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Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

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Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

[highlight]Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin[/highlight]

Assassins are my favorite class. My first Assassin, and character in d2 was Phoenix striker, so now after few years when I have some knowledge of game and things I decided to make crown of Assassin builds – PvP hybrid.

Tifa LCS

[highlight]Stats:[/highlight]

20/100
20/83
500/500
25/25

So my plan was to make pure Vita Assassin. When I started making her I tought 1.13 is only few days away :rolleyes: and it will bring Ubers in SP :rolleyes: x 2 so I didn't want to waste any stats. After realising cold truth I just decidec to stick with general idea.
Only problem I have with this plan is that when she dies she can't equip enigma ( 41 str ) so I have to wear amulet for picking her corpse :p

[highlight]Skills:[/highlight]

20 (38) Venom
1 (18) all Shadow Disciplines
20 (34) Lightling Sentry
20 (29) Death Sentry
20 (29) Charged Bolt Sentry
10 (19) Shock Web
1 (10) all Traps except WoI
1 (10) Dragon Flight ( from claw )

[highlight]Gear:[/highlight]

Helm: 2/20 Assassin circlet
Ammy: Crafted 2/10fcr ammy
Armor: Enigma Light plate
Weapon 1: Fool's Claw ( Um rune as soon as I find it :p )
Weapon 2: Chaos Claw
Ring1: 229/20 RF
Ring2: 212/20 RF
Gloves: Trangs
Belt: Arach
Boots: Rare FHR, dex, LR boots

[highlight]Switch: [/highlight]

+1 BO stick ( someone plz gieb beta :badteeth: )
Lidless wall


For those more intersted in her gear here is picture of her items.

[highlight]Charms:[/highlight]

9 x Shadow skillers ( 19,20,22,30,32,33,36,38 life, 12 FHR)
1 x Trap skiller ( 32 life )

Small charms with:
141 life
30 LR
5 FHR
176 AR
3 Max dmg

Charms for fixing specific resistances in stash.

[highlight]Merc:[/highlight]

Holy freeze merc with:
eth Insight GPA
Archon Plate Treachery
10/29 Andy's 30FR/15IAS jewel'd

[highlight]Gameplay:[/highlight]

Since Chaos claw is only few days old I played her as pure traper. Mb, LS, DS etc, and she was doing fine. Nothing worth mentioning.

Now that I have WW I decided to change hotkeys and I must say that it's pretty hard character to play. Traping, WWing and casting Mb while you dodge attacks is not easy. She is lvl 94 atm, but when/if I get Infinity I'll level her to 99 I think :) Until lvl 95 she will be in mp games while I get acustomed to hotkeys and break 6000 LS dmg. Then into Moor.

HF: Um/Ko
Since I don't remember any specific finds that means there was probably nothing to write home about.

[highlight]In the end: [/highlight]

This Assassin has 65 fcr breakpoint for mindblasting and teleporting. FHR is 27 right now ( 5 frame FHR ), but since I played with my Druid who had 99 FHR – 5 FHR frames for Druids I think this is enough until I get more Shadow charms of Balance + this character has WW for escaping stunlocks. 57% chance to block with Claw block is decent, but I aimed for 58%.
She has fastest trap laying speed after WSM buging, +8000 AR on Chaos claw and around 4000 on Fool's claw.

I hope I will have chance to test her soon and cut a ear or two :)
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

Nice sin. The gear is pretty gg also. Was there a specific reason you made chaos in a non elite claw? Besides it having smaller stat requirements and fitting your "pure vita" build I still think it should have made in a elite base.
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

Congrats on the Mat, nice char.

@Tank: the GT will keep req's down as you mentioned, I believe frozzzen will be relying on venom/OW dmg for his WW attacks so the lack of physical dmg is not a problem. To get truely good dmg with WW you would need the elite claw base but also some very tasty dmg sc setup.
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

Gratz on the mat!

GG on the life pool.
I've seen valk's with less life than that. :badteeth:
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

you made the chaos. well congrats on both the chaos and the mat :)
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

If I calculated correctly putting Chaos in Runic Talons ( -30 IAS ) would make a drastic increase of 8.5 dmg after PvP penalty :badteeth:
So it's not worth sacrificing ~60 stats for equipping them :)
Since I use only 1 level of Claw Mastery I don't get any good dmg.
around 60% dmg comes from Venom, 25% from magic dmg on Chaos, and 15% from physical dmg.
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

GG character, frozzzen. The 500 vitality is just crazy. I've obviously never built one of these before, but one concern I have for you is that you only have 433 mana, since Mind Blast, Lightning Sentry, Teleport, and Whirlwind all cost quite a bit. It may end up being just fine, but I'm just throwing it out there since my own assassins all use quite a few mana/life SCs. :).

Good luck in the Moor, and may you cut many an ear, but just not one of mine. :D.

Give items, please? :p.
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

Hm seems that my chars will have new meal in blood moor :)
nice char :thumbup:
especially that uber skillers seems too overpowered for me

btw. shadow skills are your secondary source of damage
As I see your build , you will be especially good trapper, not so good wwer , beacuse ww will be especially for your defense vs some melee builds as smiter or wwbarb and that skillers will make only few difference for you but traps damage will be much better with 6-8 more skills
So mabye you can tihnk about change of some skiller to some trap skilers or for some vita SC´s but you can try some game and you will see how you will manage your playing style with this interesting char.
And can I ask what is your source of streenght to have enough for light plate? You have some mod on ammy or circlet or how you doing it?
thanks for answers
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

I was thinking mana might be problem, but I have some life/mana SCs so if I find mana to be a problem than can also be fixed.

About Shadow vs Trap skillers - problem is that I don't have good trap skillers. I'm planing to make pure trapper if I manage to get some good skillers to see diference in those two builds. if I get more good trap skillers i will add those in my build :)

Problem with equiping enigma is fixed by having one 30 str ammy in inventory and equiping it when I have to pick my corpse. That puts me at only 9 SCs but even 20 life SC would not benefit as not investing those points in vita.
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

Congratulations on the Matriarch. Watch out for the smiters and BvCs.
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

Question:
Wouldn't you prefer a 3 traps or 2 assa skills claw with good staffmods? (hopefully two socketed by larzuk, and at best also having the "of quickness" suffix)? Seeing that your damage pretty much comes from venom/OW and traps. Or is the ar of Fools just too important and couldn't it be substituted with enchant from demonlimb, or is that considered bm?
(note that i'm not at all a dueler, much less a assa dueler, much less a assa WW/hybrid dueler)

Your 500 vit looks really good btw. :)
 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

Doppel said:
Question:
Wouldn't you prefer a 3 traps or 2 assa skills claw with good staffmods? (hopefully two socketed by larzuk, and at best also having the "of quickness" suffix)? Seeing that your damage pretty much comes from venom/OW and traps. Or is the ar of Fools just too important and couldn't it be substituted with enchant from demonlimb, or is that considered bm?
(note that i'm not at all a dueler, much less a assa dueler, much less a assa WW/hybrid dueler)

Your 500 vit looks really good btw. :)
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That is really interesting question, and I think that choice mostly depend of enemy you are challenging beacuse vs smiters you exatly need fools mod and againsit casters small AR should be enough for you :)
And for me seems that you have enough experience from duels , only you are underestimated yourself, is it some chance I can met you in blood moor? :)


 
Re: Matriarch Tifa – PvP Hybrid Assassin

I would like idea of +5LS claw for some duels, but I don't have such claw. Since I don't use 15 IAS jewel in my circlet, that claw would need 40IAS for fastest trap laying speed.
So, I have +5LS claw with 2 os for this kind of purpose ( dual Shael ) but then I would loose OW on that claw.
I would love to have this option for some duels :)
 
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