Build:A/D Critical Scythe Assassin

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This build uses Critical Agility with critical strikes skills to deal high damage with a scythe.

Attributes and Skills

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• You can replace [[Wounding Strike@12] with [[Reaper's Sweep@12] for Condition heavy teams (where Malicious would normally trigger).

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Equipment

• Armor: Radiant, Nightstalker's or Survivor's. Rune of Clarity and the best Vigor Rune you can afford
• Weapon: Scythe with 15% damage while enchanted, Zealous or Vampiric mod and Fortitude. Eshekibeh's Scythe is perfect for Vampric, while Leilon's Vow is great for zealous.

Usage

• Maintain Way of the Master, Aura of Holy Might, and Critical Agility.
• Use Asuran Scan on the target before attacking.
• Spam Attack skills.
• If facing enchantment removal, use Way of the Master to cover the others. If you are facing heavy enchantment removal, either don't run this or run in with no enchantment on, and after the enemies use up their enchantment removal, put on either Critical Agility or Aura of Holy Might and begin attacking.

Counters

• Enchantment removal.
• Anti-melee.

Variants

• Sneak Attack inflict blindness to all targets struck by the attack.
• Critical Defenses for additional defense
• Critical Eye better energy management
• "I Am The Strongest!" greater damage
• Reap Impurities for damage and some healing
• Unseen Fury to make attacks unblockable (raise Shadow Arts to 6+1)

See Also

• Build:D/W Critical Scythe