[3.13] Power Siphon/Kinetic Blast Poison Assassin - Very fast and tanky poison wander

Small build update:

- Replaced Voices with Large Cluster Jewel
- Switched helmet to Starkonja in Starter setup

I noticed I still had voices setup in cluster jewel tree, but they are super expensive so I don't think its reasonable to use them (and the benefit was small compared to large cluster jewel).

barrage power siphon feel a bit clunky (like all the proj take too much time to launch) so was there any idea to replace it before ? maybe normal barrage even though you ll lose culling strike and power charge but you can still get power charge on the ascendancy and get one more support for the skill

edit: you dont really even need the power charge , they are a nice boost but dropping them for barrage instead of power siphon feel pretty great, just add GMP to replace barrage support or else it'll still fell clunky, tho you also lose the small auto target of power siphon so more precision needeed

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xmort escreveu:

barrage power siphon feel a bit clunky (like all the proj take too much time to launch) so was there any idea to replace it before ? maybe normal barrage even though you ll lose culling strike and power charge but you can still get power charge on the ascendancy and get one more support for the skill

Well the easiest way to mitigate the clunkyness is to get more attack speed. Regular Barrage will have a lot less damage, but you can try it if you want I guess.

Playing this as my first SSF character, It was rough in the beginning but started to get easier at around lvl 25.

When am I supposed to use withering step and despair? Only on bosses?

Should I just swap to power siphon when i hit maps or is it gear dependant?

Hey! This is my final take on the build, i did pretty much anything but uber Elder :)

My gear is not the best, and I honestly had some difficult doing wave20 in Simulacrum, but I had a lot of fun, and I'm bringing it in standard to get much better upgrades :)

This build surprised me, pretty darn tanky. Thank you.

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Tried the version from Ydoum's POB, damage is a lot better.

I don't feel squishier.

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How does this build work as a league starter?

Yea Ydoum's build is great. Gonna play this build again next league. 3 leagues in a row now.

Anyone have thoughts on this build following the crit multi nerf?

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Anyone have thoughts on this build following the crit multi nerf?

As far as I can see the build lost only 10% crit multi on Assassination, thats no big deal.

The more impactful changes are to the Antivenom notable, which no longer has "Unaffected by Poison" but now grants "30% chance to Avoid being Poisoned" and "1% max Chaos Res". So I think the Golden Rule is out of the picture.

"Method of Madness" also lost it's chaos damage over time multiplier but gained +1% maximum chaos res and some more chaos res.

Also Envy from the Aul amulet got buffed. And significantly unless they used the most convoluted and misunderstandable way possible to say they increasey its flat damage.

Edit: Read the patch notes again, and now I think its just more flat damage, but the phrasing is very ambiguous.

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Envy, granted by United in Dream, Aul's Uprising and the Elder Mod (Suffix) now grants 75% More Added Chaos Damage to Attacks and Spells. Its radius has been increased by 14 units, to match other similar Aura skills. This affects all versions of these items.

Since basically all of this builds damage comes from added chaos damage from various sources this is a huge buff and easily offsets the circle of nostalgia nerf.

As far as I knew this should even effect the local chaos damage on wands, but Im 100% sure on that.