Perfect Agony: Crit Poison Bladefall Assassin Build Guide

The assassin's poison build excels with enhanced ward mechanics and effective damage mitigation strategies.

### Perfect Agony: A Budget Assassin Build for Cast on Crit Poison Bladefall
* 🗡️  Welcome, Exiles, to my perfect **Agony cast on crit poison bladefall assassin** build, which I haven't made in over a year since my **hitless build for Sanctum**.
* 💥  The build is centered around the "**Perfect Agony**" Keystone, which received significant buffs this league, now applying **crit damage and crit multi to ailments at full value**.
* ⚔️  The offensive strategy focuses on **stacking percent fizz and chaos damage** while utilizing cluster jewels and the **Overwhelming Malice notable** for a reliable **100% uptime on Holy Might**.
* 🛡️  On the defensive side, the new Ward mechanic allows for **substantial damage absorption**, with a **5,000 Ward pool** and a reset time of just **2 seconds**, making it a **reliable barrier against high-damage hits**.
* 💎  The build also incorporates avoidance layers like block and evasion, achieving around **37% attack block** and **63% spell block**, which pairs well with the Ward for **enhanced survivability**.
* 🌿  To sustain health, the character uses life gain on hit mechanics, ensuring that when damage **bypasses the Ward**, there are still buffers in place to **recover**.
* 🛠️  Crafting gear is crucial for this build, with recommendations for creating a **high-quality Conquest Lamar** and utilizing dense fossils to **enhance defensive stats** while keeping costs **manageable**.
* 🎮  In gameplay, the character can effectively **face tank challenging content**, though it’s important to **manage the dangers of degeneration effects**, particularly in high-stakes encounters like **Uber X Arc**.

Poison Cast on Crit Bladefall Assassin

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Perfect Agony Cast on Crit Poison Bladefall Assassin

The build focuses on the Assassin class, leveraging the recent buff to the Perfect Agony Keystone for full crit damage and multi-apply to ailments.

It combines generic percent Fizz and Chaos stacking, along with cluster jewels and Overwhelming Malice, for a reliable damage and Wither on hit setup.

The build also utilizes the Ward mechanic for damage absorption, providing a significant defensive layer and consistent tanking for high-damage hits.

Optimizing Ward and Avoidance for Damage Mitigation

The Ward mechanic has a base reset time of two seconds, but with faster restoration rewards, it can be reduced to 0.

Pairing Ward with avoidance layers like block and evasion can help maintain its effectiveness, as blocking a hit does not disable the Ward.

Additionally, using gear pieces that offer evasion and energy shield can create a strong synergy, providing a reliable source of damage mitigation and increasing overall effective health pool.

Budget Assassin Build: Evasion and Energy Shield

The Jewels for the build provide roughly 600 energy shield and 2,000 evasion, costing around 2 divines for the set.

The character relies on a combination of evasion, energy shield, and lucky suppression for damage mitigation, aiming for a budget-friendly approach with a total investment of around 30 divines.

Grand Spectrums are used for minimum power and frenzy, while also investing in the block wheel for additional damage mitigation.

The character build aims for a maximum block of 68, using notable skills for block and endurance charge generation.

Defensive layers include Arctic Armor for damage reduction, Flesh and Stone for enemy DR, and a combination of auras for energy shield and freeze shock immunity.

Life sustain is achieved through life gain on hit, ES regen, and a life flask, while the character's biggest weakness is the shaper beam, which can bypass all defensive layers.

The character's gear was mostly crafted, with a focus on the Conquest Lamar as the most expensive piece.

It's recommended to look for a 28 quality base, with a breakpoint for pricing, and to use a split method to achieve a six-mod item.

Dense fossil spamming is suggested to reach at least 3K of both stats, with the option to use a tailoring orb for an 8% defense increase, but it may alter the links and break the item.

To craft a strong chest piece, aim for at least 3K defense mods using dense fossils and one-socket resonators.

After getting good defensive prefixes, use a previous camp be change and reforge physical for damage reduction, with a 1 in 5 chance to hit T1.

For the sword, buy a fracture of crit chance, crit multi, or attack speed, then use essence of zeal for attack speed and craft hits can't be evaded for added DPS.

The author recommends buying multiple Crusader or Shaper bases and using strength essences to craft an amethyst ring, aiming for life gain on hit and good resistances.

They suggest buying rare ward gear from trade, as there is a large supply due to players shipping to Calgar.

The author also shares their experience with crafting and buying gear, emphasizing the importance of getting the right strength for equipping a chest piece and offering alternative ways to achieve it.

The fight against Uber Xár involves managing minions that can inadvertently cause damage.

The ball phase is particularly stressful, requiring careful attention to avoid getting hit.

Despite the challenges, the character showcased good defensive capabilities and successfully completed all Ubers.