Wow, this is geared totally different than my Dragon Tail build. Shame on me for not considering Lacerator^^ But my version also kicks butt and I'm a little proud I came up with it myself (never had a Dragon Tail before and I looked up nothing). I thought I just make a quick playthrough to get the Larzuks and HF's, but I really liked the build and kept it.
I like to use a beast caduceus which makes you attack at the fastest breakpoint without burst of speed, so you can use Fade all the time instead. Plus the Fanaticism gives more attack rating. Don't know if the Amp curse from Lacerator gives more damage than the Fanaticism aura, I never used it because of the hit causes monster to flee proc.
I only used it because I was pumping my phys up with fort and phoenix so this build had some decent phys damage, that said the fire damage is way more as evidenced by the infinity merc causing me to take out diablo way faster (not way faster but in 1 hit less) I think other assassin users biggest gripe with this setup is I didn't use enough dexterity so when I don't have charges I'm just doing a whole bunch of missing
Been running close to this, except with mosaics. I thought I'd focus phoenix strike, so my claw set has +6 to it... So there's a bug still apparently that makes some of the kicks not do damage, and the bug is assumed to happen when you freeze enemies on tail kick. So you really don't want to build it to 3stakcs, but the lightning of 2 stacks still seems fine, especially for dealing with ghosts. ....though I suspect that is also causing a graphics bug if your attacking fast enough. I think the meteor has no problems and wrecks bosses though.
He has a build through Dragon Tail. But in general, you have outdated information about too fast blows. His build can sometimes miss the enemy because the attack rating is not enough when it loses charges.
I can't tell if dragon tail is much better or not after the desync supposedly got fixed with the season 8 patch, I did have the most insane glitch on d2r earlier though and got scared that my gpu was dying or something (the game loaded up and had a crazy visual glitch on the screen that usually says blizzard in blue and then my amazon had no weapon at the character select and had a holy freeze aura once i started a game, the game immediately crashed) I think it had to do with obs being open and recording to the same hard drive the game is installed on before I launched the game, Obs freezing and the video file being corrupted and unable to delete until after a restart of the pc lead me to believe it was some type of interaction between obs and the game on the same hard drive
@@dartlingaming This is what happens when you use Fists of Fire... Try charging only Tiger Strike and gradually adding Claws of Thunder to it. This will reduce the load on your PC.
Why did you add so many points to Fists of Fire?) An interesting build and it deserves to exist. But such an assembly does not fully reveal the main skill - Dragon Tail. There are also conceptual errors in the build.
I forgot that I wasn't able to gather charges without having an assassin weapon, which conceptual errors? the dex should have def been higher for sure, I could have ran a blessed aim merc etc, aside from the boss though this build seems fine for most content, I personally would prefer using enigma just for convenience sake though
@@dartlingaming Yes, the Dragon Tail sword and shield build has a right to exist. This is a very interesting experiment. If the use of sword and shield is a priority, then a large part of the points should be added to Dexterity. This will increase your attack rating and improve blocking. You will be better off hitting the enemy. Never use Burst of Speed if you use Dragon Tail. These two skills conflict with each other. When adding points to Vitality, remember: one point to Strength or Dexterity adds 2000 damage :) Although the equipment in general is not ideal, but in general it is a good choice.
Thank you, does the increased attack speed from bos cause some sort of desync or something? I was thinking that was what the latest patch fixed but it feels the same as when I've tried to using it in the past, fade seems to be more useful Claws seem to be the best though like you said for claw mastery as well as having claw block which is such a unique ability to pass up on
@@dartlingaming With the release of patch 2.7, there is no need to worry about excessive attack speed. Now it doesn't matter anymore. An interesting nuance is that when the assassin is not charged with charges, his attack rating is not sufficient to hit the enemy perfectly. This is especially noticeable on the main bosses of the game. If the assassin is charged with any charge, then Dragon Tail almost always hits the enemy. To say how well Blizzard repaired Dragon Tail, you need to do a lot of tests. When I have more free time, I will do it. But first I can say that Dragon Tail doesn't miss like it used to.
@@EvilTyraelFor the chance to hit that you're talking about, it's because since the patch 2.4, the finishing moves now ALWAYS hit when at least one charge is active. Now I'm curious what do you mean by "Never use Burst of Speed with Dragon Tail, these two skills conflict with each other" ? What do you mean ? What is the conflict ?
Wow, this is geared totally different than my Dragon Tail build. Shame on me for not considering Lacerator^^
But my version also kicks butt and I'm a little proud I came up with it myself (never had a Dragon Tail before and I looked up nothing).
I thought I just make a quick playthrough to get the Larzuks and HF's, but I really liked the build and kept it.
I think there's always plus and downsides, for instance claw builds can block spells unlike any sword and board
I like to use a beast caduceus which makes you attack at the fastest breakpoint without burst of speed, so you can use Fade all the time instead. Plus the Fanaticism gives more attack rating. Don't know if the Amp curse from Lacerator gives more damage than the Fanaticism aura, I never used it because of the hit causes monster to flee proc.
Permanently using Lacerator doesn't do much, especially because Dragon Tail has a lot of Fire Damage. The Amp only increases physical.
I only used it because I was pumping my phys up with fort and phoenix so this build had some decent phys damage, that said the fire damage is way more as evidenced by the infinity merc causing me to take out diablo way faster (not way faster but in 1 hit less)
I think other assassin users biggest gripe with this setup is I didn't use enough dexterity so when I don't have charges I'm just doing a whole bunch of missing
Been running close to this, except with mosaics. I thought I'd focus phoenix strike, so my claw set has +6 to it...
So there's a bug still apparently that makes some of the kicks not do damage, and the bug is assumed to happen when you freeze enemies on tail kick.
So you really don't want to build it to 3stakcs, but the lightning of 2 stacks still seems fine, especially for dealing with ghosts.
....though I suspect that is also causing a graphics bug if your attacking fast enough.
I think the meteor has no problems and wrecks bosses though.
He has a build through Dragon Tail. But in general, you have outdated information about too fast blows.
His build can sometimes miss the enemy because the attack rating is not enough when it loses charges.
I can't tell if dragon tail is much better or not after the desync supposedly got fixed with the season 8 patch, I did have the most insane glitch on d2r earlier though and got scared that my gpu was dying or something
(the game loaded up and had a crazy visual glitch on the screen that usually says blizzard in blue and then my amazon had no weapon at the character select and had a holy freeze aura once i started a game, the game immediately crashed)
I think it had to do with obs being open and recording to the same hard drive the game is installed on before I launched the game, Obs freezing and the video file being corrupted and unable to delete until after a restart of the pc lead me to believe it was some type of interaction between obs and the game on the same hard drive
@@dartlingaming This is what happens when you use Fists of Fire... Try charging only Tiger Strike and gradually adding Claws of Thunder to it. This will reduce the load on your PC.
I think you're right it is an assassin thing because I have never seen it until I started messing with this build earlier
@@EvilTyraelI really enjoy your videos as well. Happy hunting.
Why did you add so many points to Fists of Fire?)
An interesting build and it deserves to exist. But such an assembly does not fully reveal the main skill - Dragon Tail.
There are also conceptual errors in the build.
I forgot that I wasn't able to gather charges without having an assassin weapon, which conceptual errors? the dex should have def been higher for sure, I could have ran a blessed aim merc etc, aside from the boss though this build seems fine for most content, I personally would prefer using enigma just for convenience sake though
@@dartlingaming Yes, the Dragon Tail sword and shield build has a right to exist. This is a very interesting experiment.
If the use of sword and shield is a priority, then a large part of the points should be added to Dexterity. This will increase your attack rating and improve blocking. You will be better off hitting the enemy.
Never use Burst of Speed if you use Dragon Tail. These two skills conflict with each other.
When adding points to Vitality, remember: one point to Strength or Dexterity adds 2000 damage :)
Although the equipment in general is not ideal, but in general it is a good choice.
Thank you, does the increased attack speed from bos cause some sort of desync or something? I was thinking that was what the latest patch fixed but it feels the same as when I've tried to using it in the past, fade seems to be more useful
Claws seem to be the best though like you said for claw mastery as well as having claw block which is such a unique ability to pass up on
@@dartlingaming With the release of patch 2.7, there is no need to worry about excessive attack speed. Now it doesn't matter anymore.
An interesting nuance is that when the assassin is not charged with charges, his attack rating is not sufficient to hit the enemy perfectly. This is especially noticeable on the main bosses of the game.
If the assassin is charged with any charge, then Dragon Tail almost always hits the enemy.
To say how well Blizzard repaired Dragon Tail, you need to do a lot of tests. When I have more free time, I will do it. But first I can say that Dragon Tail doesn't miss like it used to.
@@EvilTyraelFor the chance to hit that you're talking about, it's because since the patch 2.4, the finishing moves now ALWAYS hit when at least one charge is active.
Now I'm curious what do you mean by "Never use Burst of Speed with Dragon Tail, these two skills conflict with each other" ? What do you mean ? What is the conflict ?
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