good fun build

[SuperGayParade]

^ Phoenix Striker Assassin but with the Fists of Fire synergy instead of Blades of Ice. Reason? The Fire charge of Phoenix Strike (1st charge, the Meteor) does better damage overall than the 3rd charge (Ice spray thing). It's entirely possible to spam 1 charge Phoenix + normal Attack finisher to rapidly drop meteors on top of an area faster than a Sorceress is capable of.

Blades of Ice and the 3rd charge of Phoenix Strike are still useful even with no synergy investment for the chill and freeze effect if things get dicey. It's just that Fists of Fire will outperform it in terms of straight damage.

^--This

Fire is best damage output, stacking meteors, thunder is alternate attack for immunities, cold is for crowd-control. SO much fun.

[Skullbash]

Phoenix strike is the most fun pvm character in my opinion.

And it works surprisingly well, too, use the cold charge to freeze large groups of enemies, lightning charge to kill the mobs, and fire on the bosses.

Heh, come to think of it, I'm gonna go make one again

[wickedswami]

question: if you're going dual claw, and you attack with phoenix strike. Won't you automatically have 2 charges, skipping the meteor?
Or doesn't it work like that?

[zahtar]

be sure to check out the Aggresin!

http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=774219

It's a c/c assasin with no power ups, just chopping through monsters. In normal its easy to play /players 8 all the time, in nm I don't remember. In late nm and hell you'll be needing a bit better claws, in normal you can slice everything with normal claws (I mean white, non magical-rare-etc) and a few venom skill points.

This is the build that made the assasin my favourite char of the game by far!

thumbs up to maxicek