Need tips for building characters

[Forever Culé]

So I enjoy playing as an Assassin, I like planning and stealth kill, sometimes the whole base, sometime just sneak in sneak out without much killing. I enjoy this style but I feel like this game force me to play warrior style, sometimes game put me in a situation where stealth is not even an option. In these situations I have to rely on the only damage skill in Assassin tree, the one with long cooldown, poison seems to take too long and my hundred slashes seems to do very little damage, thus the fights took pretty long. Oh and for the legendary beast, seems impossible.

So my question is should I change the build to stack warrior damage? I currently stack assassin damage but as I said above, useless in gang/legendary beast fight.

PS: I play on Nightmare and I don't like to use bow

[MaddogDino]

There's plenty of engravings to learn that will bring those Assassin skills to the fight as well as enhancing them. nothing wrong with bringing Warrior Bonus in with engravings to give a boost, rather than specialising them in Assassin as well if needed.
I like to play sneaky as well and I'm having no probs doing it. Position and line of sight is the key.

[tonypa]

Depends how many Legendary quality sets and Abilities you have unlocked but easiest way to handle Assassin/Melee problem is to have 2 full sets of Legendary gears which you can swap in Inventory screen using Loadouts.

Loadout 1 - Pirate Set adds 50% to all Assassin ablities, stack these with Crit and Ass damage engravings. Weapon with +Crit and +Assassin damage engravings

Loadout 2 - Agamemnon Set giving +100% burn rate, stack these with +Warr and +Armor, weapon with Fire damage

In the Abilities screen you can also have 2 different sets of 4 Abilities (you can swap them out of Abilities screen using some key too), so with Loadout 1 (Assassin) you want to have Rush Assassination, Hero Strike, and whatever 2 more Abilities you prefer. For Loadout 2 (Warrior) you could go with Bull Rush, Sparta Kick, Ring of Chaos and Second Wind. So, basically only need 6 Abilities maxed.

So, normally you sneak around with your Assassin loadout and Assassin abilities, taking out enemies with normal Assassination, critical Assassination and Rush Assassin. If you get dragged into melee fight without point of escaping the fight, open Inventory and change both your gear to loadout 2 and Abilities to set 2. With all the Assassination bonuses you should be able to kill every non-boss enemy with 1 hit but if you are forced to fight you will do constant Fire damage and set enemies to burn too. Remember, once your weapon has turned into Fire Damage, all your Warrior abilities will do Fire damage too. For example Ring of Chaos will burn AoE, killing groups of enemies almost instantly.

Again, not so much you can do about these at low level since you need to get all that gear first. You can still grab some cheap +Assassin and +Fire equipment from Blacksmiths while leveling, they simply wont be that overly strong as the full sets.

I don't honestly see any point splitting your gear and engavings between multiple damage types, making everything weaker.

[Forever Culé]

Thank you guys, I'm going to hunt Legendary items now.

[Dragon]

Using an Assassination build generally isn't viable in this game. You should definitely put a lot of ability points into Warrior.

And how are you going to use Legendary set items if you aren't max level? If you try to do that, then your gear will become vastly obsolete & ineffective way faster than you can gather enough resources to pay the ludicrous upgrade costs for each piece, which you have to continually pay every time you level up, or else be stuck with obsolete armor.

In other words, advice to "use a Legendary set" isn't viable if you aren't level 99, and with level 99 Legendary gear, before you start trying to do that.

[tonypa]

Originally posted by Dragon:

In other words, advice to "use a Legendary set" isn't viable if you aren't level 99, and with level 99 Legendary gear, before you start trying to do that.

Level of your legendary set is irrelevant, you are not wearing it for protection. Only the weapon and damage modifiers on armor pieces matter, and for that there is no reason to constantly upgrade your legendary sets. If you just stand in same spot, not attacking the enemy, taking damage, hoping for bigger Armor number, you are clearly doing something very wrong.

[Smile.y]

Always 2 build ready for anytime, first the assassins that you wanted, then the warrior build cause sometimes you can rely on your assassins build while on 1v1 / conquest battle, with my assassins build i can pretty much 1hit anything besides some named npc / some fort commander, but sometimes i can 1shoot them aswell if my crit procs, if you can 1shoot them then utilize the rush assassination skills almost everyone dies with rush assassination skills back to back

[Mujokan]

Originally posted by Dragon:

Using an Assassination build generally isn't viable in this game. You should definitely put a lot of ability points into Warrior.

That's not true. I played pure assassin for the majority of the game and it's ridiculously powerful once you get a decent crit chance.

You can reduce the cooldown of Hero Strike (and all abilities) by 35% btw.

There is not much point having poison or fire in an assassin build, it's a waste of engravings in my opinion. You're focusing on assassin damage. So overpower is kind of a waste of points also.

Having one set of legendary armor to upgrade isn't a big deal, but if you were trying to swap between multiple ones all the time it would be tough.