The Trapsin (Traps + Assassin) is about focusing all your skill points on Lightning Sentry and doing as much damage as possible. More specifically, you will be using Lightning Sentry in combination with Death Sentry to deal with lightning-immune monsters as well as taking large groups in seconds. Anyway, if you are playing an Assassin, your main build will likely consist of traps. Though, these builds can take a while to be fully utilized because you will need to find some hard BiS (Best in Slot) gear.ĭiablo 2 has been out for over 20 years, we all know what to expect by now. However, for some classes, certain builds excel at everything and there isn't much reason to divert from it.

Allowing both for Assassins would help substantially and would not make this underpowered build OP.Diablo 2 Resurrected has many different builds for the various classes. MAsins have to sacrifice offense (Burst of speed) to increase survivability to comparable to others (Fade). They also only get 3 life per vit and have no way to boost life.

They need both high str AND dex - a rare combination. They either specify swords/axes/maces or they require more than 3 sockets.Īnother issue is, as Kessig said, that MAsins are significantly more squishy than other meleers. Then combine that with the fact that most of the best runewords can’t be used in Claws.

Most other end-game weapons have base damage that is quite a bit higher. The highest base damage of a claw is the War Fist, at 53. It doesn’t really matter how much +%dmg you have if the base is low. The issue is that claws themselves give very mediocre base damage at best. Granted, most of that is from Dragon Claw and mastery should give a bit more. Max Dragon Claw and Claw Mastery equals over 600% claw damage. Someone has clearly never played a MAsin…

Diablo 2 dual claw assassin build