Phoenix strike sin?

[NewBreedFighter]

I was thinking about making a Phoenix Strike sin....
Armor:Treachery... (high lvl venom=more non-physical damage,+2 sin skills,IAS,cold resists)
Weapon:Stormlash (Static field,CB)
Helm:Guillaumes Face (CB,FHR,strenght)
Shield:SS (duh)
Gloves: Dracs (again duh)
Boots:Treks
rings:Raven,Rare
Ammy:Highlords
Belt:Tgods

Skills:
Fully synergised Phoenix Strike+1 pt Fade+1 pt BoS.

This might take more skills to use but with the charging ability of Phoenix Strike u can choose which elemental attack u need to kill an dual immuned boss.

Has anyone made a Phoenix Strike sin? If so, is it worth it?

[wizAdept]

They are a lot of fun.

The equipment you have listed (except for your boots) is far more suited to a kicksin rather than a PS build. Build a kicksin if you want to ez pvm, build a PS sin if you want to challenge yourself, they are one of the more difficult classes to play, but incredibly fun to play and a very good lesson in hotkeying/skill management.

Note that w/s will charge up slower than c/c or c/s, also without claws you will be unable to use the elemental chargeups (which you have as synergies) that can do a significant amount of damage. imo c/c is the best suited path for PS assassins. If you do choose to stick with a w/s build for dr/shield/bos, I recommend you use a Crescant Moon phase over a stormlash.


It's been forever since I played on a finished PS build. I just recently picked up playing my old pheonix strike assassin again after not touching it for several months. Just finished nm difficulty, level 56, getting around 23k damage with only CoT and PS maxed so far. It's no kicksin (by which I mean it doesn't just breeze through everything pvm has to offer) but so far I'm not having any trouble progressing through the game. My past experience with building PS sins is that it gets somewhat difficult for them by the end of hell difficulty, so I'm going to stick with this character until I get through it to know what to change for a 1.11 rebuild (the build I'm playing now was planned was for 1.10, going to test out a few different setups before I rebuild again)

So far my build plan looks like this:

Skills and hotkeys:
1 Dragon Claw (always left click, method of charge release)
20 PS (s)
20 FoF (w)
20 CoT (e)
1 BoI (r)
1 Flight (a)
2+ Mindblast (d)
1 Cobra Strike (f)
1 Blade Fury (g)
1 Cloak of Shadows (z)
1 Venom (x)
1+ Fade (c)
4+ Shadow Master (v) (maybe 6+)
(note I am purposefully not getting Death Sentry as my kicksin tears monsters to shreds with it and I am looking to challenge myself, it owns pvm)

Equipment:
Shael'd Bartucs (actually using a glitched tucs for now cause I had one lying around >.>)
Jade talon /w res all jewel
Shako /w 15 ias jewel
Verdungo
3ma/20ias gloves
Gore Riders
Ravenfrost
BK ring
2MA/16fcr amulet

Undecided on final armor, I'm going to try Ormus to see if it's worth the damage increase, but the masteries don't work on all chargeup skills, only some of them. CoH would be the standard choice of armor otherwise.

Inventory: (standard pvm cube/tpbook/idbook setup on left side of inv) Torch/anni, 16% fhr, enough resists for 75 all, as many MA gc as there is room for, vita/ar/frw/mf random charms to fill any space.


Remember this character plan is a work in progress, so dont take it as a guide, some things might change depending on how it works at the end of hell difficulty, and I plan to rebuild this character around 1.11 stats. This is the route I am currently taking with this character based on my previous experiences with PS sins. If anyone has a high level PS constructed and has had a good amount of success with it, I would also appreciate advice on anything that I could change for the better.

[Jary]

I think he has the right idea... basically this build is about speed and +skillz, and the best execution pretty much has to be dragon claw. Either you can try to be the "Phoenix master" and go all charge-ups like he did, or just choose 2 to synergize that u use (like light and ice?), and throw more in claw block,shadow,claw, etc. Rest of your stuff is pretty good

[RussianKitten]

question is it really necessary to hot key all of the skills... becuase im more or less a causal gamer and i will be using several different chars at a time... and would it not be simpler to ad them to the F1's?

[wasonlp]

Yea i love Fhoenix Assa.

Mine PvM phoenix stuff:

--> Coh
--> Jade 2/2/50 + Bartuc Upped (both shaeled)
--> Chako (p.rubi)
--> ShadowDancers +2
--> Craft gloves: +2martial +20ias +10cb +3ll ...
--> Verdungo
--> Hilords
--> Raven20/24x + Bk

And skills:

20 PS
20 ligth sinergy
20 fire sinergy
20 claws mastery
10 cold sinery

With 4 skilles (+anni+torch), using the second charge on phoenix (ligth) + the 3 charges of the three sinergys i do 38ks máx dmg!!! (fishical+fire+cold+ligth+poison .... no one can be inmune !!!!)

Its a very funny assa, using cloak of shadows + shadow master you can clean all hell areas of the game :D

I hope i help you.

Cu ;)