As youre attacking with range i usually go with obidience runeword in an ethereal weapon, as you weapon wont breal while spamming blades, the damage is crazy and the ar from enchant is nice, also you get 40 crushing blow from it as well as some resistances
I've played this build with the natalya's set and my biggest complaint is the 'feel' on spamming blades is BAD. Sometimes you cant even tell if you're spamming blades if mobs get too close because of the lag in animation before launching a blade. With the lag before you start, there's no good way to continually spam with any consistency. If you target a mob directly, you stop shooting when it dies. Animation locked timing always feels like shit and this exemplifies is. If you shoot at ground and spray blades instead of targetting mobs, if something goes under your mouse it becomes the target and the above rule applies. The build is tanky when you can spam blades but god forbid you get interrupted, then youre fucked. Also a good way to get ghosts to spawn is to go to the ice cave zones in act five because of how the game prioritizes mobs with immunities you cant attack.
@@codeninja1 cleglaws Set give u 35 CB an 50 ds combind with Gulli , goreriders and duress ist Reach 80 ds and 100 CB the Cost of this items can afford everyone
@@7kortos7 good point-it seems i had a careless mistake here. in my native language there is no well/good just a good-version used in all cases. thats my explaination why i failed here in a hurry. however i still have enough sense for the language to see now that the "well" is the right word, should be more careful avoiding 1:1 translations.
@@expseeker oh no worries at all, I just share the proper version when I can incase someone wants to sound more native to the language. in fairness there would never be confusion with what you said. you're doing fantastic and I hope you have a great day. :)
My preference is Death, since you can use Blade Shield with it. While Plague does more damage technically, using Death and a Lacerator on offhand as needed lets you farm everywhere, even with faster enemies that get on top of you, since Blade Shield will more reliably hit those faster melee enemies. I WILL likely swap to Plague at/during Ladder, though, because it's SO cheap for what it does. In players 8, crushing blow isn't quite so needed, but Death has a ton, so use Gores with Death, but swap Gface with Shako for additional life, mana, and +skills you'd be missing otherwise. I honestly would rather not use Gface with Plague as Shako or even Nightwing's would do better overall when you're at mid 90s with the claw and Claw Mastery investment. Use BK ring if you can't get a hold of a dual leech ring, Death has mana leech too and it works very well. Your normal Pride/+4 skills on your merc is good to go. I honestly can't wait to get my hands on Plague for my Assassin on nonladder. I dislike ladder overall because of its ladder only stuff.
Oh and also p0lease don't sleep on Blade Sentinel, it's also pretty damn great with its damage, and keeps trying to hit every frame if its hitbox collides with an enemy's until it DOES hit, so is damn near effectively 100% hit rate.
Lastly, use demon limb as well! It's like a 10 minute buff you'll be done by then, guaranteed. You can and should use TGod's or Verdungo's OR Arachnid Mesh -- I would prefer Tgod's or Arach honestly, as both options give you around ~1500 hp, and Arach gives you another +1 skill AND some additional cast rate for mind blast if you're using it.
Thanks for sharing! Just started my blade sin but struggling so far. Wanted to ask, I notice on your previous videos you maxed out shadow master, is there a reason why you decided not to with this high end gear build? Guessing you kill things fast so you don’t need the tank of shadow mastery anymore?
Yes exactly. After reaching a certain point of gear (like midrange - natalyas set) you dont need the shadow master to soak up damage for you. You can still use it. I personally just dislike it when he mindblasts a bunch of monsters and they get turned- resulting in me not being able to kill them for a couple seconds. Thanks for your question and thanks for watching!
@@Gaunerh I really appreciate the reply from you and the insights you added. Sounds like since I am not end game gear that have Shadow master to help tank will help me progress. Thanks and keep up it up!
Lance Guard for damage (socket with enhanced damage jewel) Rhyme Shield for Magic Find Stormshield for protection Mosers/Whitstans Guard for %Block and resistances etc. budget
Offline Singleplayer you can make it. Online Non Ladder not (yet) - Its Ladder Season 1 Exclusive in terms online and rotates to non ladder after the season 1 concludes. Thanks for watching and good question! :)
@@lymphy12 Yes indeed I did, I dual wielded Plague on a Phoenix Strike Assassin which was very nice because Lower Resist greatly helps in overall damage output and procs often when dual wielding. As for the Act 5 Mercenary I also tested plague (also on act 3 merc btw.) and it performed pretty well but you have to consider that he has a high level of Iron Skin which boosts up his defense - making him harder to hit for enemy monsters. For LR from Plague to proc he needs to be HIT. That being said I recommend a low defense Treachery for the Fade Proc and a Vampire Gaze for more Damage Reduction or something else with low Defense. The survivability is still there but Plague will be proccing way more often because he now does not have a ridiculous high defense 🙂
Well its different - Trap is elemental based damage and Martial Arts has its own problems (being melee). Whatever adheres to your personal playstyle is best :) Thanks for watching and commenting!
I use blade sentibel more and stand still in middle spamming blade fury with shift targeting while I also benefot from blade shield. Icise shadow killer. Imo shadow killer is made for blade fury. I socketed oth woth an eth rune to get -50% target Def and act 3 merc
Man... Mind blast is mandatory for any sin build, can't imagine not having that on my sin, also if you don't have enigma then dragon flight is also mandatory... Last but not least, a point in death sentry will make you clear everything twice as fast, I understand you are showcasing the blade sin but these are skills you should learn how to use properly, unless you're a uber-only kicksin, then all the skills I've mentioned is a must. That being said, it's an interesting build, sin has been my main as long as I can remember.
Fury is better claw because of ignore target def and -25% and I would personally rock storm shield and crown of ages to put me at 50% DR and use arch mesh.
Fury really isn't a better claw because of IDT. It certainly used to be but with the Attack rating it's gotten, you simply don't need IDT to have 85+% hit rates on everything, including ubers. The unfortunate fact is that Plague will do more damage than Fury, more damage outright, +2 skills, and additional poison damage., and the 4-5% hit rate increase (due to block rates on enemies) is lower than the additional damage Plague provides. Fury certainly used to be on top and I made one in D2:R because I love Blade Fury even though it was bad.
Ethereal weapon base is really not nessesary which prevent you to use blade shield. Traps grand charm should be better than max damage charms in terms of damage. And GFace could be replaced with some circulets with 2 or 3 sockets with enhanced damage jewles, CB is not that useful for this char and you do have more than enough deadly strike
As youre attacking with range i usually go with obidience runeword in an ethereal weapon, as you weapon wont breal while spamming blades, the damage is crazy and the ar from enchant is nice, also you get 40 crushing blow from it as well as some resistances
super idea
For me, Obedience is worse than Plague+Phoenix.
My Obedience: Eth ManCatcher:
B4 buff:
BF Dmg: 1773-2653
BF Atk Rating: 7323
After Buff:
BF Dmg: 2266-3177
BF Atk Rating: 16636
My Plague+Phoenix:
Eth Scissors Suwayyah (Lv17Aura/2Skills/312%ED):
B4 Buff:
BF Dmg: 2950-3605
BF Atk Rating: 12027
After buff:
BF Dmg: 3534-4212
BF Atk Rating: 18735
2 hand weapons receive 3/8 penalty on top of the 3/4 penalty. Making single handed weapons better for the skill
Beautiful
Thank you for sharing this 🙏
That’s dual leach crafted ring is insane….
I've played this build with the natalya's set and my biggest complaint is the 'feel' on spamming blades is BAD. Sometimes you cant even tell if you're spamming blades if mobs get too close because of the lag in animation before launching a blade.
With the lag before you start, there's no good way to continually spam with any consistency. If you target a mob directly, you stop shooting when it dies. Animation locked timing always feels like shit and this exemplifies is. If you shoot at ground and spray blades instead of targetting mobs, if something goes under your mouse it becomes the target and the above rule applies. The build is tanky when you can spam blades but god forbid you get interrupted, then youre fucked. Also a good way to get ghosts to spawn is to go to the ice cave zones in act five because of how the game prioritizes mobs with immunities you cant attack.
Budget Version with upped cleglaws Set Reach 80% deadly Strike and 100%cb using atmas Amulett and no Boss will live longer then 30 sec.
Sounds great! I need to test it with full cleglaws :) thanks for watching and thanks for your comment Bastian!
How does it get 80% ds and 100% cb? Are you saying once amp damage is applied?
@@codeninja1 cleglaws Set give u 35 CB an 50 ds combind with Gulli , goreriders and duress ist Reach 80 ds and 100 CB the Cost of this items can afford everyone
@@ac3ton437 oooh right with guills...duh. It was like i forgot the first half of what you wrote. Thanks man.
Where did you find blade sentinel 3os claws? I thought it only spawns on ilvl24 or less items and they only give 2 sockets.
I found a Cham rune ladder, just finding a good wep base is next to impossible. Be fun to try out this build
That is true! I am looking for a Chaos Runeword base every day.
Thanks for watching and good luck on the base find :)
Hi thanks for the Video, is there a good Farming Place for the Claws? Cows is a little bit hard with that Build without Phoenix etc.
Hard to say. Any high level area that has a good density would be a decent spot.
Its easier to trade for some good ones I guess
The pits is always a good spot to farm everything. When you get items you can trade for some good ones.
super build, very good explained.
'very well explained' would be proper.
not trying to make you feel bad or anything just letting you know incase you wanted to know :)
@@7kortos7 good point-it seems i had a careless mistake here. in my native language there is no well/good just a good-version used in all cases. thats my explaination why i failed here in a hurry. however i still have enough sense for the language to see now that the "well" is the right word, should be more careful avoiding 1:1 translations.
@@expseeker oh no worries at all, I just share the proper version when I can incase someone wants to sound more native to the language. in fairness there would never be confusion with what you said. you're doing fantastic and I hope you have a great day. :)
Interesting Build!
My preference is Death, since you can use Blade Shield with it. While Plague does more damage technically, using Death and a Lacerator on offhand as needed lets you farm everywhere, even with faster enemies that get on top of you, since Blade Shield will more reliably hit those faster melee enemies. I WILL likely swap to Plague at/during Ladder, though, because it's SO cheap for what it does.
In players 8, crushing blow isn't quite so needed, but Death has a ton, so use Gores with Death, but swap Gface with Shako for additional life, mana, and +skills you'd be missing otherwise. I honestly would rather not use Gface with Plague as Shako or even Nightwing's would do better overall when you're at mid 90s with the claw and Claw Mastery investment.
Use BK ring if you can't get a hold of a dual leech ring, Death has mana leech too and it works very well.
Your normal Pride/+4 skills on your merc is good to go. I honestly can't wait to get my hands on Plague for my Assassin on nonladder. I dislike ladder overall because of its ladder only stuff.
Oh and also p0lease don't sleep on Blade Sentinel, it's also pretty damn great with its damage, and keeps trying to hit every frame if its hitbox collides with an enemy's until it DOES hit, so is damn near effectively 100% hit rate.
Lastly, use demon limb as well! It's like a 10 minute buff you'll be done by then, guaranteed. You can and should use TGod's or Verdungo's OR Arachnid Mesh -- I would prefer Tgod's or Arach honestly, as both options give you around ~1500 hp, and Arach gives you another +1 skill AND some additional cast rate for mind blast if you're using it.
Hi which base is best for death? Ettin or berzerker axe?
@@stephanepv zerker has higher max damage, but ettin has better average damage.
@@AbbySTWrites hi thanks for the reply , also since youre using an eth weapon does it mean you cant uae blade shield because of durability?
OMG, This Ring, so awesome @.@
Thanks for sharing! Just started my blade sin but struggling so far. Wanted to ask, I notice on your previous videos you maxed out shadow master, is there a reason why you decided not to with this high end gear build? Guessing you kill things fast so you don’t need the tank of shadow mastery anymore?
Yes exactly. After reaching a certain point of gear (like midrange - natalyas set) you dont need the shadow master to soak up damage for you.
You can still use it.
I personally just dislike it when he mindblasts a bunch of monsters and they get turned- resulting in me not being able to kill them for a couple seconds.
Thanks for your question and thanks for watching!
@@Gaunerh I really appreciate the reply from you and the insights you added. Sounds like since I am not end game gear that have Shadow master to help tank will help me progress. Thanks and keep up it up!
Can you suggest an alternative of phoenix because it is too expensive? I can find cham and other key items!
Lance Guard for damage (socket with enhanced damage jewel)
Rhyme Shield for Magic Find
Stormshield for protection
Mosers/Whitstans Guard for %Block and resistances etc. budget
You can make Plague on non ladder or its a offline thing?
Offline Singleplayer you can make it. Online Non Ladder not (yet) - Its Ladder Season 1 Exclusive in terms online and rotates to non ladder after the season 1 concludes.
Thanks for watching and good question! :)
@@Gaunerh Nice, did you try experimenting with dual Plague proc nova/venom or using act 5 merc to proc - res curse yet?
@@lymphy12 Yes indeed I did, I dual wielded Plague on a Phoenix Strike Assassin which was very nice because Lower Resist greatly helps in overall damage output and procs often when dual wielding.
As for the Act 5 Mercenary I also tested plague (also on act 3 merc btw.) and it performed pretty well but you have to consider that he has a high level of Iron Skin which boosts up his defense - making him harder to hit for enemy monsters.
For LR from Plague to proc he needs to be HIT.
That being said I recommend a low defense Treachery for the Fade Proc and a Vampire Gaze for more Damage Reduction or something else with low Defense.
The survivability is still there but Plague will be proccing way more often because he now does not have a ridiculous high defense 🙂
Does blade fury work with piercing attack like arrows?
unfortunately it does not.
Thanks for watching :)
Is this better than trap or classic martial arts?
Well its different - Trap is elemental based damage and Martial Arts has its own problems (being melee).
Whatever adheres to your personal playstyle is best :)
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I use blade sentibel more and stand still in middle spamming blade fury with shift targeting while I also benefot from blade shield. Icise shadow killer. Imo shadow killer is made for blade fury. I socketed oth woth an eth rune to get -50% target Def and act 3 merc
Man... Mind blast is mandatory for any sin build, can't imagine not having that on my sin, also if you don't have enigma then dragon flight is also mandatory... Last but not least, a point in death sentry will make you clear everything twice as fast, I understand you are showcasing the blade sin but these are skills you should learn how to use properly, unless you're a uber-only kicksin, then all the skills I've mentioned is a must. That being said, it's an interesting build, sin has been my main as long as I can remember.
no 451psc scs? ^^
Are these good? Boils down to like 15 poison damage per 0,4 seconds per 451 poison sc
Fury is better claw because of ignore target def and -25% and I would personally rock storm shield and crown of ages to put me at 50% DR and use arch mesh.
Fury really isn't a better claw because of IDT. It certainly used to be but with the Attack rating it's gotten, you simply don't need IDT to have 85+% hit rates on everything, including ubers. The unfortunate fact is that Plague will do more damage than Fury, more damage outright, +2 skills, and additional poison damage., and the 4-5% hit rate increase (due to block rates on enemies) is lower than the additional damage Plague provides.
Fury certainly used to be on top and I made one in D2:R because I love Blade Fury even though it was bad.
normal?
its on Hell
Nice 8 point blood ring. Gotta love ppl posting guides who don't know how affixes work in this game.
This not best build. Blade Fury + RIFT is Ideal!!! Work so good!!!
Ethereal weapon base is really not nessesary which prevent you to use blade shield. Traps grand charm should be better than max damage charms in terms of damage. And GFace could be replaced with some circulets with 2 or 3 sockets with enhanced damage jewles, CB is not that useful for this char and you do have more than enough deadly strike
Blade shield uses weapon durability?
All complete wrong, eth weapon it's must, g face must, Max ar Life must cuz Blade Fury take damage from weapon and all physical...
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