Blade Fury Assasin (Ver 1.10)

[ehawk]

Any generous BF sins on NL east??

I managed to get the runes for Duress. I found a vex, and was able to trade it for the Um and Shael I needed. I found a 3 socket Kraken armor, but I do not have the strenght to wear it. Does anyone have a 3 socket dusk shroud? I have an unsocketed superior one I could trade, plus the kraken, and a coupld of pgems? Also does anyone know if I wore equipment with -% to reqs if that would work to equip the armor? PM if you have an armor.

 

[Ritslev]

... Does anyone have a 3 socket dusk shroud? ...

Hi..
I have a :

3 Socketed Scarab Husk
Def 410
Str 98

U can have for free..
Realm : Europe
Contact : *SonOfRa

Ritslev aka SonOfRa

 

[ehawk]

thanks alot for the offer..

But I am on east. I dont think you can transfer between realms can you?

 

[gezzap]

Weapon 1:
Gimmershred, doing 806-1986 damage with Venom

I just found an ethereal Gimmershred and Fury is doing 534-1855 damage before any enchant or venom how does that compare to yours? this is a much better Onehanded weapon than the Eth Baranas Star I was using

BTW Is your Gimmershred ethereal?

 

[5zigen]

I am just wondering why no one has mentioned Fleshripper. 25% cb, high Ow and DS, slows target and prevents monster heal on top of high dmg and -50% (%!!) enemy defense. With a eth thats -75% enemy defense. all for extremely low requirements.

seems to me this is the ideal weapon for a furysin (i know it doesnt have static, but everything else on it is perfect), in fact with gores, duress, guillames blood gloves and this weapon you get a perfect 100% CB (and yes this IS how it is stacked, its added linearly, or at least was at the begining of 1.10), also with this setup you have a good 52% deadly strike. Mabey this was mentioned in the origonal thread but i thought i would add it in here.

also what about atmas scarab. seems like the perfect ammy for a blade fury sin. chance to cast amp (its on striking) and a 20% bonus to AR. remember that crushing blow IS effected by positive physical resistance.

just thought i would add these things. the thought of an eth fleshripper makes me droul, in fact ima go look for one.

 

[Ritslev]

...why no one has mentioned Fleshripper. 25% cb, high Ow and DS, slows target and prevents monster heal on top of high dmg and -50% (%!!) enemy defense. With a eth thats -75% enemy defense. all for extremely low requirements.

Eth Fleshripper is mentioned in the original build, under secondary weapons which also work.

..also what about atmas scarab. seems like the perfect ammy for a blade fury sin. chance to cast amp (its on striking) and a 20% bonus to AR. remember that crushing blow IS effected by positive physical resistance....

Atmas Scarab was part of the first version. Due though to the many curses cast at the time .. Flee from Rattlecage and Weaken from Soul Drainers, well then the Amp damage never really was put into effect.

With Rattlecage changed to Duress, I have retested Atmas.. it is good, but still Highlords is better. That is if you don't lack AR. If you do lack AR, use Atmas till you've solved this issue, then switch back to Highlords

 

[Ritslev]

Attack Rating

Well if you want Attack Rating there is also another option

The Mahim-Oak Curio Amulet
+10 to Dexterity
+10 to Strength
+10 to Energy
+10 to Vitality
+10 Defense
+10% Bonus to Attack Rating
+10% Resistance To All
+10% Enhanced Defense

Low level. Resistance and AT. Not bad really

 

[jmervyn1]

Forgotten postscript

1 : Damage. With and without Enchant/Venom (Listed with Blade Fury Skill, Also please note which weapon so I cna get a general idea.)
2 : Resistances in Hell.
3 : Open Wounds, Critical and Deadly Strike, Crushing Blow
4 : Level of Fury Sin.
5 : Merc used.
6 : Gear used.

Sorry, my previous Angel_Veil has been dead for a while - she bought it during a Hell FE Ancient's death poof. She lvl'ed, but it wasn't enough to save her
:hanky: sob thought they'd fixed that.. sob

I'll try to give what she had as stats; the build wasn't a pure bladesin since I had started long before reading your guide. Keep in mind she was untwinked ladder HC -

1. Think on main attack it was 1100-1400 or so.
2. Max with max Fade, obviously; without I think she was 40's other than poison.
3. 33/45/35, I believe - also max Venom. Won't rely on that again...
4. At the death poof she reached 90.
5. Blessed Aim
6. Highlords, Ravenfrost. Primary claw was eth Strength and + LS, having used Malice earlier. Secondary was a Bartuc. Weapon switch were dual shadow claws. For a while I used the full Disciple set, but I finally got Soul drainers and stopped. Also, still have the Disciple armor, so she must have been using a nice craft. Also had used a Ward for some time in her 50's.

Merc was perfect - Bonehew, Vamp Gaze, and Hwanin's.

EDIT - forgot to mention - the new Angel_Veil finally has her Crescent Moon phase blade on, at lvl 54. Craft gloves, Sander boots, Disciple armor & ammy, Mosers, dual +2 switch, rare rings. Has to wear a Bladebuckle belt to keep her pants up, what with all the Dex charms she's carrying.

Hmm... pants down... so THAT's why the animation catches the eye. :spy:

 

[Frankeinstein]

I'll have to sit down & fiqure out what Qeznart_too is at.

This morning I started a game for my PvP sin I'm working on (UR_PHUCKT) :lol:

anyway I had a game up called GTNCAIN & someone popped in & says... hey need any free stuff... Oh course I says... YES!!!!

comes back & dumps (2) mules worth of medium to high lvl, rares, uni's & greenies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had to jump out & back w/ 2 spare mules for the gear. He was cleaning out some accounts & didn't want to just toss the stuff out.

Anyway one of the last items he drooped off was...........................Guillianes Face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEA BABY :thumbsup:

I have been looking for that for 6 months. Now I have 75% crushing blow!!!!!

way too cool! Just had to share that :clap:

 

[wildjinn]

I hate to bring up an old topic, but I was just doing some testing, and the CB applied by BF does not work at full strength. I left on my rattlecage and guillaume's face and went otherwise naked into the outskirts of NM Lut Gholein. Here are the results of my testing:

http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload5/BFdamage.jpg

Carrion Birds have a life range of 458-687, according to the Arreat Summit, which may or may not be correct (I don't know how area Mlvl corresponds to monster change in an area). For the extreme example, let's take 450 HP. At most, the Shuriken itself did 10 damage. That will correspond to about 2.1% of its health bar. The health bar is at approximately 83% (by pixel), which corresponds to a 17% loss. Assuming a 2% damage from BF itself, that leaves 15% damage (or so) from CB.

Here are my thoughts about that: Perhaps the 1/4 health is modified by a 3/4 penalty, with a final value of 3/16 life removed. Perhaps the bar is wrong. Perhaps it does do 1/8 of total HPs. It looks extremely unlikely, though, that BF actually removes 1/4 of a monster's health with CB.

 

[Ritslev]

Damage Outlet

Finally... after work and work and work..

At level 90 I finally broke the 3 K barrier while using Stormlash. That doesn't seem like a lot... but still a major victory for me.

Inventory loaded with lightning damage charms, and still having room for my Cube...
I broke the 3 k barrier last night.
With Venom + Enchant... my damage is now :

585 - 3004

Doesnt' sound like a lot when people compare to other builds, but what you have to keep in mind is that along with this damage (mainly elemental). There is :

98% Chance for Crushing Blow
43% chance of Open Wounds
63% chance of Critical / Deadly Strike
15 % chance of casting level 10 Static
20% chance of casting level 18 Tornado
8% chance of casting level 3 Weaken

I'm thrilled.. hehe

SonOfRa (a little proud today)

Note - Yes I know 3 k is easy to break with other weapons... other weapons though don't do what the Lash can... so Don't burst my bubble hehe

 

[BIGeyedBUG]

I hate to bring up an old topic, but I was just doing some testing, and the CB applied by BF does not work at full strength. I left on my rattlecage and guillaume's face and went otherwise naked into the outskirts of NM Lut Gholein. Here are the results of my testing:

http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload5/BFdamage.jpg

Carrion Birds have a life range of 458-687, according to the Arreat Summit, which may or may not be correct (I don't know how area Mlvl corresponds to monster change in an area). For the extreme example, let's take 450 HP. At most, the Shuriken itself did 10 damage. That will correspond to about 2.1% of its health bar. The health bar is at approximately 83% (by pixel), which corresponds to a 17% loss. Assuming a 2% damage from BF itself, that leaves 15% damage (or so) from CB.

Here are my thoughts about that: Perhaps the 1/4 health is modified by a 3/4 penalty, with a final value of 3/16 life removed. Perhaps the bar is wrong. Perhaps it does do 1/8 of total HPs. It looks extremely unlikely, though, that BF actually removes 1/4 of a monster's health with CB.

I really doubt that BF is applying CB at the 3/4 damage penalty. For one thing, CB isn't technically damage at all, and it seems unlikely to me this kind of thing would have been specially coded. I think that BF "the skill" is treated as ranged by the game--see the immunity of BFers to Iron Maiden--and thus goes through the ranged penalty for CB. Also, the 1/8 figurematches my personal experience with BF--3x that, 3/16, does not. I think 1/8 is pretty well accepted in most places outside of dii.net, and I could get a better explanation/confirmation from some techie person if you really want to be sure.

If you want to do your own testing more thoroughly, use a short bow to apply CB, both normally and with BF. Compare the two with each other, and with non BF melee. Then tell us if you see any differences.

 

[Frankeinstein]

Ritslev, that is very cool congrats!


:thumbsup:

 

[jmervyn1]

Arrgh. Just got the new Angel_Veil PK'd. I guess there's some sort of lag trick after the Ancients that I didn't know about, and I wasn't fast enough on the flux when some telenec hostiled.

1 : Damage. With and without Enchant/Venom (Listed with Blade Fury Skill, Also please note which weapon so I cna get a general idea.)
About 200-450, No venom this time, but using my brand new phase blade Crescent Moon. :hanky:

2 : Resistances in Hell.
Mid-20's, 75's with Fade

3 : Open Wounds, Critical and Deadly Strike, Crushing Blow
Whatever Crescent Moon + 10% is.

4 : Level of Fury Sin.
45 before ancients

5 : Merc used.
Frost

6 : Gear used.
Crescent Moon, 10% CB Blood gloves, Disciple armor & ammy, rare rings, 2 * +2 skill claws on switch, Mosers

 

[Kyin3]

Sorry frist time here kinda new to this area.
Whats this guide that everyone this talking about?

 

[Ritslev]

...Whats this guide that everyone this talking about?..

http://www.rpgforums.net/showthread.php?t=126543

Then scroll down till you find :

The PvM Furysin (Blade Fury) - by Ritslev

 

[wildjinn]

I really doubt that BF is applying CB at the 3/4 damage penalty. For one thing, CB isn't technically damage at all, and it seems unlikely to me this kind of thing would have been specially coded. I think that BF "the skill" is treated as ranged by the game--see the immunity of BFers to Iron Maiden--and thus goes through the ranged penalty for CB. Also, the 1/8 figurematches my personal experience with BF--3x that, 3/16, does not. I think 1/8 is pretty well accepted in most places outside of dii.net, and I could get a better explanation/confirmation from some techie person if you really want to be sure.[snip]

I'm certainly not trying to have any sort of mathematical answer here, just a graphically based answer that may or may not be correct. Basically, the point was to show that it doesn't do 1/4 damage with BF, as is commonly held on this board. I also realize that BF isn't directed damage from a character--I was just hypothesizing something that could be an option based on the data that I obtained, not anything firm.

(also, 3/16 is not 3 x 1/8. That'd be 3/8 or 6/16)

If someone techie has explained it, (and I certainly trust your opinion on that based on the quality of your usual posts) could you PM me a link to their stuff? I couldn't find anything about it at the usual places that I visit/lurk.

 

[Cironir]

Nice to see a guide about this build. I had played a BF assassin during the 1.10 beta (and posted my findings and ponderings here, though only NM and Hell sections are wortwhile, as they reflect my various "changes of mind"), and found her to be a viable and fun character -- even untwinked. I've made a few BF assassins after 1.10 was released, though got distracted by other projects. Personally, I'd go for the claw + blocking version (or c/c for some places, where blocking isn't needed but some of the off-hand mods come in handy), but that's strictly a personal preference, since I never play any character without blocking. (The "if I get hit, I made a mistake" theory is just that, a theory -- sync issues, lag, hangover, etc are realities of realm life! ). But no doubt, this is a versatile build that can be easily "customized", and the guide is very well done!

 

[Naliworld]

OT, but: Nice to see you're still around, Cironir.

 

[Cironir]

OT, but: Nice to see you're still around, Cironir.

Likewise. I was thinking the same when I saw that you were still the moderator here! I keep getting distracted by other games (and life in general), but D2 is one of those vices that are hard to get rid of. I don't play as much as I used to anymore, but I'm sure it's just one "those phases" that eventually result in a few weeks or months of mindlessly addicted playing.