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Mar 2 2018 12:08pm


3443 average poison damage over 10 frames converted to 350 frames in hell = 120,5050 average damage per hit unless my math is wrong.

You're an assassin throwing 100k damage plague javelins with traps and mindblast. You have a shadow master that is infinitely more useful to killing low health opponents than multiple shot is.
You don't need amazons anymore.

Helmet:
2 assassin/20fcr/2os rare circlet. Ideal stats would include ar or visionary, life, all resist, dex or cold resist. Mana is also useful. FRW is optional.
Shako (dr, higher battle orders level)
3shadow/20fcr/2os helmet (higher mindblast damage)
3shadow/30strength/2os (optional prebuff)
Crown of Ages

Armors:
Enigma of bone (30 all resist)
Enigma
Bramble (prebuff)

Amulet:
2 sin/20 fcr amulet. Ideal stats would be life and all resist. Mana, cold resist, light resist are also useful affixes.
3 shadow/30 strength (optional prebuff)
3 shadow/100 life or 3 shadow/10 fcr (higher mindblast damage)

Shield:
JmoD or JmoC with poison facets
35% fcr spirit monarch
Stormshield

Charm:
shadow lifers, life+res scs, torch+anni. You *may* need 1-2 fhr charms if you don't use spirit.

You'll also want these
2-3 gargoyle's bite winged harpoon
arach
trang gloves
shadowdancers
Angelic rings+ammy
ravenfrost
a fcr+ar+mana ring. life/res optional
demonlimb
2x 6 venom claws for prebuff
2x soj for prebuff
a chaos claw just in case
a lacerator so you can turn into a kicker if you run out of gold

Skills:
20 venom
20 mindblast

The rest of your skill points can be spent as you like. It's a very flexible build. I've played around with higher trap damage, maxing kicks, maxing shadow skills like cloak of shadows and shadow master.

Notes for the build:
If you or your shadow master applies another source of poison damage (such as venom from kicks) it will replace the plague damage.
Each attack costs you about 3k gold.
It's only slightly more effective in pvp than a zeal sorc.
It does about 5k damage after penalties to 0% plr targets. If they have max resist then barb/hdin/druid will not die in 1 hit.
If you have prebuff items with strength or dex you should reach close to 4k hp, instead of the lower health from my video.
Ranged ar bug still existing means you don't get the % ar boost from the plague charges. With demonlimb and angelics you reach about 13k ar at level 90. If you had a visionary helm it would be much higher
With spirit on you can reach 102 fcr/86 fhr for sorc/nec/druid. With jeweler's shield or stormshield on you can reach 65 fcr/48 fhr for everything else.

This post was edited by Worrywart on Mar 2 2018 12:20pm
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Mar 2 2018 12:32pm
Funny stuff!
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Mar 2 2018 12:53pm
Funny build. I wonder if it would be possible to be somewhat effective using poison dagger charges..?
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Mar 2 2018 12:56pm
Quote (Chainsaw47 @ Mar 2 2018 01:53pm)
Funny build. I wonder if it would be possible to be somewhat effective using poison dagger charges..?


It would work about the same. You would be in melee range, but you would have higher life/ar and attack much faster without a nextdelay.
Your ideal weapon would be 40 ias/fool's/2os with poison dagger charges.
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Mar 2 2018 01:04pm
Quote (Chainsaw47 @ Mar 2 2018 12:53pm)
Funny build. I wonder if it would be possible to be somewhat effective using poison dagger charges..?


My lvl 30 poi dagger sin can 1 shot ES sorcs, 2 shot most chars, and 3 shot high life opponents.

this char is far more effective tho, even with dflight and MB poi dagger weps lack the range to get people running away and if they turn on you it sucks. ranged would be killer.
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Mar 2 2018 01:23pm
Damn this looks useless. I thought better of you Mr. Wart.
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Mar 2 2018 05:00pm
Quote (thesnipa @ Mar 2 2018 02:04pm)
My lvl 30 poi dagger sin can 1 shot ES sorcs, 2 shot most chars, and 3 shot high life opponents.

this char is far more effective tho, even with dflight and MB poi dagger weps lack the range to get people running away and if they turn on you it sucks. ranged would be killer.


It was more effective last ladder obviously, but that's because everything is more effective on ladder. I'm still killing sorcs/necros often enough if they aren't kitted out with 150+ frw.

Quote (cejss @ Mar 2 2018 02:23pm)
Damn this looks useless. I thought better of you Mr. Wart.


This is still much better than my pvp curse necro.
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Mar 3 2018 07:26am
Very interesting build. I like it.
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Mar 3 2018 07:30am
I remember reading about poison javas 1 shotting uber baal using venom from grief or arach's. Would this build with the reverse (high level venom/low level plague) be capable of a similar feat?
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Quote (Oilerfan @ Mar 3 2018 08:30am)
I remember reading about poison javas 1 shotting uber baal using venom from grief or arach's. Would this build with the reverse (high level venom/low level plague) be capable of a similar feat?


No, I'm close to max damage as it is. You can reach pretty absurd damage amounts on zon although I don't know if it would 1shot bosses.
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