Hello!
This video is another one about my (only) season 7's character: a Phoenix Strike Assassin. She is still a Work-In-Progress and I'm slowly upgrading her gear, hoping that one day she will be so powerful that I will kill Ubers with her. Kind of gave up on idea of soloing Dungeon's ^^ Anyway! So this is a mini showcase of my current gear and some other gear setups that I went through (or items that I just find fun to use, like full Orphan's Call set or Darkglow armor). This season I don't really have much time to play, so I've decided to fully focus on one character and just have fun finding or trading items for her.
Few words about this character and my goals for build:
- I knew I will be mostly playing solo and doing t3 maps, so decided to focus on survivability: overcapped res, FHR 86 and max block with Stormshield;
- because of max block and AR issues, I've invested quite a lot of stat points in Dexterity, that's why some items have for example IO runes to add some more life (and that's why I'm trying to get the best +life skillers that I can afford at the moment)
- I'm using a4 Light merc just because I wanted to test him out. His healing nova is very useful, but obviously he's a squishy caster, that's why I also need source of life leech (and a bit of mana leech)
- I hope that I will be able to do end game content (like group Dungeon's, Ubers, maybe even DClone?), but I'm not ready for this: even tho this assassin is very versatile and strong, because of my reckless playstyle she also dies every now and then.
Character is currently level 95, slowly pushing for 99.
Skills:
- maxed Phoenix Strike and all it's synergies
- 1 pt in Dragon Flight
- few points in Burst of Speed (to reach max attack speed while using 20ias gloves)
- rest points in Claw Mastery
Mercenary: a4 Light, Infinity staff, Que Hegan's armor, Steel Shade, FCR Venom Grip, rare FCR bel with res, rare boots with res - basically I needed his res maxed, his FCR at high breakpoint and some + skills on items (helm + armor)
Character's gear:
1. Current gear (June 2023):
- weapon: Stalker's Cull ED+ Igonre's Target Defense corruption, puzzleboxed for 2os (2x Perfect Skull because I needed some life leech and mana leech, probably will change that)
- helm: 2os Kira's Guardian socketed with some low Light RBFs
- armor: 2os Arkaine's Valor socketed with 2xUM
- amulet: Mara's 30, fire res 15% corruption
- shield: Stormshield all res corruption, 1 os, socketed with Perfect Diamond
- boots: Waterwalk all res 5 corruption
- rings: Dwarf Star 2 MAEK corruption // Nature's Peace MF corruption (it was cheap)
- belt: Verdungo's 10 dexterity corruption
- gloves: rare 2MA/20IAS with bonus to AR, enhamnced defense, replenish life, fire res
Inventory:
9x MA skillers with life, small charms with life, some small charms with res, Assassin Torch, Annihilus
2. Other setup only changes weapon for Bartuc's (3os corruption, 3x ETH rune), armor: Stone runeword and instead of Dwarf Star I was using rare dual leech ring
3. Full Natalya's set (that's what I was using at some point, while leveling), secondary claw Bartuc's, Raven frost ring (CBF!)
4. Lastly: some fun items, even tho not really suiting this build! Full Or[han's Call set (I'm sentimental, still remember using it in LoD on kicksins), double upgraded Darkglow armor, mana leech ring with res, Stalker's Cull weapon.
Some of the items could be easily swapped for something else, some seem to be a necessity and changing them would affect the damage or survivability too much. I'm using what I have at the moment and what works well for certain tasks (like mapping, organ farming etc.). But as I said: it's still work in progress and items may change soon.
So that's pretty much it. If you're looking for actual guide about PS sin, there are some on PD2 wiki or you can also ask players in assassin channel on Discord. Or you can take a look at high level assassins on ladder and inspect their gear on Armory section of PD2's website.
If you have any questions about the build, gameplay or general PD2 related stuff, let me know. Thank you!
Music used in this video:
The Troggs - With A Girl Like You
Kelly Lee Owens - More Than A Woman
