Assasin build help

[Oska]

I'm sick of versin those undeads with the pesky necromancer, so I've got a guy with iron lungs and bloodthirsty who I want to make an assasin build who will replace an archer when I'm versin the undead.

What perks should I get him?

I want him to have pathfinder and duelist etc but what perks would be the best for a lightening fast assasin who I can send behind lines to kill say, a necromancer then retreat.

[Semo]

Steel Brow, Dodge, Anticipation and Nimble as you have no shield.
Lone Wolf and Underdog are a must if you are going in alone.
Weapon mastery ofc and maybe Footwork if you get locked in unwanted melee.

[Oska]

Originally posted by SemoMonkey:

Steel Brow, Dodge, Anticipation and Nimble as you have no shield.
Lone Wolf and Underdog are a must if you are going in alone.
Weapon mastery ofc and maybe Footwork if you get locked in unwanted melee.

Perfect <3

[Sathra]

Plus either Recover or Iron Will. Or Nine Lives.
Just in case things.

A possible alternate build would be a Throwing weapon master with Bullseye instead of Underdog. Then you could use him to hunt other annoying undead, like Priests.

[vlad728x]

For your purpose use archers with Fast adaptation and bullseye. Don`t play difficult tactics wich fails often.

For real assasin who kills enemy and loot all their belongings:
There are two possible ways. Obviosly you need Nimble based build to have as much Fatigue as you can for puncture. You can use it with cloth for 100% chance and boost HP with Colossus & little bit Initiative to act first as one more advantage, and later Overwhelm. Or you can take Colossus and Browny and use chain armour with 60-70% chance of Nimble, plus Battle forged for 10-15 resistance.

Fast adaptation, Backstabber becouse -15% hit chance of puncture.
Crippling Strikes+ Executioner
Recovery
Dodge
Dagger Mastery
Footwork
Indomitable maybe for extra survivability.

[Pringles™]

Overwhelm grants you a ton of protection when used with dagger mastery and high initiative, but only for melee.

[Cid]

For Nimble Duelists, what works best for me is:
Student
Dodge
Steel Brow or Nine Lives (I usualy choose steel brow)
Sword Mastery
Footwork
Nimble
Duelist
Colossus or Overwhelm (with very high initiative only)
Berserk
Killing Frenzy
Recover or Pathfinding

Edit: Recover pairs really well with Dodge but Pathfinding is great if you're going to use him to chase down enemy archers and with Iron Lungs you might not need to rely on Recover as much as you normally would.

Also I've learned not to rely too much on Overwhelm. I've had enemy fallen heroes with 3 stacks of Overwhelm still hit me 2x in a row for enormous damage. It's an ok pick but experience has taught me that Colossus is a much better choice in most circumstances. Remember with Nimble procs that 25% more health that you gain from Colossus is actually more like 50% more health.

Footwork is an absolute must; it helps with positioning and has saved my bros life plenty of times. Since you should never be engaging more than 1 target at a time as a nimble duelist the perk underdog is not necessary.

Finally for nimble duelists you definitely want to be using swords over any other weapon for 3 reasons:
1. That 10% extra hit chance swords give you is extremely good since you should be investing most of your points into health and melee/ranged defense.
2. Riposte is probably the best weapon ability in the game. It can be used both defensively and offensively so I use it quite often and it will give your duelist a lot of extra damage.
3. Swords are lighter than all other duelist weapons: I tend to use the Cruel Falchion (3 fatigue) until I get a rare sword. I say this because daggers are not duelist weapons. The perk duelist does nothing for dagger wielders. I acually prefer using daggers on my tanks with high hit and backstabber for this reason.