Goratha's 3.18 Assassin Poison Molten Strike Build Guide

I leveled the character with Molten Strike - however I STRONGLY recommend you level as Spectral Helix. (you can use level 30 dagger and switch to molten strike if you have it - this is not a spectral helix build guide though, plenty of those out there) If you are planning on making the character without having the dagger base ready in SSF - plan on playing Spectral Helix until up to level 90 (if you are extremely unlucky) It is about 1/3 or 1/4 grand heists on average (I believe?) I recommend having the dagger ready before leveling this character - you can switch to Molten Strike as soon as you can equip the dagger. Or if you are like me just play it the whole way (again not recommended unless you know what you're doing) Strength can be a problem early, look for items with +str and most likely grab +30 str node. Lethal Pride fixes this later (if you can get one) Ancestral Call is required before you have strike gloves. Less Projectile speed and reduced projectile speed increase the # of overlaps on smaller targets (big targets generally get hit by most anyways) Min/max options include Brittle Boots + Ashes of the Stars to keep crit up and make use of the many alt quality gems such as Phantasmal Molten Strike (40%INC DOT DMG) / Withering Step (additional 2 withers) / Anamolous Molten Shell Super Min/Max Self-Chill is possible with unaffected by poison (malevolence or boots) // Winterweave // Icefang Orbit // Golden Rule Temple Gloves // Blizzard Crown are some other Min/Max options as well. Plaguebearer +gem gloves and Empower will be nice for mapping. (put Determination and Grace into gloves for +levels as well) DAGGER BASES ARE HOLLOWPOINT DAGGER / PRESSURISED DAGGER / PNEUMATIC DAGGER they drop from Replica / Experimental Grand Heists (Labatory and Library tilesets) Easiest way to roll them is Attack Craft Harvest or Essence of Anger/Wrath/Hatred for flat and then PREFIX can't be changed + veiled chaos (once you have 3 flat) PANTHEONS BRINE KING + ABBERATH // you can drop brine king if you want, by multi-modding boots with cannot be frozen + cannot be chilled BANDITS Alira early on (ALL res is very nice, as well as mana regen and the crit multiplier becomes dot multi with perfect agony) You can respec for skills points much later. FORTIFY While this is a melee build unfortunately with the amount of less multipliers we have on hit damage - it's quite hard to make use of fortify - the one way it might work is by dropping GMP for something like Elemental damage with attacks and using the chest implicit "melee attack hits have x% chance to fortify on hit". BLIND You should get blind on the belt jewel ideally - blind increases hit chance effectively making it easier to hit the monster as well as less likely to hit you. MANA You can craft one -mana craft on ring if you struggle with mana at all for any reason. LAB ENCHANT +2 proj is the best / withering step is good too though LEFT CLICK WITHERING I personally don't do this but if you want to you can left click withering step to automatically cast it (I'd recommend turning this off for bosses at least so you don't run out of flame dash charges at bad times)