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Hi there and welcome to my first mat-thread.
I am planning at a Dancer (Kick/Trap-Sin) since my restart for an attempt at a lvl99 character. After I dropped a Gul and since I don't have stormlash, I decided to make Rift Runeword for her, a very fun dancer weapon. It is made in a caduceus instead of war scepter to enhance bladed shield damage. She was kinda parked in early hell, while I was mfing and anya shopping with my sorc to gather some nice equipment for her, hoping for the pretty standard equipments (gorerider, guillaumes, draculs etc).
And then I dropped this, a near perfect Medusa's Gaze:
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I simply had to use this strange shield, it seems so awesome for my hybrid assassin. I became enthousiastic and started to think what items I could use more for Krift and after some looking around at arreat summit and my stash, I decided to focus at CTC items and make one big fireworks character. Here is the result of items:
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Let's for fun sum up the CTC skills:
On attack:
-16% Frozen Orb lvl 21
On striking:
-20% Tornado lvl 16
-25% Venom lvl 15
-10% Holy Bolt lvl 3
When Struck:
-15% Poison Nova lvl15
-5% Fade lvl 15
-10% Lower Resist lvl7
-5% Blaze lvl8
-5% FoH lvl7
On Death:
-100% Nova lvl44
For my merc I choosed a prayer/insight merc since my leech was pretty low with infernostride and so I didnt have to worry about manaleech at all. He also used treachery and andy face to stay in theme.
Here are my stats on main switch, elemental damage is not shown at kick damage so you should add `160-250 magic damage, 94-252 firedamage, 15-45 cold damage, 2-76 light damage, 375 poison damage and lvl15 venom to each kick.
stats with Fade lvl15 and inventory
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As you can see I pumped a lot of dex, since I planned to go max block orignally but later gave up on that, also I added 10 to much str, so I could equip the shield before i had to wait for andy visage. I nicely reached the FHR breakpoint of 48. On switch my lightning sentries did 1-5312 damage.
Time for some interesting thoughts and information:
BladeShield All riftsin guides say that bladeshield works with ctc on attack skills, so that is awesome with rift, triggering free orbs. I have been trying to trigger FOrb in the blood moor for like 10 minutes, but it doesnt work, so in conclusion bladeshield is rly useless. Thanks all my poison charms, the listed shield damage is about 200. t trys to hit each 25 frames to targets within short range and uses AR of base attacks. After I found out that it doesnt work with Frozen Orb I stopped buffing it each 80 seconds. Another thought is that maybe bladed shield didnt work because I prebuffed it at switch with a + bladed shield claw without rift equiped and tryed to trigger forb at main without any points in bladed shield.
Rift It is indeed really awesome weapon with kicker. I tested with various psettings. At p1 it rly kills champions with forb alone. At p3 it weakens them so far that deathsentries finish the job with eas and also at p8 I rly noticed the forbs doing a big part of the damage. I can imagine that a dedicated build with nightwings veil and facets and maybe infinity will work great at p8.
Medusa Gaze I read at some guides that ctc when struck works when you block and some say that it doesnt work. I tryed to test it but with only 41% chance to block and all these low chance ctc skills it was rly hard to test and I cannot make a conclusion. I can say that medusa gaze is pretty awesome. In some situations all my ctc when stuck skills triggered. For example when ghouls were penetrating me with their attacks or when the WSK was filled with flayers. Also the hydra's of baal's 3rd wave guaranteed a lower resist trigger. As soon as lower resist triggered my killing speed quadruppeled. Frozen orb, lightning sentry and death sentry rly increased a lot in efficiency. Also the fight vs Baal (without any crushing blow) went suddenly much faster as soon as LR triggered. I havent been able to find anyone suggesting this shield for k/t assassin, but I do suggest it as an option for the poor man without infinity.
Infernostride These boots kinda suck haha. such low damage, it really made me sad. Upped Goreriders and a might merc are the way to go. I hope I drop them soon.
CTC-skills in generalAwesome! I loved all the fireworks at my screen and it is time to show it, so i clicked a few times at screen while fighting in wsk.
picture1 has blaze, poison nova, frozen orb, tornado and fade/venom.
picture 2 has lower resist, frozen orb, fist of heaven, blaze and fade/venom, finishing it at picture3 with another tornado and orb.
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Normally the screen would also show some death sentry's but I didnt cast them here to be able to give the ctc's a chance to trigger, before everything died.
Shadow Warrior: I did put 1 point in shadow warrior, trying to make him lay death sentries, while I was kicking with dtalon. It worked decently and I dont regret using the 2 skill points I needed to invest at him. I can still max out my lightning sentry synergies, finished at lvl 98. But this means I will have to go without fade/venom.
Some mistakes I made
-I thought Hel allways removed 20% requirements, so I wasted a hel rune instead of a jewel at my shield.
-I made my first treachery in a superior (15% durability) archon plate, it gave me insaaaane repair costs and I had to put the armor at my merc and make a new treachery armor, wasting a Lem rune. Good that I discovered this with such cheap RW. Does superior %ed armors also give increased repair costs?
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Future plans
In the near future I will put all the MF I can at Krift and she will farm NM cows for me with her lightning sentries. I rly could use some skillers and want to find that cow king set.
In the far far future I plan lvl 99 for her, I allmost have nothing of the equipment yet, but this is about the plan to do p8 baal runs with decent mf:
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Thanks for reading this massive post
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