

As you know, Crushing Blow effectively reduces the enemy health by X% damage and is arguably undisputed in melee attacks vs. Yep, the moment you hear “duress”, the relation will come in Crushing Blow. The Duress rune word allows a more efficient appearance for the Crushing Blow to take place. In a nutshell, this assassin is optimally designed for PvM and may not be recommended for PvP due to a nerf on Crushing Blow(1/8) in PvP. I quickly did a Crushing Blow calculation check and I became very excited. The appearance of Duress( Shael- Um- Thul) armour rune word was quick to form an inspiration and enabled me to improvise this PvM build to be outrageously powerful and scale to greater heights in terms of damage-dealing. In additional to your newfound powers, you will also have good support from your level 35 Shadow Master and a level 88+ Holy Freeze Desert Merc. This is based on when you are playing alone. If you feel the current open wound \ Venom ww assassin to be somewhat “slow” in killing monsters, if you like crushing ice-shattering 1 hit kill effects on Fallen Ones, kill hell monsters in much less ww hits and feel great & powerful….then you might well love this build as much as me! Theoretically speaking, when you finish this build at level 90, an average of :Ģ-3 whirlwinds to finish off medium hp monsters,Ĥ whirlwinds to finish off very high hp monsters or physical immunesĭiablo, Mephisto etc naturally take more wws, but they too will be slaughtered in a much faster more efficient manner. Earlier, I was a bit disappointed with the WW “best” builds when applied to PvM because I felt the assassin simply wasn’t killing ferociously enough with Open Wounds and Venom even after some modifications. While the PvP WWsin seems to be more popular and talked about I strongly prefer to focus more of my time on the PvM WWsin. I have experimented with more than five assassins and at last concocted a most successful recipe which I am quite pleased with, which is called the Whirlwind Shredsin. I play on US WEST Ladder, and my current assassin is level 90 and climbing.


4. Dealing with Physical & poison immunes & Miscellaneous.
