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Playing trapsin my first playthru and having a blast. Love sorc, but need an excuse to play something else because 99% of my original D2 playtime was on a sorc.
I've spent the last 3 week plotting out my 1st D2 build in 15 years. I had every skill point, attribute and respec accounted for from Norm A1 to Hell A5 and this video, released 40 minutes before the game drops, changed everything. You bastard. You magnificent bastard. Honestly, I'll still be doing my thing but I can't wait to do THIS thing too. Great build and video, man!
Let me know how you enjoy, still on the fence of wanting to go back, but I always wanted to try out a sass. Sorc was always my main so many years ago xD
I like how everyones just now figuring out these underrated OP builds on D2. Shoulda been there 20 years ago kids when the poison necro ruled all pvp servers
Dear Cooley, I am totally blown away by this build. What follows is a short review, because I wanted to thank you for making this video and teaching an old hand with 20 years of D2 experience something new. In all these years I never played an assassin, but this video made me try something new, and I am extremely happy I came across this video and that I tried it out. It is truly amazing. I came across your video when my first sorc was in late nightmare, so I didn't start the launch with it. I was very skeptical to start a character that couldn't teleport (without charges). But as soon as I was finding some gear with my sorc in Hell, I started building this assassin and focused on her. It was a little bit of a learning curve in order to use cloak of shadows, mind blast and the shadow master correctly, but when you master these strategies, and learn to set traps around corners, this build is extremely fun to play and can handle really difficult areas quite easily with very cheap gear. Normal and nightmare was a lot of fun to play through with Wake of Fire, but when I got to Hell I started to run into problems with immunes, so I needed to join groups in order to get me to act 5 hell. However, as most groups consist of cold sorceresses, it was actually very easy to get through the game because of the other types of damage I'm dealing. The build is very powerful, but I think that "being able to easily clear every level 85 area in the game" is an exaggeration (withouth Infinity). In the beginning I was struggling quite a lot with doing chaos runs, and solo Baal runs are still too slow to be viable. However, I have managed to get her to level 89 and I have accumulated some more gear. I would advise anyone to get an assa torch as soon as possible, because this really started moving things forward for me. Now I am running dual spirit, treachery, +3 traps circlet, torch, aldurs boots and chance guards, +3 traps amulet with an Obedience merc, and I am able to easily clear hell chaos sanctuary and kill Diablo, cows, Eldritch. But the best part is doing Nihlathak runs. I have fallen completely in love with doing Nihla runs. I struggled a lot in the beginning, but I memorized the maps and now I use a combination of fast running and teleporting past monster packs, and I consistently do Nihla runs in 1:30 to 2 minutes including shopping for potions and identifying/selling items. Doing this at this speed has proven to be very profitable, because I'm farming around 3-6 Keys of Destruction an hour, and they are bringing in a good profit even in this stage of the launch. Nihla runs are a lot of fun because there are some very strong and challenging monsters (especially Vipers), and of course Nihla's Corpse Explosion. It almost feels like cheating to set up the traps around the corner and letting my exploding traps do all the work, and just to walk in and pick up my loot! I have heard you mention in your videos that the RNG isn't much on your side when MF'ing, and I recognize that too. I am generally not very lucky in games. But farming destruction keys made me relatively rich! So thank you very much for sharing your strategy with us, Cooley. I'm a very experienced sorceress player and it was a great experience to learn a new class and to see what it can do. I would probably start ladder again with a sorc, but I would use her to gear up my assa as soon as possible. I highly recommend giving the assasin a try and listening to what Cooley has to say! All the best of luck of you.
Thank you for writing this out, man! It was a pleasure to read your review! Perhaps "effectively clear any lvl 85 area" would have been a better choice of words, as it is does take some time with certain ones until you get the right gear. So glad you're enjoying it, man! I appreciate hearing that!
ALSO, now in D2R they fixed the bug that caused your Death Sentry to cause less uniques to spawn so now she'll be one of the best for area farming too like Chaos
I went back to my single player trapper the other day, players 8 cows, jesus I laughed my arse off, once that first couple of cows dies, kaboom, so much fun, reminds of that jade harvester build on d3
Same, trap sin one of the funnest to play as, for me at least. I didn't play it much but when I was able to get some really good gear for it way back in the day it was really fun
You can also transition to a kicker and take down ubers with relatively budget gear. Not as easily as a smiter but long before you could afford to be teleporting and whirlwinding around with that spider build. Enjoy! ;)
SO much fun man. LIke he said... it clears fast. I'm going hammerdin just because I like the visual of it now even more! Quite literally was one of the first people playing hammerdin back in the day too so there is that lol!
Agree, Trapassins are hella strong. Also, you forgot to mention "1 Skill Point Wonder" into Fade. Sure you lose Burst of Speed while you use fade, but if you really need resists(It's also has a bit of DR too) for early Hell, I think it's more than worth the speed buff loss until you get better gear.
I've recently started doing solo Baal runs with her and once I hit lvl 91, I finally did put a point into that. Not worth the risk at that point of getting ganked by souls with your tele staff out!
Sweet tutorials man! Playing this build, i've come to find this; A nice substitute for the lore helm is the peasant crown war hat. I accidently found one in Nightmare cloister the other day, wonderful stats on this gem, +1 to all skills, +15% walk speed, +20 vitality & energy, + 10 replenish life, and 108 armor. Awesome drop to get while running through the area for the first time :D
I can concur and add that the Assassin trapsin build with Death Sentry is by far the best class to start out with. I have tried Hammerdin, Ele Druid and Sorc all to level 71 with some mid game gear and have troubles in Hell Act 1 and 2. I found this video and tried out an Assassin with Death Sentry and I'm now into Act 3 at lvl 72 and have no issues with bosses or mobs. Assassin is by far the best class to get going. Thank you for the video otherwise I never would have tried Assassin out.
Thanks for the video Cooley. I've been ladder starting and playing sin for over a decade now and I'm glad to see her get the attention she deserves. From personal experience, I recommend NM Baal as your first boss farm as she's one of the top solo Baalers. Then I transition into purely Pindle until I can afford Enigma, then the world is your oyster. I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone has for sin, I've played it all and I've played it for years 😂 Trapper, Kicksin, Ghostsin, Hybrid LS/WW, and even multiple Bowsins
@@skitzum5005 The death sentry procs Corpse Explosion for beautiful AoE damage. You only use 1 because it has lower damage than the Lightning Sentry and 1 is enough to proc the CE's at a different pace. Its also important to note that the Death should be placed a bit farther from the mobs or else it won't proc the CE. Close = lightning, far = CE
@@skitzum5005 Once you get Enigma, all the standard MF areas apply. Personally, my progression has always been NM Baal -> Hell Pindle/Eldritch (you can add Shenk as you get gear, the big problem is the Archers wreck your shit, so just experiment as you keep gearing up). Once you have Enigma, Andy/Meph/Key runs are all doable. I think worth mentioning is Pit and Ancient Tunnels now that they fixed the MF bug for trapsins. I haven't tested this at all. The key thing is do what keeps you entertained. Some people can't stand Pindle/Eldritch/Shenk so maybe you'd prefer Pit/Tunnels. Some people can't stand doing only Pit/Tunnels so maybe do all 5, or Andy/Meph
As someone who's not a big time gamer, I had no idea how to use the assassin. I put everything into burst of speed, shadow, cobra strike, and most of all, Phoenix strike. All of that seemed to be the most effective to deal a lot of damage to the enemies. Then at the end of nightmare act IV I don't stand much of a chance. I redid my stats and skill points and I was able to tear through those enemies so fast! Now I can burn through act V and hopefully get through hell mode
If you're still playing then yes, you'll be able to do fine in hell. But I recommend only 1 in fireblast, 1 in blades, and 17+ in shadowmaster. I explained why in another comment. Also of course you'll want an insight on your merc. Treachery or smoke are good armor runeword choices I think he doesn't mention. If you play HC other good choices are anything that increases survivability against the few things that can maybe get to you (like Nihl's CE, fast-moving exploding dolls, or fanatic extra fast archer mobs). These are anything that adds % physical damage reduction (like string of ears, shaftstop, shako, Natalya's set, and many more); anything that increases max res (Iratha's, hotspurs or infernostrides, and a few other things); and anything that adds magic absorb (twin spirits plus jewelry). Blocking is also important and you can use rhyme, ancient's pledge, a ward shield, but a spirit is probably best unless MDfing (then use rhyme). There are also some great katars with res and + stats, but I prefer twin spirits whenever possible. A trapsin's gear is pretty much whatever a sorc would use - skin of the vipermagi, etc. - except IAS is more important than FCR. But you can find enough IAS on plenty of gloves (plus helmets and amulets) to be fine. IAS impacts traps, and FCR mindblast and smoke.
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I had to give the credit where credit is due. I stumbled upon this guide randomly a week ago, I ran an assassin and I'm having a time of my life. I was so bored and lazy when I did a necro but when I ran this. I'm so amazed.
For the first time in my D2 experience, I made a trapsin as a first char (my first trapsin ever also) because of this video, and I can only advise you to do the same !! The survivability is much higher than a sorc and the dps is really solid, especially against big packs of mobs (cows, chaos). It can be a little bit tideous at start when you dont have enigma, it gets annoying to swap from lower resist to teleport, to have to repair every 2-3 runs, to keep items to get some gold, but once you're past that, it's just a delight... Made my Enigma a few days ago and man, it's fucking amazing, you can farm pretty much everywhere, Nilha is ez as fuck, chaos same thing (and it's not half as scary as it is with a sorc), same thing for baal... Enjoy the game so fucking much and looking forward to make my infinity to be even more imba :D TLDR : amazing guide, follow it people ;)
i didn't bother to get lower resist wand... used tele staff only to get to nithla, running on foot: chaos, baal, cows, countess, summoner, pits skipped totaly before getting eni: meph, andy, duriel now as i thing of it, i could probably get that wand and swap it in, after killing nithla, and continue run with it, but w/e
this char has been going GREAT for me and i dont give two shits bout no lower resist wand or never cared about no tele staff....its been one of the most OP lvling builds ive ever experienced..i go gull dagger and dirk diggler dagger for first 19 lvls then switch to leaf and on the armor either twtich or stealth...i feel twitch is better for traps...and im owning either bt myself leveling and questing online or in players 8 games leveling and questing ...at the end of normal when u start doing baal runs find urself a good spirit sword after level 25 and you will be good enough all the way till u switch to death sentery and ur end game assassin build! i tried this thanks to cooley and its been one of the funnest builds for me and ive done all characters already now in d2r
BRO. Thank you. I played d2 the first day it came out with my buddy back in the day. It hooked me in so badly lol. Eventually when the cow time came... I can still hear my dad walking by going "moo moo, moo moo moo" haha. HE was soooooo annoyed by it. Then I recall this special moment. I was the lower rank player in my group... and I started theory crafting with the assassin and started putting together this build in single player. It was at that time... I became a higher ranked player in the group haha! Great stuff brother. Cheers to 20 years and launch today! Can't wait to duel in Hardcore! Gonna be a few months though haha.
GREAT vid man. I have been a die hard Sorc starter for a long time. Just rolled a sin and I already feel the potential of this class. Looks like you've got a convert.
So pumped for tomorrow! I’m locking myself in the basement with food and water for 5 days. Headphones loud enough to drown out the wife and kids undoubtably clawing at the door. All itching to bust down the blast door to hand me next honeydew list. Just hope I can get to hell Mephisto in time
And then, back in reality, you probably install, play for an hour before your wife calls you to come and have dinner, after that you play a little more before she commands you to bed and maybe you get another 20 mins in, before you head back to your bad paid job and then back home to start it all over again..
One word though: teleport. I know it’s trivial but it just makes so much diff once you start doing boss runs. But I agree Trapsin is the easiest carry build in the game, but it’s not faster where it matters compared to blizz sorc
Love this Guide, i keep coming back to it. I wish there were more way to access corpse explosion, Corpsemourn should have a 10% chance to cast on striking or something. Great Vid!
Nice build, I never really went with assassin because I always found her a bit boring just laying traps, but with mind blast and fire blast to mix things up with, I think this will be my second character for sure
It's pretty broken honestly, fire, lightning and physical damage so you can kill them all, some with setup. Mindblast to stun/ convert enemies and watch traps crap on them
100% agree. My assassin is in her early 50's and i use lore,stealth,rhyme and spirit sword. She is in nm act 3 and the last time she died was level 22 fighting Baal in normal. just place traps then run enemies into them.
This time around I may be playing casually enough to be ok with not mfing as fast as humanly possible. I've always wanted to play assassin and druid back in the day so I guess it's now or never.
@@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 Yeah that's the problem, as soon as you put teleport in the balance, it sways heavily towards sorc no matter what arguments you make for the other side.
@@sehk7075 That's a good point. If clearing the game is the objective I could see arguments against the sorc but if we're talking about collecting gear/wealth sorc is unbeatable with targeted farming early on.
Venom Shredder Assassin build with Cloak of Shadows, usually go for 2H weapons. D2R mechanics with Blade fury is epic. Cloak of shadows reduce % enemy defence stops casters and summoners for up to 28 secs, just stand there waiting for you to take them out from afar. Get to close and swap to either shield 1H or do a dual claw blocker.
Cooley, can you do a video or vlog about character progression on ladder? my issue is that i usually make a char, get to 80 or so and it feels like i hit a wall in terms of what to do, what to prioritize and what not. i usually play a week then quit because i have no idea how to get to enigma or hoto in any reasonable amount of time. this would be an awesome set of videos id love to see, you always have great videos. also congrats on 21 k subs! lots of growth on the channel, love to see it
The key is keep farming. Early ladder bugged Andy or meph are good places to get your staple mf gear or some trade bait. Once you got some solid mf and decent clear speed you typically want to hit up lvl85 zones (pits/ancient tunnels are easier but chaos is good too) or cows. Cows is especially good if you are farming specifically for runes as you have lots of stuff to kill. Also good for farming runeword based which you can also trade. Early on 4os monarchs are worth quite a bit. You can also farm keys/torches and trade those. Key sets are going to be valuable even if you can't do Ubers yet yourself, but you should as farming keys is harder than Ubers themselves imo.
This is all great advice except I'd make a couple minor adjustments. Here's what my trapsin build always looks like >> 20 shockweb 20 charged bolt sentry 20 lightning sentry 20 death sentry 20 shadowmaster 1 fade 1 mindblast 1 each pre-req 1 BLADE This leaves 1 point leftover which you can put in blades. Or you can take just 19 in shadowmaster to put 1 in blades and 1 in venom. The purpose of blades isn't so much to do damage from the blades themselves as to proc other abilities from range, including crushing blow, open wounds, cast on striking skills, and venom. You can draw off another two points from shadowmaster to get 1 point in each of the other blade skills for synergies, but I don't generally do that. ONLY 1 FIREBLAST Why no fireblast? Because death sentry already does way more fire damage, there's no need to increase it's shot number, and because having a much tougher shadowmaster acting as tank is invaluable. The master will also use her own powers rather than, like the warrior, just half-strength versions of yours. She can lay fire traps, deliver cold damage with phoenix strikes, use power ups and finishing moves, and even use her own death sentries. Maxed out she can basically take out superuniques in A5 Hell mode all by herself, while you just stand and watch. This is all way better than fireblast. Maxing a level 30 skill is, unsurprisingly, far better than maxing a level 1 skill. She leaves you free to think and evaluate the situation more, mindblast less, shockweb more, reposition traps, smoke, or even just loot.
I remember being 10-12 years old using my op ass enigma trap sin vs hell Baal as my 19 year old brother was getting absolutely shit on as a necro anywhere he went in hell.... guess I was lucky picking a build 🤣 I’d like to thank the dude that gave me a free enigma, real ass dude of the century.
I couldn't sleep one night and came upon this video... Now I have a lvl 75 assassin, the best class for me yet. Mind blast is like music to my ears. Now I am MFing for PVP end game build. Thank you.
you have one of the most in-depth videos between this one and the last spider build video for the assassin. The assassin is my most played character and I rarely see people hit every nail on the head.
exactly. nothing can compete with the high damage, low gear and teleport combination. If she would need all here gear, like a melee so she could not use much MF it would maybe a reason to reconsider. But atm, you cant beat the sorc
In HC at least the assassin is better. Sin deals 3 damage types (light, fire, physical) plus can have a level 20+ shadowmaster and can use 1 point blades to proc crushing blow (functioning much like a ranged static field). Plus mindblast and smokescreen. Sin can kill bosses without ever having seen them. And she can just run past and ignore mobs with mindblast and smoke, reducing the need for teleport. Unlike sorc, sin is completely viable for play, using only found items, all the way up to Hell Baal, without need for infinity or any other high runewords (grinding LK into monotony).
played Diablo 2 back in the days, made assassin from your guide, gotta tell u, - THANK U very much! really fun to play it, i finished 5 acts in 8 hours of play, tons of fun, and very easy to play, recommend it to all, cheers ;)
I just don't like the trap assassin play style, but Cooley you did recommend a frozen orb & firewall sorc in another video and I've never tried that so I'm starting with that! Sounds like it would be good for immunities.
It’s awesome you touched on skills and some gear points… but what about stat placement and merc options? I assume either the meditation act 2 one for mana help in nightmare.
Consider making an Insight runeword in a low tier polearm. Your merc will be able to use it at lvl 27 and a high meditation aura (max 17) will fix any mana problems.
My friends want me to play this game and they recommended me this specific character to learn how to play, very good video, it helped me a little to understand
I may still do the sorc first because of teleport, but you've convinced me to make this my #2 build absolutely. And depending on how much I enjoy it as I build both up, the assassin may very well take over. I ultimately want to transition to a Riftasin as one of my end game builds, so this just makes that reality happen sooner. Thanks for the vids, you're one of my favorite youtube creators now, for sure!
Don’t tell them! Leave the secret to us! I have been a long time fan of the sin class and it is ALWAYS my go to in a new ladder, etc. they’re more challenging than other classes to use but when you master them, they are just power house beasts
A good buff to Assassin in D2:R (aside from the obvious traps not sabotaging your elite spawns) is that Pindle can be run infinitely. Even without wanting to use a Teleport staff, there's still a reliable boss that Assassin excels at right there.
Since you didn't mention it in your vid, what do you think of kicksin? I've heard that it's one of the few char that can solo ubers without too much stuff, and I know it's great against boss. I don't know for cows and the like though, but it's often used with maxed death sentry because you're good at killing a single target. Or just throwing frozen orbs with a rift scepter
I just beat Nightmare with my hardcore kicksin and it's pretty great! With burst-of-speed and venom the damage to single targets becomes insane, not that that even matters much if you have some crushing-blow items equipped.
I saw several vids about blizzard sorceres being best starter ... , i commented on Llamas vid that for budget hc i would actually prefer a trapsin . You know its legit when Coooley mentions it in his vids 😉😉😉 Thx Coooley, love your unique content!
I love your channel man. So much personality. That's what it's about. I don't want a cookie cutter build. I'm an old skool D2 player and I'm going to just follow my f@&king heart and make my char how I want. I'm not going to race to get items, farm etc, I'm going to enjoy every bit of D2R as I go. Already purchased and installed. LET'S GOOOO!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure why Diablo 2 content started being suggested to me by CZcams, but given that I'm super hyped for the Remaster, I won't complain xD Helps that it's about my favourite class from years ago
This is amazing. I always played assassin and necro back in the day and this time around started with a sorceress since the consensus is that sorceress is the master race for farming up other classes gear. After playing a fair bit I'm realizing how not fun sorceress actually is in my opinion so I'm really excited to try this seemingly god tier build out alongside my summoner necro :) Awesome video, keep up the good work my dude.
I've never made a sin past like level 10, never realized they're that powerful. Looks really fun, I'm gonna run this on d2r release with my reset team. Great guide
I remember playing a clawsin build of my own design back in LoD, but I didn’t know much about builds back then., I’ve started D2R down that same path as a casual, got into the barracks, and then swapped to Sorcress after watching a video by Raxx on tips for newbies … but after watching this I’m going to hit Akara up for that free respec and try TrapSin now, thanks!!
Trapssin will be strong and fun for sure but she will be no match for a hammadin. Hammadin is the best possible build and i dont think its even close. But summoner, trapssin, wind druid and blizzard sorc would be next fighting for top 2-5.
Absolutely agreed. Fav class in almost any game outside of a really niche game. Plus shes way safer against some of that older netcode and whatever ails we have awaiting us in that arena.
Great video that is clear and concise! Just getting back into D2 resurrected and this build is great! I still do the occasional claw based attack on Act 4 Azrael where I do cobra, tiger strikes then kick him. Very satisfying not having to continually run away from him.
i don't like when other things attack for me, it looks very usefull but its just my playstyle... neither that, i have to deal with my folower killing stuff xD
Excellent mate ! I'm going this class for my first play through on this game now. Was going the sorceress but this looks like a good build to follow cheers .
hmm so you still get more exp per kill if there are a lot of players in the map right ? so 8 player = max exp. but how did they solve this problem on nintendo switch? max player on a map is 4 so do you get more same amount xp per player or does each player count as 2 players on switch or does pc have the exp advantage? also felt like a rought start yesterday in d2r ^^
Rarely played trap sin, I do kicks. I might try traps. Tiger Strike + Dragon Tail will go to at least 15k damage in one kick at the end of nightmare but drops in effectiveness at hell because of immunities. Dragon Talon wrecks magic and rare monsters in one kick early on, and sin gets it at level 1. Cobra Strike has the best leech in the game. Dragon Flight is a nice teleport kick. Cloak of Shadows stops monsters in their tracks and negates every normal monster skills while boosting offense and defense. It's practically a castable BO with a blind/interrupt. I just hope they fixed the ancients bug which crashes the game when you cast CoS on the summit.
Just wanna give out my opinion here. I followed this videos advice and I this is how I feel: the trapsin is amazingly cheap and powerful. It's definitely a top tier starter character. I can clear pindle in seconds and since I have so much faster run speed I get to the portal amazingly fast which allows me to actually do just pindle and create a new game. The problem I have with this character is how boring the endgame is - not having teleport means you can only farm a few areas effectively, we really don't care so much about the light immunes as much as having to WALK places. I have a naj's staff for teleport on the swap and it just feels clunky running out of tp or having to repair the tp charges. All in all, EXTREMELY (if not the most) powerful budget build, but I got bored of farming the same few areas over and over. I feel like orbwall is a little better in this sense. Also as anything non-sorc once you're done with the budget part of your build you gotta go straight to enigma which is so expensive, whereas with a sorc "leveling up" your gear feels more linear and is much easier (even if sorc stuff is the most expensive, you didnt have to go through an enigma). As a budget build you're pretty much done gearing really fast so it's time to race to enigma. Would I do it again as a trapsin? Don't know, probably would go poison necro for a reset just so I can farm more areas and have more fun. Would I go for a non-sorc again? For me, don't think so - having tp without enigma is just fun.
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thx for the video, i have a question what for a merc?
Playing trapsin my first playthru and having a blast. Love sorc, but need an excuse to play something else because 99% of my original D2 playtime was on a sorc.
@@solojoe420 has to be a grey/white staff mate
@@solojoe420 it can't be a magic item (blue), has to be a plain staff. Any extra skills is a bonus
Guys, seriously:
Cloak of Shadows >>> Mind Blast
But, like, a miiiiillion times better
another cool thing to remember about the assassin is that she does not need keys to open the chests around the map. awesome
Lol I never knew that
what!? 😂 I still colle t the keys, and I played the original and never noticed it... I will try it, if you are joking or not
@@somal1anwarlord197 please let me know if it works for you
Just threw my keys away, def works, how did I not know this..
Ty I'll save my keys for my other characters lol
I've spent the last 3 week plotting out my 1st D2 build in 15 years. I had every skill point, attribute and respec accounted for from Norm A1 to Hell A5 and this video, released 40 minutes before the game drops, changed everything.
You bastard. You magnificent bastard.
Honestly, I'll still be doing my thing but I can't wait to do THIS thing too. Great build and video, man!
Let me know how you enjoy, still on the fence of wanting to go back, but I always wanted to try out a sass. Sorc was always my main so many years ago xD
so how did it turn out so far?
@@AdamNeisler I'm still doing my thing. Magic finding in hell with an 81 sorceress currently. Seem to be getting everything EXCEPT assassin gear 🙄
@@anubrakahn2970 At least you can log on xD
@@miqotelover God that sucks. I've heard that people are still locked out. That's terrible 😕
I like how everyones just now figuring out these underrated OP builds on D2. Shoulda been there 20 years ago kids when the poison necro ruled all pvp servers
More like hacked items ruled all pvp games...
@@Dunning-Krugereffect C'mon now Tommy we only want to remember the fun times, not duping, hacks, DISCONNECTED and launch week (oh yeah I was there).
I remember that! Decrepify wasn't locked at a small radius, CE got stronger with added players. He was a beast in PVP too!
@@Dunning-Krugereffect nah, they did naht
@@Duhastmage I’m 45. Guess I’m a veteran then 😅 To me your generation were the kids back then, the ‘teen opponents’
Dear Cooley,
I am totally blown away by this build. What follows is a short review, because I wanted to thank you for making this video and teaching an old hand with 20 years of D2 experience something new. In all these years I never played an assassin, but this video made me try something new, and I am extremely happy I came across this video and that I tried it out. It is truly amazing.
I came across your video when my first sorc was in late nightmare, so I didn't start the launch with it. I was very skeptical to start a character that couldn't teleport (without charges). But as soon as I was finding some gear with my sorc in Hell, I started building this assassin and focused on her. It was a little bit of a learning curve in order to use cloak of shadows, mind blast and the shadow master correctly, but when you master these strategies, and learn to set traps around corners, this build is extremely fun to play and can handle really difficult areas quite easily with very cheap gear.
Normal and nightmare was a lot of fun to play through with Wake of Fire, but when I got to Hell I started to run into problems with immunes, so I needed to join groups in order to get me to act 5 hell. However, as most groups consist of cold sorceresses, it was actually very easy to get through the game because of the other types of damage I'm dealing.
The build is very powerful, but I think that "being able to easily clear every level 85 area in the game" is an exaggeration (withouth Infinity). In the beginning I was struggling quite a lot with doing chaos runs, and solo Baal runs are still too slow to be viable. However, I have managed to get her to level 89 and I have accumulated some more gear. I would advise anyone to get an assa torch as soon as possible, because this really started moving things forward for me.
Now I am running dual spirit, treachery, +3 traps circlet, torch, aldurs boots and chance guards, +3 traps amulet with an Obedience merc, and I am able to easily clear hell chaos sanctuary and kill Diablo, cows, Eldritch. But the best part is doing Nihlathak runs.
I have fallen completely in love with doing Nihla runs. I struggled a lot in the beginning, but I memorized the maps and now I use a combination of fast running and teleporting past monster packs, and I consistently do Nihla runs in 1:30 to 2 minutes including shopping for potions and identifying/selling items. Doing this at this speed has proven to be very profitable, because I'm farming around 3-6 Keys of Destruction an hour, and they are bringing in a good profit even in this stage of the launch. Nihla runs are a lot of fun because there are some very strong and challenging monsters (especially Vipers), and of course Nihla's Corpse Explosion. It almost feels like cheating to set up the traps around the corner and letting my exploding traps do all the work, and just to walk in and pick up my loot!
I have heard you mention in your videos that the RNG isn't much on your side when MF'ing, and I recognize that too. I am generally not very lucky in games. But farming destruction keys made me relatively rich! So thank you very much for sharing your strategy with us, Cooley. I'm a very experienced sorceress player and it was a great experience to learn a new class and to see what it can do. I would probably start ladder again with a sorc, but I would use her to gear up my assa as soon as possible.
I highly recommend giving the assasin a try and listening to what Cooley has to say!
All the best of luck of you.
Thank you for writing this out, man! It was a pleasure to read your review! Perhaps "effectively clear any lvl 85 area" would have been a better choice of words, as it is does take some time with certain ones until you get the right gear. So glad you're enjoying it, man! I appreciate hearing that!
ALSO, now in D2R they fixed the bug that caused your Death Sentry to cause less uniques to spawn so now she'll be one of the best for area farming too like Chaos
Good point!
I went back to my single player trapper the other day, players 8 cows, jesus I laughed my arse off, once that first couple of cows dies, kaboom, so much fun, reminds of that jade harvester build on d3
never played an assassin till end game in my D2 LOD days, this video has inspired me to give it a go.
Same, trap sin one of the funnest to play as, for me at least. I didn't play it much but when I was able to get some really good gear for it way back in the day it was really fun
How is it going?
@@PietkaMS also curious, I wanna make a trap sin once I get some more fg too
@@PietkaMS stuck trying to grind high runes or good uniques at lvl 82.
The assassin is my least played character so I'm looking forward to giving this a shot!
My weird ass is the paladin least played
Same.
You can also transition to a kicker and take down ubers with relatively budget gear. Not as easily as a smiter but long before you could afford to be teleporting and whirlwinding around with that spider build. Enjoy! ;)
@@whodeyfps478 gonna be playing with my wife so I thought it'd be kinda fun to play through as her "support" since it's her first time
Shes so good
Good to remind also regarding teleport/LR charges, you can ort+chip gem those charges back to full
This video made me strongly consider using the assassin, I don't think I made this class once during my 8 year span of D2 back in the day. Kudos!
I built one 2 months back (PD2) for the 1st time in my 15+years and I loved it! Worth the try for sure
Me neither and I will start with it today!
SO much fun man. LIke he said... it clears fast. I'm going hammerdin just because I like the visual of it now even more! Quite literally was one of the first people playing hammerdin back in the day too so there is that lol!
I was always a Pali I just made an assassin lol
Now you can do it in ugly and woke-approved!
Agree, Trapassins are hella strong. Also, you forgot to mention "1 Skill Point Wonder" into Fade. Sure you lose Burst of Speed while you use fade, but if you really need resists(It's also has a bit of DR too) for early Hell, I think it's more than worth the speed buff loss until you get better gear.
I've recently started doing solo Baal runs with her and once I hit lvl 91, I finally did put a point into that. Not worth the risk at that point of getting ganked by souls with your tele staff out!
Sweet tutorials man!
Playing this build, i've come to find this;
A nice substitute for the lore helm is the peasant crown war hat. I accidently found one in Nightmare cloister the other day, wonderful stats on this gem, +1 to all skills, +15% walk speed, +20 vitality & energy, + 10 replenish life, and 108 armor. Awesome drop to get while running through the area for the first time :D
I can concur and add that the Assassin trapsin build with Death Sentry is by far the best class to start out with. I have tried Hammerdin, Ele Druid and Sorc all to level 71 with some mid game gear and have troubles in Hell Act 1 and 2. I found this video and tried out an Assassin with Death Sentry and I'm now into Act 3 at lvl 72 and have no issues with bosses or mobs. Assassin is by far the best class to get going. Thank you for the video otherwise I never would have tried Assassin out.
Thanks for the video Cooley. I've been ladder starting and playing sin for over a decade now and I'm glad to see her get the attention she deserves.
From personal experience, I recommend NM Baal as your first boss farm as she's one of the top solo Baalers. Then I transition into purely Pindle until I can afford Enigma, then the world is your oyster.
I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone has for sin, I've played it all and I've played it for years 😂
Trapper, Kicksin, Ghostsin, Hybrid LS/WW, and even multiple Bowsins
Definitely my least played class. Why use 4x lightning sentry and 1x death sentry?
@@skitzum5005 The death sentry procs Corpse Explosion for beautiful AoE damage. You only use 1 because it has lower damage than the Lightning Sentry and 1 is enough to proc the CE's at a different pace. Its also important to note that the Death should be placed a bit farther from the mobs or else it won't proc the CE. Close = lightning, far = CE
@@AiR1DaN Very cool. What are the best areas for MF for a trapsin in hell? Was planning meteorb but may pivot last second.
@@skitzum5005 Once you get Enigma, all the standard MF areas apply. Personally, my progression has always been NM Baal -> Hell Pindle/Eldritch (you can add Shenk as you get gear, the big problem is the Archers wreck your shit, so just experiment as you keep gearing up). Once you have Enigma, Andy/Meph/Key runs are all doable.
I think worth mentioning is Pit and Ancient Tunnels now that they fixed the MF bug for trapsins. I haven't tested this at all.
The key thing is do what keeps you entertained. Some people can't stand Pindle/Eldritch/Shenk so maybe you'd prefer Pit/Tunnels. Some people can't stand doing only Pit/Tunnels so maybe do all 5, or Andy/Meph
Err… No class, Let me say that again…NO CLASS is a better Baal runner than a Hammerdin with Enigma and HOtO.
As someone who's not a big time gamer, I had no idea how to use the assassin. I put everything into burst of speed, shadow, cobra strike, and most of all, Phoenix strike. All of that seemed to be the most effective to deal a lot of damage to the enemies. Then at the end of nightmare act IV I don't stand much of a chance. I redid my stats and skill points and I was able to tear through those enemies so fast! Now I can burn through act V and hopefully get through hell mode
If you're still playing then yes, you'll be able to do fine in hell. But I recommend only 1 in fireblast, 1 in blades, and 17+ in shadowmaster. I explained why in another comment. Also of course you'll want an insight on your merc. Treachery or smoke are good armor runeword choices I think he doesn't mention. If you play HC other good choices are anything that increases survivability against the few things that can maybe get to you (like Nihl's CE, fast-moving exploding dolls, or fanatic extra fast archer mobs). These are anything that adds % physical damage reduction (like string of ears, shaftstop, shako, Natalya's set, and many more); anything that increases max res (Iratha's, hotspurs or infernostrides, and a few other things); and anything that adds magic absorb (twin spirits plus jewelry). Blocking is also important and you can use rhyme, ancient's pledge, a ward shield, but a spirit is probably best unless MDfing (then use rhyme). There are also some great katars with res and + stats, but I prefer twin spirits whenever possible.
A trapsin's gear is pretty much whatever a sorc would use - skin of the vipermagi, etc. - except IAS is more important than FCR. But you can find enough IAS on plenty of gloves (plus helmets and amulets) to be fine. IAS impacts traps, and FCR mindblast and smoke.
I’ve chosen you to be my go too guy for d2r when it comes out today. Love the straight forward easy to understand information you give, other people tend to use too many acronyms for stuff I don’t understand. Subbed
I had to give the credit where credit is due.
I stumbled upon this guide randomly a week ago, I ran an assassin and I'm having a time of my life. I was so bored and lazy when I did a necro but when I ran this. I'm so amazed.
For the first time in my D2 experience, I made a trapsin as a first char (my first trapsin ever also) because of this video, and I can only advise you to do the same !! The survivability is much higher than a sorc and the dps is really solid, especially against big packs of mobs (cows, chaos). It can be a little bit tideous at start when you dont have enigma, it gets annoying to swap from lower resist to teleport, to have to repair every 2-3 runs, to keep items to get some gold, but once you're past that, it's just a delight... Made my Enigma a few days ago and man, it's fucking amazing, you can farm pretty much everywhere, Nilha is ez as fuck, chaos same thing (and it's not half as scary as it is with a sorc), same thing for baal... Enjoy the game so fucking much and looking forward to make my infinity to be even more imba :D TLDR : amazing guide, follow it people ;)
i didn't bother to get lower resist wand... used tele staff only to get to nithla, running on foot: chaos, baal, cows, countess, summoner, pits
skipped totaly before getting eni: meph, andy, duriel
now as i thing of it, i could probably get that wand and swap it in, after killing nithla, and continue run with it, but w/e
this char has been going GREAT for me and i dont give two shits bout no lower resist wand or never cared about no tele staff....its been one of the most OP lvling builds ive ever experienced..i go gull dagger and dirk diggler dagger for first 19 lvls then switch to leaf and on the armor either twtich or stealth...i feel twitch is better for traps...and im owning either bt myself leveling and questing online or in players 8 games leveling and questing ...at the end of normal when u start doing baal runs find urself a good spirit sword after level 25 and you will be good enough all the way till u switch to death sentery and ur end game assassin build! i tried this thanks to cooley and its been one of the funnest builds for me and ive done all characters already now in d2r
BRO. Thank you. I played d2 the first day it came out with my buddy back in the day. It hooked me in so badly lol. Eventually when the cow time came... I can still hear my dad walking by going "moo moo, moo moo moo" haha. HE was soooooo annoyed by it.
Then I recall this special moment. I was the lower rank player in my group... and I started theory crafting with the assassin and started putting together this build in single player. It was at that time... I became a higher ranked player in the group haha!
Great stuff brother. Cheers to 20 years and launch today! Can't wait to duel in Hardcore! Gonna be a few months though haha.
if you find enough Ort runes you could repair the teleport weapon also in the cube as far as i remember.
i will Start D2:R with a Assassin for sure ✌
GREAT vid man. I have been a die hard Sorc starter for a long time. Just rolled a sin and I already feel the potential of this class. Looks like you've got a convert.
So pumped for tomorrow! I’m locking myself in the basement with food and water for 5 days. Headphones loud enough to drown out the wife and kids undoubtably clawing at the door. All itching to bust down the blast door to hand me next honeydew list. Just hope I can get to hell Mephisto in time
And then, back in reality, you probably install, play for an hour before your wife calls you to come and have dinner, after that you play a little more before she commands you to bed and maybe you get another 20 mins in, before you head back to your bad paid job and then back home to start it all over again..
Yes.
Sadly it’s even worse than that. But we can dream
damn bro you really make marriage sound worth it. and isn't it honeydo list cause she's ordering you to do shit for her and saying it's "for us"?
Marry a girl who loves gaming as much as you do boys. Not all that hard :P
One word though: teleport.
I know it’s trivial but it just makes so much diff once you start doing boss runs. But I agree Trapsin is the easiest carry build in the game, but it’s not faster where it matters compared to blizz sorc
He uses a teleport staff. Which imo was a GREAT tech on any character not a sorc until you hit Enigma.
three words: teleport charges staff
2 words: Repair items.
Which is done often anyways right?
@@tanuj4561 I was replying to JARY who said "One word though: teleport."
Couple word: ort rune to repair teleport staff
Love this Guide, i keep coming back to it. I wish there were more way to access corpse explosion, Corpsemourn should have a 10% chance to cast on striking or something. Great Vid!
Nice build, I never really went with assassin because I always found her a bit boring just laying traps, but with mind blast and fire blast to mix things up with, I think this will be my second character for sure
It's pretty broken honestly, fire, lightning and physical damage so you can kill them all, some with setup. Mindblast to stun/ convert enemies and watch traps crap on them
100% agree. My assassin is in her early 50's and i use lore,stealth,rhyme and spirit sword. She is in nm act 3 and the last time she died was level 22 fighting Baal in normal. just place traps then run enemies into them.
I’ll have to give this a try! I still need to hunt down dunes for lore spirit and rhyme just started nightmare on my trapsin
You did not convince me running meph with a teleport staff. Sounds annoying af. But other than that, looks very powerful indeed.
Sorc wins, Tele is just too OP.
This time around I may be playing casually enough to be ok with not mfing as fast as humanly possible. I've always wanted to play assassin and druid back in the day so I guess it's now or never.
@@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 Yeah that's the problem, as soon as you put teleport in the balance, it sways heavily towards sorc no matter what arguments you make for the other side.
@@bravepotatoe7513 diversifying damage could be a good one, its anoying to avoid some bossess as sorc.. (travincal, countess, etc)
@@sehk7075 That's a good point. If clearing the game is the objective I could see arguments against the sorc but if we're talking about collecting gear/wealth sorc is unbeatable with targeted farming early on.
Venom Shredder Assassin build with Cloak of Shadows, usually go for 2H weapons. D2R mechanics with Blade fury is epic. Cloak of shadows reduce % enemy defence stops casters and summoners for up to 28 secs, just stand there waiting for you to take them out from afar. Get to close and swap to either shield 1H or do a dual claw blocker.
Cooley, can you do a video or vlog about character progression on ladder? my issue is that i usually make a char, get to 80 or so and it feels like i hit a wall in terms of what to do, what to prioritize and what not. i usually play a week then quit because i have no idea how to get to enigma or hoto in any reasonable amount of time. this would be an awesome set of videos id love to see, you always have great videos.
also congrats on 21 k subs! lots of growth on the channel, love to see it
Thank you so much, man! My plan is to try to "get rich quick" in D2R. Hoping to document the experience!
The key is keep farming. Early ladder bugged Andy or meph are good places to get your staple mf gear or some trade bait.
Once you got some solid mf and decent clear speed you typically want to hit up lvl85 zones (pits/ancient tunnels are easier but chaos is good too) or cows. Cows is especially good if you are farming specifically for runes as you have lots of stuff to kill. Also good for farming runeword based which you can also trade. Early on 4os monarchs are worth quite a bit.
You can also farm keys/torches and trade those. Key sets are going to be valuable even if you can't do Ubers yet yourself, but you should as farming keys is harder than Ubers themselves imo.
@@Stavroization Pretty sure they fix bugged andy.
@@zelphermm Quest bugging Andy still worked as of open beta. I thought developers said they were leaving it.
@@Stavroization essentially yeah. If you are finding meph and Andy to hard. NM meph or mm cows is a good place to get started with.
This is all great advice except I'd make a couple minor adjustments. Here's what my trapsin build always looks like >>
20 shockweb
20 charged bolt sentry
20 lightning sentry
20 death sentry
20 shadowmaster
1 fade
1 mindblast
1 each pre-req
1 BLADE
This leaves 1 point leftover which you can put in blades. Or you can take just 19 in shadowmaster to put 1 in blades and 1 in venom. The purpose of blades isn't so much to do damage from the blades themselves as to proc other abilities from range, including crushing blow, open wounds, cast on striking skills, and venom. You can draw off another two points from shadowmaster to get 1 point in each of the other blade skills for synergies, but I don't generally do that.
ONLY 1 FIREBLAST
Why no fireblast? Because death sentry already does way more fire damage, there's no need to increase it's shot number, and because having a much tougher shadowmaster acting as tank is invaluable. The master will also use her own powers rather than, like the warrior, just half-strength versions of yours. She can lay fire traps, deliver cold damage with phoenix strikes, use power ups and finishing moves, and even use her own death sentries. Maxed out she can basically take out superuniques in A5 Hell mode all by herself, while you just stand and watch. This is all way better than fireblast. Maxing a level 30 skill is, unsurprisingly, far better than maxing a level 1 skill. She leaves you free to think and evaluate the situation more, mindblast less, shockweb more, reposition traps, smoke, or even just loot.
I remember being 10-12 years old using my op ass enigma trap sin vs hell Baal as my 19 year old brother was getting absolutely shit on as a necro anywhere he went in hell.... guess I was lucky picking a build 🤣
I’d like to thank the dude that gave me a free enigma, real ass dude of the century.
It was me, I'd like it back now in D2R please. 😁
@@lbguitar ahh shit dude, alright....cool if I just get you a tal rune and call it square?
I couldn't sleep one night and came upon this video... Now I have a lvl 75 assassin, the best class for me yet. Mind blast is like music to my ears. Now I am MFing for PVP end game build. Thank you.
Had to stop as soon as you said changes act 4 nightmare. I’ve never made an assassin and look forward to finding out for myself solo self found run
That's part of the fun, imo! Good luck tomorrow!
you have one of the most in-depth videos between this one and the last spider build video for the assassin. The assassin is my most played character and I rarely see people hit every nail on the head.
Best starter would always be sorceress in my opinion due to the teleport skill for farming.
True. Sorc will always be the best starter for Mf'ing/farming. Second would prob be something that you can use to Uber/Dclone
exactly. nothing can compete with the high damage, low gear and teleport combination. If she would need all here gear, like a melee so she could not use much MF it would maybe a reason to reconsider. But atm, you cant beat the sorc
In HC at least the assassin is better. Sin deals 3 damage types (light, fire, physical) plus can have a level 20+ shadowmaster and can use 1 point blades to proc crushing blow (functioning much like a ranged static field). Plus mindblast and smokescreen. Sin can kill bosses without ever having seen them. And she can just run past and ignore mobs with mindblast and smoke, reducing the need for teleport. Unlike sorc, sin is completely viable for play, using only found items, all the way up to Hell Baal, without need for infinity or any other high runewords (grinding LK into monotony).
played Diablo 2 back in the days,
made assassin from your guide, gotta tell u, - THANK U very much!
really fun to play it, i finished 5 acts in 8 hours of play, tons of fun, and very easy to play,
recommend it to all, cheers ;)
I just don't like the trap assassin play style, but Cooley you did recommend a frozen orb & firewall sorc in another video and I've never tried that so I'm starting with that! Sounds like it would be good for immunities.
Lol. Gear requirements.
It's not for everyone. It's a very passive play.. useful for casuals like me.
Slick intro & great explainer!
It’s awesome you touched on skills and some gear points… but what about stat placement and merc options? I assume either the meditation act 2 one for mana help in nightmare.
Consider making an Insight runeword in a low tier polearm. Your merc will be able to use it at lvl 27 and a high meditation aura (max 17) will fix any mana problems.
My friends want me to play this game and they recommended me this specific character to learn how to play, very good video, it helped me a little to understand
What kind of stat allocation do you use for the early / midgame build?
100% vitality
I may still do the sorc first because of teleport, but you've convinced me to make this my #2 build absolutely. And depending on how much I enjoy it as I build both up, the assassin may very well take over. I ultimately want to transition to a Riftasin as one of my end game builds, so this just makes that reality happen sooner. Thanks for the vids, you're one of my favorite youtube creators now, for sure!
Ye, but Asin can move faster than any other class.
Don’t tell them! Leave the secret to us! I have been a long time fan of the sin class and it is ALWAYS my go to in a new ladder, etc. they’re more challenging than other classes to use but when you master them, they are just power house beasts
A good buff to Assassin in D2:R (aside from the obvious traps not sabotaging your elite spawns) is that Pindle can be run infinitely. Even without wanting to use a Teleport staff, there's still a reliable boss that Assassin excels at right there.
Exactly. Even without telestaff, so many classes get a lot better w/o Realm Downs
i farmed him a lot and with this build you are right, very easy, fast take down, even with all mf gear not leveling gear equipped
Most recent ladder on D2 I did fire then changed to light traps with death sentry.. with budget gear it was broken. 😁 awesome vid Coooley!!
Since you didn't mention it in your vid, what do you think of kicksin? I've heard that it's one of the few char that can solo ubers without too much stuff, and I know it's great against boss. I don't know for cows and the like though, but it's often used with maxed death sentry because you're good at killing a single target. Or just throwing frozen orbs with a rift scepter
I just beat Nightmare with my hardcore kicksin and it's pretty great! With burst-of-speed and venom the damage to single targets becomes insane, not that that even matters much if you have some crushing-blow items equipped.
I saw several vids about blizzard sorceres being best starter ... , i commented on Llamas vid that for budget hc i would actually prefer a trapsin . You know its legit when Coooley mentions it in his vids 😉😉😉 Thx Coooley, love your unique content!
Me : planning on maining Sin so people give me their Atorch since they arent S or Ptorch ... Cooley : waiiiit a minute.....
I ALMOST MENTIONED THIS! haha Sin torches are considered "fails" early on and are dirt cheap! But you hit the nail on the head...
@@Coooley Sin gear in general is pretty cheap since so few people play it.
@@JungleScene +3 trap claws are easily Shoppable
most underrated D2 Channel on CZcams. Your Videos are always on point. All infos from 0 to 100 in a short focused summary. Great guy btw, no homo
Thank you Cooley for making me love the assassin. It's now my favorite and pretty much the only one I use for pure fun
Finally a CZcamsr who mains Assassin. Earned a Sub.
I love your channel man. So much personality. That's what it's about. I don't want a cookie cutter build. I'm an old skool D2 player and I'm going to just follow my f@&king heart and make my char how I want. I'm not going to race to get items, farm etc, I'm going to enjoy every bit of D2R as I go. Already purchased and installed. LET'S GOOOO!!!!!!!!
SAME HERE! Can't wait to play through this game at a subpar pace and ENJOY IT! Glad you found the channel, man
@@Coooley Already joined your arena too. Bliz/bone/windy are my flavours. Can't wait.
I'm not sure why Diablo 2 content started being suggested to me by CZcams, but given that I'm super hyped for the Remaster, I won't complain xD
Helps that it's about my favourite class from years ago
After all these years we can finally kill the Cowking with a worry!!! Great video, definitely going to try rolling an Assassin now
Awesome, man! Welcome to the Sin fam!
This is amazing. I always played assassin and necro back in the day and this time around started with a sorceress since the consensus is that sorceress is the master race for farming up other classes gear. After playing a fair bit I'm realizing how not fun sorceress actually is in my opinion so I'm really excited to try this seemingly god tier build out alongside my summoner necro :)
Awesome video, keep up the good work my dude.
My sorc has 400 mf already, all from self found gear, idk if there's truly a reason to make a diff char for farming, blizz sorc makes it so easy.
I've never made a sin past like level 10, never realized they're that powerful. Looks really fun, I'm gonna run this on d2r release with my reset team. Great guide
I remember playing a clawsin build of my own design back in LoD, but I didn’t know much about builds back then.,
I’ve started D2R down that same path as a casual, got into the barracks, and then swapped to Sorcress after watching a video by Raxx on tips for newbies … but after watching this I’m going to hit Akara up for that free respec and try TrapSin now, thanks!!
Nice man, good to see the assassin get some lurve. I used to run a kick-sin back in the day, and another obligatory death sentry sin
I wish you spoke about how to distribute stat points at each tier.
Light sorc is the most efficient but hey , we've been doing that for 20 years now. It's time to get over that and have some fun
With end-game gear, she is for sure. But early on, she blows compared to other builds. Once I started running Sin on resets, I never went back lol
@@Coooley I was just saying we don't haft play by the rules anymore time for some change I agree with you and your choice
Just watched Lama's Trapsin guide, I've never been an assassin and looking for a change for Resurrected. Thanks for your video!
Love you ❤️, you make me life easey 💪😎. This is so strong!
I was considering going assassin or hammerdin to start. Seems like you convinced me that trapssin is the way to go :)
Trapssin will be strong and fun for sure but she will be no match for a hammadin. Hammadin is the best possible build and i dont think its even close. But summoner, trapssin, wind druid and blizzard sorc would be next fighting for top 2-5.
Thx very much,for some useful infos,love sin,i really like this build
Went Assassin back in 2017 never looked back. Simply amazing.
back in 2017 :D
have not started with assasin before. it was always sorceress. this video may be the reason i get D2R and play again.
Thanks for this video! What about stat distribution?
I've been doing it wrong since my restart after 9 years. Thank you so much. Bout to hit that rest skill button lol.
ooh dayum, i asked this question in the wrong video But here it goes again:
Great video btw i love it! i started an assassin because of this!
Absolutely agreed. Fav class in almost any game outside of a really niche game. Plus shes way safer against some of that older netcode and whatever ails we have awaiting us in that arena.
what youll be the stats for this a bit of dex and str and all the rest in to vit ?
I'll be making a Sorc.. but now you got me thinking Assassin.. damn you Coooley DAMN YOUUU!!
This was clutch dude thanks for sharing just in time!
I was unaware there were CENTURY skills replaced SENTRY skills in D2R Assassin's skill tree. Should be added to the list of changes.
Great video. How about the stats points?
9:03 The way his words "The assassin class" merge with the background music there o_o
Great video that is clear and concise! Just getting back into D2 resurrected and this build is great! I still do the occasional claw based attack on Act 4 Azrael where I do cobra, tiger strikes then kick him. Very satisfying not having to continually run away from him.
I really wanted to start playing assasin, so happy for this guide man! You convinced me! Thanks!
i don't like when other things attack for me, it looks very usefull but its just my playstyle... neither that, i have to deal with my folower killing stuff xD
Very nice guide to starting as an assasin for a d2 noob like me, thanks much !
What stats do you use? I might have missed it
That intro/ending music is so fun.
Do you have Stat distribution guide for this?
What stats do you recommend? Vitality? Dex?
I started season 1 D2R last week now a level 85 Sorc. Sin is my favourite character back in D2 LOD tho.
you were made for this shit man, such a good content creator and host 👍 keep up the good work buddy
Assassin has always been my fav char follow by Druid since the release of LOD... im sure gonna try this out when i get my hands on D2R
Excellent mate ! I'm going this class for my first play through on this game now. Was going the sorceress but this looks like a good build to follow cheers .
this video sold me. I'm done with starting a sorc first
Really love your content man, Gj! Wanted to start with a frost orb sorc but since I never played assassin gonna go with your build !
hmm so you still get more exp per kill if there are a lot of players in the map right ? so 8 player = max exp. but how did they solve this problem on nintendo switch? max player on a map is 4 so do you get more same amount xp per player or does each player count as 2 players on switch or does pc have the exp advantage? also felt like a rought start yesterday in d2r ^^
Cooley you are the best diablo content creator ever - Love your stuff
love it, definitely changed my mind and now i will start with an assassin
Rarely played trap sin, I do kicks. I might try traps.
Tiger Strike + Dragon Tail will go to at least 15k damage in one kick at the end of nightmare but drops in effectiveness at hell because of immunities.
Dragon Talon wrecks magic and rare monsters in one kick early on, and sin gets it at level 1.
Cobra Strike has the best leech in the game.
Dragon Flight is a nice teleport kick.
Cloak of Shadows stops monsters in their tracks and negates every normal monster skills while boosting offense and defense. It's practically a castable BO with a blind/interrupt. I just hope they fixed the ancients bug which crashes the game when you cast CoS on the summit.
also you can put some points into dragon talon early to melt bosses using some cheap cb
Been thinkin of blizz sorc this entire time but u just threw a wrench into that plan... Fuk this is tempting
thanks for the guide, man! just curious, what stats should i be focusing on early game?
enough Str to wear gear and rest into Vit I think
what about attributes? how to level up those in this build?
this made me rethink my choice of first character.. good job!
Just wanna give out my opinion here. I followed this videos advice and I this is how I feel: the trapsin is amazingly cheap and powerful. It's definitely a top tier starter character. I can clear pindle in seconds and since I have so much faster run speed I get to the portal amazingly fast which allows me to actually do just pindle and create a new game. The problem I have with this character is how boring the endgame is - not having teleport means you can only farm a few areas effectively, we really don't care so much about the light immunes as much as having to WALK places. I have a naj's staff for teleport on the swap and it just feels clunky running out of tp or having to repair the tp charges. All in all, EXTREMELY (if not the most) powerful budget build, but I got bored of farming the same few areas over and over. I feel like orbwall is a little better in this sense.
Also as anything non-sorc once you're done with the budget part of your build you gotta go straight to enigma which is so expensive, whereas with a sorc "leveling up" your gear feels more linear and is much easier (even if sorc stuff is the most expensive, you didnt have to go through an enigma). As a budget build you're pretty much done gearing really fast so it's time to race to enigma. Would I do it again as a trapsin? Don't know, probably would go poison necro for a reset just so I can farm more areas and have more fun. Would I go for a non-sorc again? For me, don't think so - having tp without enigma is just fun.