[3.6] CoCPact - CoC Dark Pact Assassin - 35 casts/s - 5M Shaper DPS

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MildorDArkehn wrote:

Hey! Nice build, i will give it a try on synthesis. Probably cyclon dagger first and them upgrade to bow one, if i get enough currency.

Thanks a lot!

Hi, I am really glad that you like it :)

You can buy decent 6l bow without Cast On Crit for like 20-30c, and based on PoB it will still be solid 4M DPS even without 7link (when you simply drop Void Manipulation and replace it with Cast On Crit gem), so its not even that expensive (well, I would assume with just 6l bow and on small budget you might end up with like 2-3M DPS, what is basically comparable to cyclone and dagger version, without downside of having to be in melee range).

EDIT:

Let's use this reply also as update post.
Did some minor changes to bow build. Moved Blood Rage to CWDT setup to take advante of Arakaali for awesome leech, and leveled Ice Golem to 20.
This means that our crit is now 93% and hit chance is 94% what is pretty neat. And also with onslaught flask attack speed is exactly 3.
Also swapped for Herald of Agony back to HoI for nice explosions.
I also moved few nodes around and now we are at >6k HP what is decent (for assasin).

Updated PoB: https://pastebin.com/DLeUu9cM

So I was trying some other defensive options and I managed to add in MoM while still maintaining positive mana regen with Blood Rage active and also added Acrobatics and Phase Acrobatics on top of that.

I think this makes reasonably tanky version of this builds, but I kept also previous one in PoB, so now there are 2 trees:

- Glass Cannon
- Mind Over Matter

MoM tree still has 149k tooltip, what is still 5.3M DPS
Glass Cannon currently has 180k tooltip (after minion life adjustments) what is 6.5M DPS.

Updated PoB: https://pastebin.com/M6d3vuZX

Edit: Glass Cannon setup is definitely more reccomended for budget version, because then our damage is not scaled so well.

You are right, there are cheap 6l bows. How you summon skeletons now? totem or manually?

Can you post some videos please?

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MildorDArkehn wrote:

You are right, there are cheap 6l bows. How you summon skeletons now? totem or manually?

Can you post some videos please?

I am playing on Linux (what means my recording ability is quite limited because I hardly can keep stable 40 FPS :/ But I will try to take some GIF later) and my Synthesis character is atm only lvl 47 (I did not had so much time to play this league), but what I do for mapping (and currently just for leveling in general) is to socket Summon Skeletons into CoC setup instead of conc effect.

At bosses you swap back to conc effect and self-cast skeles from helm with From Dust what summons 3 at once (this requires 2 skele gems, one perma socketed in helm so your vaal charges are preserved so you can cast Vaal Summon Skeles on bosses and one in inv that you swap with conc effect).

I currently do not even bother with self-casting while leveling, CoC Summon Skellies is enough.

Until lvl 38 I just leveled using Toxic Rain and after I had sort of enough crit I swapped to 5l bow and CoC, what was not very smart choice tbh, I did it too soon.


For updates:
I asked around a bit in PoB Discord and they reccomended that I should not be using MoM with this setup at all, so I dropped it and took some QoL stuff and life instead and dropped Glass Cannon version completely as DPS is still quite high after not focusing on mana so much.

Here is updated PoB:
https://pastebin.com/8VWgZ47b

It's now using HoAg again, but now also with Withering Touch, what means more consistent boss fights and faster warmup times.

EDIT:

Here is some concept for using a bit more poison for better HoA and slight DPS increase (at cost of Opportunistic ascendancy, but with how high our crits are boost from it does not matter very much, even though culling strike is sort of nice). By switching ascendancy we get easy 100% crit and 93% effective crit (and 99% effective crit on Dark Pact) and also Main and decent Poison DPS (we can apply 0.6 * (36 + 6) poisons per second, so 25 poisons on enemy, 4.5k damage per poison, that is free 113k DPS, and with so much virulence on herald we get another like 40k more DPS for free).

Here is concept PoB for that ^ : https://pastebin.com/YyeMhsv8

So after more testing HoAg and poison is definitely way to go. I was missing some chaos damage to proc poison on Blast Rain, so I added that.

I also changed Blink Arrow to Phase Run that now also triggers Arcane Surge for some nice mana regen and damage boost. Why Phase Run instead of Flame Dash? Imo Phase Run instant cast is way nicer trigger for Arcane Surge, and the movement speed and more importantly mob invisibility is great (with perma summoned minions when we use Phase Run nearby mobs will simply start attacking skeletons, so this is sort of very nice defensive mechanic).

I also added Vaal Righteous Fire to empty gem slot and dropped golem completely as I reached max crit chance and lightning and ice golems are not doing anything anymore. I could maybe take chaos golem, but, best offense is good defense and Vaal RF boosts our DPS at bosses by quite a lot.

Here is updated PoB: https://pastebin.com/eRQr5F4L

It's not WIP anymore so I will also update main thread with it.

Updated main post:

- Added leveling section
- Added theory section
- Removed gear section for now
- Reworked rest of guide to fit new bow build and removed everything related to Cyclone

EDIT: Also added Gem Links section

I was messing around with mutliple versions of this build again and I came up with pretty decent hybrid life/ES version that is focusing more on ES leech and can also actually do no leech maps because of Poacher's Mark. I had to drop Phase Acrobatics and Acrobatics for it but as result I got 4k HP, 4.6k ES, 8.5k evasion and lost a bit of DPS (with this version it's close to 7M with Vaal Righteous Fire, but that is fine).

I also had to swap HoAg to Discipline to gain decent ES so I could boost my ES leech, what is probably not ideal.

I updated main thread with this hybrid alternative, but I plan to support both versions probably.

PoB link: https://pastebin.com/ka0q5MeX

Replaced Warlord's Mark with Poacher's Mark in life version as well as we are anyway capped on leech from Gloomfang.

This means that we can run no leech maps with life build too, yay!

EDIT: Another update!

Changed bow base to AS bow what easily brought my attack speed up to 3.7, what means that now we can do 42 Dark Pact casts/second instead of only 36, yay.

So I finally decided to upload simple video showcasing some basic gameplay. This is on my current low level thrash-tier gear setup (I basically have 4 linked Dark Pact in bow atm and very poor crit chance), but here it is:

https://streamable.com/kzfe4

Hey Dude , i am in LOVE with the idea of the build .. that's what i was looking for exactly ..

but your written guide is so lackluster for someone beginner-ish at the game ..! :(( wish it coulda been more detailed tho .. but i LOVE THE IDEA of the build


and til i can get a 6 link piece ! what do u recommend the main 4 links ? (keeping in mind that i don't have *Supported by Lv20 CoC*)

also , what's the passive tree progression tho ? through out the levels ? .and what (item stats) should i look for ? apart from (Life , Res) ?