Rune hunting Clvl Required: 25, 7% Life stolen per hit The Gnasher Stormchaser Hwanin's Majesty Vex Bartuc's cutthroat(Upgrade) Good attack speed +assassin skill, Gore rider(Upgrade) Best boots for Dragon tail kick. Normal, one-handed: The Disciple Bane Ash Do weekend days count as part of a vacation? Axe of Fechmar Bartuc's Cut-Throat Wizardspike, All Unique Polearms I'm level 74 and basically distributing my stats 2 str/2 dex/ 1 vitality. Is there a way to generate energy using a planet's angular momentum. Zephyr, https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/index.php?title=Strength_(runeword)&oldid=28441. Greyform Shaftstop Black and Edge would have been great options, but Lawbringer i can kinda understand it being more of a paladin weapon with its aura to be a sword based weapon, while Edge there could be potential for some shenanigans with Thorns Aura stacking (2x edge + Bramble giving level level 51 thorns aura). Iratha's Finery Stormguild Other good skills to have are "Fade" to boost resistances (really useful in Hell) and Shadow Master. Earthshaker, Exceptional, 2H: The Face of Horror, Exceptional: Dracul's Grasp Feel free to go back to Nightmare to do this. Principle Saracen's Chance Gerke's Sanctuary Blade of Ali Baba Dragon Flight is used for mobility, and Death Sentry for solid, cheap AoE damage, but most of the build relies on Mind Blast, Claw Mastery, Weapon Block, and Venom, along with Fade or Burst of Speed (or Shadow Master and rely on Treachery for Fade). Phoenix (L) Pierre Tombale Couant The MA changes will fall on their face until assassin has a respectable choice in melee weapons for claws. When adding a new disk to RAID 1, why does it sync unused space? Rakescar, Exceptional, one-handed: Carin Shard Boneflesh Veil of Steel, Circlets: Insight (L) Frostwind Then something like black runeword ( thul io nef). The Sin MA improvements will go a long way until midgame. Note that you cannot cast Cloak of Shadows again after casting it until the first one wears off, and it does not move with you. It is also almost certainly the one most naturally suited to key and organ runs (though the Smiter is massively better in Uber Tristram itself). Lance of Yaggai Enigma Raven Frost The Salamander The Tannr Gorerod, Exceptional: Leaf Rings, Weapons Boneflame Charge-ups are not worth interrupting their devastating kicks. For some reason if they wanted to. Tal Rasha's Wrappings Iron Pelt Stormshield Aside from that, gambled gear can be fine. This is your panic button. Sigon's Complete Steel Gamble on these, looking mostly for +skills and resistances. Then max Lightning Sentry and Death Sentry skills. Biggin's Bonnet Arioc's Needle Your assasin will be unbeatable. Skull Collector, Elite: Knell Striker Furthermore, you have other damage types available if you need them. The Ward, Exceptional: Bloodraven's Charge Magewrath Necro Totems Although there's a large amount of monsters with lightning immunity in Hell, making it difficult to get very far without "super great items", this will help you easily do magic find runs on Nightmare mode until you get better gear. Djinn Slayer (L) Hellslayer Elite: Toothrow Dragon tail assassin. in a single charge up kick in NM if you ask. Low to mid I go crushflange mace (unique) which will take you someway into nightmare with a decent set of boots. Headstriker Crown of Thieves Death's Disguise, Hsaru's Defense Stealth Eschuta's Temper, Angelic Raiment Normal: Harlequin Crest Io Another thing you could try is to re-spec into a build that relies on crushing blow to kill monsters, as well as poison damage: I know you're only level 74, but this may give you a better idea of the end build you should be shooting for. Smoke Baranar's Star Gloves Maces Duriel's Shell Kingslayer Quest Items Viperfork, All Unique Staves Stack Exchange network consists of 180 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. Executioner's Justice (L) Frostburn, Exceptional: The General's Tan Do Li Ga Passion TL:DR Allow Crescent Moon and Plague runewords to work in claw type weapons. Demon Machine, All Unique Daggers How to tell how many affixes an item can have? What is the recommended skill points distribution for hell difficulty? Guardian Naga, Elite, one-handed: Skewer of Krintiz The idea, though, is Stormlash (the rarer of the two unique scourges). Normal: Amulets The first is excellent mobility, and the latter two are two of the best of crowd-control skills in the game, and you really only need one point in each. Normal: Metalgrid (L), All Unique Rings How to help my players track gold in multiple currencies? Spellsteel Shadow Killer (L), Barbarian Helms Mind Blast knocks enemies back, and will convert some monsters, which will cause other monsters in the group to attack them; the knockback gets monsters off of you and this infighting keeps them off of you. Hell Countess can drop up to Ist, even (actually, she can drop up to Lo, but her special drop that guarantees runes in much greater quantity than normal caps at Ist, so her odds of dropping higher runes is not higher than normal, that is, its ridiculously low). Messerschmidt's Reaver, All Unique Bows Sur Normal: Aha! You also have a few cheap weapon options which might help at first (I'm thinking Act 1-2 here) due to their added elemental damage and other nice melee bonuses, but aren't long term solutions: You could also hire a Barbarian mercenary and find a Vile Husk Tusk Sword (which has a chance of casting amp damage on strike) for him, but meh. Dragon (L) Gravenspine Undead Crown Edge (L) Pride (L) The Battlebranch It is also a fantastic armor even ignoring that. Moser's Blessed Circle Nadir Arachnid Mesh Strength Vitality: Every other point should go into here. Hellmouth, Elite: Fury is ok, but its Fury. Ondal's Wisdom, All Unique Throwing Weapons AmnTir Demon Limb Immortal King Prior to getting Treachery, Stealth is available at level 17, gives a bunch of speed bonuses (not, sadly, IAS), and is basically my go-to for getting to Hell. Cleglaw's Brace Dream (L) Smoke is a cheap source of really solid resistances. The Grim Reaper, Exceptional: Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Barb Helms Shael Treachery Kira's Guardian (L) For shields, both Rhyme and Sanctuary are awesome choices (though Sanctuarys Mal rune is about as hard as Um to find). Using the Martial Arts skills is frustrating in the extreme. AoE Fire+Melee right? The Minotaur, Elite, two-handed: Belts
I like to use lawbringer on a kicker ( amn lem ko) in either a war scepter as lower stats or phaseblade for quicker attacks. Kelpie Snare Highlord's Wrath You can survive hell difficulty with a proper gears but it still tough. Fleshripper Windforce, All Unique Crossbows Thul Spineripper Try to buy a wand with amplify damage charges from Akara or any of the other wand NPC's and put that on your switch. Lava Gout Venom Grip Iceblink Riphook Chromatic Ire Is there a better option for a low-mid level kicksin? Topaz Razortail Islestrike It can also stun, which is useful even against solo targets. Gravepalm Heavenly Garb
Death Cleaver (L) Memory, Oath (L) Swords Warshrike (L), All Unique Javelins They already said plague would be available in claw. Enlightenment Phoenix Um, Mal Um runes are also great things to throw in the hole you have Larzuk punch in your hat.
What would the ancient Romans have called Hercules' Club? Thundergod's Vigor, Elite: The Scalper, Elite: The traditional build is 20 in Lightning, Death, and Charged Bolt Sentry, 1 in each Shadow Discipline except Venom and maybe Fade (if you choose to use Burst of Speed), and the rest of the points in Shock Web. I'm having trouble with my current Assassin build in Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. Rogue's Bow The Dragon Chang Druid Helms The Fetid Sprinkler Why does the capacitance value of an MLCC (capacitor) increase after heating? Spike Thorn The damage is practically nil, so that isns why you have this skill. Cham Silks of the Victor, Exceptional: Ama Weapons Griswold's Edge 1 to skill you have to put to obtain the main skill. Voice of Reason (L) Chains of Honor Griffon's Eye (L), All Unique Boots Lawbringer (L) Lacerator You still want the usual 1-point-wonders (Mind Blast, Cloak of Shadows, Shadow Master, Death Sentry). Halaberd's Reign And once you get them, you really want to upgrade them to Myrmidon Greaves using the Horadric Cube, which requires a Ko, a Lem, and a Perfect Diamond; those runes arent exactly dropping every day (though theyre not super-rare either). Try Shadow Master on Level 10 and all skills points in sword mastery. Treachery hits a ton of yes points for you: +2 Assassin skills, 45% IAS, and a free L15 Fade.
Polearms Medusa's Gaze Swordback Hold Spirit Forge Its not impossible to find. Its only good because there are no other options. Sander's Folly Prudence Shadowfang Making my first kicksin. Verdungo's Hearty Cord, All Unique Armor The Vile Husk Site design / logo 2022 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. Chance Guards Ethereal Edge The Patriarch, Exceptional, 1H: You gear them like casters, which relieves a lot of item requirements, and the trap mechanic means you can stay very far away from enemies if you need to while your Lightning Sentries wreck stuff. Skin of the Vipermagi Head Hunter's Glory Herald of Zakarum Merman's Sprocket Wow adding Plague RW to daggers is a huge boon for those insane enough to run poison dagger necros, too. Venom Diamond Gimmershred Soul Drainer Fleshrender Stormeye, Exceptional: Now if you REALLY want to stick with your Melee Assassin, you can also break physical immunities relatively easily if the other monsters are giving you no trouble. The runes are commonly available on Battle.net, but 99% or more of these are dupes. Bloodthief Spire of Honor, Elite: If you're having trouble hitting monsters in Hell, the Blessed Aim one in Normal Act 2 is also an option. Shadowkiller could be ok for frost damage, but still would be totally outclassed by any decently rolled Rare claw. Wraith Flight (L) Malice Top tier is, like it is for most melee, Draculs Grasp. White The dancer is a hybrid kick/trap-sin. Destruction (L) The Meat Scraper The Lem rune is fairly rare, but the Countess can drop Lem, and it wont take your whole life to get one. What happens if I accidentally ground the output of an LDO regulator? Honor I do miss the sexier version of the assassin before the recent character retcon in D2:Res. Wind The Cat's Eye Ort Amethyst This subreddit is for people who want to discuss Diablo 2 and Diablo II Resurrected. That would open up some more options. Steelshade Hel You have this skill because its an almost-Teleport. Everything I can find is it still is listed as sword only. Swordguard, Elite, 1H: Blacktongue Rhyme Cerebus' Bite (L) Gamble on amulets and rings, looking for the same things (except +skills on rings; only a couple of unique rings get that). The Eye of Etlich Ironstone, Exceptional, 1H: Diablo II, Nightmare/Hell Mode, Undead Dolls. Aside, potentially a godly eth upped bartucs, there really is no good weapons. Brainhew A Black Flail (ThulIoNef) is a really good, rather cheap choice. Tannakian-type reconstruction of etale fundamental group. Goldstrike Arch, Elite:
Black (ThulIoNef in a flail or hammer) Flails make an amazing Kicksin weapon. Basically, you skill-up like a Trapsin, except you get enough skill points in Dragon Talon to hit 18 after +skills. Jade Talon And more class specific items are needed, mit just for assassins but druids too. Normal:
Until then every update to MA skill tree is moot.
Goblin Toe Lum Blackbog's Sharp Give claws the ability to roll Plague (the new runeword introduced) and Crescent Moon. Any suggestions on how I can re-spec this assassin into a character who will have less difficulty throughout hell and at some point help me do the various runs for magic find? Insight (RalTirTalSol in a staff or polearm; requires level 27) is easy to farm from Nightmare Countess, and can be given to an Act II mercenary to give both of you a high-level Meditation aura, effectively eliminating your mana worries. You gear up like a kicker.
Spire of Lazarus Phoenix Strike has the primary advantage that you can release a single charge, and get a powerful effect (a meteor). It seems like dual wielding Strength RW claws is a great way to stack 50% crushing blow and life steal for kicks, but I'm totally unfamiliar with the meta gear for the build early into its creation. Whitstans Guard (set round shield) or Santuary (KoKoMal) are also good choices. The Rising Sun Bounce back and forth long enough, and you can get anything.
Tir For a melee build, they can be built quite cheaply, though it definitely does take some gear. Blood Recipes Press J to jump to the feed. Could also see some completely new claw around Ist-Gul range in cost. Wormskull String of Ears Safety Recipes, Calculations Boots I seem to remember some early on LoD artwork of the assassin using daggers, but that could be just be the Mandela effect at play here. The Mahim-Oak Curio Save the Um for your next character, if it comes to that. To make that work we would really need to have a dagger mastery skill in her tree, or tie it into claw mastery. +2 to Mana after each Kill, Armor Ginther's Rift Ohm Crown of Ages Razorswitch Duskdeep +20 to Strength Blinkbat's Form Normal: Identifying a novel about floating islands, dragons, airships and a mysterious machine. Firelizard's Talons Lem I also suggest you do some more Nightmare Baal runs for some more exp (you can easily hit level 75 there) and for item drops.
Hotspur +10 to Vitality Famine Low 100's should be good. Doom Black honestly would be the best one to add to claws as it add a cheap early on source of CB for a claw to help deal with tough super uniques and bosses. Humongous, Exceptional, two-handed: The Spirit Shroud Valkyrie Wing Arcanna's Tricks
Your weapon matters much, much less for kicking. This is a huge if, however, as the runes necessary for it are ridiculously rare, and the overwhelming majority of players will never see them. Nagelring Note that Phoenix Strike does not use dual-wielding and as such you are strongly recommended to use a shield. If you are melee, rings can offer life/mana steal. That way, your attack speed is halved, rather than quartered. Silkweave Templar's Might (L) Rusthandle Steelclash I hope Plague is enough, but Id like more options TBH. Crainte Vomir Demonhorn's Edge (L) Coif of Glory Coldkill Anyway, skill-wise, the goal for a Kicksin is 18 levels in Dragon Talon after any relevant +skills. Milabrega's Regalia Normal: Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, World of Warcraft Arena World Championship, Diablo II: Resurrected Patch 2.4 PTR | Ladder Testing | Has Ended, PTR Feedback - Expand Crescent Moon & Beast Runewords. The Cranium Basher, All Unique Swords Natalya's Odium Chaos You hit hard and fast enough that even a small amount of it will go a long way. Berserker's Arsenal The Oculus Splendor, Beast Trapsins usually dual-wield claws, trying to shove as many points into Lightning Sentry as possible. Not, by any stretch of the imagination, a high-power build, since your primary attack is just a normal attack with Venom on it. Sanctuary Bloodletter Moonfall Ravenlore This is an amazing escape button, and can let you survey the battlefield a bit to figure out which way youre going. Arreat's Face Its not great, really limited in damage types (physical and fire are your only real options), small radius, and so on, but it can be done. Unfortunately, Diablo 2 is a very, very item dependent game, which is probably why you are struggling on Hell mode. Shields Harmony (L) Fortitude Steel Pillar Whether you need help or you're just looking to chat - come join us! Peace Rockstopper You could probably do some sort of fun PvM build by making a bear sin (Beast runeword weapon with Pride helm and/or shield), though those pieces of equipment are quite expensive. Pal Shields Skull, Crafted Items Heaven's Light (L) Sorceresses that can survive on hell difficulty. Serpent Lord Dol Ko Note that Dragon Flight is ungodly slow. The best ones are Tiger Strike with Dragon Tail, and Phoenix Strike. Grim's Burning Dead, Elite: Melody Scepters Go as a kicker and not even use a claw, be a WW sin with a chaos and ignore every change made in the PTR so far, or hope and pray for a GG rare claw. Culwen's Point, Normal, 2H: Trapsins are the easiest and safest assassin build. Grief (L), Hand of Justice Caster Recipes Warpspear Darksight Helm Hawkmail Then like 99% of players under these builds will realize there is NO endgame claw weapon or options aside 1 and a million GG rare claws through extreme RNG. Standing in a fire (Tristram has several) is a fairly safe/easy way to trigger it. This is my first character after a long hiatus so I've got no super great items, and I can't build a lot of the suggested assassin builds that make use of top notch gear to survive. All Melee Weapons {2} Hellclap I am playing with a necromancer in Diablo 2. Soulflay Ruby Howltusk Flamebellow I used to play this build but it's a long long time. Giant Skull In general, melee Assassin builds are better served for PvP rather than PvM. Eth Higher level is fine, of course, but probably not worth the skill points. Exile She usually doesnt drop runes that high, but she is an excellent source of low and mid tier runes. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top, Start here for a quick overview of the site, Detailed answers to any questions you might have, Discuss the workings and policies of this site, Learn more about Stack Overflow the company. Axes Thats more PvP than PvE, but it can PvE fairly well. Pelta Lunata Special Modifiers, Gambling
Ghostflame Snowclash Homunculus Gleamscythe And all 3 sockets runewords should be available in claws and daggers (and all weapons that can have a maximum of 3os). Magic Find Zakarum's Hand Gold Find, Modifiers Make absolutely sure you have Life Steal on you. Soulfeast Tine Holy Thunder Even in Hell, you can do a lot worse. Stoneraven (L), Assassin Claws Bloodrise Breath of the Dying You can respec (re-allocate all your skill- and stat-points); I'd try a Trapsin. Fury Sapphire Baezil's Vortex Dimoak's Hew Eld Cloak of Shadows, on the other hand, blinds everything on screen. Sureshrill Frost For shield, Rhyme (ShaelEth) is your budget option.
I like to use lawbringer on a kicker ( amn lem ko) in either a war scepter as lower stats or phaseblade for quicker attacks. Kelpie Snare Highlord's Wrath You can survive hell difficulty with a proper gears but it still tough. Fleshripper Windforce, All Unique Crossbows Thul Spineripper Try to buy a wand with amplify damage charges from Akara or any of the other wand NPC's and put that on your switch. Lava Gout Venom Grip Iceblink Riphook Chromatic Ire Is there a better option for a low-mid level kicksin? Topaz Razortail Islestrike It can also stun, which is useful even against solo targets. Gravepalm Heavenly Garb
Death Cleaver (L) Memory, Oath (L) Swords Warshrike (L), All Unique Javelins They already said plague would be available in claw. Enlightenment Phoenix Um, Mal Um runes are also great things to throw in the hole you have Larzuk punch in your hat.
What would the ancient Romans have called Hercules' Club? Thundergod's Vigor, Elite: The Scalper, Elite: The traditional build is 20 in Lightning, Death, and Charged Bolt Sentry, 1 in each Shadow Discipline except Venom and maybe Fade (if you choose to use Burst of Speed), and the rest of the points in Shock Web. I'm having trouble with my current Assassin build in Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. Rogue's Bow The Dragon Chang Druid Helms The Fetid Sprinkler Why does the capacitance value of an MLCC (capacitor) increase after heating? Spike Thorn The damage is practically nil, so that isns why you have this skill. Cham Silks of the Victor, Exceptional: Ama Weapons Griswold's Edge 1 to skill you have to put to obtain the main skill. Voice of Reason (L) Chains of Honor Griffon's Eye (L), All Unique Boots Lawbringer (L) Lacerator You still want the usual 1-point-wonders (Mind Blast, Cloak of Shadows, Shadow Master, Death Sentry). Halaberd's Reign And once you get them, you really want to upgrade them to Myrmidon Greaves using the Horadric Cube, which requires a Ko, a Lem, and a Perfect Diamond; those runes arent exactly dropping every day (though theyre not super-rare either). Try Shadow Master on Level 10 and all skills points in sword mastery. Treachery hits a ton of yes points for you: +2 Assassin skills, 45% IAS, and a free L15 Fade.
Polearms Medusa's Gaze Swordback Hold Spirit Forge Its not impossible to find. Its only good because there are no other options. Sander's Folly Prudence Shadowfang Making my first kicksin. Verdungo's Hearty Cord, All Unique Armor The Vile Husk Site design / logo 2022 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. Chance Guards Ethereal Edge The Patriarch, Exceptional, 1H: You gear them like casters, which relieves a lot of item requirements, and the trap mechanic means you can stay very far away from enemies if you need to while your Lightning Sentries wreck stuff. Skin of the Vipermagi Head Hunter's Glory Herald of Zakarum Merman's Sprocket Wow adding Plague RW to daggers is a huge boon for those insane enough to run poison dagger necros, too. Venom Diamond Gimmershred Soul Drainer Fleshrender Stormeye, Exceptional: Now if you REALLY want to stick with your Melee Assassin, you can also break physical immunities relatively easily if the other monsters are giving you no trouble. The runes are commonly available on Battle.net, but 99% or more of these are dupes. Bloodthief Spire of Honor, Elite: If you're having trouble hitting monsters in Hell, the Blessed Aim one in Normal Act 2 is also an option. Shadowkiller could be ok for frost damage, but still would be totally outclassed by any decently rolled Rare claw. Wraith Flight (L) Malice Top tier is, like it is for most melee, Draculs Grasp. White The dancer is a hybrid kick/trap-sin. Destruction (L) The Meat Scraper The Lem rune is fairly rare, but the Countess can drop Lem, and it wont take your whole life to get one. What happens if I accidentally ground the output of an LDO regulator? Honor I do miss the sexier version of the assassin before the recent character retcon in D2:Res. Wind The Cat's Eye Ort Amethyst This subreddit is for people who want to discuss Diablo 2 and Diablo II Resurrected. That would open up some more options. Steelshade Hel You have this skill because its an almost-Teleport. Everything I can find is it still is listed as sword only. Swordguard, Elite, 1H: Blacktongue Rhyme Cerebus' Bite (L) Gamble on amulets and rings, looking for the same things (except +skills on rings; only a couple of unique rings get that). The Eye of Etlich Ironstone, Exceptional, 1H: Diablo II, Nightmare/Hell Mode, Undead Dolls. Aside, potentially a godly eth upped bartucs, there really is no good weapons. Brainhew A Black Flail (ThulIoNef) is a really good, rather cheap choice. Tannakian-type reconstruction of etale fundamental group. Goldstrike Arch, Elite:
Black (ThulIoNef in a flail or hammer) Flails make an amazing Kicksin weapon. Basically, you skill-up like a Trapsin, except you get enough skill points in Dragon Talon to hit 18 after +skills. Jade Talon And more class specific items are needed, mit just for assassins but druids too. Normal:
Until then every update to MA skill tree is moot.
Goblin Toe Lum Blackbog's Sharp Give claws the ability to roll Plague (the new runeword introduced) and Crescent Moon. Any suggestions on how I can re-spec this assassin into a character who will have less difficulty throughout hell and at some point help me do the various runs for magic find? Insight (RalTirTalSol in a staff or polearm; requires level 27) is easy to farm from Nightmare Countess, and can be given to an Act II mercenary to give both of you a high-level Meditation aura, effectively eliminating your mana worries. You gear up like a kicker.
Spire of Lazarus Phoenix Strike has the primary advantage that you can release a single charge, and get a powerful effect (a meteor). It seems like dual wielding Strength RW claws is a great way to stack 50% crushing blow and life steal for kicks, but I'm totally unfamiliar with the meta gear for the build early into its creation. Whitstans Guard (set round shield) or Santuary (KoKoMal) are also good choices. The Rising Sun Bounce back and forth long enough, and you can get anything.
Tir For a melee build, they can be built quite cheaply, though it definitely does take some gear. Blood Recipes Press J to jump to the feed. Could also see some completely new claw around Ist-Gul range in cost. Wormskull String of Ears Safety Recipes, Calculations Boots I seem to remember some early on LoD artwork of the assassin using daggers, but that could be just be the Mandela effect at play here. The Mahim-Oak Curio Save the Um for your next character, if it comes to that. To make that work we would really need to have a dagger mastery skill in her tree, or tie it into claw mastery. +2 to Mana after each Kill, Armor Ginther's Rift Ohm Crown of Ages Razorswitch Duskdeep +20 to Strength Blinkbat's Form Normal: Identifying a novel about floating islands, dragons, airships and a mysterious machine. Firelizard's Talons Lem I also suggest you do some more Nightmare Baal runs for some more exp (you can easily hit level 75 there) and for item drops.
Hotspur +10 to Vitality Famine Low 100's should be good. Doom Black honestly would be the best one to add to claws as it add a cheap early on source of CB for a claw to help deal with tough super uniques and bosses. Humongous, Exceptional, two-handed: The Spirit Shroud Valkyrie Wing Arcanna's Tricks
Your weapon matters much, much less for kicking. This is a huge if, however, as the runes necessary for it are ridiculously rare, and the overwhelming majority of players will never see them. Nagelring Note that Phoenix Strike does not use dual-wielding and as such you are strongly recommended to use a shield. If you are melee, rings can offer life/mana steal. That way, your attack speed is halved, rather than quartered. Silkweave Templar's Might (L) Rusthandle Steelclash I hope Plague is enough, but Id like more options TBH. Crainte Vomir Demonhorn's Edge (L) Coif of Glory Coldkill Anyway, skill-wise, the goal for a Kicksin is 18 levels in Dragon Talon after any relevant +skills. Milabrega's Regalia Normal: Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, World of Warcraft Arena World Championship, Diablo II: Resurrected Patch 2.4 PTR | Ladder Testing | Has Ended, PTR Feedback - Expand Crescent Moon & Beast Runewords. The Cranium Basher, All Unique Swords Natalya's Odium Chaos You hit hard and fast enough that even a small amount of it will go a long way. Berserker's Arsenal The Oculus Splendor, Beast Trapsins usually dual-wield claws, trying to shove as many points into Lightning Sentry as possible. Not, by any stretch of the imagination, a high-power build, since your primary attack is just a normal attack with Venom on it. Sanctuary Bloodletter Moonfall Ravenlore This is an amazing escape button, and can let you survey the battlefield a bit to figure out which way youre going. Arreat's Face Its not great, really limited in damage types (physical and fire are your only real options), small radius, and so on, but it can be done. Unfortunately, Diablo 2 is a very, very item dependent game, which is probably why you are struggling on Hell mode. Shields Harmony (L) Fortitude Steel Pillar Whether you need help or you're just looking to chat - come join us! Peace Rockstopper You could probably do some sort of fun PvM build by making a bear sin (Beast runeword weapon with Pride helm and/or shield), though those pieces of equipment are quite expensive. Pal Shields Skull, Crafted Items Heaven's Light (L) Sorceresses that can survive on hell difficulty. Serpent Lord Dol Ko Note that Dragon Flight is ungodly slow. The best ones are Tiger Strike with Dragon Tail, and Phoenix Strike. Grim's Burning Dead, Elite: Melody Scepters Go as a kicker and not even use a claw, be a WW sin with a chaos and ignore every change made in the PTR so far, or hope and pray for a GG rare claw. Culwen's Point, Normal, 2H: Trapsins are the easiest and safest assassin build. Grief (L), Hand of Justice Caster Recipes Warpspear Darksight Helm Hawkmail Then like 99% of players under these builds will realize there is NO endgame claw weapon or options aside 1 and a million GG rare claws through extreme RNG. Standing in a fire (Tristram has several) is a fairly safe/easy way to trigger it. This is my first character after a long hiatus so I've got no super great items, and I can't build a lot of the suggested assassin builds that make use of top notch gear to survive. All Melee Weapons {2} Hellclap I am playing with a necromancer in Diablo 2. Soulflay Ruby Howltusk Flamebellow I used to play this build but it's a long long time. Giant Skull In general, melee Assassin builds are better served for PvP rather than PvM. Eth Higher level is fine, of course, but probably not worth the skill points. Exile She usually doesnt drop runes that high, but she is an excellent source of low and mid tier runes. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top, Start here for a quick overview of the site, Detailed answers to any questions you might have, Discuss the workings and policies of this site, Learn more about Stack Overflow the company. Axes Thats more PvP than PvE, but it can PvE fairly well. Pelta Lunata Special Modifiers, Gambling
Ghostflame Snowclash Homunculus Gleamscythe And all 3 sockets runewords should be available in claws and daggers (and all weapons that can have a maximum of 3os). Magic Find Zakarum's Hand Gold Find, Modifiers Make absolutely sure you have Life Steal on you. Soulfeast Tine Holy Thunder Even in Hell, you can do a lot worse. Stoneraven (L), Assassin Claws Bloodrise Breath of the Dying You can respec (re-allocate all your skill- and stat-points); I'd try a Trapsin. Fury Sapphire Baezil's Vortex Dimoak's Hew Eld Cloak of Shadows, on the other hand, blinds everything on screen. Sureshrill Frost For shield, Rhyme (ShaelEth) is your budget option.