lifeloverNorris: Assassin gonna go from 0.1% play rate to 0.5% xd

thisispotatos9957: I think what is genius about the bloodlines, is if theres only 2 notables you want, like the poison from assassin, you just pair it with a bloodline that also has poison. That is a really, really clever way to solving the issue that you sometimes have that only half the ascendancy is good for your build.

sagi3933: I wish Unstable Infusion was 2 Power Charges to mimic Trickster :I

Also kinda sad how Mistwalker is overshadowed by the Nightblade Support (I wish Mistwalker made Elusive stop at 100% instead)

popcorn32145: Let's find out.

Hateful_Bug: Rework to Chief, Trickster, Warden, Gladiator - Whole new world. Assassin - we added few nodes from ruthless (Weapon crit to spells from Inquis and All damage can poison from Asssassin) while tweaking existing nodes... WOW

Like, why Trickster have 200% inc duration to all charges and 2 frenzy charges while Ass Assin have 1 to power charge and close to useless powercharge sustain? Just give 2 or multi scaling as Pal suggested

The fact that you need Flame/Flesh jewels to get one of the nodes there to be great is buffling to me, 100% more crit chance and 100% crit multi is stronk, but its just cringe.

Conditional Defense (Two rares or uniques in presence) is never WOW, conditional reflect immun is a meme

Joe-cp5ud: This is the best prepatch video ive seen so far. The amount of people misinterpreting things is the most ive ever seen.

AbuEl-YedaReviews: So its bad just like d4

behelitzodd4208: worst rework. thanks ggg

olasarcasm: I wanna make a spell poison build but I guess that "all damage can poison" node doesn't actually max your poison chance it just makes it so ele damage can poison. Still gonna need a ton of poison chance from all over which will stretch the tree thin

---do2qd: Its pretty bad. a full ascendency node for mark on hit is crazy

dawidszczechla3388: I think you're too harsh on this Assasin.

1. Shadowed Blood with Mistwalker sounds like awesome start for Dissolution of the flesh.

2. With Viper Strike and Knife in the back, you could stack enough poisons with 1st half of the enemy damage, so it would carry you thouhght another 40% and then culling strike would do the rest.

3. You can try making oneshoot builds with ambush and dual strike, when you inflict single ailment that kills enemy, if ignite maybe you can refresh it's duration, or with bleed - aggravate it. You need just 25% crit chance to do it. Slap Maligaros Fallacy, nightblade and you ahve like 500 crit multi with 1 support and amulet? That looks strong.

4. There are bloodline classes, you could go for 4-6 points there and use 2-4 into bloodlines.

EDIT: Fallacy is a bait. Nightblade with stacked elusive effect gives like 500% multi AND you if you use Ungil's Harmony, it works with perfect agony (both prevent from dealing extra damage with hits, but still count multi for ailments). Like this you can be capped on crit with 1 item slot and knife in the back, lol.

kacperkedziera1408: "Why do you want to go poison?"

Because I WANT to Pal, they made a new poison class and I like the flavor, would pure hit crit or some coc be better? Of course it would be. But at this point I might as well go slayer eartshatter and just turn my brain off. But I WANT to make a elemental poison assassin and now I can do it without heist daggers.

"Why not pathfinder?"

Because I played him recently, and playing the same build twice is a sin.

Anyone wanting to go assassin doesn't do it because it's strong, but because it's a new cool looking thing to try.

ReshiDakan: We've got months to give constructive criticism after we see how it plays out. I swear, just some positivity and excitement would be great before going full doomer

SickPythonGamer: The language on Deathmarked seems to indicate that it will work with totems and other proxies as opposed to mark on hit, but it requires unstable infusion that does't work with proxies. I can't see anyone use forbidden jewels to gain it either. Very perplexing node... Mystical infusion Unstable Infusion makes CoC builds easy and budget-friendly... The top part of the Shadowed blood is strong with 21/20 Petrfied Blood Bloodnotch tech. You still need to take 30 recoup for damage other than physical, however with that insane recoup, physical damage will heal

krmunoz2169: I was PoBing the new bow sparky skill and got to the sake conclusion I could go Triele bow poison Assa but Darkscorn PF poison does same damage with 25% phys as chaos with flask utility I don't see the advantage of this class for attacks at least it has to be something like cold CoC poison idk man

bethel99899: GGG should rework Unstable Infusion as soon as possible.

therocklau: Why does everything has to be bipolar? Who made that rule?

How about assassin is OK now, little lower than average among all classes, you have two really good nodes, have some usable ones, being assassin means you can do crit easily, or do poison well, or both, if Trickster didn't get nerfed maybe this assassin rework is just for the forbidden jewels, but trickster did get nerfed.

Alphabeerr: I have an idea with Explosive concoction all damage can poison. For league start just using support chance to poison herald agony hopefully it gonna work fine.

icecoldporksoda3461: Poison lightpoacher shenanigans is also enabled by assassin if you want to get real weird. Poison EK lightpoacher sounds like a fun and wonky endgame build

xTobsecretx: Finally the tide is turning about the dot cap. Thank you for emphasizing that it’s rarely relevant. It at some point became an object of fascination for content creators and I’ve been shouting from the rooftops ever since.

Also I like your analysis. Hadn’t thought about gmp but ofc! Might just have to see how good econc is with this. The numbers seem pretty good. Hopefully the bloodline ascendancies offer good options.

We also don’t know yet what the small nodes on assassin give. If they give poison chance that could make things a lot easier.

patriotmarf: Tourist ascendancy

celld793: ppl maybe take the base crit from main hand and then just spend 2 points on a bloodline ascendancy for other defenses or and else and go pbrand or smth like that.

prinnyoverlordart883: if one of the bloodlines has defensive nodes it would be nuts

andrei3000cs: Hi, can you think of something using plume of pursuit, marylene fallacy, consuming dark, cospri's will, low tolerance and perfect agony?

Ephixias1: I'm going to go molten strike of the zenith assassin with a tri ele two-hander and i'm going to run perfect agony because getting 100% crit chance on assassin is hella easy now and you can easily achieve 100% poison chance. Will this build suck? Probably. Am I gonna league start it? Yes I am.

VoyKarma: Bit of a doomer take on the new assassin tbh

oosnyt: I think CoC and spellslinger builds are kinda the league starters that are overlooked poison node making tunelvision...

Oct 26 2025

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