Iratha's Finery Jalal's Mane Rings, Weapons Silence Gold Find, Modifiers King's Grace Arioc's Needle Zakarum's Hand Shadowfang Kinemil's Awl The Fetid Sprinkler Steel Pillar The Hand of Broc She usually doesnt drop runes that high, but she is an excellent source of low and mid tier runes. Wrath (L) Deathbit Kira's Guardian (L) Rusthandle Medusa's Gaze Widowmaker (L) Lacerator Thunderstroke (L) You hit hard and fast enough that even a small amount of it will go a long way. Until then every update to MA skill tree is moot. Sorceresses that can survive on hell difficulty. Note that you do not have to select a particular enemy: if you cast it on a blank piece of ground, itll automatically latch on to the nearest enemy to that point. The Gavel of Pain, Elite, 1H: Shadow Killer (L), Barbarian Helms Treachery is a nearly-ideal armor for them. Lem Stormrider How to tell how many affixes an item can have? If you throw Cloak of Shadows up and run a little, you are no longer being attacked. Normal: Steelclash Corpsemourn, Elite: Soul Drainer Tiger Strike + Dragon Tail works because the damage of Dragon Tails explosion is based on your physical damage, so you effectively hit multiple people with your Tiger Claw charge-ups when it explodes. Natalya's Odium Athena's Wrath Rogue's Bow The Ward, Exceptional: But thats a personal issue and not really related to class balance. Bonehew There are others, however. Boneslayer Blade It works OK. For finisher, most just use a regular attack; phoenix strikers are incredibly strapped for skill points because of all the prerequisites and synergies that Phoenix Strike has. Skull Collector, Elite: Goldskin This page was last edited on 23 September 2021, at 15:47. Diablo II, Nightmare/Hell Mode, Undead Dolls. Last Wish (L) Valkyrie Wing Stoutnail Both of these with their relevant -resist mods would allow MA sins to at least go into some endgame content and be viable. Spirit Keeper, Necromancer Totems I'm level 74 and basically distributing my stats 2 str/2 dex/ 1 vitality. Spellsteel Raven's Claw Civerb's Vestments 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. Could also see some completely new claw around Ist-Gul range in cost. Normal: Warshrike (L), All Unique Javelins Gloves Merman's Sprocket Stormspire, All Unique Scepters Homunculus All Melee Weapons {2} Baezil's Vortex 1 to skill you have to put to obtain the main skill. hmm it's kinda good with a mob of monster. Edge (L) The Face of Horror, Exceptional: Bladebone Ginther's Rift Aside, potentially a godly eth upped bartucs, there really is no good weapons. Lawbringer (L) Skin of the Flayed One Umbral Disk You still want the usual 1-point-wonders (Mind Blast, Cloak of Shadows, Shadow Master, Death Sentry). Fury is ok, but its Fury. Veil of Steel, Circlets: Sanctuary Gheed's Fortune Cerebus' Bite (L) Death Cleaver (L) Steel Carapace Bverrit Keep Books & Scrolls, El Sapphire (Note: the Enigma runeword can get you real Teleport. The primary assassin builds for PvE are trapsins and kicksins. Orphan's Call Ort The Spirit Shroud Harlequin Crest They eschew the overwhelming majority of the Martial Arts tree, and merely rely on Dragon Talon to kick their foes to death. Runewords, Gems Even among the stupidly super-rare runewords, its hard to beat that Black Flail. Cloudcrack Pierre Tombale Couant Ondal's Wisdom, All Unique Throwing Weapons 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. The damage is practically nil, so that isns why you have this skill. Dragon (L) Sandstorm Trek 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. You can realy see and feel, that LoD was a rushed developement. Ribcracker Shael 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). Tomb Reaver (L) Maces If you manage a Chaos, though, it does turn nicely into a solid whirlysin build. Focus on the fire synergy, and either the lightning or the cold; the cold is usually easier to get the timing right. For shields, both Rhyme and Sanctuary are awesome choices (though Sanctuarys Mal rune is about as hard as Um to find). Astreon's Iron Ward Every single assassin ever should have that 1 point, and should keep those skills hotkeyed. Nef Everything goes fine in Nightmare, but with the proliferation of physical immunity in Hell, I'm having difficulties. Kicksins are devastating against solo targets, and highly mobile. Ripsaw Immortal King Everything I can find is it still is listed as sword only. Nightwing's Veil Gargoyle's Bite, All Unique Wands Hone Sundan Crainte Vomir Once a monster gets killed, the corpse explosion inflicted by the Death Sentry will make short work of other monsters You should add the rest of your skill-points into Lightning Sentry synergies to boost lightning damage. Arkaine's Valor Even then with no IAS it still isnt the best. Husoldal Evo Fortitude (L) Skin of the Vipermagi Decrepify will also work, though I'm not sure if that actually comes as charges on a wand. +20 to Strength Raven Frost Dream (L) String of Ears Darkglow Thul Potions Islestrike Cleglaw's Brace 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. The Oculus Helms Crown of Thieves Tearhaunch, Exceptional: Why do the displayed ticks from a Plot of a function not match the ones extracted through Charting`FindTicks in this case? Skewer of Krintiz Zephyr, https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/index.php?title=Strength_(runeword)&oldid=28441. Sorc Orbs, Rune list Hellslayer Then max Lightning Sentry and Death Sentry skills. Other good skills to have are "Fade" to boost resistances (really useful in Hell) and Shadow Master. Normal, 1H: The Impaler Langer Briser Thundergod's Vigor, Elite: Aside from that, gambled gear can be fine. Wall of the Eyeless Waterwalk Buriza-Do Kyanon Gorefoot The latter is huge. Ichorsting Riphook The Battlebranch Serpent Lord Coldsteel Eye Kingslayer Darksight Helm Malice A decent pair of Witch-hunters claws are awesome; Trapsins will use these (or Cunning claws) as their main weapons, and all assassins can use them on switch to pump up their precast buffs (Shadow Master, Burst of Speed, Fade, Venom). Hotspur Twitchthroe Black Hades 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. Ama Weapons Razor's Edge Jade Talon Belts What drives the appeal and nostalgia of Margaret Thatcher within UK Conservative Party? Death's Disguise, Hsaru's Defense Gerke's Sanctuary Lightsabre, Elite, 2H: Eth Culwen's Point, Normal, 2H: Pelta Lunata This subreddit is for people who want to discuss Diablo 2 and Diablo II Resurrected. The Cranium Basher, All Unique Swords Doomslinger, Exceptional: Faith (L) Jah Carrion Wind Breath of the Dying Normal: Steel Magefist White Exile Treasure Classes Blood Crescent Exceptional: The Rising Sun With Cannot Be Frozen, unless you get a Ravenfrost, it might be your best option. Circlets and coronets get bonuses when you gamble on them, and can get much better stats than other helms. Arachnid Mesh Shadow Dancer (L), All Unique Amulets Its just awful. Nosferatu's Coil Vitality: Every other point should go into here. Melody Plague Bearer Its too much to get into the mechanics here, but the long and short of it is, damage on the weapon doesnt matter, but its speed and other modifiers do. Lava Gout +10 to Vitality Biggin's Bonnet Axe of Fechmar Pretty much all builds will struggle in Hell without some decent gear to put on your character. Mara's Kaleidoscope Aha! Ist 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. PTR #2. Radament's Sphere, Elite: 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. Crow Caw Spike Thorn Furthermore, you have other damage types available if you need them. Grief (L), Hand of Justice While they will not be detected once they are added to an armor, they are nevertheless cheating, and I strongly discourage their use.). That gets you three kicks, which is what youre looking for. There is almost no reason to not use this armor as any non-Sorceress, if you have access to it. Body Armor Normal: Windforce, All Unique Crossbows Tal Rasha's Wrappings Chromatic Ire And the two most obvious choices are runewords. It also helps your timing: using Phoenix Strike relies on being able to alternate attacks at high speed with enough accuracy that youre able to drop the effect you want as often as you can. Pluckeye Hitpower Recipes Swordguard, Elite, 1H: Spineripper Arcanna's Tricks Sigon's Complete Steel Spears Radiance, Ancient's Pledge Blood Recipes Possible in v1.08 and above. Demon's Arch Gore Rider, Elite: Amulets Stormshield The dancer is one of the most versatile builds in the game. Passion Normal: Tiamat's Rebuke Dwarf Star Titan's Revenge Bramble Ral Wisp Projector, All Unique Shields Ormus' Robes Gravenspine Tal Black (ThulIoNef in a flail or hammer) Flails make an amazing Kicksin weapon. If you are melee, rings can offer life/mana steal. Maelstrom Things like crushing blow, life/ mana leech only proc from main hand weapon so dual strength wont stack. Spirit Forge Death's Fathom (L) I hope Plague is enough, but Id like more options TBH. These are two separate builds that dont overlap with one another. Quest Items Snowclash Crossbows 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. Razortail Goldwrap A Black Flail (ThulIoNef) is a really good, rather cheap choice. Try Shadow Master on Level 10 and all skills points in sword mastery. That way, your attack speed is halved, rather than quartered. Gimmershred Arqade is a question and answer site for passionate videogamers on all platforms. 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. Deathspade Magic Find Infernostride Arreat's Face in a single charge up kick in NM if you ask.