S-TIER BUILD ALERT - MOST BROKEN BUILD IN DIABLO 2 EVER - Martial Arts Elemental Assassin

[thegreatgario]

i'd like to call this a "christmas assassin" build, since she looks like a goddamn christmas tree when fully charged

[suneschmidt-hylleborg]

I just love this: Lama saying "if you hate it, I dont blame you"
Also Lama: smiling all over his face. 😂😀

[antonbystrom]

Finally! The day that LOD came out I started with a martial arts assasin and was blown away over how good she was at the low levels, 5 hours later I was lvl 28 and could not beat the ancients for the life of me, went to bed and havn't played martial arts since.

[stryfer]

Man... I've been playing dual claw Phoenix Strike assassin since the character was first released. I didn't care that she was off-meta, it was just a fun build to play. To see her grow into this absolute avatar of devastation makes me so happy! Hopefully the nerfs won't slam her into oblivion

[volarmis]

I really wanted to make a Hell-viable Dual Claw Assassin some day so this is good news. When I read about the runewords I didn't suspect they'd let those 50% chances on Mosaics stack additively, but here we are. I was sure they'd make it 2 x 50% check.

[BananaTwazzler]

After all these years, I’ve never seen any of those finishing moves before lol

[williamwhitcher]

i hope when they nerf this they dont destroy it completely. always wanted this skill tree to actually work well

[ronr]

FYI, was watching Ginger Gaming Mentor test Assassin builds with dual Mosaic claws, and the game was freezing when dropping repetitive Meteor charges from Phoenix Strike on Uber Diablo. Not an issue on Hell Players 8, but the extra life of the Uber D-Clone was causing a rediculous amount of meteors to fall and was locking up the game.

[VanTemplar]

I hope they will provide such love for the Barbarian in the next patch. And for all melee characters in general

[djagentorange]

Ginger mentor did some pretty extensive testing - NHD really messed with claws of thunder, especially if you use it with PS chain lightning. Ideal seems to be 3 Blades of Ice, 2PS, 3Cobra/Tiger charges. FoF messes with leech converts phys to fire), so likely want to avoid charges on that too.

[VanTemplar]

Just rolled Mosaic on single player, so I can confirm it works. It seems this time they brought everything related to the new season to single player as well! Which is awesome!!!

[Pharisaeus]

Interesting thing is that you don't really need high end gear like Enigma. You can use Dragon Flight to teleport around for the most part, and it keeps refreshing your charges as well. For bosses/ubers I suspect Tiger Strike will be instant kill (8 kicks with 3rd charge of tiger strike lvl 40+ along with some crushing blow are hundreds of thousands of dmg).
I suspect the charge management, especially for phoenix strike, will be a pain, especially if you overcharge.

[samsonrings]

Finally a new character after 20 years. Thanks blizzard.

[foreverthefool]

This is awesome but will most likely be nerfed hard - This is the "Vampire Survivors" build

[Rencol]

This is the most expensive build in game, because you need to dual wield RTX 4090 for it to work

[PoxikFrostbite]

We're all gonna be kung fu fighting

[amazingcalvin]

Inspired by Llama's Hell guided playthrough on a MA assassin, I attempted to finish Hell myself with the same Phoenix strike build. Took me about 3 weeks to finish it with budget items. Because I don't have D2 Resurrected, I did it all in my old 1.13 version where I have none of the new runewords or the charges consume buff to phoenix strike. Just the fact that I finished hell with budget gear and MA assassin in the old version of the game was enough to make me feel proud, since I am not a veteran Diablo 2 player.

My items were Smoke Armor, Chromatic circlet with socketed PDiamond, Rhyme shield, a magic 28 fire rest plated belt, a magic 20 frw and poison resist boots, rare gloves with 10 IAS and cold and poison res, angelics amulet and ring. My weapon was malice claw for mobs and strength claw for bosses. My merc was holy freeze with tal's mask, lionheart armor and honor thresher for mobs and strength thresher for bosses. My inventory was full with life or resist charms. It's insane how much of a glass cannon she is. She dies very easily even on level 83 with 1360 health but also deals so much elemental damage that baal went down in 2 minutes. Most of my time in the baal fight was going back to town for potions, despawning his clone or death from festering appendages rather than the actual fight.

[Voicelet]

Honestly I'm glad we get more S tier, and every class should have at least one build at this level.

[MrRager]

Im starting this build tomorrow. Also the smile u got when all those meteors came down, was like a kid on christmas

[SixStringJournal]

I'm so hyped!! I've always played as a martial arts assassin even when she was considered a C tier. I definitely feel like I have a good advantage after all these years and trial/error 😉. Super excited to try these new runes and strategies 👌