Yuan-ti Scale Mail from The Last Light Inn is good too. Medium armour that doesn't have a Dex cap. With 16/18 Dex, you've got 18/19 AC. As a bonus, it doesn't give disadvantage to stealth and also gives +1 initiative. Edit: I also like running Helmet of Arcane Acuity, personally, as it allows me to use my Bard slots after the initial burst for a nearly unsaveable Hold Person or something similar as a bonus action, with the Band of the Mystic Scoundrel. Helps with any stragglers.

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Also, there's this bow wich I don't remember it's name wich does extra damage based on STR modifier, if used in conjunction with the 23STR gloves from the house of hope, it can do crazy damage with this build! But... do you think that this makes more damage than if you take thief subclass for double bonus action and equip double hand crossbows? I discovered it in the early access and never could enjoy a different "assassin" build since then because I feel it's sub-optimal

@@TheSensei88 Titanstring Bow

@@CloudBreaker30 That one!

Jesus christ literally exactly what im doing

Same

I literally thought the same because I'm blazed as well i kinda questioned myself 😅

exactly same.

Not blazed, same.

Thank you! I tend to favor stealth or rogue type builds and playstyles when I play games, but I do intend on making some non rogue based build videos.

well you are awesome, and honestly there is enough variety for other stealth builds, too!@@Stealth_07

Stick to your name and make a stealth build for every class :P@@Stealth_07

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Yeah, I have that same gripe with other build videos, so I tried make it a point to keep video time under 15.

Thank you, means a lot!

Don't even need to be dark urge to do a solo run with this build tbh, its already so overkill for pretty much the whole game, that I was able to beat it while imposing massive restrictions on my solo tactician run. (No dark urge, no illithid powers, no consumables , and no exiting combat via invis/stealth to re-surprise enemies) and even with all those I still managed it with this build.

Hand crossbow thief is definitely better early game before you have a lot of additive damage dice from items that grant bonus d4's and d6's on your attacks to get doubled by crit damage so that assassin can start out performing it. Also the hand crossbow damage definitely more consistent if you arent surprising enemies to get the guaranteed crits. I just didn't go over it because I wanted to have as few respec's as possible for the build. Didn't want to have a like "Now at level X you respect to the same build but with assassin because you have access to X item thus making assassin deal more damage on average" or something like that.

Can you surprise enemies that start out attacking you? Like the Raphael fight for example. I really want to try the assassin crit build but I keep thinking not being able to surprise the real boss fights just takes out the juice of this build.@@Stealth_07

Yeah, i tried to find a good balance between super minmaxing and normal play for the build. Its why I dont mention certain items like the phalar aluve and drake glaive because if you wanted to full minmax you should use those and activate them before a fight and then equip your actual melee weapons since those weapon's buffs linger even after de-equipping them.

Yeah, I wanted to make a build not using thief (since every rogue build always uses thief). Though that being said I do have another build vid planned that does use thief.

Also, the paladin build is still being workshopped, the one you see is just 5 paladin (oath of vengeance) and 7 cleric (war priest)

Thanks!

Glad you liked it!

I tend to avoid doing super super minmax things like abusing effects that linger even after you unequip the item (not that im saying you shouldnt either, its a singleplayer game do what you want) so thats why i didnt include the drakethroat glaive. Something else you can do similarly is to cast the phalar aluve singing sword shriek beforehand because it also lingers through deequip. As for the horns of the berserker, i didnt know that so thatll be good to know for future build planning.

@@Stealth_07 I did a bit more research from reddit posts, and there are some items which stack with ranged weapon crits even though the description does not indicate they should. Ambusher shortsword from rivington general store and Dolor Amarus from Dolor apply their effects on ranged weapon attacks when the conditions are met.

The burst is simple, all you need to do is make sure the enemy is surprised by initiating an attack from stealth/invisible. By doing so you trigger your assassin passive from rogue which makes all attacks on surprised enemies a crit. Since you are a gloomstalker ranger you also gain bonus initiative ensuring you get the first turn (usually) they gain an attack that can be used for free but only on their first turn of combat. Finally the bard has slashing flourish (ranged) which allows you to hit 2 enemies simultaneously BUT you can target the same enemy twice with it which is bonkers! Now before a fight you want to use a bloodlust potion if you have one and with the full build you will also cast haste with the legendary bow then drink a potion of invisibility to sneak attack the enemy to surprise them. The invisibility isnt required to surprise, it just makes it easier if they can see you. Once combat is initiated just go to town with flourishes and the ranger attack all having guarenteed crits lol

Yep! The only thing I'd add is that crits double ALL DAMAGE DICE so any added d4's or d6's from your gear (as well as the extra d8 of damage from slashing flourish) ALL GET DOUBLED. In addition, the Brace skill from longbows and heavy crossbows essentially gives you advantage on ALL the damage rolls your bow attacks apply (including the crit damage rolls) so you will deal higher average damage.

Gloomstalker grants you enhanced darkvision

@@Stealth_07 thats true, but the invisibility on demand outside of combat is really strong. Enlarge is pretty nice bonus as well even though it is per long rest I think.

i literally cannot watch other people play if their hot bars are disorganized, I have a friend who doesn't organize his hotbar at all and he refuses to increase his bar above 2 rows and constantly drags the bar to find his skills and it drives me literally insane.

Thank you! I intend on making more build videos, but they take some time since in addition to editing and scripting them I also like to see how many (if any) people have made a similar build video before I commit to the idea. (Also real ones [the 150 people who saw the first video] know this is actually the second draft of this video, since I remade the first one because I wasn't happy with it.)

Thank You! Glad you liked the video! For my assassin's armor in the intro, I use the 'Black and Furnace Red Dye' on my Chest, Hood and Cloak, with the 'Harlequin Black and White Dye' on my gauntlets and shoes. For my Paladin's armor from the items section, its the 'Harlequin Black and White Dye' for all the armor, except the cloak, where I am using the 'Sinful Red on Bone White dye'

Glad you liked it! The armor is the just the rare tier Plate Armor +2 that you can buy from basically any vendor at lvl 11, the helmet is the Fierce Golden Helmet which is a common helmet you can pick up in the Mind Flayer Colony at the end of act 2, the gloves are the gauntlets of hill giant strength from the house of hope, and the boots are the speedy lightfeet from someplace in act 1 (i dont remember), and the cloak is the Cloak of the Weave from Helsik in the devils fee. This gear set is not good, I used it on my paladin character PURELY for the aesthetics. (the gauntlets are good the rest is not)

@@Stealth_07what’s the armor combination you’re wearing in the intro/dishonored bit??

perhaps that is going to be the build video coming next week ;)

Glad you like them!

Assuming you mean the armor set I use on my paladin in the items section. The gear, what dyes they have on them, and where to get them are as follows: Helm: Fierce Golden Helm, Harlequin Black and White Dye, Found in the Mind flayer colony in act 2 Cloak: Cloak of the Weave, Sinful Red on Bone White Dye, Bought from Helsik in the Devils Fee in act 3 Chest: Plate Armor +2, Harlequin Black and White Dye, Bought from almost any Act 3 Vendor after level 11 Gloves: Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength, Harlequin Black and White Dye, Archive in the House of Hope Act 3 Boots: Boots of Persistence, Harlequin Black and White Dye, Bought from Dammon in Act 3 Sword: Voss's Silver Sword, Bought from Voss in Act 3 This gear setup is not particularly good as the helm is common tier and the chest plate is just a generic rare item. The other items in the set are all decent, but I am just sacking better equipment for fashion (because as we all know fashion is the real most important stat) . You can easily run this setup on this build and be fine, (I did it with only 1 other character in my party the entire game, while using no illithid powers or consumables so youll be fine).

Yeah Bard is kinda just the strongest class in the game imo (maybe monk is stronger due to certain items available), the fact that Slashing Flourish does not only full damage but a bonus d8 (upgraded to a d10 if you have even more levels in bard) on top of that for each arrow is just like unparalled in damage dealing for any ranged build.

I tried Monk but it didn't seem to click. I know at later levels they shine but I was struggling to put out any respectable damage sooo......I made a 2 TC, 3 GO1 warlock, 7 OB paladin and went all in on Reverberation.

Yea, i kinda forgot about it since I dont actually use any of the consumables in my runs of the game, so from my perspective I forgot about the strength elixers when looking at damage numbers. (the run I tested this build on was a Solo Tactician, no consumable, no dark urge, no illithid power run) Its def the best option until you can get Gontr Mael if you are constantly using strength elixers.

​@@Stealth_07oh ya its a really cool build, I honestly ran something similar in a DnD campaign. Its really too bad we are limited to 12, kinda hope we get a dlc to up that

​@@Stealth_07i'm doing my solo playtrought, and i did use the club of Strength for all act 1, and i respect to 18 strenght in act 2, with the dex gloves and the potion of strenght from the drow in MT, and planing of using The gloves in HoH for strenght in act 3

I tried out a Titanstring bow build and as far as I can tell it does more damage than Gontr Mael. Enabled by taking the Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength in Act 3 on a final spec of Ranger 8/Rogue 4 to get Dex to 20.

@@AaronDaugherty If you are using the gauntlets of hill giant strength, then you are not using the craterflesh gloves, which means you are losing 2d6 force damage on each attack on your first turn.

Do you get the str bonus from the club while it's equipped, but the bow is in hand?

@@garyco766 Yes.