Phoenix striker - what equip to use?

[JasonBriggs]

Hi, i am planning on making a phoenix striker assassin, i am unsure on what equipment to use though, it must be low budget but still very effective, here's what i've come up with:

Armor - treachery archon plate - Great runeword - +45% ias, +fhr, +2 assa skills, CTC fade and venom. What more does a claw assassin need?!?!?

Claws - I was thinking of two Up'd bartucs socketed with perfect skulls, for the leech, maybe a shael in each would be better? Or a perfect amethyst for the attack rating?

Boot's - Waterwalk's, OK boot's, not much better out there except the assassin one's.

Gloves - Bloodfist sound good to me, any better suggestions?

Belt - String of ear's look's like a good option for the ll and pdr.

Ring's - Ravenfrost for the CBF, and either manald heal or a dwarf star.

Helmet - Unsure here, maybe a kira's guardian for the +resistance's, the only other place that i'll be getting resistance's from is fade.

Amulet - don't have many amulet's at the moment, martial arts +3 sounds good to me ;D

Charms - Obviously a hellfire torch, low stats is what i'll be using. Some +all res charms if i have any luck rerolling in the next few days, some martial art's skiller's.

Merc

Holy freeze merc
helmet - vampire gaze
Armor - Eth stone armor
Weapon - Don't know, maybe obediance?

Would this equipment be good enough for hell? I'd have max resists, some pdr, a reasonable attack speed, some fhr, CBF, +9 to assassin skills and +11 to martial art's

[wizAdept]

I left some comments in this ps asn thread last week: http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=409701

Hope that helps.


After some further testing, I've concluded that ormus is just not worth the damage increase, so I'll be switching to CoH or enigma as my final choice of armor. Probably CoH since I'm having a slightly hard time making resists on BoS. Which leads me to my next point, fade is kind of a letdown for ps sins. Even when I used treachery, with up to 100 ias on the setups I've tested, it takes too long to build up all the charges, BoS makes things a lot quicker, (max chargeup speed on tucs/jade with 35% ias from gloves + helm) making for a deadlier pvm build, however there is the tradeoff losing the 15% dr and 60% res all fade would give.

So far I'm breezing through pvm (hell act 5) without any trouble, although the start of hell was a bit tough before my final equipment kicked in. Right now I'm level 77 and doing over 40k damage. :jig:

[wasonlp]

Hi, this is mine phoenix assa (pvm) wear:

--> CoH: +2all +65@res +8dr +20strg ...
--> Chako (perf ruby)
--> Jade (2/2/50) + Jade 2/2/50 or Jade 2/2/50 + Bartuc upped ((both shaeled)
--> Magic gloves +3martial+20ias or crafted: +2martial+20ias+10cb+dex...
--> Shadowdancers: +2shados +2xdex +30frh +frw.... !!!
--> Verdungo: 15dr +3xvita
--> Hilord
--> Raven 20/24x + Bk
--> Anni+Torch+some martial skillers

I use BoS (non fade), and i have 4x%DR, 75@res in hell (68@75light gith bartuc), and i make 38ks max dmg using the 3 sinergies + the second charge on phoenix!!!!

Cu