My martial arts assassin is nearly done. EDIT: Phoenix Strike / Dragon Tail build with maxed phoenix synergies FYI! Not a dragon talon kicker or tiger strike / dtail build.

Level 87 with um'd shako, jade talon, eth'd bartucs, maras, bk ring, dual leech ring, dungos, dracs, shadow dancers, torch, anni, life skillers, cta and spirit on switch, and smoke archon plate.

I'm happy with her gear except her body armor.

Chains of Honor seems like an obvious choice.

But I'm also interested in Fort for her for the damage boost to kicks and the massive defense boost. Her defense is awful for a melee character and I think Fort would help her not get hit as much.

Enigma would be nice for general mobility but her dragon flight works great any time enemies are around.

Also have a few treachery armors she can wear but I have max res without fade so having it cancel BoS gets old.


So, think there's a better choice for her than CoH? I was thinking try out Fort once I trade for a Lo rune, then when I can afford Ber I'll give fort to her merc and make CoH.

This post was edited by R77 on May 27 2022 12:16pm

Ur kinda doing it wrong.

Dragon talon damage in itself has very low damage...
The strenght of dragon talon is its high ar and high attackspeed.
You can try to boost its direct damage as much as you want but it wont help with more than a few hundred damage.

To make kick hurt like hell you need crushing blow. And then you boost that crushing blow with curse in form of amplify dmg or decreap via ctc on items.

Other viable stuff on kicks are ctc spells...

Here is the strongest kicksin build i know:
Stormlash 15ias/15@ + stormshield 15ias/15@
20ias/10cb/adds gloves
Guilaume 15ias/15@
Atma's scarab ammulet (5ctc amp, ar, psn res)
Upped gore riders
Arach(strings vs ubers)
10fcr/dual leech ring with nice adds
Raven
Enigma
Cta(preferable in pb) + spirit 35
Torch
Annie
Life/5@ scs
Some trap skillers

Merc:
Act2 offensive might aura with:
Infi, andariels, treachury

Skills:
Max death sentry
Xx dragon talon

Rest is free of choice. Fade, bos, sm, mb, cos etc... Maby u even want to boost death sentry light dmg with synt energien and max out ls.

Why is this good? :
Cb takes 1/6 of enemy remaining life, but is affected by dr%.

Static takes like 25% of enemy remaining life, but stops at like 33% and is affected by light res of monsters.

Death sentry use corpse explotion of monsters base life 60-100% damage. (base life is in p1) its damage is 50% fire/50% physical.
Death sentry also shots lightning which u can boost up to like 3-5k with this build. (dont remember exactly)

Stormlash: 1-514 light dmg, ctc static, 45ias/15@, 33% cb
Atma's: 5ctc amp
Infinity: - 85 enemy fire/cold/lr

Conv:
Oki, so infi boost ur and merc hit chance, it boost light direct dmg form stormlash, it boost static, it boost light dmg from death sentry, it boost fire dmg of death sentry corpse explotion. Also remove light immunity.

Amp:
Remove physical immunity, boost ur direct physical kick dmg, and therefor also boost ur leech. Boost death sentry corpse explotion damage, boost cb damage!

So to sum it up:
93% cb (godly)
-100% enemy dr
-85 enemy res
Ctc static
1-514 light dmg in direct attack
Max ias with fade (95)
Entire screen radious on corpse explotion if u have some skillers.
3-6k light dmg traps.
10% ow to stop uber repl
30fcr main/65fcr switch

Aoe dmg:
Static
Corpse explotion
Light traps

Single target:
Inzane single target dps due to cb and amp and fast kicks.
Kills monsters fast so traps use corpse explotion.

Use demon limb precast ench vs ubers.

Tanky merc.

Monsters will poof in big swarms by static/corpse explotion damage on entire screen area almost.

I don't use dragon talon

I'm a phoenix strike / dragon tail build with maxed synergies for phoenix strike. So my damage is based more on + skills rather than procs dragon talon builds utilize.

I rock gore riders and g face on my blade sin though, it works well with blade fury.

Ah okay, well i havent played on of those sry ^^