. She has no facet Shield either, but a 20/5 NW, and im going to put another rbf into Naj's Armor. Killspeed is good, as with every Kicksin

Great build for ladder, but getting a rift in NL was sort of hard and might not be worth the cash.

This post was edited by Sammy_Jenkis on Feb 21 2011 01:29pm

So I decided to have a little fun.

Took my rift sin. Removed rift/nw/shield and replaced them with a destruction phase blade, phoenix monarch, and a 10/-10 fire CoA. As effective as the rift setup? Probably not. Fun? Hell yes.





85/75/90/75 res with cold/lite/fire absorb
22% dr
2.5k death sentry
6k lite sentry
10% fire dmg
-38 enemy fire resistance (not counting infinity on merc)
Redemption aura

Still missing the last 10ias, was thinking of swapping out the dracs for bloodfists since the life leech isn't that needed with redemption active. It would also let me easily hit the 86fhr breakpoint.

I'm looking for a Rift in East softcore nonladder, so if anyone who no longer plays this build has one for trade let me know. I'd rather not wait 6 months for my ladder Rift to transfer over to non-ladder.


Maybe I'm not reading this table right, but it looks like with a phase blade (weapon speed modifier = -30), you only need 46 ias to get to a 7 frame kick, or 18ias to get to a 3 frame kick. That's with level 0 burst of speed, too, so if you're using BoS instead of Fade, you shouldn't need any more ias.

Here's the dragon talon ias table that I was looking at, so I can't guarantee its accuracy:
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7819921&postcount=5

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trackin down page and thx to your fullfilled description, i ll give my first ever try on makin an assa!!! cheers!!quite tempting guide!

Should I also stash CTA? Im in HC btw

then it's not a riftsin anymore.