On another note, the latest nightmare weekly story mission was a breeze and was able to farm a bunch of legendary gear. And yeah, the bomb build is broken. Hit 293 kills my last Gold survival. Second place had 67 kills.
The game traps you in animations. Jumping circumvents them and gives you precious milli seconds which really save your life. Jumping + ghost weapons, for instance, especially healing gords or smoke bombs.
This build is amazing! Just rolled all my gear on a limb and tried it out, aaand im never going back. Actually joined a nightmare survival where another assassin was running the same build and believe me we were runnin that shit
You could be getting way more assassinations from your smoke if you had some stealth on the build. You can run back into smoke, crouch, run out, assassinate, repeat.
To be honest, I actually think the hunter is underpowered. Archery is solid but she doesn't improve it much. She's good when you level her up but I'd rather have a Ronin to provide ranged support
Nah assassin is probably the best for solo and second best (behind the ronin imo) for multiplayer. For solo, I’ve gone entire levels on my first try easily breezing through with super assassinations and toxic vanish (didn’t have the stagger assassination unlocked yet). Multiplayer at least one (preferably 2) assassins are gonna be wanted because the group vanish along with providing kill support via assassinations and crits to a pinned down teammate make the assassin one of the better classes, second or first. There are a few situations where the samurai definitely outclasses the assassin, but the huntress honestly just can’t compete. I’m an assassin main though (soon to become ronin main).
@@insertunoriginalnamehere1398 I actually have been getting back into the game with the newest DLC. still don't think Hunter is the best but I do see what she brings to the table and yea Skipping Stone is broken as fuck
My wife and I were away celebrating our anniversary when I saw this video and I wanted to pack up and go home to try this out! Lol I got home yesterday and got 264 kills in my first survival and the second match, someone was doing the same thing and we laid waste to everything very quickly. Thanks for the help!
little tip: you can outjump the brute circle aoe when they slam their staff on the ground. helps to live when there are many enemies around you. Just hop shortly after they put their staff down. definitely better than rolling away backwards into a blind spot
That is way better than most assassin builds, I dropped 312 on gold with my ronin but have yet to try nightmare with him, bomb packs are amazing and the aoe devastation with his extra ghost dmg and black powder bombs with increased radius, and ammunition being so available makes me an unstoppable napalm bomber
Essentially the same thing I run, but I swapped spirit kunai for the sticky bomb. I can't heal myself, but after the bomb spam you leave a lot of enemies really low. So throwing 5 kunai into the pack usually nets 2-3 kills so that's 30-45 second cooldown on your smoke and vanish.
I just started play the legend DLC and I started to main assassins and this looks like by far the best build I have found I’m going to try it. Keep up the good work
Hi from Belgium. This is really good !!! Tried to reproduce this as close as I could with my level 11 assassin and at my first try with it on survival gold dropped a 270 kills.
@@monoespacial it sure was ! After perfecting it a bit I almost made it through nightmare. We died at wave 14 and I was the kill leader. Thanks a lot, great build !
So many times I've seen people boast kill numbers after clearly ignoring objectives. While teammates hold back to try and complete them, they just plow ahead like their kill counts are going to get them laid or something.
I recommend katana with oni damage and ultimate damage so that way you have a extra 10 percent when using your ultimate but this is a great build I think this can be even more op if you can max out every skill I keep getting lucky and get almost max when I reroll
Awesome build, I’ve been wanting to use the hunter and assassin but was trying to figure out an op build - I think I’ve just found one! Started off with Ronin and although it was great getting those clutch revives it felt even better when I dropped 300+ kills with my Samurai lol.
I don’t have the healing sticky bomb but I do have the healing bomb pack I use on my Ronin. Might have to change it to assassin usable and give this a try.
Same with my build! but I have Hysteria in my Assassin charm (with stealth dmg) with blowgun (for additional stealth dmg), healing sticky(with lucky and cooldown perks and smoke bomb (with lucky and cooldown perks too)Nice work!
This is my build as well, one shots brutes, 2-3 shot oni and can hold a point solo even in later waves from self heals. I also prefer the longer assasinate animation as they carry more s and the poison vanish to one shot oni every minute.
@@Abbe10able Yes, 15 secs for each kill, if you drop enemies health with bombs, and finish off 2 of them with kunai, kunai cd refreshes instantly and you go again. Pretty OP
Awesome build. One of the best detailed video builds out there for assassins. Did not know the assassin charm could roll chain vanish. Gonna have to farm some honor points though so see y’all in 2 weeks lol
I made mistake by spending too much Honor for that vanish crap, its not worth it at all. Basically u need some kind of charm to give u more health instead of a vanish finish. Dont waste honor!
Copied this build to do on this weeks nightmare. It runs perfectly. Just not as fast as you expect it to be like it’s in gold. Did all 25 rounds, didn’t lose a single point. Thanks for the advice man.
A way to improve this build would be putting on the masamune edge with the same rolls you have since the 20% also goes to ultimate damage and then swap ultimate damage with resolve gain for the assassin charm. I have this build and it works so good
The healing on the sticky bomb is sooo good though. I don't want to get stuck without it, but I got Masamune a couple of days ago so I'll give it a try!
@@monoespacial I hear you but I promise with the resolve gain 3 well placed bombs and your ult is back and the damage output with that weapon can burst oni down so quick.
Have you tried dropping the stealth damage on the charm for resolve gain and going for a full Ult build? With the commitment to ult damage and resolve gain and using bombs to widdle down enemies seems like you could forego the extra 25% and put it towards ULT for even more power.
@@blarbblarb2779 you can’t get rid of the stealth attack damage for resolve sadly but I have tried a full ult build and I couldn’t really notice that much of a difference. Personally I think 20% is more than enough and with the double damage from the weapon it works pretty good
ive played with someone with a similar build on my first gold run. amazed to see whole waves go down in seconds. but im over lvl 90 and have not gotten one bomb pouch
@@uvicjackson thanks, i actually found this out yesterday. got to 105 wondering where the hell it was. really should be mentioned in the build. quick question since you answered. do you know if the raid is harder than nightmare mode? tried nightmare and its insanely difficult.
@@uvicjackson just beat my first nightmare survival today. similar build except i had a healing ammo drop smoke. sucked not having the cooldown on kill, but not a bad trade off.
would swap out the legendary sticky bomb for the legendary smoke bomb in nightmare. most archers are using some sort of status arrows (poison/fire) in nightmare so the legendary smoke bomb will not only provide heals and munitions for the group, but will net some free damage for the rest of the group. i actually always have my group run smoke bombs with munitions.
Only Assasin left to lvl up for the trophy. I'm more of a Ronin guy, but definetly will be trying this build, as I finished Nightmare Survival today (no zones lost) & literally got SHOWERED with legendary class items.
Dude. HOLY F*CK. It took me FOREVER to get everything you have with every single exact property. But oh my lord can I say that it paid off. Max level 110 with this build and all the same properties you've have on every piece of gear and I am absolutely shredding everything. Also not to brag but some of my stats on my gear are higher than yours ;) aye man I really appreciate it though you definitely earned a sub. Good build
On Assasin Charm I have reduction on kill + stealth dmg and Chain Vanish. Imho its more suitable for my playstyle. Worth giving a try. And instead of touch of heaven i got Mist of Yagata, cuz gives me oportunity to heal in the middle of the battle, oportunity to revive Fallen group members and I can kill more efficient non-oni mobs. Yeah, Ult is not so power full but gives me a plan B if I dont have concusion bombs anymore. Ofc, Mist with Munitions. Worth giving a try imho. This build brought me round 240+ kills/ match
Been running a version very close to this and I can concur it wrecks. One change I made was using forbidden medicine for heals and dirt throw instead of stickies and I like the setup a lot. Back to forbidden medicine though, I have all legendaries and I feel like it might be the best or right up there with skipping stone bow. Being able to use bombs that heal is just so damn good with assassin and on nightmare that extra heal matters a lot.
I love this build, thanks. Instead of the legendary sticky bomb, I prefer to use the Mist of Yagata, which deploys a healing smoke bomb. Allows you to heal up and get loads more assassinations.
I got matched with this unstoppable assassin player who had crazy poison damage buffs. He shot an Oni with darts like 8 times that did next to nothing at first and poison tick damage kicks in a second later and the health bar vanished
The fact that this is basically, exactly how I use the assassin, I just dont have the patience and focus to develop the strategy so precisely, so thank u.
So your video inspired me to play around with the assassin.. I haven't been able to get a bomb pack yet, so I changed it up a bit. With the gear I got as much extra stealth attack damage and ability cooldown as possible. In total I have about +90% stealth attack damage. When I use the vanish ability I'm now able to assassinate Oni enemies. I also got the chain vanish on one of my gear plus the chain vanish technique, making me able to do 3 stealth attacks. So I basically just run around and vanish as much as possible and just stealth everything haha. It's not as good as your build, but it's still pretty fun! I'm going to keep trying for a bomb pack so I can try your build 😃 thanks for the video!
@@monoespacial haha yea I figured since that's the only class I've never tried, that must be why I haven't gotten the bomb pack yet. I'll have to play around with the ronin...thank you though
this is a rly cool build and i love how you can just tear down wave after wave. My only problem is it is such aa grindy thing to get for someone who mostly plays hunter like me
You could also replace the bomb pack for a blowdart with extra assassination damage and the sticky bomb for the legendary kunai with the perk that does extra damage to small enemies, and take the 2nd vanish instead of the 5 kills on ult if you want to be extra sneaky
have you tried using the masamune's edge katana? it has a 20% chance to crit. it works for samurai's ult. maybe it will work for yours too. with you spamming your ult so much. would be nice to get a crit (:
@@McLOVlN it's definitely worth it what do u mean depending on your build will benefit your gameplay I have all legendary weapons and by far that a very useful build with a melee+ damage build if you're not focused on stealth on assassin
@@monkeykingss4luffy786 yeah assassin pull off the 2 legendary slots, still, in some classes is a waste (for example ultimates that gain 2 more attacks is just a game changer if you got ult dmg, specially in nightmare) n yeah i got all legendary stuff, there is 110 class items better than legendary items tho, i got all cus of farming glitch tho 🤫
@@McLOVlN idk I me personally I don't use the chain because samurai chain attack is superior I'll rather stick to my hallucination build or melee+ damage build
I've beat nightmare difficulty with something similar only difference is i have two legendary weapons one being master sword and kenjis brew which has strong brew so I keep up with oni and non oni. With a little skill and luck this works with me I wouldn't have been able to do this without knowing about the assassin unlock on bomb pack thank you
Assassincharm: There’s a perk that says “Cooldown Reduction on Kill: 1-2s” Some ppl seemed to have not known this but this CDR is global and works like the spirit kunai.
One problem for nightmare, it's mostly oni. So if you find a way to assassinate them with one hit let me know asap. Otherwise the re-vanish is practically useless.
Have you tried this build with spirit kunai? With double cooldown reduction it resets itself and gives 15 second cooldown on vanish and smoke, you can get your smoke back insanely fast and more munitions drops
The damage the kunai make is pretty bad which often means you have to shoot them at enemies that are *almost* dead. Plus, you lose the ability to self-heal with the sticky bomb, which has saved me on many occasions. I've done a Ronin build that uses the Kunai because they get +50% damage increase for it, so they end up one-shotting all regular enemies.
@@monoespacial yeah I feel that haha I use it with supermassive and just target the enemies that are low health from the bombs. I use the healing bomb on my try hard class but the kunai is soo fun once you know what health it kills at
It doesn't really matter when you are playing survival because everyone is just going to kill the hallucinating enemies anyway. Great for story mode though.
I run a similar build. The difference is I run super massive kuni to finish off multiple kills and I run the healing smoke bomb since it heals more than the healing sticky bomb especially since I'll be in the area of the healing smoke while getting assassin kills rather than a small burst of healing
Bro please tell me how did you get it (the bomb pack)? Playing as assassin and you get the assassin unlock or playing as ronin? Please answer me when you can
@@renzopedemonte You get it in your rewards at the end of a match but you have to be using the ronin and for the assassin unlock I just got lucky enough for it to come with the assassin unlock
@@legendchad4028 thank you, for the assassin unlock just I will change the benefit until I get it and there I go haha. I already got it doing a couple of mission after I asked you lol
I just tried it because I been just grinding for gear didn't know I had a few pieces And ran NS.... And WOW got 259 kills and beat it thanks for the tips.
When using sticky bomb. You must know the wave and throw at the first person, smoke down. Sticky bomb goes off. Throw your bombs. Resolve gain. Smoke gain and also sticky regain. My build is a killer
Using spirit kunai and focusing on simply assassinating is better imo. Stacking chain vanish twice also means that's a free kill that will reduce your cooldown guaranteed even further if you're using reduce cooldown on kill. I only use the ult to get out of danger, kill the oni archers, or teleport to a zone. The bombs are a must in survival or even aggressive stealth in story. There's no way to heal but if you have a Ronin on your team you should be fine. Even without a heal you can purchase the regenerate health ability in Survival which is enough.
you can switch the bomb for the legendary kunai with the super massive perk for even more cooldown since every kill with that reduces 15 secs for every cooldown on your character
didnt get the sticky bomb he has but mist of yagata is a pretty good replacement. smoke bomb heals allies, stealth attack 25, cooldown reduction 15, and creates ammo pickups on use. i feel like the extra ammo makes up for no cooldown on kill. it sucks to have to wait a few more seconds on cooldown but you can roll away and use the 5 or 6 bombs you just gained instead.
Think the hallucination perk is better than the chain vanish. Especially in nightmare, where you can snag selective and smart assassinations, driving onis to fight eachother and lessen the attacks on your allies.
I think any loss of DPS on Nightmare is detrimental, which is why you see Ronins and Hunter teams dominating the leaderboards. Hallucination is very hit or miss. Sometimes enemies will still attack your team. The rate at which enemies damage each other is very slow. Critical striking still does a massive amount of damage. I often use the first vanish to kill a lesser enemy and then use the second to critical strike. Killing that 1st enemy fills your resolve and provides ideally a +5 second cooldown reduction to your ghost weapons. Some people really like hallucination, but I just find enemies caught with it are helping you enough.
Being able to decimate an army is great; but at the same time, a good build must be able to contribute to bonus objectives as well. Defeating enemies with fire, ranged kills and headshots, and perfect parries are all bonus objectives that I notice being failed more than others. Missing out on shrines for reforging.
@@monoespacial The principle of grinding could be applied to your build as well. The difference being yours is based around finishing the survival as quickly as possible through aggressive tactics, where as others are based on having a wide range of methods for dealing with whatever the game asks of you. Creating a build with a sole intention of max damage output is the other side of the spectrum to creating builds for challenges. I personally find running a mission repeatedly boring compared to changing up play style constantly. I can get 240+ kills with a hunter while also completing bonus objectives. Quality over quantity. If anything, all I ask of an assassin is to be able to complete the assassination objective, 5 kills from above.
Thank you for the video, this is by far the best assassin build I’ve come across. However I’d disagree using Critcal hit rank 2, instead the Super strike is better because you can do a 2x damage assassination, meaning you can assassinante most of the oni. Also on my “Touch of Heaven” I have +20.0% damage increase as property 2 and on my “Mist of Yagata” my 1st property is +25.0% stealth Attack damage. Also just out of personal preference I have the legendary technique instead of the +2 strikes, but again that’s just personal preference. The build is insane, I’m gonna try to use it for the raid. Keep up the great work!!
Really fun build with Assasin, my Hysteria Build(also good in NM Survival) Techniques: Group Vanish/ Super Strike/ Experienced Assasin/Chain Vanish.........GEAR: Sword is your preference// Ranged Bomb Pack: blast radius,SE duration//CHARM: Stealth attack damage, Oni Damage, HYSTERIA //GW1 Spirit Kunai: Damage increase,CDR on kill, super massive//GW2 Stealth attack damage,CDR on kill, munitions or lucky
Forbidden medicine with melee stagger damage and blast radius is better than legendary sticky bomb. I use kunai with 12% melee dmg. Definitely shoot for 40% ultimate damage...very good
I've seen Hunter do fire damage and headshots like hell and it's quite upsetting they left session feeling triggered they didn't get chance to kill enemies
i have this build but use Spirit Kunai for insane cdr instead of sticky bomb. if you can manage good rolls on an assassin charm, id go for Hysteria instead of chain vanish since you're using bomb pack which cant roll any stealth atk dmg on it, i personally use combat healing. you basically never want flat cooldown reduction, you only care abt cdr on kill. one or two kills with cdrok can outperform flat cdr. go for ghost weapon dmg instead.
I've done runs with legendary kunai and also with Histeria on Nightmare. Gustaría Is absolutely worthless in my opinion. It doesn't last too long and sometimes enemies will attack you anyway under it's effects. Even if they attack other enemies, the attack rate is poor. They mostly just run around doing nothing for a few seconds. Overall it provides nothing of value in my opinion, and nightmare runs I did with it were harder than the ones with chain vanish. The kunai don't do enough damage to be reliable with the Assassin, in my opinion as well. The bomb ghost weapon does provide some assassination opportunities!
I have hallucination on my assassin charm. So when i use bomb pack then smoke bomb to assasinate, non oni enemies or enemies with low health die soon and shadow strike can focus on brute oni with massive health
@@11rhyno thanks man, that's very cool. I try to make these videos as best as I can while keeping them short and helpful. I will work on more guides for this game in the next few days and I'll also be streaming it here on youtube today!
@@playeboyem654 - you have to roll for it if you don’t get one. But remember; when you roll your gear for higher ki, it will change all the stats you’ve previously saved. So don’t stat hunt until your gear is max ki.
Great video! I do have a question when adjusting the stats of an item do you have to reroll the item until it has everything but one stat that needs to be changed, and then reroll just that stat. Is it possible to get an item with all the stats the way you need them. I noticed if you change just one stat you cant change the others unless you reforge. Trying hard to get your setup.
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Tip - using your ultimate whilst jumping/mid air speeds up the time between activating and the first attack pretty significantly
This is correct
Yeah, I always jump before hitting L1+R1
I’ve been doing it without knowing this, I don’t know why, but it feels more badass
On another note, the latest nightmare weekly story mission was a breeze and was able to farm a bunch of legendary gear.
And yeah, the bomb build is broken. Hit 293 kills my last Gold survival. Second place had 67 kills.
The game traps you in animations. Jumping circumvents them and gives you precious milli seconds which really save your life.
Jumping + ghost weapons, for instance, especially healing gords or smoke bombs.
I've seen many Assassin build videos at this point, and this is the first one that actually looks good. Going to try this. Great video.
Thanks man. You won't be disappointed!
How do you use bomb packs on assasin?!
Modify the bombs the perk at the bottom
Yeaa I figured it out lol but honestly I like it better with ronin I passed nightmare widout losing any points
What about the hysteria build?
This build is amazing! Just rolled all my gear on a limb and tried it out, aaand im never going back. Actually joined a nightmare survival where another assassin was running the same build and believe me we were runnin that shit
That's awesome!!!
Is there a way to get more munitions off the smoke bomb is it randomized
Nice😁👍
You could be getting way more assassinations from your smoke if you had some stealth on the build. You can run back into smoke, crouch, run out, assassinate, repeat.
Just when I was thinking the Assassin was a bit underpowered I run across this video that proved me wrong. Good shit mate.
To be honest, I actually think the hunter is underpowered. Archery is solid but she doesn't improve it much. She's good when you level her up but I'd rather have a Ronin to provide ranged support
Nah assassin is probably the best for solo and second best (behind the ronin imo) for multiplayer. For solo, I’ve gone entire levels on my first try easily breezing through with super assassinations and toxic vanish (didn’t have the stagger assassination unlocked yet). Multiplayer at least one (preferably 2) assassins are gonna be wanted because the group vanish along with providing kill support via assassinations and crits to a pinned down teammate make the assassin one of the better classes, second or first. There are a few situations where the samurai definitely outclasses the assassin, but the huntress honestly just can’t compete. I’m an assassin main though (soon to become ronin main).
@@DRGEngineer Hunter is amazing with the skipping stone bow, is one of the highest DPS
@@insertunoriginalnamehere1398 I actually have been getting back into the game with the newest DLC. still don't think Hunter is the best but I do see what she brings to the table and yea Skipping Stone is broken as fuck
@@DRGEngineer Hunter is the consensus best class.
My wife and I were away celebrating our anniversary when I saw this video and I wanted to pack up and go home to try this out! Lol I got home yesterday and got 264 kills in my first survival and the second match, someone was doing the same thing and we laid waste to everything very quickly.
Thanks for the help!
Lol, that's funny!
What a legend 😎👌💯
little tip: you can outjump the brute circle aoe when they slam their staff on the ground. helps to live when there are many enemies around you. Just hop shortly after they put their staff down. definitely better than rolling away backwards into a blind spot
You can crouch under the mace when they are spinning too!!!
😮 I'm gonna dodge every mace attack from now , btw any tips against the spear and shield oni(the one that teleports mid attack)
I wish more people knew about this. Doing so rewards you with a massive opening to do damage.
Ey man. This comment. You the real MPV.
This was so helpful, I hate rolling
2 months later. Trying this build...
"It works" is an understatement.
I almost ignored assassin until this.
Fantastic build.
Same
Thanks! Glad you like it! Check out the hunter build if you ever play that!
@@monoespacial I'm going to have to check that out now
@@monoespacial I'm probably going to use your builds for my classes
@@monoespacial Way ahead of you my man. Trying to get that skipping stone bow now. It's a mission lol. I appreciate it.
That is way better than most assassin builds, I dropped 312 on gold with my ronin but have yet to try nightmare with him, bomb packs are amazing and the aoe devastation with his extra ghost dmg and black powder bombs with increased radius, and ammunition being so available makes me an unstoppable napalm bomber
What's your Ronin build?
@@ClintonGrider82 stone striker, bomb packs, sticky bomb, smoke bomb, with increased radius and damage, bombs get most of the kills
@@terryglover6442 thanks
@@ClintonGrider82 can tell you all my effects if you want
@@terryglover6442 if they make a difference, yes. And your choices for the techniques/skills. I am guessing you go healing circle in survival.
Essentially the same thing I run, but I swapped spirit kunai for the sticky bomb. I can't heal myself, but after the bomb spam you leave a lot of enemies really low. So throwing 5 kunai into the pack usually nets 2-3 kills so that's 30-45 second cooldown on your smoke and vanish.
I used this build and get like idk 310 kills... this build is just awesome.. thanks man!
I just started play the legend DLC and I started to main assassins and this looks like by far the best build I have found I’m going to try it. Keep up the good work
Nobody: here's some legendary dirt for your troubles
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I run the dirt, better CD, CC and 15% hallucination, also use hallucination instead of chain vanish on charm, otherwise exact same build
Ye hallucination is better for everything else, but chain vanish better for nightmare on this weeks challenge
LOL
Got a jar of dirt got a jar of dirt guess what's inside - jack sparrow
Hi from Belgium. This is really good !!! Tried to reproduce this as close as I could with my level 11 assassin and at my first try with it on survival gold dropped a 270 kills.
That's awesome! Lol that must have been quite the round.
@@monoespacial it sure was ! After perfecting it a bit I almost made it through nightmare. We died at wave 14 and I was the kill leader. Thanks a lot, great build !
So many times I've seen people boast kill numbers after clearly ignoring objectives. While teammates hold back to try and complete them, they just plow ahead like their kill counts are going to get them laid or something.
If they already have certain outfits they don’t give a fuck about completing objectives
Yea its kind of annoying.
Yeah, I agree. However completing bonus objectives on survival its really hard sometimes. If you want to grind resources, story mode is your best bet.
@@BillThaPill then don't F over your match made team that probably DOES need them
@@syluxassassin I always try to complete the objectives. But it’s 50-50 with random’s bro we all know this
Man this is the best assassin build video I watch
Thanks!!
You are one of my faforite youtuber
I recommend katana with oni damage and ultimate damage so that way you have a extra 10 percent when using your ultimate but this is a great build I think this can be even more op if you can max out every skill I keep getting lucky and get almost max when I reroll
I just modded my Katana & got 11% Melee stagger DMG with 19.4% Ultimate DMG. I'm melting enemies on gold/Nightmare.
You can only get 1 of them stats you can’t have both
Awesome build, I’ve been wanting to use the hunter and assassin but was trying to figure out an op build - I think I’ve just found one! Started off with Ronin and although it was great getting those clutch revives it felt even better when I dropped 300+ kills with my Samurai lol.
I tried this setup and I can confirm, it’s broken and really good for survival.
Got through nightmare yesterday without losing a single point! Also effective there!
The perk that makes poison do health damage + toxic vanish + chain vanish as a perk on your charm
just started using this and it is by far my favorite build now
Can you drop the bomb with assassin or do you have to farm it as a ronin?
@@subzero200 same I’m curious
@@subzero200 you have to farm it as ronin
@@braxtoncarter867 farm as ronin
I don’t have the healing sticky bomb but I do have the healing bomb pack I use on my Ronin. Might have to change it to assassin usable and give this a try.
Same with my build! but I have Hysteria in my Assassin charm (with stealth dmg) with blowgun (for additional stealth dmg), healing sticky(with lucky and cooldown perks and smoke bomb (with lucky and cooldown perks too)Nice work!
This is my build as well, one shots brutes, 2-3 shot oni and can hold a point solo even in later waves from self heals. I also prefer the longer assasinate animation as they carry more s and the poison vanish to one shot oni every minute.
7:32 was pretty sick
It was
I’ve found that using the legendary gear that makes concussion bombs heal is even better
Yes!!!! Those medicine bombs are savage af I use them with my ronin which now has a spirit dog with 95.5 radius
I switched those for the legendary kunai, and can't change back, that kunai is amazing if used the right way
@@Abbe10able Yes, 15 secs for each kill, if you drop enemies health with bombs, and finish off 2 of them with kunai, kunai cd refreshes instantly and you go again. Pretty OP
@@alexwec937 id argue that with practice, this would be the most op setup with the assassin
Awesome build. One of the best detailed video builds out there for assassins. Did not know the assassin charm could roll chain vanish. Gonna have to farm some honor points though so see y’all in 2 weeks lol
I made mistake by spending too much Honor for that vanish crap, its not worth it at all. Basically u need some kind of charm to give u more health instead of a vanish finish. Dont waste honor!
Just saw this in my recommendations, and I’ve been using a build almost identical to this except I have slightly less ult dmg and I use toxic vanish
Thanks for sharing this awesome build! I will give this a try.
Cool! Let me know what you think, and definitely check out the other builds as well!
Nightmare: immunity goes skurrt
ive been using this bulid for the last couple of days and it's OP! i keep getting like 300 kills compared to everyone else. its so much fun
Copied this build to do on this weeks nightmare. It runs perfectly. Just not as fast as you expect it to be like it’s in gold. Did all 25 rounds, didn’t lose a single point. Thanks for the advice man.
A way to improve this build would be putting on the masamune edge with the same rolls you have since the 20% also goes to ultimate damage and then swap ultimate damage with resolve gain for the assassin charm. I have this build and it works so good
The healing on the sticky bomb is sooo good though. I don't want to get stuck without it, but I got Masamune a couple of days ago so I'll give it a try!
@@monoespacial I hear you but I promise with the resolve gain 3 well placed bombs and your ult is back and the damage output with that weapon can burst oni down so quick.
Have you tried dropping the stealth damage on the charm for resolve gain and going for a full Ult build? With the commitment to ult damage and resolve gain and using bombs to widdle down enemies seems like you could forego the extra 25% and put it towards ULT for even more power.
@@blarbblarb2779 you can’t get rid of the stealth attack damage for resolve sadly but I have tried a full ult build and I couldn’t really notice that much of a difference. Personally I think 20% is more than enough and with the double damage from the weapon it works pretty good
@@Adoe123 Noted, thanks for the reply!
Jaw just hit the floor here. Cool build
ive played with someone with a similar build on my first gold run. amazed to see whole waves go down in seconds. but im over lvl 90 and have not gotten one bomb pouch
Just a heads up you can only obtain bomb pack through playing ronin. In case you didn't know~
@@uvicjackson thanks, i actually found this out yesterday. got to 105 wondering where the hell it was. really should be mentioned in the build. quick question since you answered. do you know if the raid is harder than nightmare mode? tried nightmare and its insanely difficult.
@@Stjimmyrulesx I'll say it's less intense then nightmare survival but do require quite abit of communication
@@uvicjackson just beat my first nightmare survival today. similar build except i had a healing ammo drop smoke. sucked not having the cooldown on kill, but not a bad trade off.
would swap out the legendary sticky bomb for the legendary smoke bomb in nightmare. most archers are using some sort of status arrows (poison/fire) in nightmare so the legendary smoke bomb will not only provide heals and munitions for the group, but will net some free damage for the rest of the group. i actually always have my group run smoke bombs with munitions.
assassin has to be the best build bro its basically every build in one
Only Assasin left to lvl up for the trophy. I'm more of a Ronin guy, but definetly will be trying this build, as I finished Nightmare Survival today (no zones lost) & literally got SHOWERED with legendary class items.
Dude. HOLY F*CK. It took me FOREVER to get everything you have with every single exact property. But oh my lord can I say that it paid off. Max level 110 with this build and all the same properties you've have on every piece of gear and I am absolutely shredding everything. Also not to brag but some of my stats on my gear are higher than yours ;) aye man I really appreciate it though you definitely earned a sub. Good build
This made my day
On Assasin Charm I have reduction on kill + stealth dmg and Chain Vanish. Imho its more suitable for my playstyle. Worth giving a try. And instead of touch of heaven i got Mist of Yagata, cuz gives me oportunity to heal in the middle of the battle, oportunity to revive Fallen group members and I can kill more efficient non-oni mobs. Yeah, Ult is not so power full but gives me a plan B if I dont have concusion bombs anymore. Ofc, Mist with Munitions. Worth giving a try imho. This build brought me round 240+ kills/ match
Been running a version very close to this and I can concur it wrecks. One change I made was using forbidden medicine for heals and dirt throw instead of stickies and I like the setup a lot. Back to forbidden medicine though, I have all legendaries and I feel like it might be the best or right up there with skipping stone bow. Being able to use bombs that heal is just so damn good with assassin and on nightmare that extra heal matters a lot.
I love this build, thanks. Instead of the legendary sticky bomb, I prefer to use the Mist of Yagata, which deploys a healing smoke bomb. Allows you to heal up and get loads more assassinations.
Same here
as someone that is trying to do this build im having an issue with the fact that experienced assassin isnt available as a skill
I got matched with this unstoppable assassin player who had crazy poison damage buffs. He shot an Oni with darts like 8 times that did next to nothing at first and poison tick damage kicks in a second later and the health bar vanished
You should add the kunai that reduces all Cooldowns by 15seconds on kill. Roll it with more damage and you can reduce cooldowns like crazy
Kunai pretty sucks even with its short cooldown time
Assassin is my main ,with samurai as a near 2nd. I will thoroughly enjoy this build.
The fact that this is basically, exactly how I use the assassin, I just dont have the patience and focus to develop the strategy so precisely, so thank u.
So your video inspired me to play around with the assassin..
I haven't been able to get a bomb pack yet, so I changed it up a bit.
With the gear I got as much extra stealth attack damage and ability cooldown as possible.
In total I have about +90% stealth attack damage. When I use the vanish ability I'm now able to assassinate Oni enemies.
I also got the chain vanish on one of my gear plus the chain vanish technique, making me able to do 3 stealth attacks.
So I basically just run around and vanish as much as possible and just stealth everything haha.
It's not as good as your build, but it's still pretty fun!
I'm going to keep trying for a bomb pack so I can try your build 😃 thanks for the video!
Play as Ronin to get the bomb pack!
@@monoespacial haha yea I figured since that's the only class I've never tried, that must be why I haven't gotten the bomb pack yet. I'll have to play around with the ronin...thank you though
Guy has the quality of a 1 mil sub channel
In nightmare survival i got 347 kills on my assassin stealth build, this gave me some nice ideas to tweak my stuff, thanks
Hey bro, what's your best assassins build for NM Survival? :)
this is a rly cool build and i love how you can just tear down wave after wave. My only problem is it is such aa grindy thing to get for someone who mostly plays hunter like me
Thanks for the tips! 🙏🏽
Amazing video, this build is so OP!!!
Glad you like it!
This isn’t a broken 0P class. It’s a good build lol
Nah it’s pretty broken. No other assassin build is better rn especially for survival
What is a broken op class then? 🤔
@@shadymilkman443 1 shot everything that’s classed as broken
I think OP's saying that the assassin class itself is not op, the build is.
@@Adoe123 nah its def not broken. I got a way better build which i farmed nightmare survival with.
You could also replace the bomb pack for a blowdart with extra assassination damage and the sticky bomb for the legendary kunai with the perk that does extra damage to small enemies, and take the 2nd vanish instead of the 5 kills on ult if you want to be extra sneaky
That's a fundamentally different build focusing on single target damage. I'm thinking about doing a build like that soon.
Listen use explosive blade and way of the flame combo is free resolve try out!
How I get the golden sticky bombs pack 💣?
You need to grind first story mission. Just got this item yesterday. I was on Rank 18 with average Ki level 85.
Amazing video! I´m playing in 2024 and it´s sooooo helpfull! Thanks for it!!! 💪
have you tried using the masamune's edge katana? it has a 20% chance to crit. it works for samurai's ult. maybe it will work for yours too. with you spamming your ult so much. would be nice to get a crit (:
Would be worth legendary slot if it affects assassination
@@zanetusken no, the legendary slot in assassin is not worth
@@McLOVlN it's definitely worth it what do u mean depending on your build will benefit your gameplay I have all legendary weapons and by far that a very useful build with a melee+ damage build if you're not focused on stealth on assassin
@@monkeykingss4luffy786 yeah assassin pull off the 2 legendary slots, still, in some classes is a waste (for example ultimates that gain 2 more attacks is just a game changer if you got ult dmg, specially in nightmare) n yeah i got all legendary stuff, there is 110 class items better than legendary items tho, i got all cus of farming glitch tho 🤫
@@McLOVlN idk I me personally I don't use the chain because samurai chain attack is superior I'll rather stick to my hallucination build or melee+ damage build
I've beat nightmare difficulty with something similar only difference is i have two legendary weapons one being master sword and kenjis brew which has strong brew so I keep up with oni and non oni. With a little skill and luck this works with me I wouldn't have been able to do this without knowing about the assassin unlock on bomb pack thank you
Assassincharm: There’s a perk that says “Cooldown Reduction on Kill: 1-2s”
Some ppl seemed to have not known this but this CDR is global and works like the spirit kunai.
Hi, do I understand correctly, that it reduces cooldown for my allies as well?
One problem for nightmare, it's mostly oni. So if you find a way to assassinate them with one hit let me know asap. Otherwise the re-vanish is practically useless.
Not a problem at all. Ult or melee/Bomb to get them low then stealth kill
I run my assassin exactly like this, except I have one extra resolve, just helps with using the ultimate more
Have you tried this build with spirit kunai? With double cooldown reduction it resets itself and gives 15 second cooldown on vanish and smoke, you can get your smoke back insanely fast and more munitions drops
The damage the kunai make is pretty bad which often means you have to shoot them at enemies that are *almost* dead. Plus, you lose the ability to self-heal with the sticky bomb, which has saved me on many occasions.
I've done a Ronin build that uses the Kunai because they get +50% damage increase for it, so they end up one-shotting all regular enemies.
@@monoespacial yeah I feel that haha I use it with supermassive and just target the enemies that are low health from the bombs. I use the healing bomb on my try hard class but the kunai is soo fun once you know what health it kills at
Nice build. I play a 110 assassin. When it comes to the charm, I prefer Hysteria. It’s a game changer
It doesn't really matter when you are playing survival because everyone is just going to kill the hallucinating enemies anyway. Great for story mode though.
I run a similar build. The difference is I run super massive kuni to finish off multiple kills and I run the healing smoke bomb since it heals more than the healing sticky bomb especially since I'll be in the area of the healing smoke while getting assassin kills rather than a small burst of healing
Hi there,really nice build mate,👍
This looks like a grate build but I love my fire build it's just amazing still need to re roll some stats but I love it
I'm using this build with slightly different perks but it destroys waves this is so good
I just got the bomb pack and it came with assassin unlock. Heaven sent
Bro please tell me how did you get it (the bomb pack)? Playing as assassin and you get the assassin unlock or playing as ronin? Please answer me when you can
@@renzopedemonte You get it in your rewards at the end of a match but you have to be using the ronin and for the assassin unlock I just got lucky enough for it to come with the assassin unlock
@@legendchad4028 thank you, for the assassin unlock just I will change the benefit until I get it and there I go haha. I already got it doing a couple of mission after I asked you lol
I just tried it because I been just grinding for gear didn't know I had a few pieces And ran NS.... And WOW got 259 kills and beat it thanks for the tips.
Glad you liked it!!! So happy that people are finding it fun!
Lol you've changed the game for me man. Thank you!
That's awesome. Glad to help!
It's an okay build. If you're only playing Gold Survival, I'd consider Spirit Kunai which lets you reset ALL cooldowns on a kill.
Hysteria build is the best build imo. But since nightmare this week isn’t effected by status effects this build works in nightmare.
Search about Hysteria in assassin charm. With a single stealth kill you can make enemies fight each other... including onis.
cool video and interesting build, will definitely try this
Water katana melee resolve and oni. Way of the flame. Legendary bomb. Sticky bomb with all cool downs with fire. Smoke with all cool down and ammo.
When using sticky bomb. You must know the wave and throw at the first person, smoke down. Sticky bomb goes off. Throw your bombs. Resolve gain. Smoke gain and also sticky regain. My build is a killer
Finally something rivals my skipping stone
now that magma bomb is a thing I switched out the heavens touch for magma bomb
Using spirit kunai and focusing on simply assassinating is better imo. Stacking chain vanish twice also means that's a free kill that will reduce your cooldown guaranteed even further if you're using reduce cooldown on kill. I only use the ult to get out of danger, kill the oni archers, or teleport to a zone. The bombs are a must in survival or even aggressive stealth in story. There's no way to heal but if you have a Ronin on your team you should be fine. Even without a heal you can purchase the regenerate health ability in Survival which is enough.
you can switch the bomb for the legendary kunai with the super massive perk for even more cooldown since every kill with that reduces 15 secs for every cooldown on your character
didnt get the sticky bomb he has but mist of yagata is a pretty good replacement. smoke bomb heals allies, stealth attack 25, cooldown reduction 15, and creates ammo pickups on use. i feel like the extra ammo makes up for no cooldown on kill. it sucks to have to wait a few more seconds on cooldown but you can roll away and use the 5 or 6 bombs you just gained instead.
Think the hallucination perk is better than the chain vanish. Especially in nightmare, where you can snag selective and smart assassinations, driving onis to fight eachother and lessen the attacks on your allies.
I think any loss of DPS on Nightmare is detrimental, which is why you see Ronins and Hunter teams dominating the leaderboards. Hallucination is very hit or miss. Sometimes enemies will still attack your team. The rate at which enemies damage each other is very slow.
Critical striking still does a massive amount of damage. I often use the first vanish to kill a lesser enemy and then use the second to critical strike. Killing that 1st enemy fills your resolve and provides ideally a +5 second cooldown reduction to your ghost weapons.
Some people really like hallucination, but I just find enemies caught with it are helping you enough.
Being able to decimate an army is great; but at the same time, a good build must be able to contribute to bonus objectives as well. Defeating enemies with fire, ranged kills and headshots, and perfect parries are all bonus objectives that I notice being failed more than others. Missing out on shrines for reforging.
I disagree, if you want to grind resources go play story. You will get them faster that way. The build for story mode would be entirely different.
@@monoespacial The principle of grinding could be applied to your build as well. The difference being yours is based around finishing the survival as quickly as possible through aggressive tactics, where as others are based on having a wide range of methods for dealing with whatever the game asks of you. Creating a build with a sole intention of max damage output is the other side of the spectrum to creating builds for challenges. I personally find running a mission repeatedly boring compared to changing up play style constantly. I can get 240+ kills with a hunter while also completing bonus objectives. Quality over quantity. If anything, all I ask of an assassin is to be able to complete the assassination objective, 5 kills from above.
Thank you for the video, this is by far the best assassin build I’ve come across. However I’d disagree using Critcal hit rank 2, instead the Super strike is better because you can do a 2x damage assassination, meaning you can assassinante most of the oni. Also on my “Touch of Heaven” I have +20.0% damage increase as property 2 and on my “Mist of Yagata” my 1st property is +25.0% stealth Attack damage. Also just out of personal preference I have the legendary technique instead of the +2 strikes, but again that’s just personal preference. The build is insane, I’m gonna try to use it for the raid. Keep up the great work!!
If you use way of the flame while using your ult it does more damage
Really fun build with Assasin, my Hysteria Build(also good in NM Survival) Techniques: Group Vanish/ Super Strike/ Experienced Assasin/Chain Vanish.........GEAR: Sword is your preference// Ranged Bomb Pack: blast radius,SE duration//CHARM: Stealth attack damage, Oni Damage, HYSTERIA //GW1 Spirit Kunai: Damage increase,CDR on kill, super massive//GW2 Stealth attack damage,CDR on kill, munitions or lucky
My Sword is Water Katana with Melee Damage, Ultimate Dam, poison blade (fastest in my opinion to stagger when it procs)
6:58 that was so funny xD
Can you roll the bomb pack as assassin or do you have to play ronin to roll it and then reroll for assassin unlock?
Unlock it as a ronin class and then change the perk
@@Adoe123 thanks!
I have a build in which all the perks are about resolve gain and ultimate damage.
It's a beast!
Forbidden medicine with melee stagger damage and blast radius is better than legendary sticky bomb. I use kunai with 12% melee dmg. Definitely shoot for 40% ultimate damage...very good
I've seen Hunter do fire damage and headshots like hell and it's quite upsetting they left session feeling triggered they didn't get chance to kill enemies
Wow so many updates since this video
i have this build but use Spirit Kunai for insane cdr instead of sticky bomb.
if you can manage good rolls on an assassin charm, id go for Hysteria instead of chain vanish since you're using bomb pack which cant roll any stealth atk dmg on it, i personally use combat healing.
you basically never want flat cooldown reduction, you only care abt cdr on kill. one or two kills with cdrok can outperform flat cdr. go for ghost weapon dmg instead.
I've done runs with legendary kunai and also with Histeria on Nightmare. Gustaría Is absolutely worthless in my opinion. It doesn't last too long and sometimes enemies will attack you anyway under it's effects. Even if they attack other enemies, the attack rate is poor. They mostly just run around doing nothing for a few seconds. Overall it provides nothing of value in my opinion, and nightmare runs I did with it were harder than the ones with chain vanish.
The kunai don't do enough damage to be reliable with the Assassin, in my opinion as well. The bomb ghost weapon does provide some assassination opportunities!
I use very similar build, but I dont have PS+ so I can only play offline... been spamming to level 15 wit this tactics :)
Hi, what do you think about the legendary kunai to reduce your cooldowns?
I have hallucination on my assassin charm. So when i use bomb pack then smoke bomb to assasinate, non oni enemies or enemies with low health die soon and shadow strike can focus on brute oni with massive health
Nice vidio im going to use this
Fantastic Video my man, Great info. Only thing Id say is maybe speed it up by 1.25x
Good tip! I have done in the past so I will definitely consider it for the next videos.
I thought the video was great and to the point, and I've seen a lot of these. Got a follower from me
@@11rhyno thanks man, that's very cool. I try to make these videos as best as I can while keeping them short and helpful. I will work on more guides for this game in the next few days and I'll also be streaming it here on youtube today!
For the 2nd ghost weapon can we use mist of yagata for the blindness of enemies and the healing
Awesome content man! What’s the first song you used as a background? I really like it.
It's a royalty free song provided by RUclips called Danger Snow by Dan Henig
We must’ve played together, because that’s my exact build. 🤨
HOW did you get the bomb pack for assassin every one I get says ronin only
@@playeboyem654 - you have to roll for it if you don’t get one. But remember; when you roll your gear for higher ki, it will change all the stats you’ve previously saved. So don’t stat hunt until your gear is max ki.
@@playeboyem654 you can only get it for Ronin but need a perk which lets Assassin use it
@@playeboyem654 that's the 'Assassin Unlock' perk
Thanks guys I got the perk I'm grinding for a higher level bomb pack now
Great video! I do have a question when adjusting the stats of an item do you have to reroll the item until it has everything but one stat that needs to be changed, and then reroll just that stat. Is it possible to get an item with all the stats the way you need them. I noticed if you change just one stat you cant change the others unless you reforge. Trying hard to get your setup.