05-16-2003, 02:00 PM
I've had very good luck with my martial arts assassin. She has maxxed phoenix strike, max shadowmaster, and I'm working on maxxing claw mastery and dragonclaw. By far she is my best equipped and the most fun of my characters to play. She easily solo's hell with a bit of well used strategies culled from my Diablo 1 days. Things to keep in mind are to not let yourself get swarmed as you don't have as many area effect spells, though judicious use of cloak of shadows and a quick withdrawal assists in this area. For merc I suggest an Act 2 merc - just about any will be useful for an assassin. I personally use a Holy freeze merc on my online assassin. My offline assassin is kicking about NM act 3 with her original healing act 2 merc from normal.
This is the equipment that my online assassin uses and is in no way what you have to use. After all a good deal of the fun of this game is in finding/trading for items you want for your characters.
Full Nats set
Bartuc's as second claw
This amulet.
Rare belt with high lit and cold resists
Rare ring with 7% ll and good lit and fire resist
Ravenfrost (for that all important cannot be frozen mod)
Um rune in Nat's helm
15% resist jewel in armor
High lightning damage jewel in the bartuc's - didn't want to socket the Nat's claw just yet.
Crafted and or rare gloves (I can't remember which they are) with +2 to martial arts skills and other helpful mods.
Prior to completing the set she was very effective using dual bartucs, a smoke armor and a rare circlet with dual leech and + to martial arts skills.
Hope this helps.
This is the equipment that my online assassin uses and is in no way what you have to use. After all a good deal of the fun of this game is in finding/trading for items you want for your characters.
Full Nats set
Bartuc's as second claw
This amulet.
Rare belt with high lit and cold resists
Rare ring with 7% ll and good lit and fire resist
Ravenfrost (for that all important cannot be frozen mod)
Um rune in Nat's helm
15% resist jewel in armor
High lightning damage jewel in the bartuc's - didn't want to socket the Nat's claw just yet.
Crafted and or rare gloves (I can't remember which they are) with +2 to martial arts skills and other helpful mods.
Prior to completing the set she was very effective using dual bartucs, a smoke armor and a rare circlet with dual leech and + to martial arts skills.
Hope this helps.