saekee
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So having been impressed by Tronko's centered assassin thread, I went about assembling the goods. I soon realized that I did not have near enough of the Dino ingredients to make anything (and it would be immensely grindy to do so). So I came up with a stepping stone gearset that some folks here might find useful and could even settle upon if you like having weapon flexibility. It utilizes gear that many might already have, and needs only a couple of more pieces, of which only one is tricky to get (the Flame Priest's Focus helm). Thanks to the new augment system, augments can cover a few gaping holes.
Logic: Silent Avenger is almost the same as the Dread Stalker, missing mainly the +15 artifact boost to Melee power. It has 30% fort bypass, though, saving a Dreadbringer 5th filigree. We will add the Temple's Inferno set to get 15 MP artifact since we have the goggles already as part of Tronko's set. Then, we do Adherent of the Mists, almost the same as Dread Isle Curse, mainly missing +4 attack/damage (also 15 USP less, not a big deal). The bonuses are nearly identical although the individual item stats will come up lower.
Insightful assassinate, insightful deception and quality seeker are all on one item, the trinket out of Creeping Death. The biggest losses, outside of the attack and damage, are 1) the extra 2d6 sneak damage from dread armor boost, and 2) many more augment slots for added perks and raid augment sets.
Legendary Adherent of the Mists (5 items):
+30 Profane Bonus to Physical Resistance Rating.
+30 Profane Bonus to Positive, Negative, and Repair Healing Amplification.
+15 Profane Bonus to Melee and Ranged Power.
+15 Profane Bonus to Universal Spell Power.
(+2 Profane bonus to ability scores on armor silent avenger)
Silent Avenger (3 items)
+15% Artifact Bonus to Doublestrike and Doubleshot.
+3 Sneak Attack Dice.
+30% Artifact bonus to Fortification Bypass.
+15% Artifact bonus to Damage vs. Helpless Opponents.
Temple's Inferno (2 items)
+15 Artifact Bonus to Melee and Ranged Power
+30 Artifact Bonus to Fire Spell Power
+15% Artifact Bonus to Helplessness Damage
Head: Flame Priest's Focus: Accuracy 21, Potency 103, Insightful seeker 6, Ins. Combat mastery 6, Temple's Inferno, Green: temple inferno
Goggles: Flameguard (Deadly 11, quality deadly 3, doublestrike 15, quality ds 3, yellow: ) temple inferno
Trinket: Legendary Subtle Sound (Ins. Deception, quality seeker, Insightful assassinate, UMD+5, green: ) Swap: Legendary Battleworn Medal (Heart of the Problem). Gives 3 extra action boosts, good for raids.
(If you are deeply at the starter stage, do a craftable assassinate shard here, Assassinate of Insightful assassinate, until the Bone ring is upgraded sufficiently. Another option is a second Adherent of the Mists ring, add the Spyglass out of Saltmarsh for trinket, and do Necklace of Venom for insightful assassinate.)
Necklace: Any that qualify for adherent of the mists. Best would be Fleetfoot that drops in raid: (Fleetfoot: Superior Reinforced fists, Wind through the Trees; Natural armor: 13; wisdom 13; yellow green). Adherent
Armor: Mist-Laden Vestment (Fortification, parrying 6, physl sheltering, profane 2, green: ) Silent Avenger
Belt: Cutcord (quality dodge 3, blurry, dex 13, quality Dex 3, green: ) Silent avenger
gloves: Crumbling: Ins. Dex 6, Quality INT 3, Shatter 15, Ins. Physical Sheltering 16, Blue: ) Adherent
Bracers: Lore Fueled Pack: Ins. CON 6, Ins. DS 6%, druidic, Green: ) Invitation to dinner (farm opt chest!) Adherent
Ring1: Any Adherent of the Mists. I have: CurseBane: Ins. Curse Resist 4, vitality 44, Quality Magical Sheltering 8, Deathblock, Green: ) Adherent
Ring 2: DIno Bone Ring. (See Tronko's version: Dex 15, seeker 15, Assassinate 17, Resistance). I did Armor Piercing here instead of Resistance.
Cloak: Shadowhail (HS/MS, Deception 10, Ghostly, green) Silent Avenger
Boots: Flightfoot: FoM, Speed 30, Natural armor 13, yellow: ) Adherent
Weapons: Anything! That is the big plus here. Dino weapons, Goldcursed daggers, go Kukri and do Labyrinthine Edge and dino kukri, etc.
Augments needed: healing amplification, Constitution, dodge, sheltering, resistance if you did armor piercing on Dino Ring, good luck +2/3. The Dread Stalker dino set has a lot more augment slots so you have much less flexibility with this gearset, such as Tronk adding raid set augments.
A lot of goods are covered with this simple setup--all forms of Dex, Ins. CON, lots of doublestrike and deadly, assassinate and insightful assassinate. The biggest advantage here is 1) flexiblity and 2) you might have a good chance at pulling mythic versions of the gear, especiall given that the quests are getting steamrolled now on reaper.
Gearing Options:
Other perks: excellent assassinate sources, stunning/shatter + ins. combat mastery, doublestrike (profane, artifact, competence, insightful + quality), All Dex (profane, insightful, quality + scroll Tenser for artifact), Ins. Con, Ghostly, Potency for various casting. Best part is that it is not too difficult to assemble.
Cons: seeker is only Insightful. When you equip the Raptor tooth necklace, you get seeker 13. Once you equip the Bone ring, you get Seeker there. No quality assassinate, no improved deception. You cannot create augment slot sets either like Cunning Impact since almost all gear slots are partnof a set. It is an inferior setup to Tronko’s but since it is easy to assemble ans upgrade, I have adopted it fully. I am missing only the raid kukri.
Let me know your thoughts and if you find this useful!
Logic: Silent Avenger is almost the same as the Dread Stalker, missing mainly the +15 artifact boost to Melee power. It has 30% fort bypass, though, saving a Dreadbringer 5th filigree. We will add the Temple's Inferno set to get 15 MP artifact since we have the goggles already as part of Tronko's set. Then, we do Adherent of the Mists, almost the same as Dread Isle Curse, mainly missing +4 attack/damage (also 15 USP less, not a big deal). The bonuses are nearly identical although the individual item stats will come up lower.
Insightful assassinate, insightful deception and quality seeker are all on one item, the trinket out of Creeping Death. The biggest losses, outside of the attack and damage, are 1) the extra 2d6 sneak damage from dread armor boost, and 2) many more augment slots for added perks and raid augment sets.
Legendary Adherent of the Mists (5 items):
+30 Profane Bonus to Physical Resistance Rating.
+30 Profane Bonus to Positive, Negative, and Repair Healing Amplification.
+15 Profane Bonus to Melee and Ranged Power.
+15 Profane Bonus to Universal Spell Power.
(+2 Profane bonus to ability scores on armor silent avenger)
Silent Avenger (3 items)
+15% Artifact Bonus to Doublestrike and Doubleshot.
+3 Sneak Attack Dice.
+30% Artifact bonus to Fortification Bypass.
+15% Artifact bonus to Damage vs. Helpless Opponents.
Temple's Inferno (2 items)
+15 Artifact Bonus to Melee and Ranged Power
+30 Artifact Bonus to Fire Spell Power
+15% Artifact Bonus to Helplessness Damage
Head: Flame Priest's Focus: Accuracy 21, Potency 103, Insightful seeker 6, Ins. Combat mastery 6, Temple's Inferno, Green: temple inferno
Goggles: Flameguard (Deadly 11, quality deadly 3, doublestrike 15, quality ds 3, yellow: ) temple inferno
Trinket: Legendary Subtle Sound (Ins. Deception, quality seeker, Insightful assassinate, UMD+5, green: ) Swap: Legendary Battleworn Medal (Heart of the Problem). Gives 3 extra action boosts, good for raids.
(If you are deeply at the starter stage, do a craftable assassinate shard here, Assassinate of Insightful assassinate, until the Bone ring is upgraded sufficiently. Another option is a second Adherent of the Mists ring, add the Spyglass out of Saltmarsh for trinket, and do Necklace of Venom for insightful assassinate.)
Necklace: Any that qualify for adherent of the mists. Best would be Fleetfoot that drops in raid: (Fleetfoot: Superior Reinforced fists, Wind through the Trees; Natural armor: 13; wisdom 13; yellow green). Adherent
Armor: Mist-Laden Vestment (Fortification, parrying 6, physl sheltering, profane 2, green: ) Silent Avenger
Belt: Cutcord (quality dodge 3, blurry, dex 13, quality Dex 3, green: ) Silent avenger
gloves: Crumbling: Ins. Dex 6, Quality INT 3, Shatter 15, Ins. Physical Sheltering 16, Blue: ) Adherent
Bracers: Lore Fueled Pack: Ins. CON 6, Ins. DS 6%, druidic, Green: ) Invitation to dinner (farm opt chest!) Adherent
Ring1: Any Adherent of the Mists. I have: CurseBane: Ins. Curse Resist 4, vitality 44, Quality Magical Sheltering 8, Deathblock, Green: ) Adherent
Ring 2: DIno Bone Ring. (See Tronko's version: Dex 15, seeker 15, Assassinate 17, Resistance). I did Armor Piercing here instead of Resistance.
Cloak: Shadowhail (HS/MS, Deception 10, Ghostly, green) Silent Avenger
Boots: Flightfoot: FoM, Speed 30, Natural armor 13, yellow: ) Adherent
Weapons: Anything! That is the big plus here. Dino weapons, Goldcursed daggers, go Kukri and do Labyrinthine Edge and dino kukri, etc.
Augments needed: healing amplification, Constitution, dodge, sheltering, resistance if you did armor piercing on Dino Ring, good luck +2/3. The Dread Stalker dino set has a lot more augment slots so you have much less flexibility with this gearset, such as Tronk adding raid set augments.
A lot of goods are covered with this simple setup--all forms of Dex, Ins. CON, lots of doublestrike and deadly, assassinate and insightful assassinate. The biggest advantage here is 1) flexiblity and 2) you might have a good chance at pulling mythic versions of the gear, especiall given that the quests are getting steamrolled now on reaper.
Gearing Options:
- use any Ravenloft necklace to complete the set, craft on the Trinket (what you need) of armor piercing of insightful assassinate, and use the Dino Ring as the artifact (It will have assassinate, dex, seeker and Resistance). If you have the raid Fleetfoot necklace, it is a nice option.
- Use Echo of Ravenkind, the raid trinket, which has Improved deception and eternal holy burst, CON and two augment slots. For insightful assassinate, use the Fens Necklace of Venom which also has two slots. This then becomes a swap item when fighting red names, for example swap with the raptor necklace or whatever. I would do this if I had the trinket, but do not.
- The Labyrinthine Edge has the Bloodrage proc everyone likes. Consider that as a great option for a weapon to be paired with a Dino kukri. I have made two Dino kukris, one with Legendary Affirmation, so if it procs it can be swapped out.
- If you want to use this setup and not be an assassin (some other roguish melee thug like assassin 18/monk1/fvs 1 that uses fire stance, max cores in assassin for lethality but is a Vistani kukri fighter tier 5 and capstone, trance out of FvS), then dump all assassinate stuff, keep perfect pinnacle for fire stance blinding, and focus on necklace and trinket slots as dps. If non-good, the perfected vulkoorin necklace could be fun, or a dino necklace, or the Rose Thorn necklace even for the insightful deception and Rose exhaust effect).
Other perks: excellent assassinate sources, stunning/shatter + ins. combat mastery, doublestrike (profane, artifact, competence, insightful + quality), All Dex (profane, insightful, quality + scroll Tenser for artifact), Ins. Con, Ghostly, Potency for various casting. Best part is that it is not too difficult to assemble.
Cons: seeker is only Insightful. When you equip the Raptor tooth necklace, you get seeker 13. Once you equip the Bone ring, you get Seeker there. No quality assassinate, no improved deception. You cannot create augment slot sets either like Cunning Impact since almost all gear slots are partnof a set. It is an inferior setup to Tronko’s but since it is easy to assemble ans upgrade, I have adopted it fully. I am missing only the raid kukri.
Let me know your thoughts and if you find this useful!
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