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Gameplay: Assassin

Key moments (lvl whise) with the Assassin:

 

  • Cold Plains WP - Lvl 2

  • Underground Passage - lvl 4

  • Forgotten Tower - lvl 6

  • Last Countess run - lvl 10.5 - 11 (Tir, Ral, Tal, Eth must have dropped untill that point for a good run)

  • Andariel - lvl 12-13

  • Duriel - lvl 17

  • Mephisto - lvl 19.8

  • Diablo - lvl 20

Next hit Delay: (Important to know!)

 

NHD is an effect some skill in the game have. When a monster gets hit by one of those spells they are "imune" to other skills with this effect for a certain amount of frames. The amount of frames differs between those skills.

 

'Wake of Fire' is the only relevant example for Speedruns. It gives the NHD effect for 4 frames (0.16 secs). To use 'Wake of Fire' as effitient as possible in bossfights you should keep up 2 of 'Wakes of Fire' and throw 'Fireblast's in between.

Generall gameplay:

 

  • lvl 2-12: Try always to pull together a few monsters. The more you hit with each 'Fireblast' the better. Against 'Countess' you want to use Strangling Potions or Javalins.

  • lvl 12+: Try to drop the 'Wake of Fire' traps and just run past most stuff. Only stop at bossgroups. They have a guaranteed item drop (Can be Money / Gems / Runes / Items) and 4 potions which save shopping trips.

  • For stronger enemies such as bossgroups / ancients: Throw out 2 'Wake of Fire' traps and throw 'Fireblast' (if possible) untill the traps expire. This will give you the maximum damage output you can do on a Monster.

  • Chaos Sanctuary: We start with 'Infector of Souls'. Pull him towards 'Lord de Seis' while damaging him. In most cases you will kill 'Infector of Souls' and 'Lord de Seis' together. Sometimes you have to pull 'Infector of Souls' towards 'Grand Vizier of Chaos'.

  • Ancients: Focus your traps on 'Madawc' untill he is dead. After that use the trick I show in this video. (It also shows how to use 'Wake of Fire' and 'Fireblast' most efficiently - NHD as mentioned above)

  • Fire imunes: 'Grand Vizier of Chaos' (Act 4 seal) and 'Colenzo the Annihilator' (Wave 1 just before 'Baal') are the only 2 fire imunes you have to kill. Use an act 3 cold mercenary for that. LaV calculated the damage output between the lvls here. Result: lvl 19 > 17 > 18. So try to avoid a lvl 18 if you can have 17 or 19.

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