Naginata Assassin

[Lynderika]

Naginata Assassin complete guide


Updated for 1.7 after playing through it ! Everything outside of maybe enhanced weapon damage values or some minor things should be gud

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Links
Basics : Skills - Stats - Breakpoints
Complete Walkthrough and Gear : Normal to Hell - Endquest
Bonus : Crafting - Mercenary - d2stats set up - Afterword

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Naginata build have been sullied for years, considered at best too hard and skill switchy, at worst pure suicide, and most of the time both. To nearly all players she looks like some pityful creature that get one shotted and can't do anything without proper gear.
As someone autistic enough to play this build since sigma 1.0, muliple time, because it's my favorite by far, always solo self found, I will tell you the truth after starting 1.6 with yet another one : SHE STRONK.


Well I do agree that 1.0 were hard times, and understand perfectly her reputation. But after some very juicy buffs, especially 1.6 ones, she now is coming strong and definitly do not deserve that. The true piece in most people prejudgment is simultaneously my favorite part of nagisin and the point they can't get into ; There, indeed, is a lot of skills to use and know when to do so. You can't just spam the same skill from afar for the whole game and/or facetank everything, and have to choose them efficiently. This is a very active playstyle, meaning most death you will have often are errors in decision making or not reacting fast enough. If like me you like it that way, welcome, take your time in there.
As said Assassin have lots of tools. Apparently some call this build "piano sin" because of how many skills you have to use and switch to constently. I have good news for you : It's even worse than you think ! And by that I mean good ! This versatility is very satisfying, and while Naginata Assassin is nor the fastest farmer nor boss killer, she can do both exteremely well without respec, and clear every ubers on Solo Self Found gear. It does take some preparations and carefulness in some part, but by taking it slowly there's no real « wall » Nagi have to face, outside of very high lab of course (T13 onward is big rip for me). I'd even say she's hardcore viable, and I am completly serious.

I ended recording the entierety of my 1.6 SSF playthrough, so if you want to see anything, feel free to check whatever of the nearly 60h of content I uploaded (lol). It was a cool and fun run, it have some ugly part of course but I still loved playing it.


Anyway let's see what thoses tool are first, then in the walkthrough part I'll share my experiences, with videos, explanations, and gear recommandations.



SKILLS
What make assassin's skillplan interesting is that there is no lock. Unlike most others characters, we are free to put our points between every trees and we sure will.

Complete list of every useful skills and build details

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Innate skill

Bloodbath
Buff that need a melee swing to proc, give life on kill bonus for 10 seconds. (only...)

Throwing knife Tree

  Broadside
Basically our strongest and most impressive skill. Launch a barrage of knifes at 90% weapon damage. It's safe, doesn't have that long of a cd (7 seconds when maxed) and will DESTROY both bosses and packs. Skill is so strong you can do lots of content with only this ; Just watch it go brrrr and wait for it's cd to come again, and repeat. Well it's not optimal to just wait so let's use other things too
MAX

Naginata Tree

Backstab
Naginata soul, important enough to made me put it in my left clic. At level 1, the skill count as a big attack (200% weapon damage) that give 100% avoid, and bonus magic damage to broadside for 0.1 second, i.e 3 frames.
The cooldown and cloak duration increase with hard points (points invested in the skill without taking account of +skills). We want to increase it to have more control of the invulnerability, and to take profit of the absurd magic damage bonus it give to broadside. How much is a matter of preference, too low is unconfortable to play and too high not worth the points investement. each seconds giving 1 second cd, so I personally like putting 8, just enough to be the duration of maxed broadside, so they can be toegether and live happily, while having a long enough immunity to use the skill defensively very well. So if you have « broadside cooldown reduction », putting less points is even better. More than 7 is just to show off and rekt bosses harder in a single broadside and brag to your friend how you can one shot x with one broadside>backstab only, but it's not worth in the long run.
8 points

Shadow Refuge
Buff Similar to bloodbath but actually give good stats. %physical resistance and movement speed are always good things to have. Nobody know what the  "physical damage" part is referring to tho, as the attack itself doesn't look like it hurt.
Early game (until ~120) put your remaining points here, around 10. Then one is enough, +skills level from gears and charm will take care of it.

Barrier Strike
One of my favorite skill and also why I picked up Naginata originally, at the start of sigma. This skill is in median since very long and I have lots of good memories with it. Anyway it's another melee attack, that surround you in shurikens, blocking most ennemies and dealing 100% weapon damage. In some situations just doing one barrier strike can change everyting defensivly. It also is a good hit and run option, and can create space, all the while doing a lots of damage especially in dense places. The goal is not to spam it tho, but to know where and when it's the most useful and get it. Well it's not... That important in reality, and you can choose to not use it much, but you'll make me sad.
1 point

 Laserblade
Passive that give bonus %total character defense and magic damage on weapon depending on base dexterity. By far the best passive we have.
Max until ~120, then all your remaning points.

  Hades Gate
Targeting an enemy corpse with this skill will make you teleport to it(or at least close to), then does 110% weapon damage to the whole screen. Once buffed with bloodbath, Hades Gates cd is reduced by 4 seconds and become the main "spam" skill you use when farming very dense places, the more thing there's on screen the better. As one of our only non melee attack, and the fact that you can move a lot make Hades Gates usually pretty safe, unless it decide to tp you not where you clicked but in the middle of the pack instead because the skill is dumb dumb if there's lots of corpses, and bloodbath decide to end right there. Good luck then !
Exactly 5 points to have no cd when buffed

Martial Tree

  Blink
Low cd teleport skill. As a bonus it stuns ennemies in a little zone around you but don't belive in that too much. Putting 6 points make 3 second cd, if you're lazy or don't belive in this spell 2 points for 4 seconds is often enough, if you're autistic and want to push to 2 seconds you'll need 19 points. And if you push to 32 points you can have 1.8 seconds ! wow ! (don't)
6 points (1 when you get teleport from charm, it's a 3 sec cooldown tp given freely)

  Way of the spider
Ways are passive that grant elemental damage to the weapon, they are strong if you max them, and absolutly useless if you put anything between 1 and your max point. For a long time I were convinced spider is the strongest for early. After all you're doing 200% area weapon damage with backstab, and 110% on the whole screen with Hades Gate, heavy weapon poison damage in theses conditions is super satisfying and clean up really good, right? It's true my friend, but my experiences show forgetting this skill entierly and putting everything in laserblade is about 10 time better, even for leveling. So adios, I'm boycotting this now. Can be maxed in late game for pure farming purpose, either in an "elemental" set up with every way maxed, or alone with poison pierce gear.
1 point

  Queen of blades
Seemingly useful buff that launch autmatically shurinken to enemies, it does weapon damage and proc "on striking" bonus you might have. It's cool but not worth investing into. Keep it activated as it give free 15% IAS, it's not written anywhere but eh, trust d2stats and practice not the game tips.
1 point

  Way of the Phoenix
Fire way, it's cool and all but we don't have enough points for him.
1 point

   Perfect being
Give passivly high avoid chance, mendatory skill that give Assassin a chance to live. If you are lucky.
MAX but not quite : Every 4 levels, giving a +1 will grant you absolutly nothing, so if your max skill level is 21 for exemple you want to stop at 20 since the 21th point will be useless. You may think of your future and put it anyway but don't be surprised if your dodge chance doesn't move.

Reward Tree

Prismatic Cloak
Our second survival passive, reduce every incoming magic/elemental damage. Increased while bloodbath is active (around +40% bonus), and a little bit of max % life. Very cool
MAX

Way of the Gryphon
Strongest way by far after unlocking it since it require less points than the others -about half the points compared to way of the spider- to make even more damage. Simple. In the case you still want to invest in spider only for some reasons, forget this one and put a point in beacon(other reward skill) instead for the free movement speed it give.
MAX

Vampiric icon
Pretty underestimated skill, it's a spell you can use from afar, and putting it in the middle of an enemy pack will most of the time instantly regen all you life. It's kinda tricky and the regen depend on how much the enemies "allow" life leech, so it's not useful against most bosses, and in rifts it's better to just attack... but still useful, I swear...
1 point, or 0 if you see you never use it. Miss something like "give bloobath upon killing something insode the icon" or something to maybe make it worthwhile.

TRAP TREE

Subterfuge
We want this for the bonus max cold and fire resist.
It does say : "only allow trap, melee, summoning and buff/debuff skills", but I am happy to announce that Broadside is not a projectile skill since you're using a melee weapon (4head) and Vampiric Icon not a spell. What, does the game say otherwhise or something? (it's was done so trapsin can use it I'm aware don't worry)
Absolutly nothing change for us. After testing a lot, the only change I saw is that batstrike 2nd use, familiar summoning, does nothing. It's not a reference telling they're so bad they are not considered summonings, it's just that the passive only allow Edryem summon. (you get this summon in a lvl 120 quest)
Give +1 max res with 1 point, +2 with 4 and +3 with 8. Putting 8 may feel like going too far but it depend on how much you value max res. I do. A lot. Especially since it's fire and cold ; They are very common damages in Median, the two best elemental resists to have for sure.
8 points

Wait did I say batstrike? eheh it's coming

CLAW TREE

Crucify
Versatile attack you can spam freely early on. Strong in normal but get more and more useless as time go on.
1 point, can be 0 later

Batstrike
Ok hear me out, you can use batstrike with a naginata. The skill work like a lot of martial art skills from original diablo 2, you have to "charge" up to 3 attacks, and then release it with a basic attack. The 1st is pretty useless, does some sort of weak nova, 2nd is familiar summon, they are litteraly trash and will die fast so it's useless. But the 3rd, Coup de Grace, does a lot of single target damage, as it release a lot of spike in a little area, each of them having 200% weapon damage.
To use it it's very simple : you switch weapon to a claw, charge, switch back, and keep it as much as you want, then release it with a basic attack whenever you want. Only simple "attack" work, so you can't unleach it accidentaly unless you're out of mana

So, em, did we just add two new hotkey to use -batstrike + basic attack- AND the use of weapon swap to the legendary piano sin? -yes
It's very strong in normal, then, after just a little bit of skill level, Broadside does way more single target damage and is stronger overall, but Coup de Grace has it's uses. Most important is that you can control exactly what it does while Broadside will just target everyting in it's range stupidly. This control is useful in some ubers. I also just like to come against bosses with charged batstrike for a little bonus. This skill is very satisfying to use since it's kinda « assassin-like ». But is it really strong or game changing? absolutly not lol. It were before, but now broadside is so strong this skill doesn't shine. Hardest part in this is that neither the claw attack or coup de grace leech at all, so it's very hard to charge freely (claw attack litteraly is basic attack that do nothing and coup de grace damage is all converted to magic, only physical damage leech). Not to mention the awkward weapon swapping, or bosses high dodge chance/block(both charging and releasing doesn't work if the attack doesn't hit, so even the boss just moving away from us is enough to make it miss, kinda ridiculous situation. Good point is that playing around it make you physically feel the importance of attack rating), the fact that they will just tp out of the skill way before they take all the damage...
So this "bug exploit" is absolutly not unbalanced and not a problem in my opinion, actually it suit nagisin very well -way more than claw builds where nobody use this skill- and hope it will never get corrected.
1 point, or 0 if you see you never use it

TLDR skill so bad that even a naginata insane base damage can't save it outside of some really specific situations -Thoses being mostly astrogha, and a little bit of void-, and most of the thing you'll see me one shot later also go down in a single whirlpool all the same, I just love using it so let me.

Interesting Oskill List

Whirlpool From

Leather of Aut

Leather of Aut
Hard Leather Armor (4)
Defense: (66 - 75) to (132 - 151)
Required Level: 2
Required Strength: 25
Item Level: 4
+(2 to 4) to Whirlpool
+(18 to 35)% Enhanced Defense
(3 to 5)% to Strength
(3 to 5)% to Dexterity
(3 to 5)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (11 to 20)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (267 - 297) to (449 - 500)
Required Level: 19
Required Strength: 37
Item Level: 22
+(5 to 8) to Whirlpool
+(52 to 69)% Enhanced Defense
(9 to 11)% to Strength
(9 to 11)% to Dexterity
(9 to 11)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (21 to 30)%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (701 - 761) to (1131 - 1228)
Required Level: 37
Required Strength: 78
Item Level: 43
+(9 to 12) to Whirlpool
+(87 to 103)% Enhanced Defense
(15 to 17)% to Strength
(15 to 17)% to Dexterity
(15 to 17)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (31 to 40)%
Socketed (5)
Defense: (1052 - 1135) to (1691 - 1823)
Required Level: 45
Required Strength: 160
Item Level: 75
+(13 to 16) to Whirlpool
+(104 to 120)% Enhanced Defense
(18 to 20)% to Strength
(18 to 20)% to Dexterity
(18 to 20)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (41 to 50)%
Socketed (6)

and crafted boots
Now we talk, this skill alone solve every of our problems. It help for both farming faster in places hades gates is not strong enough -also to create corpses- and for bosses when broadside is on cd. It's 10 time better than crucify, more consistent than coup de grace since it leech a lot and do about the same damage on an ennemy staying inside the whole time, with no need to put ourselves at risk with some charging. It's just too good. The only oskill i'd say is mendatory. Beware though, this is not supposed to become your main skill, it's there to support what we already have, dropping one sometime every few seconds is what feel the best from my experience.

Shunpo / Pounce From crafted Naginata and

Storm Blade

Storm Blade
Naginata (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 378 to (651 - 750)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 125
Required Dexterity: 548
Item Level: 130
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired)
Area Effect Attack
10% Chance to cast level 13 Javelin Nova on Kill
100% Hit Recovery
+200% Enhanced Damage
+(201 to 300) to Maximum Damage
-50% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-50% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
-50% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(3 to 9) to Pounce
40% to Dexterity
50% Magic Find
-5 to Light Radius
Socketed (6)

respectively
Interesting as a movement skill, make you pounce at ennemies without cd. It's cool to rush though zones, farm trophies or just tp in and still keep blink defensively. Having a shunpo nagi at hand is useful, but I don't use it on my main weapon usually, since having the skill with actual decent damage is pure miracle, and even then I'm not convinced « losing » an affixe to get this is worth. I recommand making a second nagi that have it, and use it situationnaly. If you want to, farming with shunpo can work. It's kinda lacking alone as it have about half the damage of hades gates and a smaller area but it go well with whirlpool, it's pretty satisfying to just move from pack to pack and let whirlpool do the job. But we're not some kind of spear amazon so let's forget that.

Bloodlust From crafted Claw
Give +weapon damage for 1--2+ min buff depending on your +skills level, not insane but it can be putted on the swap weapon claw without any investement, it's a cool free little bonus.

Thunderslam From

Rahab

Rahab
Assassin Shields
'Fal'
Runeword Level: 41
10% Chance to cast level 4 Arcane Torrent on Melee Attack
(2 to 4)% Life stolen per Hit
+(1 to 4) to Thunder Slam
+(30 to 57)% Enhanced Defense
+15 to Strength
+15 to Dexterity

Barbarian skill that stun the whole screen, make batstrike charging easy but that's about it. I make it early, put it on swap then quickly throw it usually.

/ Firedanse and Rapture , both from

Lataif-as-Sitta

Lataif-as-Sitta
Assassin Naginatas
'Ghal'
Runeword Level: 100
+25 Spell Focus
+6 to Assassin Skill Levels
50% Attack Speed
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
+(101 to 150) to Maximum Damage
+120% Damage to Demons
+(11 to 16) to Rapture
+(11 to 16) to Firedance

Bonuses depend on how many +skills level you have, here's some stats still :
Level 32 firedanse give 232 enhanced weapon damage in a zone around you, useful against bosses that stay in a small area
Level 30 Rapture give 75% movement speed for 10 second, it's very short but still useful in empty walking moments. +skills only add movement speed, never duration sadly.
This runeword make a not that bad and super easy to make endgame weapon swap, your choice there.

Charged Strike From

The Endless Loop

The Endless Loop
Light Belt (Sacred)
Defense: 1101 to 1143
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 490
Item Level: 105
40% Combat Speeds
+(10 to 19) to Charged Strike
Slow Target 10%
+50 to all Attributes
+50 Life Regenerated per Second
+(0 to 1) Mana on Striking
Socketed (2)

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Akarat's Trek

Akarat's Trek
Light Plated Boots (Sacred)
Defense: (1960 - 2352) to (2170 - 2604)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 561
Item Level: 120
2% Chance to cast level 30 Thunder Hammer Nova on Melee Attack
2% Chance to cast level 30 Thunder Wave on Melee Attack
2% Chance to cast level 30 Hammertime on Melee Attack
(0 to 40)% Movement Speed
+(15 to 20) to Charged Strike
Enhanced Weapon Damage +(60 to 90)%
+(150 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
10% to All Attributes
+10 to Light Radius
Socketed (4)

or a rare amulet.
Originally we only want The Endless Loop for it's stats and easy availability, and get this skill in the process. An attack that release weapon damage charged bolt behind it, very simple. Useful but not mendatory in some ubers, basically it have the same uses as batstrike ; small area -or at least a spread we can control- damage for single target uses.


About ATMG : from

Shamo (Xis)

Shamo
Assassin Naginatas
'IoXis'
Runeword Level: 120
20% Chance to cast level 41 Fowl Fight on Melee Attack
80% Attack Speed
+143% Enhanced Damage
+125 to Maximum Damage
+(21 to 30) to ATMG Sentry
5% to Dexterity
+99 to Strength
+99 to Dexterity
Cannot be Unsocketed

or

Battle Devices

Battle Devices
(Assassin Oskill Set)

Eye of Wisdom
Death Magnet

Set Bonus with complete set:
ATMG Sentry: +20 Magic Damage per Level
+40% to Summoned Minion Resistances

. I see some people using atmg with claw recently. It made me remember very old time, were I didn't even know you could use broadside with a Naginata, I did my first ever Quov Tsin clear with this skill because I couldn't go melee against him. The skill... probably have it's use even now, in some places. But are theses items worth only for that? Absolutly not. Playing around claw is way better for ATMG, and we have no ubers difficult enough to make us want it. Not to mention it doesn't work with subterfuge, booooo

About relics : They drop way too rarely and you'll probably end up with some useless summon or spell that you can't even try because of subterfuge. I dropped 6 this season, do you think any of thoses were useful at all? Of course not, what the hell do I do with avalanche ??? Erm, if you want to know the ones that might interest us are oskill found in there, especially

Relic (Whirlpool)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
+(401 to 500) to Attack Rating
+(5 to 9) to Whirlpool

so we can put better boots.

Relic (Broadside)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
3% Deadly Strike
+(11 to 20) to Broadside

is insane, give both more broadside damage and deadly strike (+3 to broadside is what is given since we already have the skill, but it's still big). Buff/debuff like

Relic (Dark Power)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
15% Bonus to Buff/Debuff/Cold Skill Duration
+(6 to 11) to Dark Power

or

Relic (Miasma)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
50% Bonus to Miasma Haunt Duration
+(8 to 17) to Miasma

are useful and can make good things to put on swap.

Relic (Overpower)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
Mega Impact
+(3 to 7) to Overpower

give mega impact passive, which is one of our only way to decrease physical resist of things, with

Relic (Colosseum)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
20% Hit Recovery
+(4 to 8) to Colosseum

, look really good too, a nice curse.

Relic (Unholy Armor)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
+(2 to 5) to Unholy Armor
6% to Vitality

give immunity for a few seconds, with backstab it may be ridiculous. Some others give skill nobody care but cool bonus, like

Relic (Wychwind)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
+1 to Assassin Skill Levels
+(9 to 17) to Wychwind

and

Relic (Orb of Annihilation)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
+1 to All Skills
+(5 to 10) to Orb of Annihilation

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Relic (Wraith Arrow)

Cornerstone of the World
Relic
Required Level: 120
Can be Inserted into Socketed Items
+(8 to 16) to Wraith Arrow
8% to Dexterity

, or things that give +2 max resist. That's about it I think.

Trivia : -In game tip of backstab say it give "immunity" during cloacking time, but is in practice 100% avoid. This is slightly different since "charges attacks"(the thing when enemies charge and do a crushing blow animation) bypass avoid entierly and will hit. Noticably some bats, snakes, and Fallen Hero are concerned. It's not really a problem and no rifts are concerned but it's cool to know.
-Broadside has a bug ; if you're put into "stuck" animation during it's cast, the spell will go, but the game consider it was concelled and his cd still up, so you can put 2 broadside next to each others. The first one will do no damage though of course
-Broadside attack speed always is the same, but since each skill level add 2 knifes, it's duration increase. After putting

Zular Khan's Tempest

Zular Khan's Tempest
Halberd (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 71 to 100
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 105
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
10% Chance to cast level 1 Stormpike on Striking
Broadside Cooldown Reduced by 3 seconds
Adds 250-500 fire damage
Adds 250-500 lightning damage
-50% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-50% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Phoenix (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Gryphon (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Spider (Assassin Only)
+(51 to 100) Life after each Kill
Socketed (6)

, to have 4 second cd, I could test that to have it's duration exactly the same as it's cd, broadside need to launch 104 knifes, witch is level 42. So broadside launch around 26 knifes per second, and if you want an infinite broadside with a normal 7 sec cd, you'll need 182 knifes, so... 81 skill level. Good luck with that ! That's all estimations don't take the number as pure science, but it's about that.

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Afterword :

As you can imagine with that many skill, personnal preferences come a lot, and is one of the strong point of the build, in my opinion.
That's why just explaining the playstyle here is not optimal, and the reason I'll try to put the most videos I can in the walkthrough section. The basic idea that bosses are broadside spam and rifts hades gates spam work, so in theory it's simple. But we can do better than that. Way better.
The skillplan and way of playing I'm presenting here is my favorite way of approaching this character, and what I think work the best in an Solo Self Found play overall.

TLDR

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My recommanded base set up  : (9 points in backstab were 1.6 values, now 8 points is the best)
For leveling :

Level 120 : Transfer shadow refuge points to new "+ maximum skill level" needs, should look like this :

My favorite set up there, can do all content nicely, fun to play, no problems only gaming

End game pure farming (mostly fauztinville) possible sets up (optional)  :
Hybrid set up : Originally centered around

Zular Khan's Tempest

Zular Khan's Tempest
Halberd (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 71 to 100
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 105
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
10% Chance to cast level 1 Stormpike on Striking
Broadside Cooldown Reduced by 3 seconds
Adds 250-500 fire damage
Adds 250-500 lightning damage
-50% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-50% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Phoenix (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Gryphon (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Spider (Assassin Only)
+(51 to 100) Life after each Kill
Socketed (6)

but work well even without it, very simple : you remove some defensive passives (7 from subterfuge and the rest from perfect being), to max way of the Phoenix and laserblade. It's litteraly trading tankyness for damage and faster clear when you feel at ease in there, simple and straightforward, I like it. Also if you have Zular Khan, having only 5 points in backstab is perfect.
Elemental set up : remove your broadside, backstab and defensive passive points to put everything in every ways and Laserblade, and just clear everything with Hades Gates spam, or Shunpo/Pounce even why not. Straightforward but not to my liking, not having broadside make you lose too much efficiency and fun to not get much, if not nothing at all even with a good gear and enough elemental pierce. Showcase (ty Controlledanger)
Poison set up : Search for poison and elemental pierce in gear to get to 135%, max way of the spider. Optionnal : remove way of the gryphon points to put one in Beacon (+50% movement speed). This set up work well even with next to no gear(outside of pierce of course, that's mendatory) and become pretty fast with investement, work well in fauzt and make duncraig pretty smooth. I like Hybrid set up way more, but feel free to try if you like poison. Shunpo poison showcase (ty Acry )

May look like a lot of information to take, but basically if you play it like me we only need 2 respec for the whole game, so no belladonna needed. One to remove shadow refuge points at 120 and one to remove blink points after getting teleport skill from void charm, to get to the "Hybrid set up" and farm fauzt until lvl 140.
Ok I lied, you might want more respec later because Laz, Samael and Lab all demand specific set ups. But it's so late into the game(litteraly the last 3 quests) you'll get all the bellas in the world by now. And that's if you even want to do theses contents.

Stats

Straightforward : enough strength for gear, and max dex. The more base dex you have, the happier Laserblade will be, so get the more str you can from gear and charm. Ideally no base points should go there.


Breakpoints

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IAS (attack speed)
-Naginata - base attack duration (with 0 IAS) : 14 frames
Needed IAS for executing 9-8-7 frames attack : 54-89-163
-Halberd - base attack duration : 12 frames
Needed IAS for executing 9-8-7 frames attack : 35-63-117
-Claw - 35 is enough to be maxed (5 frames)

Hit recovery 
-Overall- 27-48-86-200 (min 3 frames)

Cast speed
-Naginata/Halberd - 56-92-163 (min 8)
-Claw - 40-75-162 (min 6)

Simply put Halberd have better base attack speed but both Naginata and Halberd end up with 7 frame animation. As nagi have better base damage, you always want to stay with it in the end. Claw have faster casting than the others so it may be useful to cast things/summon edryem with it in very rare situations.


Walkthrough

Early game

Gear

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Start :
Gambeled Halberd → following runewords on bought grey items :

Rainbow

Rainbow
Belts
'Eth'
Runeword Level: 15
+3 to Maximum Damage
+3% to Spell Damage
+(6 to 10)% to Summoned Minion Resistances
Elemental Resists +(16 to 20)%
(6 to 8)% Magic Find
+2 to Light Radius

and

Rebel

Rebel
Body Armors
'El'
Runeword Level: 11
Enhanced Weapon Damage +(4 to 6)%
+(12 to 23)% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Strength
+20 to Dexterity
-10 to Vitality
-10 to Energy
Elemental Resists +(16 to 20)%
+1 to Light Radius

for resists,

Epicenter

Epicenter
Boots
'Ith'
Runeword Level: 15
0.0625% Chance of Crushing Blow (Based on Character Level)
+(14 to 25)% Enhanced Defense
Maximum Life (11 to 15)%

, and most importantly

Shark

Shark
Weapons
'Tal'
Runeword Level: 17
5% Chance to cast level 9 Bloodlust on Kill
+(7 to 9)% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
20% Attack Speed
+(24 to 35)% Enhanced Damage
+0.125 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+5 to all Attributes
-1 to Mana

on your best nagi/halberd, that's it for now !

Rest of the game until endquest :
--- After getting some arcane crystals, you want to craft thoses tiered unique in this order :

Na-Krul's Spine

Na-Krul's Spine
Naginata (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (22 - 25) to (29 - 36)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 6
Required Dexterity: 58
Item Level: 9
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
20% Chance to cast level 4 Flamefront on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 2 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+6% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Attack Speed
+(35 to 40)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (8 to 10)-(13 to 20) damage
Elemental Resists +(21 to 25)%
Physical Resist (3 to 5)%
Socketed (2)
Two-Hand Damage: (74 - 84) to (91 - 106)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 26
Required Dexterity: 95
Item Level: 29
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
30% Chance to cast level 12 Flamefront on Melee Attack
7% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+12% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
25% Attack Speed
+(81 to 103)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (13 to 15)-(28 to 35) damage
Elemental Resists +(31 to 35)%
Physical Resist (9 to 11)%
Socketed (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (194 - 214) to (221 - 246)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 47
Required Dexterity: 192
Item Level: 51
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
40% Chance to cast level 20 Flamefront on Melee Attack
9% Chance to cast level 14 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+18% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
35% Attack Speed
+(126 to 149)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (18 to 20)-(43 to 50) damage
Elemental Resists +(41 to 45)%
Physical Resist (15 to 17)%
Socketed (5)
Two-Hand Damage: (255 - 277) to (290 - 320)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 57
Required Dexterity: 382
Item Level: 90
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
45% Chance to cast level 24 Flamefront on Melee Attack
10% Chance to cast level 17 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+24% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
40% Attack Speed
+(149 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (21 to 23)-(51 to 60) damage
Elemental Resists +(46 to 50)%
Physical Resist (18 to 20)%
Socketed (6)

→

Toorc's Gift

Toorc's Gift
Heavy Gloves (4)
Defense: (15 - 18) to (30 - 34)
Required Level: 3
Required Strength: 24
Item Level: 5
2% Chance to cast level 1 Glacial Nova on Melee Attack
5% Attack Speed
Stun Attack
+(12 to 29)% Enhanced Defense
Cold Resist +(11 to 15)%
Socketed (1)
Defense: (129 - 143) to (160 - 177)
Required Level: 20
Required Strength: 35
Item Level: 24
3% Chance to cast level 2 Glacial Nova on Melee Attack
15% Attack Speed
Adds (11 to 15)-(16 to 25) cold damage
Stun Attack
+(47 to 63)% Enhanced Defense
Cold Resist +(21 to 25)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (376 - 409) to (448 - 488)
Required Level: 38
Required Strength: 74
Item Level: 44
4% Chance to cast level 3 Glacial Nova on Melee Attack
25% Attack Speed
Adds (36 to 45)-(46 to 63) cold damage
Stun Attack
+(81 to 97)% Enhanced Defense
Cold Resist +(31 to 35)%
Socketed (3)
Defense: (568 - 614) to (685 - 740)
Required Level: 46
Required Strength: 154
Item Level: 77
5% Chance to cast level 3 Glacial Nova on Melee Attack
30% Attack Speed
Adds (81 to 100)-(101 to 125) cold damage
Stun Attack
+(98 to 114)% Enhanced Defense
Cold Resist +(36 to 40)%
Socketed (4)

→

Leather of Aut

Leather of Aut
Hard Leather Armor (4)
Defense: (66 - 75) to (132 - 151)
Required Level: 2
Required Strength: 25
Item Level: 4
+(2 to 4) to Whirlpool
+(18 to 35)% Enhanced Defense
(3 to 5)% to Strength
(3 to 5)% to Dexterity
(3 to 5)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (11 to 20)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (267 - 297) to (449 - 500)
Required Level: 19
Required Strength: 37
Item Level: 22
+(5 to 8) to Whirlpool
+(52 to 69)% Enhanced Defense
(9 to 11)% to Strength
(9 to 11)% to Dexterity
(9 to 11)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (21 to 30)%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (701 - 761) to (1131 - 1228)
Required Level: 37
Required Strength: 78
Item Level: 43
+(9 to 12) to Whirlpool
+(87 to 103)% Enhanced Defense
(15 to 17)% to Strength
(15 to 17)% to Dexterity
(15 to 17)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (31 to 40)%
Socketed (5)
Defense: (1052 - 1135) to (1691 - 1823)
Required Level: 45
Required Strength: 160
Item Level: 75
+(13 to 16) to Whirlpool
+(104 to 120)% Enhanced Defense
(18 to 20)% to Strength
(18 to 20)% to Dexterity
(18 to 20)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (41 to 50)%
Socketed (6)

→

Wormtongue

Wormtongue
Light Belt (4)
Defense: (53 - 58) to (71 - 78)
Required Level: 3
Required Strength: 27
Item Level: 5
(31 to 50)% Bonus to Attack Rating
Adds 5-13 poison damage over 2 seconds
(2 to 4)% Life stolen per Hit
+(18 to 29)% Enhanced Defense
+(11 to 15) to Dexterity
Socketed (1)
Defense: (214 - 231) to (259 - 279)
Required Level: 21
Required Strength: 40
Item Level: 24
(71 to 90)% Bonus to Attack Rating
Adds 19-50 poison damage over 2 seconds
(8 to 10)% Life stolen per Hit
+(41 to 52)% Enhanced Defense
+(21 to 25) to Dexterity
Socketed (2)
Defense: (544 - 581) to (649 - 693)
Required Level: 38
Required Strength: 83
Item Level: 45
(111 to 130)% Bonus to Attack Rating
Adds 75-150 poison damage over 2 seconds
(14 to 16)% Life stolen per Hit
+(64 to 75)% Enhanced Defense
+(31 to 35) to Dexterity
Socketed (2)
Defense: (801 - 851) to (946 - 1006)
Required Level: 46
Required Strength: 173
Item Level: 77
(131 to 150)% Bonus to Attack Rating
Adds 100-250 poison damage over 2 seconds
(17 to 19)% Life stolen per Hit
+(75 to 86)% Enhanced Defense
+(36 to 40) to Dexterity
Socketed (2)

→

Topspin

Topspin
Skull Cap (4)
Defense: (76 - 83) to (115 - 125)
Required Level: 3
Required Strength: 25
Item Level: 4
5% Attack Speed
+(31 to 50)% Enhanced Defense
(3 to 5)% to Dexterity
(3 to 5)% to Energy
+(31 to 50) Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Total Character Defense 10%
Socketed (1)
Defense: (277 - 301) to (365 - 397)
Required Level: 20
Required Strength: 37
Item Level: 23
15% Attack Speed
+(61 to 80)% Enhanced Defense
(6 to 8)% to Dexterity
(6 to 8)% to Energy
+(71 to 100) Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Total Character Defense 20%
Socketed (3)
Defense: (704 - 760) to (876 - 943)
Required Level: 37
Required Strength: 78
Item Level: 43
25% Attack Speed
+(91 to 110)% Enhanced Defense
(9 to 11)% to Dexterity
(9 to 11)% to Energy
+(151 to 200) Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Total Character Defense 30%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (1182 - 1258) to (1471 - 1564)
Required Level: 47
Required Strength: 160
Item Level: 78
30% Attack Speed
+(121 to 140)% Enhanced Defense
(12 to 14)% to Dexterity
(12 to 14)% to Energy
+(301 to 400) Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Total Character Defense 40%
Socketed (4)

Complete with whatever jewelery and boots you find (Sure upgrade is making Honorific boots for easy elemental resistances and str/dex/vita/hit recovery later when you have the money ). Wanted stats for jewelery life/attack speed(especially life) from amulets, life steal from rings, and +skills.
On swap :

Dawn

Dawn
Weapons
'El'
Runeword Level: 11
5% Chance to cast level 7 Celerity on Kill
15% Hit Recovery
+(18 to 35)% Enhanced Damage
(101 to 150)% Bonus to Attack Rating
10% to All Attributes
(4 to 8)% Gold Find
+2 to Light Radius

on claw +

Rahab

Rahab
Assassin Shields
'Fal'
Runeword Level: 41
10% Chance to cast level 4 Arcane Torrent on Melee Attack
(2 to 4)% Life stolen per Hit
+(1 to 4) to Thunder Slam
+(30 to 57)% Enhanced Defense
+15 to Strength
+15 to Dexterity

/ Nothing if you don't want to bother with Thunderslam
The key point behind thoses items is to get quickly some attack speed and life steal, it's the two most important stats early on with resistances

--- Sockets : On weapon : Perfect Sapphire and ruby are super useful for early mana and life regen, rest is Perfect skulls for damage, then Jah runes when you can. On armor : Perfect Ametysts/io runes and resitances gems ( Turquoise, Amber, Onyx, Bloodstone )
--- Mystics orb : When

Na-Krul's Spine

Na-Krul's Spine
Naginata (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (22 - 25) to (29 - 36)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 6
Required Dexterity: 58
Item Level: 9
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
20% Chance to cast level 4 Flamefront on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 2 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+6% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Attack Speed
+(35 to 40)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (8 to 10)-(13 to 20) damage
Elemental Resists +(21 to 25)%
Physical Resist (3 to 5)%
Socketed (2)
Two-Hand Damage: (74 - 84) to (91 - 106)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 26
Required Dexterity: 95
Item Level: 29
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
30% Chance to cast level 12 Flamefront on Melee Attack
7% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+12% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
25% Attack Speed
+(81 to 103)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (13 to 15)-(28 to 35) damage
Elemental Resists +(31 to 35)%
Physical Resist (9 to 11)%
Socketed (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (194 - 214) to (221 - 246)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 47
Required Dexterity: 192
Item Level: 51
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
40% Chance to cast level 20 Flamefront on Melee Attack
9% Chance to cast level 14 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+18% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
35% Attack Speed
+(126 to 149)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (18 to 20)-(43 to 50) damage
Elemental Resists +(41 to 45)%
Physical Resist (15 to 17)%
Socketed (5)
Two-Hand Damage: (255 - 277) to (290 - 320)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 57
Required Dexterity: 382
Item Level: 90
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
45% Chance to cast level 24 Flamefront on Melee Attack
10% Chance to cast level 17 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+24% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
40% Attack Speed
+(149 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (21 to 23)-(51 to 60) damage
Elemental Resists +(46 to 50)%
Physical Resist (18 to 20)%
Socketed (6)

is tier 4, one or two mana steal ones to be at ease forever → oil of luck → enhanced damage until 200%(not counting the bonus from sockets) → Enhanced weapon damage → 1-2 life steal → Deadly strike. Upgrade whenever you have the level requirement. Nagi and Honorific Boots will use all your money already so no need for more for now

Early gameplay and Milestones

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---As a true nagisin, the first thing we do after spawning in this world is gambling for your weapon, an Halberd (as they have better base attack speed than naginata) and buy basic gray stuff. After destroying blood moor, you should end up lvl 4 which allow you to have enough dexterity to hold the holy weapon.

--- Quickly kill Blood Raven, you absolutly want a ranger mercenary for her Dark power buff, as it give Attack speed, enhanced weapon damage, crushing blow and magic damage to weapon. Is there something else you want in your life? Nope. She's your bestie now !
Take act 1 waypoints as you progress, they are useful to check for shrines, experience and stamina shrine especially are useful for going fast during leveling, and stamina duration is almost the same as it's respawn time.
--- Don't forget to buff yourself with queen of blade for it's 15% bonus attack speed.
Pick up every Halberd and Nagi you can find, every weapon boost is important for now, and each time you find a higher tier one create

Shark

Shark
Weapons
'Tal'
Runeword Level: 17
5% Chance to cast level 9 Bloodlust on Kill
+(7 to 9)% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
20% Attack Speed
+(24 to 35)% Enhanced Damage
+0.125 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+5 to all Attributes
-1 to Mana

in it, with the help of an oil of renewal if needed.
--- Gameplay is a little bit stiff at this point because we need attack speed to be at ease, but by no mean it should be hard, as you have enough defensive options with barrier strike and backstab immunity, enough clear with crucify/some random hades gates and no bosses in normal can survive a broadside + backstab + coup de grace (except ancients for some reasons but who care).
--- Ancient tunnel in act 2, lost city is a good place to get some xp. In normal and nightmare going for it one time will be enough to get ahead, and never lose this lead.
--- Finishing Act 3 should give enough arcane crystal to make

Na-Krul's Spine

Na-Krul's Spine
Naginata (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (22 - 25) to (29 - 36)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 6
Required Dexterity: 58
Item Level: 9
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
20% Chance to cast level 4 Flamefront on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 2 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+6% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Attack Speed
+(35 to 40)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (8 to 10)-(13 to 20) damage
Elemental Resists +(21 to 25)%
Physical Resist (3 to 5)%
Socketed (2)
Two-Hand Damage: (74 - 84) to (91 - 106)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 26
Required Dexterity: 95
Item Level: 29
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
30% Chance to cast level 12 Flamefront on Melee Attack
7% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+12% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
25% Attack Speed
+(81 to 103)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (13 to 15)-(28 to 35) damage
Elemental Resists +(31 to 35)%
Physical Resist (9 to 11)%
Socketed (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (194 - 214) to (221 - 246)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 47
Required Dexterity: 192
Item Level: 51
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
40% Chance to cast level 20 Flamefront on Melee Attack
9% Chance to cast level 14 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+18% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
35% Attack Speed
+(126 to 149)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (18 to 20)-(43 to 50) damage
Elemental Resists +(41 to 45)%
Physical Resist (15 to 17)%
Socketed (5)
Two-Hand Damage: (255 - 277) to (290 - 320)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 57
Required Dexterity: 382
Item Level: 90
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
45% Chance to cast level 24 Flamefront on Melee Attack
10% Chance to cast level 17 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+24% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
40% Attack Speed
+(149 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (21 to 23)-(51 to 60) damage
Elemental Resists +(46 to 50)%
Physical Resist (18 to 20)%
Socketed (6)

, I recommand farming Mephisto a little bit for at least making it tier (2), and have another attack speed item -gloves or helm uniques- this is not necessary but will make everything waaay easier, and give some xp. Should be done in a few two minutes run at worst. Tier (2)

Na-Krul's Spine

Na-Krul's Spine
Naginata (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (22 - 25) to (29 - 36)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 6
Required Dexterity: 58
Item Level: 9
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
20% Chance to cast level 4 Flamefront on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 2 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+6% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Attack Speed
+(35 to 40)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (8 to 10)-(13 to 20) damage
Elemental Resists +(21 to 25)%
Physical Resist (3 to 5)%
Socketed (2)
Two-Hand Damage: (74 - 84) to (91 - 106)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 26
Required Dexterity: 95
Item Level: 29
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
30% Chance to cast level 12 Flamefront on Melee Attack
7% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+12% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
25% Attack Speed
+(81 to 103)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (13 to 15)-(28 to 35) damage
Elemental Resists +(31 to 35)%
Physical Resist (9 to 11)%
Socketed (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (194 - 214) to (221 - 246)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 47
Required Dexterity: 192
Item Level: 51
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
40% Chance to cast level 20 Flamefront on Melee Attack
9% Chance to cast level 14 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+18% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
35% Attack Speed
+(126 to 149)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (18 to 20)-(43 to 50) damage
Elemental Resists +(41 to 45)%
Physical Resist (15 to 17)%
Socketed (5)
Two-Hand Damage: (255 - 277) to (290 - 320)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 57
Required Dexterity: 382
Item Level: 90
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
45% Chance to cast level 24 Flamefront on Melee Attack
10% Chance to cast level 17 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+24% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
40% Attack Speed
+(149 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (21 to 23)-(51 to 60) damage
Elemental Resists +(46 to 50)%
Physical Resist (18 to 20)%
Socketed (6)

alone is enough to speed though normal but there's never enough cristals.
Upon killing shenk in act 5, you can craft honorific boots on a random base with low requirement, to put later missing resists, vita, dex, hit recovery and str in it (don't spend all your money now, no need for all that already).

Skills order : Focus on maxing laserblade and Broadside, and putting 5 points in Hades Gates as soon as it's possible (should be lvl 44 or something), and distribute the remaining points between backstab (until 9), shadow refuge(10), and Perfect Being(this can go up more slowly, no need to be maxed fast). Only start taking subterfuge points later when your resist are maxed of course.

--- After killing baal's last wave, it will spawn a portal to Tran Athulua, the first challenge. You have to kill the 3 priestress to get a very nice charm. It's super easy so you're free to blink in very agressivly, don't worry even one second

--- Don't forget to get every quest that give bonuses : +skill from den, radament and Izual, others things from charsi's quest, Lam esen tome, jade thing and Anya resist scroll.
Other interesting quest are countess, Hellforge and act 5 barb save as they all give sweet runes (even sometime a jackpot great rune from the hellforge, if it does and you get a Krys or auhe ggwp. Normal and nightmare countess should be useless but if you're in need you can go )
--- Nihlathak is the best to go for if you're in need for fast crystals, he always give 3 uniques and running him last about a minute. Farming him a few time in normal to make just one or two other unique is not mendatory at all but make an even easier nightmare.
--- Always focus on upgrading weapon before creating or upgrading anything else (levels requirements are 9, 29, 47, 57, for tier (1) (2) (3) (4) of the nagi), then attack speed things(gloves, helm) --> Belt → Body armor. Once everything is upgraded to (4), Next crystals will be used for jewel crafting
--- As said in gear section, after having

Na-Krul's Spine

Na-Krul's Spine
Naginata (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (22 - 25) to (29 - 36)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 6
Required Dexterity: 58
Item Level: 9
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
20% Chance to cast level 4 Flamefront on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 2 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+6% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Attack Speed
+(35 to 40)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (8 to 10)-(13 to 20) damage
Elemental Resists +(21 to 25)%
Physical Resist (3 to 5)%
Socketed (2)
Two-Hand Damage: (74 - 84) to (91 - 106)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 26
Required Dexterity: 95
Item Level: 29
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
30% Chance to cast level 12 Flamefront on Melee Attack
7% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+12% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
25% Attack Speed
+(81 to 103)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (13 to 15)-(28 to 35) damage
Elemental Resists +(31 to 35)%
Physical Resist (9 to 11)%
Socketed (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (194 - 214) to (221 - 246)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 47
Required Dexterity: 192
Item Level: 51
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
40% Chance to cast level 20 Flamefront on Melee Attack
9% Chance to cast level 14 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+18% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
35% Attack Speed
+(126 to 149)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (18 to 20)-(43 to 50) damage
Elemental Resists +(41 to 45)%
Physical Resist (15 to 17)%
Socketed (5)
Two-Hand Damage: (255 - 277) to (290 - 320)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 57
Required Dexterity: 382
Item Level: 90
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
45% Chance to cast level 24 Flamefront on Melee Attack
10% Chance to cast level 17 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+24% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
40% Attack Speed
+(149 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (21 to 23)-(51 to 60) damage
Elemental Resists +(46 to 50)%
Physical Resist (18 to 20)%
Socketed (6)

and an attack speed item, next one is

Leather of Aut

Leather of Aut
Hard Leather Armor (4)
Defense: (66 - 75) to (132 - 151)
Required Level: 2
Required Strength: 25
Item Level: 4
+(2 to 4) to Whirlpool
+(18 to 35)% Enhanced Defense
(3 to 5)% to Strength
(3 to 5)% to Dexterity
(3 to 5)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (11 to 20)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (267 - 297) to (449 - 500)
Required Level: 19
Required Strength: 37
Item Level: 22
+(5 to 8) to Whirlpool
+(52 to 69)% Enhanced Defense
(9 to 11)% to Strength
(9 to 11)% to Dexterity
(9 to 11)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (21 to 30)%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (701 - 761) to (1131 - 1228)
Required Level: 37
Required Strength: 78
Item Level: 43
+(9 to 12) to Whirlpool
+(87 to 103)% Enhanced Defense
(15 to 17)% to Strength
(15 to 17)% to Dexterity
(15 to 17)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (31 to 40)%
Socketed (5)
Defense: (1052 - 1135) to (1691 - 1823)
Required Level: 45
Required Strength: 160
Item Level: 75
+(13 to 16) to Whirlpool
+(104 to 120)% Enhanced Defense
(18 to 20)% to Strength
(18 to 20)% to Dexterity
(18 to 20)% to Vitality
Total Character Defense (41 to 50)%
Socketed (6)

, this item is purely to abuse whirlpool so increasing his tier come last

No need to rush certains items, some runeword and random uniques can fill temporarily very well :

Ra

Ra
Helms
'Lum'
Runeword Level: 37
+1 to All Skills
25% Cast Speed
-(6 to 10)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-(6 to 10)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Attacker Flees after Striking (11 to 15)%
(7 to 13)% Gold Find
7% Magic Find

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Alchemy

Alchemy
Helms
'Vex'
Runeword Level: 55
25% Attack Speed
25% Block Speed
+(21 to 30)% to Summoned Minion Life
+(58 to 86)% Enhanced Defense
+5 Life Regenerated per Second
Half Freeze Duration

helm

Brawl

Brawl
Gloves
'Io'
Runeword Level: 35
10% Attack Speed
Adds 2-4 damage
+(2 to 5) to Clobber
+(58 to 69)% Enhanced Defense
5% to Dexterity
+(21 to 25) to Strength

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Kali

Kali
Gloves
'Pul'
Runeword Level: 45
15% Chance to cast level 13 Fire Splash on Kill
+2 to All Skills
-214 Defense
Maximum Fire Resist +4%
Fire Resist +26%

gloves

Lavadome

Lavadome
Helm (4)
Defense: (78 - 89) to (115 - 131)
Required Level: 4
Required Strength: 39
Item Level: 7
+(0 to 1) to All Skills
+(41 to 60)% Enhanced Defense
(3 to 5)% to Vitality
+15 to Vitality
+(81 to 120) to Life
Fire Resist +(11 to 30)%
Socketed (1)
Defense: (300 - 334) to (391 - 435)
Required Level: 22
Required Strength: 57
Item Level: 25
+1 to All Skills
+(71 to 90)% Enhanced Defense
(6 to 10)% to Vitality
+30 to Vitality
+(121 to 160) to Life
Fire Resist +(31 to 50)%
Socketed (3)
Defense: (753 - 825) to (970 - 1062)
Required Level: 39
Required Strength: 120
Item Level: 46
+(1 to 2) to All Skills
+(101 to 120)% Enhanced Defense
(11 to 15)% to Vitality
+45 to Vitality
+(161 to 200) to Life
Fire Resist +(51 to 70)%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (1191 - 1290) to (1519 - 1645)
Required Level: 48
Required Strength: 250
Item Level: 81
+2 to All Skills
+(131 to 150)% Enhanced Defense
(16 to 20)% to Vitality
+60 to Vitality
+(201 to 240) to Life
Fire Resist +(71 to 90)%
Socketed (4)

Featherclaw

Featherclaw
Chain Gloves (4)
Defense: (28 - 30) to (49 - 54)
Required Level: 5
Required Strength: 38
Item Level: 8
5% Attack Speed
(21 to 50)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(18 to 29)% Enhanced Defense
+(6 to 10) to Dexterity
Socketed (1)
Defense: (149 - 161) to (203 - 218)
Required Level: 22
Required Strength: 56
Item Level: 26
15% Attack Speed
(81 to 110)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(41 to 52)% Enhanced Defense
+(16 to 20) to Dexterity
Socketed (2)
Defense: (393 - 420) to (519 - 554)
Required Level: 40
Required Strength: 118
Item Level: 46
25% Attack Speed
(141 to 170)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(64 to 75)% Enhanced Defense
+(26 to 30) to Dexterity
Socketed (3)
Defense: (581 - 617) to (759 - 807)
Required Level: 48
Required Strength: 244
Item Level: 80
30% Attack Speed
(171 to 200)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(75 to 86)% Enhanced Defense
+(31 to 35) to Dexterity
Socketed (4)

Haareis

Haareis
Diadem (4)
Defense: 36 to 80
Required Level: 10
Required Dexterity: 28
Item Level: 17
1% Chance to cast level 1 Shackles of Ice on Melee Attack
(4 to 5)% Bonus to Buff/Debuff/Cold Skill Duration
Adds 5-7 cold damage
(2 to 4)% Life stolen per Hit
(4 to 6)% to Strength
(4 to 6)% to Dexterity
(4 to 6)% to Vitality
Cold Resist +(16 to 25)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: 103 to 194
Required Level: 28
Required Dexterity: 57
Item Level: 32
2% Chance to cast level 5 Shackles of Ice on Melee Attack
(8 to 9)% Bonus to Buff/Debuff/Cold Skill Duration
Adds 18-20 cold damage
(8 to 10)% Life stolen per Hit
(7 to 9)% to Strength
(7 to 9)% to Dexterity
(7 to 9)% to Vitality
Cold Resist +(36 to 45)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: 215 to 386
Required Level: 46
Required Dexterity: 137
Item Level: 53
3% Chance to cast level 9 Shackles of Ice on Melee Attack
(12 to 13)% Bonus to Buff/Debuff/Cold Skill Duration
Adds 55-65 cold damage
(14 to 16)% Life stolen per Hit
(10 to 12)% to Strength
(10 to 12)% to Dexterity
(10 to 12)% to Vitality
Cold Resist +(56 to 65)%
Socketed (3)
Defense: 296 to 523
Required Level: 54
Required Dexterity: 294
Item Level: 90
4% Chance to cast level 11 Shackles of Ice on Melee Attack
(14 to 15)% Bonus to Buff/Debuff/Cold Skill Duration
Adds 175-190 cold damage
(17 to 19)% Life stolen per Hit
(13 to 15)% to Strength
(13 to 15)% to Dexterity
(13 to 15)% to Vitality
Cold Resist +(66 to 75)%
Socketed (4)

Auriel's Halo

Auriel's Halo
Tiara (4)
Defense: 31 to 67
Required Level: 8
Required Dexterity: 21
Item Level: 13
+1 to All Skills
Adds (3 to 5)-(6 to 8) fire damage
Adds (3 to 5)-(6 to 8) cold damage
Cold Resist +(11 to 15)%
Fire Resist +(11 to 15)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: 86 to 162
Required Level: 25
Required Dexterity: 43
Item Level: 29
+1 to All Skills
Adds (11 to 13)-(13 to 18) fire damage
Adds (11 to 13)-(13 to 18) cold damage
Cold Resist +(21 to 25)%
Fire Resist +(21 to 25)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: 180 to 322
Required Level: 43
Required Dexterity: 103
Item Level: 50
+(1 to 2) to All Skills
Adds (31 to 45)-(51 to 70) fire damage
Adds (31 to 45)-(51 to 70) cold damage
Cold Resist +(31 to 35)%
Fire Resist +(31 to 35)%
Socketed (3)
Defense: 247 to 437
Required Level: 51
Required Dexterity: 220
Item Level: 85
+2 to All Skills
Adds (51 to 70)-(121 to 140) fire damage
Adds (51 to 70)-(121 to 140) cold damage
Cold Resist +(36 to 40)%
Fire Resist +(36 to 40)%
Socketed (4)

are good, no problem if you find one of thoses randomely


End of normal strength goal : 88 is enough to wear every unique to tier (2), you don't need to uptier fast so focus on dexterity ! (if possible get a little bit of strength from boots or something, the less base points we have in it the better, for laserblade scaling)
End of nightmare goal : 186 str – enough for every uniques to (4), enough to put on sacred boots with -requirement jewels and mystic orbs in it. Going higher than that depend on your drops.

--- Upon killing nightmare Mephisto, you can enter challenge 2, birds can slow you a lot with their cold damage, but with either a little bit of life steal or whirlpool abusing it's fine. Totems are there to buff other enemies around them and are surrounded by pretty dangerous lightning, even with maxed resist it's easy to get stunned there, so strategy is sneaking up with backstab after using it on some random things, and one shot it with coup de grace during the immunity. Very assassin like right? So cool. Did you just say we can just broadside them from afar? LALALALA DON'T HEAR YOU

Preparation before going to hell :
---Farm nightmare nihlatack a little bit until level 104-105, to upgrade every tiered unique to tier (4), now he even give free signet of learning and some runes so he really is a good boi.
--- If you use the gear I recommended, you should end up with 125 Attack speed by this point (40 from nagi, 30 from gloves, 30 from helm, 10 from charm, 15 from queen of blades), by putting 3 sha runes -or jewels if you're rich- in an armor we can get the next breakpoint. Use all your money for mystic orb on weapon and boots, bonus from mystic orb are very important, and keeping them updated will definitly help a lot. Oil of Luck your gear (outside of rings) Make sure your hell resistances are fine (at least 70% in fire/cold/light), socket everything you have.
Now we're ready, let us go... to hell.

[Lynderika]

Dungeons and rifts

Gameplay and videos

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So you've come to hell, congratulation, tutorial's over. Hell's filled with new quests, so get familiar with dungeons and rifts pages, or just explore everything in game, most of them are not hidden at all

Level 105

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Where to xp : Progressing in hell, sunless sea
Recommended quest order : Horror under tristram → Infernal machine → Riftwalker → Death projector → Sunless sea
Charm to farm(if needed) : Death projector for at least 9% xp gain

Horror under tristram
Damage type : Physical, fire
Strategy : Broadside go brrrrr. No seriously not only he die fast, but doesn't hurt. He can a little bit, but even non geared mercenary can tank him so we can play around that if needed. Even griswold is 10 time scarier than this poor thing. Kill him with all your hatred if like me you remember old times where he was immortal and one shotted.

Comment : save cain in the way, his armor will make merc happy and max his resists

Infernal machine
Damage type : Depend on spawns
Comment : Straightforward quest, similar to baal's last wave but with big initial pack in a small zone. Density may vary a lot in there, but Hades Gates do not care about that.

Riftwalker
Damage type : Lightning
Strategy : Lightning rings may brush past you if you stay inside, but otherwhise... Well, broadside go brrr. etc etc.
Comment : This dude always drop 2 items, and they often are uniques. It's a good place to farm arcane shard as he drop on average one tiered unique(depend on magic find) and running him last like 20 seconds.

Death Projector
Damage type : Lightning, physical
Strategy : We now live in a time merc can tank the lightning from projector and attacks from immortal enemies, so just go around it, and brrr (ok you start to understand I guess...)

Sunless sea
Damage type : Cold, physic (underlined mean very important, and might consider increase the most you can the resist)

Strategy : First rift, a cold themed one. Enemies may start to hurt there, if so stay careful, place some barrier strike and try to not go too deep with the hades gates spam. If you start taking too much damage immediably backstab, broadside and move back. Using every onyx gem you have and keeping shadow refuge helps too. Enemies are invisible when not attacking but queen of blades will tell you when something's near.

Level 110

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Where to xp : Cow level, Torajan Jungle : Cows give more xp and loot -especially shrines-, while the jungle is super chill to go across and give signets of learning and tons of golds, so why not both. But mostly cow.
Recommended quest order : Horazon's Sanctum → Binding of baal → Assault on mount arreat → Torajan jungle (Akarat + Aldric Jitan) → Cows
Charm to farm : binding of baal for big %attribute, Horazon for maxed life leech and attribute, arreat for 48+% weapon damage

Assault on mount arreat
Damage type : Physical (probably)

Strategy : Keep moving to avoid getting stunned or taking too much damage in one shot, i.e don't rush in like a complete debil like I did.
Comment : I recommand not starting with it like I did and follow the order above, get some golds before to put "physical damage reduction" mystics orbs on jewelery at least, which I didn't have at that time. Or just play well I guess. This for exemple is a proper run, until I decide to spam hades gates like a retard. I'm sorry it's just too fun with diablo super fast animations I couldn't resist...

Horazon's Sancum
Damage type : No damages found (some fire ball can hurt a little bit)
Strategy : Only existing strategy is putting Broadside correctly so this coward stop running away from it and die faster.

Binding of baal
Damage type : Elemental (they have some pierce so it's best to be slightly overcapped, not that it matter much)
Strategy : Drown every mage one by one in the whirlpool of death, and take your time killing Tal Rasha. It's 10 time easier than mount arreat quest, as they deal waaay less damage.

Altic jitan
Damage type : Physical, cold

Strategy : Again, if you want to do this without dying like a certain someone, don't rush it right after being 110, do akarat before or take the fight more slowly, with broadside and backstab only, killing every of his army one by one, and waiting for towers to unspawn before going again. But this is not some hardcore run so who care, BLINK IN put everything you have, that's the way to go *dab*
ok I redid a proper safe run, don't thank me

Akarat
Damage type : None, she's dead. (her army can launch physical hammer, can potentially hurt in some alternative universe)
Strategy : Keep broadside and coup de grace up, with whirlpool her army will start dying, rendering her vulnerable. When you see her in front of you, it's already over, she was dead before knowing it. Actually Coup de grace is just for show, but it's so cool to feel like an assassin who wouldn't.

Cow level
Damage type : Physical (i.e : keep shadow refuge active you fool)
Strategy : Barrier Strike, our best ally, our partner in crime, our kindred spirit, will tell us when invisible cow try to sneak up to you, and block them (the fools, they try to be sneaky against an assassin). Completed with whirlpood against big packs, some Hades Gates to clear, backstab and broadside when in need, and you'll see the light.

Level 115

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Where to xp : Kurast
Recommanded quest order : Kurast → Heart of sin → Black road → Bull prince → Tran athulala → Legacy of blood → Rathma Square → High Heavens + Veiled prophet
Comment : Last 3 quest are weird, in the sense that their outcome are decided in a few seconds : you either won or died. Keeping

Na-Krul's Spine

Na-Krul's Spine
Naginata (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (22 - 25) to (29 - 36)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 6
Required Dexterity: 58
Item Level: 9
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
20% Chance to cast level 4 Flamefront on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 2 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+6% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Attack Speed
+(35 to 40)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (8 to 10)-(13 to 20) damage
Elemental Resists +(21 to 25)%
Physical Resist (3 to 5)%
Socketed (2)
Two-Hand Damage: (74 - 84) to (91 - 106)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 26
Required Dexterity: 95
Item Level: 29
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
30% Chance to cast level 12 Flamefront on Melee Attack
7% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+12% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
25% Attack Speed
+(81 to 103)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (13 to 15)-(28 to 35) damage
Elemental Resists +(31 to 35)%
Physical Resist (9 to 11)%
Socketed (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (194 - 214) to (221 - 246)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 47
Required Dexterity: 192
Item Level: 51
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
40% Chance to cast level 20 Flamefront on Melee Attack
9% Chance to cast level 14 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+18% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
35% Attack Speed
+(126 to 149)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (18 to 20)-(43 to 50) damage
Elemental Resists +(41 to 45)%
Physical Resist (15 to 17)%
Socketed (5)
Two-Hand Damage: (255 - 277) to (290 - 320)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 57
Required Dexterity: 382
Item Level: 90
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
45% Chance to cast level 24 Flamefront on Melee Attack
10% Chance to cast level 17 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+24% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
40% Attack Speed
+(149 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (21 to 23)-(51 to 60) damage
Elemental Resists +(46 to 50)%
Physical Resist (18 to 20)%
Socketed (6)

even if you have a good craft, and having switched to

Dragonheart

Dragonheart
Body Armors
'Kra'
Runeword Level: 94
+2 to All Skills
50% Attack Speed
+5% to Summoned Minion Resistances
+1.625% Enhanced Defense (Based on Character Level)
+500 to Life

+ crafted boot, and up to date mystics orbs, will give you the needed tankyness to make it look like it's free.
Charm to farm : Tran athulala(14-15% life), Legacy of blood(big leech), Rathma Square(100+% attack rating), Bull Prince(at least not bad attribute roll) and High Heavens ears(%attribute)

Kurast
Damage type : kinda all
Strategy : Same as challenge 2 but denser, strategy for totem is the same : Backstab > Coup de grace + whirlpool during the immunity, and they're down if everything went right.
Comment : Excellent farming place, you can chill there for long even after lvl 120 if you feel like it.

Heart of sin
Damage type : Fire, physical (from fortress)
Strategy : Keep moving to dodge the slow moving fireball, if necessary put every Perfect Bloodstone you have and play it safe with broadside > backstab > move away > blink in and repeat. Super easy charm that give +2 max res, thanks Azmo.


Tran Athulala
Damage type : Physical, +elemental from priestress

Strategy : We're not tanky enough yet to not care in there, very dense army hurt. bosses hurt -even if they die quick- and each amazon have 1% chance to cast on death... A broadside. if you see the animation run very far, taking too much of it is an instant kill at this point. Priestress always move away from you, so putting a broadside opposed to her is the best way to make sure they run into it and die fast.
Comment : It's the hardest quest to not die to at this level range, but I chose to do it quicky because the life from charm is very valuable. I died a few time in there for lots of retarded reasons, I'm just bad and not at ease in there when not tanky enough, probably. If you want a deathless run at this point, just stay very far with Hades Gates and don't go in that much. Also unlike me clear Black road and bull prince before, their charms will help a lot already.

Black Road
Damage type : Physical, fire
Strategy : Prismatic cloak and azmodan charm make it super easy, you can freely stand in the fire without taking damage. Inside there, throw everything you have, with some barrier strike to keep the zombies out. And that's it.

Bull Prince
Damage type : Physical, fire
Strategy : Only hurtful attack he have is cowl fight, his... Chiken summon, we might say. It does physical weapon damage, and is easily dodgable by moving around, as they all spread a little bit then converge to your inital position.

Legacy of Blood
Damage type : Physical, fire

Strategy : Come in buffed and with Merc, he can tank and bait golems for some time. Bartuc lose his immunity when casting some spell, so get immediatly behind him, put a whirlpool to check when his immunity end, and when it does do the usual. Ignore completly golems, as they also are immune and will instantly die when Bartuc does. When it happen immediatly move away to not get caught in some weird thing, golems explode upon dying and do big damage if you're close to the center and none if you're far enough. Reading this is longer than the actual quest kek

Rathma Square
Damage type : physical
Strategy : Spawns hurt, and will revive after 10 seconds. But 10 seconds is enough to kill the boss. Again merc can bait a lot.

High Heavens + veiled prophet +
Damage type : Physical, poison(totems), light(from veiled prophet totem), cold (from inarius)

High heavens strategy : Avoid direct contact too much, as usual whirlpool and barrier strike keep you safe but you can easily get overwheled. Totem launch punishers with heavy poison damage, it get you instantly at 1hp even with high poison resist. It is the easiest way to die here, they are hard to see so best way is just to keep moving (as always)
Veiled prophet strategy : Come in buffed, ladies will rush you very passionatly, and are immortal because of the totem in the center of the room. We need to survive long enough for the totem to stop his lightning just to make sure, then backstab and coup de grace/whrilpool the totem. Once it die everything become easy, and perish in the whirlpool and broadside of death.


Level 120

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Where to xp : Duncraig is by far the fastest xp whise. Stay in the two others only for their specific drops
Recommanded quest order : Judgement day → Quov Tsin → Twin seas → Duncraig → Baal → Kabraxis → Kingdom of shadow → Teganze → Triune
Comment : Bosses present a pretty big difficulty spike if you're new to the game in general, but become easy once you learn to play around them. Rifts on the other hand, all 3 if them feel pretty lame, at least it's the only point I felt weaker than the rest of the game. Thankfully 125 ones feel better, and we can still go there fast, but I'm sorry in advence to every bowzon fanatics who were used to farm Dunc for years, that's probably not the best idea here.
Charm to farm(can be done later) : Kabraxis for +3 max res(poison not needed) or at least 2, can go to the trophy even, Shadow for +2 skills, Quov Tsin(yes I want every attribute I can), Triunes for cycles, duncraig until trophy.

Judgement day
Damage type : Physical, magic (maltael), cold (imperius)

Strategy : To get the real charm, we need to get it from one of the boss, and kill the other during the 1 minute duration buff he give, and transmute the charm upon having both buffs. 1 minute is way more than enough, broadside kill the bosses quickly. They both are protected by invulnerable enemies that keep spawning but by moving around and letting broadside do it's job it's easy. Keep a coup de grace for the second boss just to make sure. Second fight is easier because we now have Edryem, a summon that can tank and interact with the invulnerable enemies.
Comment : I did pretty big mistakes in the video for broadside placement ; I completely forgot the bosses tp that much, in theses situations, where boss is in a small area and tp a lot, it's better to put broadside where it cover the biggest area possible, so it can welcome the boss even after his tp. So not around the edge, super close to the boss like I did. Also it's better to now whirlpool, it will just make him tp faster.

Quov Tsin
Damage type : All (Physical damage reduction mystics orb help for some reasons)

Strategy : There's... not much strategy, really. As long as you don't stay in the trinity beam too long it shouldn't hurt, the bone spear on the other hand can kill, but as long as you don't litteraly tp inside (haha), it should't be too much of a problem.
Comment : I'm not used to this boss at all, so my performance here is pretty ridiculous, defensivly. Offensively the only thing to do is put broadside nicely to cover the biggest zone again, which I... Didn't really do. My brain turn off against this boss I think. But does it really matter? I think not.

Twin seas
Damage type : Physical, magic

Strategy : Against this boss, it's easy to get stuck and not being able to play at all. Stay close to your broadisde, she will soon pounce to you. Strategy itself is very basic : Put backstab first if she's close to you, then broadside and buffs during the immunity, and walk around during the cooldown, and repeat. That's it. If she's far, just broadside and wait for her to pounce, then backstab/buffs, and move.
Comment : In the video there's a few problems, first one is that I switched to

Featherclaw

Featherclaw
Chain Gloves (4)
Defense: (28 - 30) to (49 - 54)
Required Level: 5
Required Strength: 38
Item Level: 8
5% Attack Speed
(21 to 50)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(18 to 29)% Enhanced Defense
+(6 to 10) to Dexterity
Socketed (1)
Defense: (149 - 161) to (203 - 218)
Required Level: 22
Required Strength: 56
Item Level: 26
15% Attack Speed
(81 to 110)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(41 to 52)% Enhanced Defense
+(16 to 20) to Dexterity
Socketed (2)
Defense: (393 - 420) to (519 - 554)
Required Level: 40
Required Strength: 118
Item Level: 46
25% Attack Speed
(141 to 170)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(64 to 75)% Enhanced Defense
+(26 to 30) to Dexterity
Socketed (3)
Defense: (581 - 617) to (759 - 807)
Required Level: 48
Required Strength: 244
Item Level: 80
30% Attack Speed
(171 to 200)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(75 to 86)% Enhanced Defense
+(31 to 35) to Dexterity
Socketed (4)

for the attack rating, but did not put mystic orbs on it. Result is that I lost a hit recovery breakpoint, and got even more stuck than I should. Second and most important one, is that I actually try to be agressive, putting some whirlpool and buffs attack at random times, experiences showed me that just chilling and attacking only during the immunity, and most importantly use backstab before broadside to not get canceled if she's right in front of you, and not the opposite, is the key in there.

Duncraig
Damage type : All (barrels are magic so only life help if you're wondering)

Strategy : Welcome whirlpool and barrier strike magic. Hades Gates is kinda dangerous in there for now, and can easily move you not where you clicked but right in the pack or in front of a barrel. Kill every mini bosses to get their sigil, to craft assur's bane, this will be needed to get purify skill and kill the boss, Assur, and also to get our new main ring, they are pretty good so let's get two of them.
Comment : Again my prestation is kinda bad, I died a few time, most of the time because I'm badly using backstab, and always wanted to use it agressively to buff broadside, but that's not the right way to do it in there when you're weak. Keep it defensively. When blinking in let it be the first thing you do. Also I needed to abuse whirlpool and barrier strike more, and litteraly forgot assur himself even does damage. He pierce fire res so he hurt only when total max fire res is low, apparently. That's why he can rekt you as well as be invisible. Some slightly better run after I got used to the place : Still, Nagi's not very at ease in there even later. Some sets up might work especially shunpo or poison related ones, but I personnaly just rush trophy and go out so I can't help much, do feel free to try !

Baal
Damage type : Physical, cold, some fire, some invisible lightning(it's an unavoidable aura), some magic I guess(the pounce attack)

Strategy : Longest boss of the 120s, he doesn't hurt too much, but is simply a pain. He's super tanky, can spawn minions of destruction and even act bosses upon hitting you, and worst part is the mana drain, without enough leech he will just suck you dry. Act bosses even make him immortal if they both are near, so we either need to separate them or kill the spawn, obviously we go for the second option. Baal move a lot, and can litteraly just walk away from broadside, if you fight him in the center corridor this will happen way less. As every boss who teleport when striked, it's better to not put whirlpool at the same time as a broadside to make sure he have higher chance to stay close to it

Kabraxis
Damage type : Physical (the whirlpool + basic attacks), magic(balefire), poison (green flamestrike and punishers)

Strategy : He's very often pouncing you, spawning skeletons in the process. They are good folder to buff ourself on, and put some whirlpool so broadside can hit Kabraxis directely. Always stay in medium range, too far and he will spam pounce, and too close and whirlpool and basic attack may hurt too much. The green flamestrike NEED to be dodged, and is the only instant kill if it connect. As for the punisher barrage, just go away from it, to be sure. We can also welcome the first and probably the last time vampiric icon is useful, as we need lots of regen and skeletons inside a vampiric icon are a good source of regen, and don't tell me too fast we can also just drink potions or I'll be mad.
Comment : Second and pretty cool run :

Kingdom of shadow
Damage type : Physical, poison

Strategy : Nightmare inducing if you are new to the game, but actually pretty easy for our build, shadow refuge help too much. Anyway once in ureh, just behind Quov Tsin, follow the big arrow near the entrance to find Kingdom of Shadow. It's a very big place, filled with untargetable and immortal zombies, who run fast, and hurt. A lot. Just keep walking with all the serenity in the world, and when you see something you can hit, preferably a darkwarden, backstab>shadow refuge him to get buffed safely, shadow refuge is very important in there, both the physical resistance and the movement speed are the best thing in the world to have. Edryem summons may or may not hinder zombies, use them to your liking. Come with lots of potions. Keep moving down to avoid getting in a corridor, until you get to the bottom final one. Then luck come in a little bit, zombies can get you stuck (yes, untargetable yet you can't go through them), and you can't really see what await you when blinking. Boss himself is super weak, and go down with a single broadside, but it's really easy to die just before him, at the end of the corridor. This is the trickiest point.

Teganze
Damage type : All

Strategy : Worship for the Whirlpool god. Spirits are not moving much, so they stay inside the whole time, and with enough damage will die just from that. Well it's not enough to be farming the place fast for now, but at least it's not dangerous or anything. If like me you don't have the 86 hit recovery breakpoint yet, you may be stuck a lot, but even if that's the case it shouldn't hurt too much. As for the boss, he's immortal during his bat form, and will greet you with it. Wait a little bit, move to the corridor up or down depending on where you come from ; he's teleporting away when taking damage but inside there he may still stay in broadside range, and die 3 time faster. His bats (it's like noctule but he can cast it from anywhere or something) hurt but potions can handle hit. He almost always give an essance so he's a good farming spot himself.

Comment : We need a Xis rune for at least

Rebel (Xis)

Rebel
Body Armors
'ElXis'
Runeword Level: 120
Enhanced Weapon Damage +120%
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+(151 to 200) to Strength
+(151 to 200) to Dexterity
-75 to Vitality
-75 to Energy
Elemental Resists +(60 to 80)%
+1 to Light Radius
Cannot be Unsocketed

at some point, so we'll get stuck in there a little bit.

Triune
Damage type : All

Strategy : Rift itself is pretty simple, There's a few things to care about : golems doesn't leave corpse, totems launch fire meteor, they are similar to dunc barrel in a sense that simply advancing make them dodged already, they also are a pain because totems are bugged and doesn't take damage from whirlpool well. Also most importantly the cold dudes slow a lot, "cannot be frozen" affixe help for that. The boss, Lucion, is super weird and need to be charmed and killed by Malic. There's a mid boss at the top of the map that give a book with the charm ability, but care, upon taking it your avoid is reduced, and suvivability divide by 10. If you want to be carful clean everything around the boss, then take the charm and care about the boss himself. Charm duration is longer than the spell cooldown so it's pretty simple, even if Lucion is getting faster and faster, since he rush straight at you he's easy to predict. Stay far to not get into the teleportation circle thing at the same time as Lucion. When lucion is slow he also is stupid, sometime he doesn't want to aggro malic and will still chase you even charmed, in this case go away from his sight to reset him. He always drop 2 cycles, and are supposed to have higher chance of being larger... But just killing things feel faster for cycles honestly.

Comment : Video is outdated, since 1.7 there's a shotcut to get to Lucion directly, not to mention he's is way closer to Malic. Getting the trophy clearly is another story now.
Also don't be stupid like me, the book reduce avoid and is very dangerous to keep, put it in cube when not fighting Malic, never in the inventory too much.

Comment : We're searching for dex cycles of any size and medium/large life cycles, if possible mostly life. Don't underestimate small dex cycles, they're the most optimal. Life on the other hand demande medium/large because +% are very valuable here.

Level 125

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Where to xp : From the fastest to slowest : Viz-jun, Fauzt/bremmtown. Duncraig still is ok until like 132(and give 0 only at 135)
Recommanded quest order : Toraja → Astrogha → Lord of Lie → Xazax → Fauzt+Bremmtown → Viz jun → Yshari Sanctum → Spirit World → Nymir's Light
Comment : Very inequal ubers, some are significantly harder than the rest. Nymir's Light require a Trophy to be usable, so do it only when you have the one you want.
Charm to farm : Astro, Belial and Bremmtown in particular because life is too important, Xazax and Sanctum until max +skills, and viz jun for cool attributes.

Toraja
Damage type : Physical

Strategy : This quest... Became easier since 1.7, edryem feel more tanky, maybe it's just a feel though. Anyway it's still very very slow progress, our build is not really suited for this place, all enemies are immortal and need to be attacked by a summoned edryem to become mortal. Problem is, edryem die extremely fast, and we're killing archers litteraly one by one. Summoning Edryem with claw is slighly faster, but they still probably will die faster than you create them. Boss go down in a single broadside (who would have guessed), but getting there safely is just long. Easy, sure, but long.
Comment : I never farmed or been in this place for long so maybe I'm just doing it extremely wrong, we just have to do it once and get out anyway. You can, unlike me, just bait archers up and rush the boss faster probably.

Astrogha
Damage type : Cold, phy, some poison from punisher if you're far from her, some magic from the sky that happen once a millenial

Strategy : Very special fight, long but not that hard. Again our build is not really suited for doing it, but we can easily with care. Don't buff with queen of blades, and clear the whole place of spiders first. Asrogha launch totems in your direction (or of a summon), if you destory one Astrogha will heal and you'll get cursed with 1 billion % slow and the honor of getting one shotted by any attack. Not destroying any totems or at least the less you can is the whole point of the fight. He also summon darklings, they're weak but can swarm you if you're too afraid to attack them, and are there to kill you when cursed. Lastly if you're too close to him, Astrogha launch a special one shot frozen orb. Since totems are super weak, and there's so much, we can't use too strong or with too big aoe spell, adios broadside, adios whirlpool. Wait what do we have now? There's a few ways of getting him :

The suicide way, launch everything you have and hope you deal more damage than he heal himself, putting broadside behind him and getting far enough so totem are out of it's range. May be fast if you have enough damage, ridiculous most of the time.
The "normal" way : charge Batstrike on darklings, go at him when he stopped launching totems, backstab > coup de grace > go out. Backstab is important here, it do a few damage, and most importantly will keep you safe from the frozen orb, it's the reason we got it easier than most other melee builds. If you're using coup de grace at a bad timing, he'll spawn a totem right at his feet and it will instantly be destroyed (This situations happend a few time in the video because I'm bad). After some time darkling corpses will be everywhere, so Hades Gates is a good way to move around and clear a little bit without doing too much damage. It hurt astro a little too.
The "hardcore player way" : Actually did some testing, without using coup de grace at all or very veeeery rarely, and only backstab and hades gates, we can kill him super safely and do a deathless run. It become 2 time longer of course, but it work. We all forgot it but Backstab still is a big 200% weapon damage. If you have Charged Strike it's even better, it does less damage than a coup de grace but is way safer, it's aoe go behind astro and rarely hit totem by accident.

Comment : There's probably lots of way of doing it better, and I'm especially bad when astro is staying in the left corridor so this fight was a little bit of a pain, but well nothing outragous I guess. I'm doing him first because having others lvl 125 charms here won't help at all, while the life he give is super helpful.

Lord of Lie
Damage type : Cold meteor, fire phalanx, undetermined exactly for the rest but it look like phy and magic, anyway he doesn't hurt trust me

Strategy : Belial make clones, and is himslef hidden in a very smol rat form. He's hard to clic on but easy to find, as he release some sort of white wave, giving away his position (also he cry a lot). But does broadside care about clicability? Of course not. You can even use the clones to use backstab on, and let broadside do his thing to the real one.

Xazax
Damage type : Cold, fire, poison

Strategy : His most dangerous attack is his cold one, very hard to dodge and omnidirectionnal, it's the only thing that can kill in there. Fire meteor is easy to dodge, the summons also deal big fire damage on attack but are too slow to hit. The poison is easily overcomed with potions. As for the strategy itself it's simple, put broadside and move to the opposite direction to bait his summons out of it, so the most knifes possible go to Xazax. Don't whirlpool as the same times as broadside, this will just make him teleport away faster.
Comment : Redo until +2 skills

Fauztinville
Damage type : Physical, probably some others

Comment : Finally we've come here... If there's one thing Naginata is known for, it's her capacity to farm Fauzt. Actually most nagi players out there are just people who respec to farm fauzt only with it. As you see our base set up have some problems in there, we're missing damage to clear necrobots fast enough. Actually that's mostly because my gear is still TU, I am still missing

Rebel (Xis)

Rebel
Body Armors
'ElXis'
Runeword Level: 120
Enhanced Weapon Damage +120%
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+(151 to 200) to Strength
+(151 to 200) to Dexterity
-75 to Vitality
-75 to Energy
Elemental Resists +(60 to 80)%
+1 to Light Radius
Cannot be Unsocketed

, I only ate less than 200 signets of learning, my Mystic Orbs are not up to date, I forgot to buff with bloodlust(I forgot with almost any content, got my claw too late and didn't get the reflex to buff, it doesn't matter much but still), need a merc that doesn't die right at the beginning (I forgot to give him

Gehenna

Gehenna
Weapons
'Xar'
Runeword Level: 100
20% Chance to cast level 32 Frozen Crown on Melee Attack
+(144 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds 94-125 cold damage
Adds 150-200 poison damage over 1 seconds
+25% to Cold Spell Damage
+25% to Poison Spell Damage
-2% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-2% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
-27% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-27% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Increase Maximum Life and Mana 23%
Requirements -33%

, turns out this is what he missed to survive), still missing lots of charms... Lots of improvements possible, really. But that's only a first run, a few levels later it'll be better, and we still can get easy improvements using an offensive rescpec with more ways. As you saw in skills sections there's a few ways to do that, and some items can help, most noticably

Zular Khan's Tempest

Zular Khan's Tempest
Halberd (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 71 to 100
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 105
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
10% Chance to cast level 1 Stormpike on Striking
Broadside Cooldown Reduced by 3 seconds
Adds 250-500 fire damage
Adds 250-500 lightning damage
-50% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-50% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Phoenix (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Gryphon (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Spider (Assassin Only)
+(51 to 100) Life after each Kill
Socketed (6)

. This weapon in an hybrid set up is the fastest way to clear fauzt to my knowing, and switching from a very good craft to this gave me a 30-40 second improvement on a full run, which is for fauzt fans probably pretty amazing. If you get Tempest, once you have enough damage to clear everything confortably with Hades Gates, remove Whirlpool boots to get

Wind Runner

Wind Runner
Boots
'EaEaEaEa'
Runeword Level: 100
+(0 to 1) to All Skills
35% Attack Speed
10% Movement Speed
Adds 37-70 damage
250% Bonus to Attack Rating
(10 to 15)% Life stolen per Hit
+(171 to 200)% Enhanced Defense

. Add a

Ripstar

Ripstar
Ring
Required Level: 60
Item Level: 60
+0.5625 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+20 Life on Attack

to compensate the lack of physical damage this weapon have, get some others big damage gear pieces, like

Hammerfist

Hammerfist
Gauntlets (Sacred)
Defense: (1227 - 1450) to (1436 - 1697)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 574
Item Level: 105
Adds (1 to 15)-(20 to 30) damage
5% Life stolen per Hit
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(15 to 25) to Spiral Dance
Enhanced Weapon Damage +(30 to 60)%
+(120 to 160)% Enhanced Defense
Elemental Resists +15%
Socketed (4)

(a few gloves work, it's just that I dropped theses ones) mix a little bit... Then a fauzt run end up looking like this
And this can be even better ! In the best scenario you also get

Dark Pact

Dark Pact
Circlet (Sacred)
Defense: 505 to 571
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 262
Item Level: 120
You Have Bloodbath
Orb Effects Applied to this Item are Doubled
40% Combat Speeds
5% Chance to Avoid Damage
Socketed (4)

, see how much time I lose buffing bloodbath on every pack ? Just imagine without that. Getting a better Amulet and a second ripstar would give even more damage too. Also my merc doesn't have lots of care putted into it, he doesn't kill anything.
Another option is maxing way of the spider, and focusing on getting 135% poison pierce. This can work very well and is pretty effective even with a baby fresh level 125 character.
Of course all that is not absolutly needed, just optimisation.

Strategy : Get 86 hit recoevery breakpoint. Offensively it's mainly a good old Hades Gates spam, with some whirlpool on places there's lots of necrobots. Boosted broadside can clear them well too. If you can't tank the place, it mean either you don't move enough, or don't have enough leech/damage. Clearing route... Is to your liking. Doesn't matter much as long as you kill the mini bosses, and go to bremmtown in the end.

Bremmtown
Damage type : Cold, physic

Strategy : I talk a lot about whirlpool, but this is the first time and maybe the only I really have to say it : Thank god it's there. When blinking in agressively like I do, immediatly backstab, and greet them with whirlpool/broadside, aaand it's done. If you're scared you can summon edryem ahead to bait them.

Comment : This also is a cool farming spot with lot of xp and loot, and is super chill (in every sense). A good place where we feel at home, perfectly suited for nagi especially thoses not having good enough damage to be at ease in fauzt. Trophy will come eventually, to add it the dragon need to be killed in less than 30 seconds, with a shunpo Nagi it can be done in like 10 so no problem for us. keep backstab somewhere for when you stop shunpoing(?), I did not get that at first so it took me a few runs.

Viz jun
Damage type : Physical fire from mines, one shot from nuclear explosion, maybe some other non identified things.

Strategy : The density in there is ridiculous, in a sense it mean Hades Gates and whirlpool will leech more, and our build in general is pretty suited for this place. In another it's easy to get swarmed / stuck. But the biggest danger are the traps placed everywhere, they always are the same so remember well their positions. Easiest traps are monster spawn, spawned things doesn't give xp nor loot so never stay too long in a place. Then sentry, they can stuck a little, reanimates are super useful to bait for them. In general this is the place reanimates are the most useful in the game, even one % of something is enough to help a lot. I got "lucky" enough to drop

Scarab of Death

Scarab of Death
Amulet
Required Level: 40
Item Level: 70
50% Cast Speed
50% Attack Speed
50% Hit Recovery
Elemental Resists +25%
Physical Resist -5%
5% Reanimate as: Searing Vermin

during my fautz run before, and could use it to farm viz jun fairly easily (after I got the hung of it, if you want to see a deathless run watch litteraly anything in the video but my first run), but really even 1% of anything help, so get a hidden craft, kabraxis trophy or whatever work. If you see mines on your feet, blink out. if you see a nuclear missile incoming, BLINK OUT. Boss die in a single purify and is pretty accessible, waiting you at the bottom of the map. No problem there.

Comment : This place is the best to get xp until 139, jewels, and "world drops" like bellas and riftstone. Based on that my guess is that this place is also insane for relics, but it's hard to verify. Not a reputed farming place still since Fauzt drops about 1 billion % more of everything else and having to pass through swampy pit is kinda ridiculous.

Yshari Sanctum
Damage type : Doesn't matter, the set max resists anyway.

Strategy
Maze : To be able to fight the boss, set pieces need to be gathered in a 5 levels maze, each levels have two path : one to get to the boss, and one for the next level, and a few baits and dead end. Since 1.6 this place is way easier than before, the map really show what the level is, and doors and such are way more apparent. Teleports are disabled in there, so no blink, no Hades Gates allowed, only clearing tool is whirlpool. A funny interaction here is that Vampiric icon can be launched though walls, and can heal freely. Only hurtful enemies are scourges from level 2, hurt a lot with their poisons, and everything from level 5, it's hard to understand what's happening there. Level 1-3 are real "mazes", not really hard but if you want to do it fast or have a reference, I made this very precise diagram . To speed through it put a portal to the turning point, rush the next level, go back though the new 1.6 portals the maze offer each levels and back to your portal to go to the boss. Levels 4-5 are way more straightforward. Level 3 changed a bit too since this map, it's very straightforward now as long as you choose the right path at the beginning.


Boss : A purify fight, the set take every gear slot and max resistances, so only passives and charms helps there. Thankfully perfect being and shadow refuge help a lot, and just the bonus life from Belial and Astro charms are enough to clear this confortably. Set give two new skills that can only be used when at least one of his minion is around ; A cool one that will clear minions really fast, and a stronk purify. He's moving around way too much to try to snipe him, and we can't get close because of his broadside, so the best way to get him is when he pounce, with enough reaction time we can get him there, and immediatly blink out, then wait for him to pounce again. His two attacks that hurt the most are the fire rings, this hit multiple time close to the center and become an instant kill, and his 8 directionnal lightning and minion spawning he does shortly after pouncing (exactly why we're blinking out). The fight may continue after the 12 minutes lockdown if like me your purify aim... can be better, so come with lots of potions.


Spirit World
Damage type : Physical, fire. I see some cold on his basic attack too, some lightning bolts. It just hurt

Strategy : Clear the place from spirits first, they can be a pain for nothing. Guiya himeslf is often hidden, and become visible only when attacking or just before, so we can see him prepare his pounce. Upon pouncing, he create a circle of small tornadoes. By themselves as long as you don't stay too much inside it's bearable with potions, but can easily finish you off. He have a very hurtful basic attack but doesn't do it often, launch some kind of thing that give immunity around it, and have to be purified. Flying orbs will auto attack on melee, and can deal enough physical damage to one shot, thank god they're slow... Basic strategy is waiting for him to pounce, and backstab him and let broadside attack. No whirlpool allowed, he'll tp too fast to take enough damage anyway, and it's super risky. Purify every immortal things as they spawn, and prey for him to not spam it too much in the worst moments.

Comment : Because of the lock and the quantity of weird things that can happen in there, he's by far the hardest uber of the 125s, and can easily be considered a lvl 130 thing. Keeping him for later when you're stronger is probably the best. I'm pretty autistic so I fighted him as I was kinda low level, on bad gear, and with 200 signets of learning eatens, millions of problems, and litteraly bruteforced him... And got it after a billion try on a lucky run. If you're not stupid, just wait a little bit, it'll be easier. see? We can't die now.

Nymir's Light
Damage type : Magic, fire
Strategy : Purify fight. Whole strategy consist of getting the most life you can ; recreate kra armor, ith boots, put your best ammy, on runes everywhere, whatever just everything you have to get the most life possible. 14k is enough to do it but it'll be sweaty, 15-16 is to start to feel confortable and 17 is enough to get it even if like me you don't know the fight well. If you want it's possible to respec to full vita just to be even easier, but that's not needed at all, gear alone can make it.
Comment : Best trophy to use that we don't want for their base bonus already : Triune(big damage boost, a few hundreds)
If too lazy, legacy of blood give nice leech and is very fast to farm with shunpo.
Basically it's triune time, getting lots of cycles and this at the same time is a nice improvement.

Level 130

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Where to xp : Same as 125, Viz jun stop entierely at 139 but fauzt still give decent xp until 140.
Recommanded quest order : Void → Nephalem's Sacrifice → Lazarus
Comment : Void is ez, Uldy is just long, and Laz... Is laz. Good luck.
Charm to farm : Uldy for +2 skills, it's a pain, but it have to be done.


Nephalem's Sacrifice
Damage type : Phy, magic

During the way : We encouter again bosses we know well but tankier, nothing special. If Korlic is immortal, don't mind it he's just super bugged, blinking litteraly inside him will put him back into reality a few moments.
Boss : A pure gear check. If like me you're on a bad one, and is stupid and did this before void, with still TU and all, the fight might take more than 20 minutes to do and will cause some death. A good gear will do in 10 min, but lower than that is hard for Nagi. Uldy is so long because he's tanky, spawn way too much edryems, and most importantly is very quick to tp out, which is bad for broadside health. Basic strategy the same as xazax : put broadside close to the boss and go the opposite way so edryem doesn't stay close to it. Simply put broadside should focus the boss, while Edryem clear is with whirlpool. Defensivly... Slow target help for Edryem, and most things are easily dodged, outside of his big stun, for this only life will help. He use a curse reducing combat speed by 30% and movement speed by 45, coming with overcapped speeds help a lot. Noticably if by this time like me you don't have The Endless loop (hehe that's me), this can be painful.

Comment : Do this AFTER void and respec, thanks. This alone save a few minutes.


Void
Damage type : During the path : kinda all, lightning. For boss : Fire, cold, magic, phy

Path strategy : Plane of Sloth : Kill him until he give his scroll. The chance of dropping it is super low so it can be a pain. Logic for this litteraly is "don't be slothful", awesome mecanic.
Gluttony : He have big regen but die fast
Greed : Launch a curse reducing mana to 0, spawning edryem to take the curse might work, coming with coup de grace too.
Lust : Is a complete mess with arrow everywhere, no strategy here
Wrath : Dude litteraly kill himself haha, just wait somewhere and do a teatime potion drink. Don't make any summon he'll regen all his life.
Envy : Curse you with slow and resist decrease, end quickly
Pride : His minion hurt him on attack, dealing %life to him, so he look like he go down quickly at first and seem stuck near the end, this is normal. Spam edryem, care about the lightning and others things

Boss : Only way to remove inarius immunity is to wait for lilith blood ritual, lilith is our ally here so keep her safe, don't have queen of blades, procs, or too big aoe attacks that can hurt her. Inarius should not attack her as long as you're in his range, and you move to the frozen orb to desactivate them. The safe way of doing this fight without attacking lilith is with coup de grace, but whirlpool work fine and can be used most of the time. Broadside is a big nope, with enough care it's possible but not recommended. His only hurtful attack should be the fire he does when auto attacking.

Comment : My fight is a complete mess because I'm not used to not tanking inarius that much, and I did not care about lilith at all, come with queen of blades activated, play around inarius like I'm immortal but don't have enough gear to do that, etc. In this situation batstrike is too dangerous so it's probably better to stick to whirlpool. Kinda miraculous I got the fight first try in theses conditions. Also the best way of doing this is to use both whirlpool and coup de grace, no reasons to not use both. Kinda like that but better.

Comment : Void charm give teleport so we can respec to remove blink points, and go directly to an "Hybrid set up" if you want to

--- This part now make a clear separation with the rest of the content. Lots of people may stop there and just farm fauzt and optimise their clearing speed forever, even after coming to lvl 140. Fauzt is addictive that's for sure, but let's push.

Lazarus
Damage type : Mostly physical I belive. Magic deathstrike is super easy to dodge. His groupie has tri elemental damage, but since reducing your hp to 1 and finishing you off is his special move so it doesn't matter much I guess.

Strategy : I have good news for you, Assassin is one of the best classes to do this boss, especially nagi. It still will be way harder than others ubers so be prepared. A purify fight, so damage doesn't matter here ; get your life gear from Nymir's Light, some slow target (around 30% looks good, a crafted nagi alone can do that), and « cannot be frozen » from somewhere(groupie cold damage slow a lot, can be a pain), a little bit of cast speed to be more at ease with purify, the spell tend to be cancelled a lot (I did not have that in my first fight so do get cancelled). And... Good luck. He launch totems similar to astrogha, in the difference that theses one also cast some earthquake that reduce your hp to one if you're too close from them. They only curse you and heal Laz when he's near, so the basic strategy is running away from him, cast purify as he teleport to you, attack sometime with shadow refuge (usually pretty safe as totems take time to launch compared to astrogha), and when too much space has been taken by totems, go away from his sight and carfully destroy totems before coming back to him. 1 point in the first fire trap will help A LOT for this, as totems are kinda bugged and just using hades gates and Broadside here will lead in situations where totems look immortal, also we can't really get them when they're on a corridor turn without the trap.

Comment : This will take lots of practice and tries, come at him as you farm viz jun trophy or something to not become crazy. Once you survive long enough to make the fight longer than the path, it's easier and kinda fun even, but at first...

Level 140

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Where to xp : Only way now is Dimentionnal Labyrinth. A few things still give a little bit, but not enough to make a living.
Recommanded quest order : Samael → Lab → Deimoss
Comment : Don't come there naked, farm good versions of every existing charms, most interesting trophies, still stay a little bit in fauzt if needed. Have at least one « lotto » (see cube recipes) amulet with +2 max res, preferably a good one. They are the very last quest, require very specific sets ups and don't laugh at all.
Charm to farm : haha you're funny



Samael THIS VIDEO IS NOT MY CLEAR BECAUSE I'M RETARDED AND DID NOT RECORD IT YES I WANT TO DIE IF YOU'RE WONDERING At least I have the clear screen... Technically not a SSF kill since I'm not getting every scroll by myself, but bruh

Damage type : All except poison.Lightning (can't be dodged) and cold (from worms) especially need 90% res. Pentagram is phy(but one shot anyway if you're not inside), small exploding orb are also one shot, err I mean physical, bones spear magic, deathstrike he cast when attacked also is (one shot) magic (about 17k damage so have fun). The fire circle apparently also do some physical (??). Anyway lots of life recommended.

Access : Killing baal give a chance of getting a worldstone shard. This thing cubed with Assur's bane (from duncraig), void ring, Spirit trance(guiya drop), Laz book (have fun doing laz a second time) and Uldy charm will upgrade it.
Then as written, it need a greater signet of learning(so, 25 of them) and a taha rune to get one scroll and have access to samael one time.

Strategy : Samael can't be slowed, has an aura reducing avoid by 50%, and every of his spell hurt even with every resistances maxed. Nothing will save you. Well except backstab, having a long immunity is the key point to get the fight. 14 points in backstab is what feel right to me, and give a long enough tankyness to survive when samael does multiple attack at the same time, like a pentagram in the middle of fire with bone spear generator right at the center while a deathstrike is just there. Yes it does happen. Backstab magic damage also is one of the only thing that really hurt him, so if you don't want to end up with a 20 minute fight offensives backstab are also needed, using it well is the key to the fight.
Worms are immortal beings that have a chance to spawn when the unavoidable lightning hit, so the fight litteraly come down to chance at some point. Because worms are the biggest problem here for us, as we have no consistent way to get life regen outside of potions, too many worms are impossible to dodge and will litteraly overcome regen and kill you slowly... From my experience, the fight is easy when there's none, and become way too sweaty after 5, and impossible to stay long after 7 whatever I do. They can be there after 2 minutes as well as none for 5 min, it's pure and simple luck. Very good concept to put chance especially in a fight with limited access haha, love it.


Comment : I did lots of testing, and ended up with a very specific set up to get him, I putted it in the beginning of this video. Basically it rely on maxed doom (most of the damage sam will take is broadside magic so this is very valuable) and pinnacle(more +skills for broadside, def is useless against him).
For the gear I used all I could to get the most life and max res possible. A big improvement were when I made a defensive weapon swap with claw and

Wheel of Fortune

Wheel of Fortune
Large Shield (4)
Defense: 85 to 162
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 4
Required Strength: 22
Required Dexterity: 45
Item Level: 6
+(21 to 30) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Elemental Resists +(6 to 10)%
Cold Absorb 1%
Lightning Absorb 1%
Fire Absorb 1%
(4 to 7)% Gold Find
(5 to 10)% Magic Find
Socketed (1)
Defense: 240 to 405
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 21
Required Strength: 32
Required Dexterity: 67
Item Level: 25
+(31 to 40) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Elemental Resists +(11 to 20)%
Cold Absorb 2%
Lightning Absorb 2%
Fire Absorb 2%
(9 to 12)% Gold Find
(11 to 20)% Magic Find
Socketed (3)
Defense: 501 to 817
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 39
Required Strength: 68
Required Dexterity: 139
Item Level: 46
+(41 to 50) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +(21 to 30)%
Cold Absorb 2%
Lightning Absorb 2%
Fire Absorb 2%
(14 to 17)% Gold Find
(21 to 30)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)
Defense: 684 to 1113
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 48
Required Strength: 141
Required Dexterity: 288
Item Level: 80
+(51 to 60) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +(31 to 40)%
Cold Absorb 3%
Lightning Absorb 3%
Fire Absorb 3%
(17 to 19)% Gold Find
(31 to 40)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)

fully socketed with on runes, swapping in key moment give lots of tankyness and helped me a lot.
As you've read, I forgot to record my absolutly perfect and flawless (in my mind) clear, when I finished, took the screenshot and did not see the red dot on obs, the reason of the shaking I had since the last 2 minutes of the fight quickly transformed... But anyway, I hope the videos I uploaded still give a good idea of how the fight should be done.

With my set up and skill I can't kill him consistantly, if you want to see a good set up to do that better, see Arcology showcase, it use a

Black Ice

Black Ice
Halberd (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 71 to 100
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 70
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 120
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Innate Cold Damage: (45.0% of )
Area Effect Attack
Orb Effects Applied to this Item are Doubled
+(10 to 15) to Assassin Skill Levels
-30% to Enemy Cold Resistance
+(3 to 9) to Whirlpool
30% to All Attributes
Maximum Elemental Resists +(1 to 2)%
+(11 to 20) Life on Striking
Socketed (6)

set up, really pricey and not SSF friendly but in the end it work close to the same as a normal set up, but with way more life and free res, truly a blessing. See more details about Black Ice in the items section

Lab
Damage type : All. Come with MAXED elemental resistances, fire, cold and light need to be the closest to 90 than you can. Consider poison doesn't exist.

Strategy : Dimentionnal Labyrinth is a 15 tier rift, each tier increase difficulty by giving monster passives and more life/damage, as well as new bestiary.
Important tier changes : T8+ Reduce life leech by 50%, T10 leave no corpse, T12 curse with -30% Avoid, and finally T13 have bonus elemental damage, as if T12 doesn't hurt enough
If you want more detailled info about bestiary, tier changes and stuff, instead of repeating I invite you to check this page
Basically the most dangerous enemy is... A spire. This spawn a boss when destroyed, if you're lucky you'll see Bartuc, Malthael or Asmodan again, if medium lucky you can say hi to quov tsin or Kabraxis, see Astrogha or Laz to be doomed. All have current tier life and damage bonus of course. To clear the whole level before doing them is the plan.

Comment : From T11 onward a new boss appear : Phoboss, he is the main attraction of Lab as he drop Effligy and unique mystics orbs, two ridiculously strong components. Most of his damage is cold, and he "pierce" max res, in the sense that you'll need 92 max res in t11, +1 per tier. It's kinda unintuitive since res cap at 90, but apparently it's like that. My only real fight against him show that he can be killed very quickly, but you need to know his spells to not get surprised and destroyed unlike noob me
On my set up, T11 is not very fast but it work, after T12 enemies reduce avoid by 30%, and start hurting a lot, but with care it's still fairly doable, and T13 is the point of non return, as for many chars I suppose. My only wander here kinda worked I guess?
A good tanky bear act 2 merc help a little, but he'll die too as soon as it get too crowded or against an elite.
I did not care enough to push more because I'm not a big fan of labs so this is where I end, if you have more input about it feel free !

My set up in there is the usual but without hades gates (useless after T10) and instead points in vampiric icon, trust me or not but this is finally it's time. Also only 4 backstab points, to spam it more often. I'm not sure about this choice but it kinda worked out I suppose?

Also I wanted to add, the absolute best upgrade I'm sure on here is a Nagi craft with "Broadside cooldown reduction", an infinite broadside in a place like this where you need constant dps and leech look absolutly insane, sadly good luck rolling a weapon with that affixe and nice damage. According to Marco, another is

Black Ice

Black Ice
Halberd (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 71 to 100
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 70
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 120
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Innate Cold Damage: (45.0% of )
Area Effect Attack
Orb Effects Applied to this Item are Doubled
+(10 to 15) to Assassin Skill Levels
-30% to Enemy Cold Resistance
+(3 to 9) to Whirlpool
30% to All Attributes
Maximum Elemental Resists +(1 to 2)%
+(11 to 20) Life on Striking
Socketed (6)

, to have a big boi life pool, but I still need to see it to be sure, feel free to try !

Trophy to get in order of importance/interest given the time investement : Tran Athulua (Athulala herself is the biggest source of trophy) > Kabraxis(you can search for a good charm at the same time) > Duncraig > Legacy of Blood(very fast) > Judgement Day > Lord of Lies + Lord of Sin > Viz-jun > Xazax
Bremmtown one come as you farm normaly for xp.
For very, very motivated people : Lazarus, and a second time for The sleep > Void > Yshari Sanctum > Nephalem's Sacrifice
Others are useless.

[Lynderika]

Endgame Gear

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Important

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--- Around level 115, with the help of crafted jewels(using ber runes) with -requirement, remove honorifics or whatever you have to shrine craft ilvl99 rare sacred boots with + to whirlpool. If it has +assassin skills or life/res it's even better but no need for now, you can now remove body armor for

Dragonheart

Dragonheart
Body Armors
'Kra'
Runeword Level: 94
+2 to All Skills
50% Attack Speed
+5% to Summoned Minion Resistances
+1.625% Enhanced Defense (Based on Character Level)
+500 to Life

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Mystic orb : On jewelery : physical damage reduction → missing resistances → def
On armor : Vitality → str → dex → hit recovery (aim for 48% breakpoint at least) → total defense/enhanced def
On weapon : Oil of Luck → Enhanced damage until 200% if needed → Leech if needed → Enhanced weapon damage → Deadly Strike
Sockets : Same as before, Jah runes on weapon, resistances gem/perfect ametyst/Crafted Jewels on armors.

Unique Mystic orb
Did not play this them myself, basically add Enhanced weapon damage, dex and deadly strike when you see it (very precise science) here's a few things I said about them

List of super cool items you can easily find from there 

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--- Any sacred naginata and shrines so you can craft.

Na-Krul's Spine

Na-Krul's Spine
Naginata (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (22 - 25) to (29 - 36)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 6
Required Dexterity: 58
Item Level: 9
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
20% Chance to cast level 4 Flamefront on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 2 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+6% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Attack Speed
+(35 to 40)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (8 to 10)-(13 to 20) damage
Elemental Resists +(21 to 25)%
Physical Resist (3 to 5)%
Socketed (2)
Two-Hand Damage: (74 - 84) to (91 - 106)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 26
Required Dexterity: 95
Item Level: 29
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
30% Chance to cast level 12 Flamefront on Melee Attack
7% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+12% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
25% Attack Speed
+(81 to 103)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (13 to 15)-(28 to 35) damage
Elemental Resists +(31 to 35)%
Physical Resist (9 to 11)%
Socketed (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (194 - 214) to (221 - 246)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 47
Required Dexterity: 192
Item Level: 51
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
40% Chance to cast level 20 Flamefront on Melee Attack
9% Chance to cast level 14 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+18% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
35% Attack Speed
+(126 to 149)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (18 to 20)-(43 to 50) damage
Elemental Resists +(41 to 45)%
Physical Resist (15 to 17)%
Socketed (5)
Two-Hand Damage: (255 - 277) to (290 - 320)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 57
Required Dexterity: 382
Item Level: 90
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
45% Chance to cast level 24 Flamefront on Melee Attack
10% Chance to cast level 17 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+24% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
40% Attack Speed
+(149 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (21 to 23)-(51 to 60) damage
Elemental Resists +(46 to 50)%
Physical Resist (18 to 20)%
Socketed (6)

will only begin to feel old around lvl 120. If by this point not even one sacred nagi dropped you're really unlucky (I know the feel). A good crafted Nagi will easily hold until level 140, a godly one may be the best weapon ever, but good luck rolling it.
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Witchhunter's Hood

Witchhunter's Hood
Cap (Sacred)
Defense: (2136 - 2611) to (2161 - 2642)
Required Level: 90
Required Strength: 228
Item Level: 1
+(80 to 120)% Enhanced Defense
10% to Strength
10% to Dexterity
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +(31 to 40)%
Physical Resist 5%
Total Character Defense (16 to 20)%
Requirements -50%
Socketed (4)

Witchhunter's Attire
(Assassin Claw Set)

insanely good and very common, the first one might take time to drop but you'll always end up with 10 of them.
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The Endless Loop

The Endless Loop
Light Belt (Sacred)
Defense: 1101 to 1143
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 490
Item Level: 105
40% Combat Speeds
+(10 to 19) to Charged Strike
Slow Target 10%
+50 to all Attributes
+50 Life Regenerated per Second
+(0 to 1) Mana on Striking
Socketed (2)

Every stat in there feel good to have. It just make life so much easier. Speed for you, slow for enemies, and attributes. Actually not mendatory, if like me you didn't drop even one, it just mean needing more attack speed and hit recovery jewels.
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Rebel (Xis)

Rebel
Body Armors
'ElXis'
Runeword Level: 120
Enhanced Weapon Damage +120%
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+(151 to 200) to Strength
+(151 to 200) to Dexterity
-75 to Vitality
-75 to Energy
Elemental Resists +(60 to 80)%
+1 to Light Radius
Cannot be Unsocketed

: A sure upgrade from

Dragonheart

Dragonheart
Body Armors
'Kra'
Runeword Level: 94
+2 to All Skills
50% Attack Speed
+5% to Summoned Minion Resistances
+1.625% Enhanced Defense (Based on Character Level)
+500 to Life

you can easily farm after level 120. Trading life to gain big damage. Everyone like big damage. If you also didn't drop Endless loop(or any attack speed items at all, endless loop also have the attributes necessary to equip big armor), forcing this right at 120 is awkward, and you may have to wait until like 130.
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Scarab of Death

Scarab of Death
Amulet
Required Level: 40
Item Level: 70
50% Cast Speed
50% Attack Speed
50% Hit Recovery
Elemental Resists +25%
Physical Resist -5%
5% Reanimate as: Searing Vermin

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Athulua's Oracle

Athulua's Oracle
Amulet
Required Level: 60
Item Level: 60
+(1 to 2) to All Skills
40% Attack Speed
(150 to 250)% Bonus to Attack Rating
Cannot Be Frozen

both are super good amulets, scarab of death give insane survivability during farming thanks to the hit recovery and reanimate, and Athulala's is super good for bosses with attack rating, and places where "cannot be frozen" affixe is useful, like triune or Laz. A good rare ring with +skills and life work fine for most content, but having theses at hand is cool.
--- x2 assur's bane ring from Duncraig quest, no rare rings can be better than theses.
--- Others Tiered uniques to consider/keep if randomely found :

Featherclaw

Featherclaw
Chain Gloves (4)
Defense: (28 - 30) to (49 - 54)
Required Level: 5
Required Strength: 38
Item Level: 8
5% Attack Speed
(21 to 50)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(18 to 29)% Enhanced Defense
+(6 to 10) to Dexterity
Socketed (1)
Defense: (149 - 161) to (203 - 218)
Required Level: 22
Required Strength: 56
Item Level: 26
15% Attack Speed
(81 to 110)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(41 to 52)% Enhanced Defense
+(16 to 20) to Dexterity
Socketed (2)
Defense: (393 - 420) to (519 - 554)
Required Level: 40
Required Strength: 118
Item Level: 46
25% Attack Speed
(141 to 170)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(64 to 75)% Enhanced Defense
+(26 to 30) to Dexterity
Socketed (3)
Defense: (581 - 617) to (759 - 807)
Required Level: 48
Required Strength: 244
Item Level: 80
30% Attack Speed
(171 to 200)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(75 to 86)% Enhanced Defense
+(31 to 35) to Dexterity
Socketed (4)

is pretty similar to what we already have, it's a question of wanting attack rating and dex or cold damage, res, stun attack, glacial noval proc and lower requirement. Technically theses are better for bosses and Toorc's to farm.

Lavadome

Lavadome
Helm (4)
Defense: (78 - 89) to (115 - 131)
Required Level: 4
Required Strength: 39
Item Level: 7
+(0 to 1) to All Skills
+(41 to 60)% Enhanced Defense
(3 to 5)% to Vitality
+15 to Vitality
+(81 to 120) to Life
Fire Resist +(11 to 30)%
Socketed (1)
Defense: (300 - 334) to (391 - 435)
Required Level: 22
Required Strength: 57
Item Level: 25
+1 to All Skills
+(71 to 90)% Enhanced Defense
(6 to 10)% to Vitality
+30 to Vitality
+(121 to 160) to Life
Fire Resist +(31 to 50)%
Socketed (3)
Defense: (753 - 825) to (970 - 1062)
Required Level: 39
Required Strength: 120
Item Level: 46
+(1 to 2) to All Skills
+(101 to 120)% Enhanced Defense
(11 to 15)% to Vitality
+45 to Vitality
+(161 to 200) to Life
Fire Resist +(51 to 70)%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (1191 - 1290) to (1519 - 1645)
Required Level: 48
Required Strength: 250
Item Level: 81
+2 to All Skills
+(131 to 150)% Enhanced Defense
(16 to 20)% to Vitality
+60 to Vitality
+(201 to 240) to Life
Fire Resist +(71 to 90)%
Socketed (4)

: If you end up not needing Topspin attack speed, because you're overcapped from one of the unique amulets mentionned above for exemple, using this is an option, it's life pool feel really nice. The budget option for people who have to wait lvl 130 to drop a whitchhunter's hood (true story)


--- About weapon swap : We're only using it to charge batstrike, and sometime cast spells. So there there is only 3 stats we want there, in order : Attack rating >> potential new skill or proc on melee attack > cast speed > some tankyness
So I recommand a crafted claw with +to bloodlust, combined with

Kodo

Kodo
Shields
'Ath'
Runeword Level: 90
5% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Kill
+(7 to 9)% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Hit Recovery
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(115 to 143)% Enhanced Defense
(11 to 20)% to Strength
(11 to 20)% to Vitality

or

Wheel of Fortune

Wheel of Fortune
Large Shield (4)
Defense: 85 to 162
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 4
Required Strength: 22
Required Dexterity: 45
Item Level: 6
+(21 to 30) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Elemental Resists +(6 to 10)%
Cold Absorb 1%
Lightning Absorb 1%
Fire Absorb 1%
(4 to 7)% Gold Find
(5 to 10)% Magic Find
Socketed (1)
Defense: 240 to 405
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 21
Required Strength: 32
Required Dexterity: 67
Item Level: 25
+(31 to 40) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Elemental Resists +(11 to 20)%
Cold Absorb 2%
Lightning Absorb 2%
Fire Absorb 2%
(9 to 12)% Gold Find
(11 to 20)% Magic Find
Socketed (3)
Defense: 501 to 817
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 39
Required Strength: 68
Required Dexterity: 139
Item Level: 46
+(41 to 50) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +(21 to 30)%
Cold Absorb 2%
Lightning Absorb 2%
Fire Absorb 2%
(14 to 17)% Gold Find
(21 to 30)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)
Defense: 684 to 1113
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 48
Required Strength: 141
Required Dexterity: 288
Item Level: 80
+(51 to 60) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +(31 to 40)%
Cold Absorb 3%
Lightning Absorb 3%
Fire Absorb 3%
(17 to 19)% Gold Find
(31 to 40)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)

(max resists is delicious)

Complete List of useful endgame items

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Weapon

Crafted Naginata : See crafting section for more details

Shark (Xis)

Shark
Weapons
'TaXis'
Runeword Level: 120
1% Chance to cast level 31 Bloodlust on Kill
+(36 to 60)% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
40% Attack Speed
+200% Enhanced Damage
+2 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+5 to all Attributes
-250 to Mana
Cannot be Unsocketed

: Consider only if you somehow find an etheral base, after being level 140, and if craft aren't friends with you.

Zular Khan's Tempest

Zular Khan's Tempest
Halberd (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 71 to 100
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 105
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
10% Chance to cast level 1 Stormpike on Striking
Broadside Cooldown Reduced by 3 seconds
Adds 250-500 fire damage
Adds 250-500 lightning damage
-50% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-50% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Phoenix (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Gryphon (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Spider (Assassin Only)
+(51 to 100) Life after each Kill
Socketed (6)

: Honestly I had bad prejudgement on this one but got nicely surprised. Only for fauzt farming, when going with hybrid set up with 5 points in backstab. In this siutation, it's stronger than a very good craft or even Fryst. The stormpike proc is very satisfying too, even if I have no idea if it deal damage. The only common unique nagi.

Frysturgard

Frysturgard
Naginata (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: (374 - 403) to (526 - 560)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 105
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
15% Chance to cast level 12 Fortress on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 18 Glacial Nova on Kill
+(5 to 7) to Assassin Skill Levels
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
Adds 100-200 damage
10% Chance of Crushing Blow
Enhanced Weapon Damage +90%
(21 to 25)% to Strength
(21 to 25)% to Dexterity
Socketed (6)

: Arguably the best Nagi ever, the holy weapon everyone want. it's like a perfect rolled craft but with 4 more affixes, delicious.

Black Ice

Black Ice
Halberd (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 71 to 100
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 70
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 120
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Innate Cold Damage: (45.0% of )
Area Effect Attack
Orb Effects Applied to this Item are Doubled
+(10 to 15) to Assassin Skill Levels
-30% to Enemy Cold Resistance
+(3 to 9) to Whirlpool
30% to All Attributes
Maximum Elemental Resists +(1 to 2)%
+(11 to 20) Life on Striking
Socketed (6)

: As most elemental base this season, the damage... Is low. Losing 10k physical damage to gain 4k cold is super weird. Not as bad as it seems in practice, the regen is way better than it look like and more consistant than leech against bosses, and the respec to vita is useful in some places. Defensively, this is good. With a super good set up, this weapon end up being a very good choice for endgame content, especially samael, and apparently, labs. You can consider using Artifice Mastery (last trap skill) for more vit and big regen and/or anathema(from claw), to be even more tanky. Or phase bomb to reduce enemy resist if most your damage is cold... Lots of options in there. But you''ll always need one hell of a set up. When going full vita you'll also need lots of attack rating to compensate, so you may consider using somes

Ten Pin Striker[/irem] as well as regular attack rating mystics orbs, most of the damages you'll get with brack ice are the cold part, maybe ways, and the bonus magic to broadside anyway. Trying make the phy part scale probably will badly end, so getting AR is the best option. If going against Sam with it don't forget to max doom and pinnacle, against him 99% of the damage you'll do is broadside magic (this is true for any sam fight but even more so with this I guess)


[item]Storm Blade

: Very rare, always etheral, litteraly desinged for farming with pounce, magic find and big damage. Not tested yet but from my guesses, it's good obviously, absolutly first rate. Before 1.7 it were loosing to an etheral Fryst, but now not sure, this may be the biggest nagi. His recent +40% dex bonus is HUGE, and will do good will. Probably still is not worth it's rarity though.

It's actually insane that all 4 uniques nagis have uses and are strong in their own part, not all char have this so be happy. Frystugard being the basic that work well in any situation, Tempest the budget Fauzt farmer, Black Ice the tanky option, and Strom Blade the impossible to have one.


Body Armor

Zerae's Redemption

Zerae's Redemption
Plate Mail (Sacred)
Defense: (7374 - 8171) to (8485 - 9421)
Required Level: 90
Required Strength: 432
Item Level: 1
(11 to 15)% Life stolen per Hit
+(18 to 25) to Stormeye Totem
+(140 to 170)% Enhanced Defense
(26 to 30)% to Dexterity
(26 to 30)% to Energy
+1000 Defense
+(101 to 200) to Life
Requirements -25%
Socketed (6)

Zerae's Divinity
(Amazon Storm Set)

: a good standalone piece, especially if you're missing life steal and have enough attack speed, very rare and not important or anything, just to consider.

Rebel (Xis)

Rebel
Body Armors
'ElXis'
Runeword Level: 120
Enhanced Weapon Damage +120%
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+(151 to 200) to Strength
+(151 to 200) to Dexterity
-75 to Vitality
-75 to Energy
Elemental Resists +(60 to 80)%
+1 to Light Radius
Cannot be Unsocketed

 : Will be fine forever.

Linga Sharira

Linga Sharira
Body Armors
'Auhe'
Runeword Level: 100
8% Chance to cast level 50 Punisher Bolt when Struck
+1 to All Skills
200% Hit Recovery
2% Deadly Strike
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
Regenerate Mana +45%
Physical Resist 15%
Total Character Defense 50%

: Good defensive armor. Instantly cap physical resists(with shadow refuge), instantly cap hit recovery, give big defense... Problem is, it need an Auhe rune, so Toraja farming. If there's one place Naginata is not at ease, it's there. And it's not that useful actually, so I recommand skipping it. But why not.

Strength Beyond Strength

Strength Beyond Strength
Gothic Plate (Sacred)
Defense: (8339 - 9198) to (10115 - 11157)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 614
Item Level: 120
1% Chance to cast level 36 Pyroblast on Striking
Adds 25-38 damage
150% Bonus to Attack Rating
+90% Damage to Demons
25% Life stolen per Hit
10% Deadly Strike
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
1% Reanimate as: Inarius
-5 to Light Radius
Socketed (6)

: The big boi, absolutly indecent in every ways.

Helm

Eidolon

Eidolon
Helms
'Taha'
Runeword Level: 100
+(1 to 2) to All Skills
+30 to Maximum Damage
+(144 to 171)% Enhanced Defense
20% to All Attributes
Elemental Resists +(31 to 40)%
Total Character Defense (21 to 30)%
+4 to Light Radius

: err, looks good, super easy to get, but I end up returning to whitchhunter's. Can be a secondary helm with magic find or something

Witchhunter's Hood

Witchhunter's Hood
Cap (Sacred)
Defense: (2136 - 2611) to (2161 - 2642)
Required Level: 90
Required Strength: 228
Item Level: 1
+(80 to 120)% Enhanced Defense
10% to Strength
10% to Dexterity
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +(31 to 40)%
Physical Resist 5%
Total Character Defense (16 to 20)%
Requirements -50%
Socketed (4)

Witchhunter's Attire
(Assassin Claw Set)

: Best helm ever, you'll find 10 of them during a run and they can last forever.

Royal Circlet

Royal Circlet
Tiara (Sacred)
Defense: (1740 - 1957) to (1968 - 2214)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 392
Item Level: 105
+2 to All Skills
+90% Damage to Demons
+90% Damage to Undead
+(140 to 170)% Enhanced Defense
(21 to 25)% to All Attributes
Elemental Resists +(25 to 30)%
Physical Resist 5%
(21 to 25)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)

: Pretty big, give nice damage so it's good for farming

Dark Pact

Dark Pact
Circlet (Sacred)
Defense: 505 to 571
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 262
Item Level: 120
You Have Bloodbath
Orb Effects Applied to this Item are Doubled
40% Combat Speeds
5% Chance to Avoid Damage
Socketed (4)

: The Holy grail of Hades Gates fanatics, actually have good stats too. For optimal fauzt farming this is probably what you want.

Endless Pride

Endless Pride
Cap (Sacred)
Defense: 1187 to 1201
Required Level: 120
Required Strength: 456
Item Level: 130
Restitution
(Based on Restore Percentage)
+2 to All Skills
Total Character Defense +50%
Maximum Elemental Resists +3%
Cube with Trophy Fragment: Restore +20%
+4 to Life (Based on Character Level)
+2 to Mana (Based on Character Level)
Elemental Resists +10%
(1 to 50)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)

: The big and rich boy witchhunter

Veil of Steel

Veil of Steel
Great Helm (Sacred)
Defense: 9260 to 9653
Required Level: 130
Required Strength: 576
Item Level: 120
Enhanced Weapon Damage +150%
Hit Causes Monster to Flee +15%
+200% Enhanced Defense
+5000 Defense
Maximum Mana -50%
Socketed (4)

: Biggest damage and defense, I like simple things.

Belt

Lilith's Temptation

Lilith's Temptation
Plated Belt (Sacred)
Defense: (3680 - 4089) to (4031 - 4479)
Required Level: 100
Item Level: 105
3% Chance to cast level 2 Time Strike on Striking
+(170 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
-100 to Life
(60 to 100)% Magic Find
Requirements -100%
Socketed (2)

for magic find fanatics (not recommanded)

Nero

Nero
Belts
'Auhe'
Runeword Level: 100
10% Chance to cast level 14 Fortress on Melee Attack
Adds 7-25 damage
+90% Damage to Demons
Adds 63-125 fire damage
+(16 to 20)% to Fire Spell Damage
2% Deadly Strike
+(7 to 12) to Path of Flames
+(115 to 143)% Enhanced Defense

: Interesting belt, Fortress proc feel nice and will give you a taste of Frystugrad. It's good, but again farming an Auhe is too much of a pain, skip.

The Endless Loop

The Endless Loop
Light Belt (Sacred)
Defense: 1101 to 1143
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 490
Item Level: 105
40% Combat Speeds
+(10 to 19) to Charged Strike
Slow Target 10%
+50 to all Attributes
+50 Life Regenerated per Second
+(0 to 1) Mana on Striking
Socketed (2)

Champion of the Triune

Champion of the Triune
Plated Belt (Sacred)
Defense: 5209 to 6598
Required Level: 115
Required Strength: 596
Item Level: 120
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired)
6% Chance to cast level 1 Force Blast on Melee Attack
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
5% Deadly Strike
+200% Enhanced Defense
+(100 to 1000) Defense
Elemental Resists -20%
Physical Resist 5%
Socketed (2)

: Did not know this item existed before dropping it, force blast proc is absolutly insane and feel super good to have. In end lab it only have half efficiency, but a 20% damage reduction is still super big

Black Void

Black Void
Heavy Belt (Sacred)
Defense: (3060 - 3442) to (3304 - 3717)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 568
Item Level: 120
20% Attack Speed
Adds 10-15 damage
(10 to 15)% Life stolen per Hit
Slow Target 10%
+(140 to 170)% Enhanced Defense
10% to Strength
10% to Dexterity
Target Takes Additional Damage of (25 to 50)
30% Magic Find
Socketed (2)

: Overall, the best.

Gloves

Blind Anger

Blind Anger
Light Gauntlets (Sacred)
Defense: (1179 - 1447) to (1342 - 1647)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 544
Item Level: 105
8% Chance to cast level 13 Crucify on Melee Attack
+(0 to 1) to All Skills
(1 to 5)% Chance of Crushing Blow
Blinds Attacker +3
+(120 to 170)% Enhanced Defense
(11 to 15)% to All Attributes
Socketed (4)

: Pretty cool if it roll with +skills, the blind help a little bit, and the stats are good. Also it make you remember crucify exist... If you see it, that is.

Rogue Foresight

Rogue Foresight
Heavy Gloves (Sacred)
Defense: 492 to 522
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 484
Item Level: 120
+1 to All Skills
5% Deadly Strike
+(3 to 9) to War Spirit
-10% to Strength
20% to Dexterity
Physical Resist 5%
Socketed (4)

: The best for farming

Hammerfist

Hammerfist
Gauntlets (Sacred)
Defense: (1227 - 1450) to (1436 - 1697)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 574
Item Level: 105
Adds (1 to 15)-(20 to 30) damage
5% Life stolen per Hit
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(15 to 25) to Spiral Dance
Enhanced Weapon Damage +(30 to 60)%
+(120 to 160)% Enhanced Defense
Elemental Resists +15%
Socketed (4)

: Big damage and some leech. More def than Rogue too, so maybe better in some places.

Snowsquall

Snowsquall
Gloves
'Krys'
Runeword Level: 100
10% Chance to cast level 9 Cone of Cold on Melee Attack
+1 to All Skills
Adds 20-40 cold damage
Slow Target 20%
+(58 to 86)% Enhanced Defense
+(21 to 25) to Dexterity
Cold Absorb 5%
Target Takes Additional Damage of 25

: Damn Toraja farming following us again. not mendatory of course, again it's not an important part of the build or anything but it does feel good to have. Big slow that spread to the whole screen with Hades Gates, and pretty good stats. Nice and cool defensive gloves, my favorites, even.


Boots

crafted with Whirlpool : No need for anything else, really.
For bad people who doesn't want whirlpool for some reasons(exemple of reason : farming fauzt with enough damage, being against a boss with high teleport chance where whirlpool doesn't help much) :

Akarat's Trek

Akarat's Trek
Light Plated Boots (Sacred)
Defense: (1960 - 2352) to (2170 - 2604)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 561
Item Level: 120
2% Chance to cast level 30 Thunder Hammer Nova on Melee Attack
2% Chance to cast level 30 Thunder Wave on Melee Attack
2% Chance to cast level 30 Hammertime on Melee Attack
(0 to 40)% Movement Speed
+(15 to 20) to Charged Strike
Enhanced Weapon Damage +(60 to 90)%
+(150 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
10% to All Attributes
+10 to Light Radius
Socketed (4)

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Wind Runner

Wind Runner
Boots
'EaEaEaEa'
Runeword Level: 100
+(0 to 1) to All Skills
35% Attack Speed
10% Movement Speed
Adds 37-70 damage
250% Bonus to Attack Rating
(10 to 15)% Life stolen per Hit
+(171 to 200)% Enhanced Defense

(easy to farm)

Rings :

Assur's bane, or void quest rings even handle fine.

Ripstar

Ripstar
Ring
Required Level: 60
Item Level: 60
+0.5625 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+20 Life on Attack

 : Only to go with

Zular Khan's Tempest

Zular Khan's Tempest
Halberd (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 71 to 100
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 105
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
10% Chance to cast level 1 Stormpike on Striking
Broadside Cooldown Reduced by 3 seconds
Adds 250-500 fire damage
Adds 250-500 lightning damage
-50% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-50% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Phoenix (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Gryphon (Assassin Only)
+(26 to 30) to Way of the Spider (Assassin Only)
+(51 to 100) Life after each Kill
Socketed (6)

, to compensate it's lack of physical damage.

Giant's Knuckle

Giant's Knuckle
Ring
Required Level: 100
Item Level: 120
20% Attack Speed
Adds 10-15 damage
(5 to 10)% Life stolen per Hit
5% Deadly Strike
+25 Life Regenerated per Second
Physical Resist 5%

: Can be useful in some set up if it's stats you're missing I suppose

Empyrean Glory

Empyrean Glory
Ring
Required Level: 50
Item Level: 120
1% Chance to cast level 26 Singularity on Kill
(6 to 10)% to All Attributes
Increase Maximum Life and Mana 15%
15% Gold Find

: The better Assur's bane

Adrenaline Rush

Adrenaline Rush
Ring
Required Level: 100
Item Level: 120
+1 to All Skills
40% Combat Speeds
40% Movement Speed
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%

: Very big, every stats is insane so nothing much else to say.

Amulets

Scarab of Death

Scarab of Death
Amulet
Required Level: 40
Item Level: 70
50% Cast Speed
50% Attack Speed
50% Hit Recovery
Elemental Resists +25%
Physical Resist -5%
5% Reanimate as: Searing Vermin

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Athulua's Oracle

Athulua's Oracle
Amulet
Required Level: 60
Item Level: 60
+(1 to 2) to All Skills
40% Attack Speed
(150 to 250)% Bonus to Attack Rating
Cannot Be Frozen

handle fine
Good rare with +skills, life, and more.

In For The Kill

In For The Kill
Amulet
Required Level: 100
Item Level: 120
2% Chance to cast level 20 Thunder Hammer Nova on Kill
2% Chance to cast level 20 APF-20 'Maelstrom' MkI on Kill
2% Chance to cast level 20 Widowmaker on Kill
20% Movement Speed
Elemental Resists -20%
(25 to 50)% Magic Find

: Purely for farming purpose

Beads of the Snake Queen

Beads of the Snake Queen
Amulet
Required Level: 100
Item Level: 120
4% Chance to cast level 33 Scorpion Blade on Kill
Adds 5-10 damage
Stun Attack
(20 to 25)% to Strength
(20 to 25)% to Dexterity
+(200 to 500) Defense
+100 Life after each Kill

: Big dex for big damage

Death Ward

Death Ward
Amulet
Required Level: 110
Item Level: 105
+(1 to 3) to All Skills
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Poison Resist +30%
Poison Length Reduced by 30%
30% Curse Length Reduction

/ Litteraly any unique that have been lottoed with +2 max res : For Lab and Samael

On swap
Shunpo craft

Lataif-as-Sitta

Lataif-as-Sitta
Assassin Naginatas
'Ghal'
Runeword Level: 100
+25 Spell Focus
+6 to Assassin Skill Levels
50% Attack Speed
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
+(101 to 150) to Maximum Damage
+120% Damage to Demons
+(11 to 16) to Rapture
+(11 to 16) to Firedance

If you want the oskills.
Bloodlust claw +

Kodo

Kodo
Shields
'Ath'
Runeword Level: 90
5% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Kill
+(7 to 9)% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Hit Recovery
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(115 to 143)% Enhanced Defense
(11 to 20)% to Strength
(11 to 20)% to Vitality

Bloodlust claw + tanky shield (

Wheel of Fortune

Wheel of Fortune
Large Shield (4)
Defense: 85 to 162
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 4
Required Strength: 22
Required Dexterity: 45
Item Level: 6
+(21 to 30) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Elemental Resists +(6 to 10)%
Cold Absorb 1%
Lightning Absorb 1%
Fire Absorb 1%
(4 to 7)% Gold Find
(5 to 10)% Magic Find
Socketed (1)
Defense: 240 to 405
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 21
Required Strength: 32
Required Dexterity: 67
Item Level: 25
+(31 to 40) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Elemental Resists +(11 to 20)%
Cold Absorb 2%
Lightning Absorb 2%
Fire Absorb 2%
(9 to 12)% Gold Find
(11 to 20)% Magic Find
Socketed (3)
Defense: 501 to 817
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 39
Required Strength: 68
Required Dexterity: 139
Item Level: 46
+(41 to 50) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +(21 to 30)%
Cold Absorb 2%
Lightning Absorb 2%
Fire Absorb 2%
(14 to 17)% Gold Find
(21 to 30)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)
Defense: 684 to 1113
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 48
Required Strength: 141
Required Dexterity: 288
Item Level: 80
+(51 to 60) to Vitality
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +(31 to 40)%
Cold Absorb 3%
Lightning Absorb 3%
Fire Absorb 3%
(17 to 19)% Gold Find
(31 to 40)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)

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Zayl's Temptation

Zayl's Temptation
Bladed Shield (Sacred)
Defense: 2181 to 2604
Chance to Block: 5%
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 1100
Item Level: 120
20% Life Regen Over 5 Seconds When You Take Weapon Damage
+(3 to 5) to Assassin Skill Levels
1% Base Block Chance
Adds 150-250 fire damage
Adds 150-250 lightning damage
Adds 150-250 cold damage
+(14 to 20) to Crucify (Assassin Only)
Enhanced Weapon Damage -30%
Slow Target (15 to 25)%
+200% Enhanced Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
1% Reanimate as: Lord Aldric Jitan
Requirements +100%
Socketed (6)

) for safer batstrike charging purpose

Killing Vector

Killing Vector
Cestus (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: 41 to 43
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 80
Required Dexterity: 349
Item Level: 1
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.13 per Dexterity)%
+(33 to 55) Spell Focus
+(1 to 3) to Assassin Skill Levels
(21 to 30)% Cast Speed
+(16 to 20)% to Physical/Magic Spell Damage
+(9 to 16) to Doom (Assassin Only)
+200 to Energy
Socketed (3)

Universal Law
(Assassin Psionic Set)

, to get a free doom, therorically doom is super useful for charged broadside, but I don't feel it much with just this honestly.

For elemental / poison set up people :
Basically anything with pierce, like

Scales of the Serpent

Scales of the Serpent
Gothic Plate (Sacred)
Defense: (7481 - 8308) to (9074 - 10078)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 614
Item Level: 105
15% Chance to cast level 40 Arachnomancy on Melee Attack
4% Chance to cast level 12 Time Strike on Striking
(31 to 40)% Hit Recovery
+90% Damage to Undead
Adds 200-300 poison damage over 2 seconds
-35% to Enemy Poison Resistance
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
Enhanced Weapon Damage +(25 to 30)%
+(144 to 171)% Enhanced Defense
+100 to Strength
+50 Life on Attack
Socketed (6)

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Dementia

Dementia
Belt (Sacred)
Defense: (3111 - 3348) to (3272 - 3524)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 634
Item Level: 120
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(15 to 25) to Fowl Fight
Slow Target 5%
+(120 to 140)% Enhanced Defense
+500 Defense
Maximum Life 5%
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Physical Resist 5%
Requirements +20%
Socketed (2)

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Bad Mood

Bad Mood
Ring
Required Level: 100
Item Level: 120
-20% Cast Speed
Adds 50-100 fire damage
Adds 50-100 lightning damage
Adds 50-100 cold damage
-(5 to 20)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-(5 to 20)% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
-(5 to 20)% to Enemy Cold Resistance

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The Tesseract

The Tesseract
Amulet
Required Level: 100
Item Level: 105
+2 to All Skills
25% Cast Speed
+(1 to 30)% to Fire Spell Damage
+(1 to 30)% to Lightning Spell Damage
+(1 to 30)% to Cold Spell Damage
+(1 to 30)% to Poison Spell Damage
-(1 to 20)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-(1 to 20)% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
-(1 to 20)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-(1 to 20)% to Enemy Poison Resistance

, things like that.

Bonus :

The Snake Pit

The Snake Pit
(Assassin Naginata Set)

Serpent's Tail
Serpent's Coil
Serpent's Tongue
Serpent's Fangs

Set Bonus with 2 or more set items:
+1 to Assassin Skill Levels
Enhanced Weapon Damage +30%

Set Bonus with 3 or more set items:
+2 to Assassin Skill Levels
Elemental Resists +50%

Set Bonus with complete set:
20% Chance to cast level 36 Deathstrike on Melee Attack
Adds 63-250 damage
-30% to Enemy Poison Resistance
10% Deadly Strike
+18 to Hyena Strike
Enhanced Weapon Damage +210%
+150 Life after each Kill

, assassin's dedicated naginata set. Have bad individual pieces but is pretty cool all toegether in an elemental or poison set up. May be useful against somes bosses because of hyena strike too(<-- person traumatised to not have enough regen against samael)

Trophy Hunter

Trophy Hunter
(Trophy Set)

The Conqueror
Idol of Fortune

Set Bonus with complete set:
Medals of Honor
(Based on Trophies)
+10 Life after each Kill
+1% Physical Resist
+5% Magic Find
+25 to Mana
+50 to Life

if you're autistic enough to go farm useless trophies, give a big life pool ultimately

Henchmen Trophies

Henchmen Trophies
(Legendary Set)

Bilefroth Skin
Blackskull's Horns
Doomcloud Spine
Stareye's Claws
Fangskin Scales

Set Bonus with 2 or more set items:
+2 to All Skills
15% to All Attributes

Set Bonus with 3 or more set items:
-25% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
Elemental Resists +25%

Set Bonus with complete set:
50% Movement Speed
1% Base Block Chance
+35% to Spell Damage
+5 to Blink
1% Reanimate as: Juris Khan, King of Ureh
+150 Life after each Kill

on an elemental set up, or just the armor and glove : Too rare, not tested but looks cool.

Crafting

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Tiered unique crafting
After killing andy, you're given "catalyst of disenchantement" that you can use in the cube to transform unique you find in arcane shard. 5 shard give a crystals, and two Arcane crystals + the base item of the unique you want + 1 oil of enhancement (you can buy it) = the base item transform into it's associated tiered unique.
To increase it's tier, just put the unique you made with a crystal in the cube, you can do it until (4) but be aware of the new level or strength requirement the item will have.
Crystals have others uses and you never have enough, so pick them all !

Runeword preparing : In normal any gray item work, you need to put the needed rune last and fill the others sockets with jewels.
After that you want to prepare it with and oil of renewal until you get good stats with either 0 or max sockets (if it is 0 you can combine the item with jewels to make is socketed), then if you have some golds you also want the item to have oil of luck bonus
No need for the item to be perfect but at least correct, unless you're preparing a xis based runeword, which are unsocketable, in that case the you want close to the best. For exemple before making

Rebel (Xis)

Rebel
Body Armors
'ElXis'
Runeword Level: 120
Enhanced Weapon Damage +120%
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+(151 to 200) to Strength
+(151 to 200) to Dexterity
-75 to Vitality
-75 to Energy
Elemental Resists +(60 to 80)%
+1 to Light Radius
Cannot be Unsocketed

, you want 50-55 enhanced defence and phy resistance on it, then if you want to, it's possible to put enhanced def mystic orbs ; When using them you normally can't go higher than 200%, but if you use them before making the runeword it will work. Beware of the new level requirement, I don't recommand it since we don't need defense that much anyway, but it's good to know I guess.

Naginata shrine crafting :
Rare Naginata + Shrine = crafted one. If you find a non rare sacred Nagi, make it rare with oil of renewal --> Charsi quest. 3 charsi quest are available so it's perfect, 3 nagis ! Make the transition to crafted at lvl 120, before that

Na-Krul's Spine

Na-Krul's Spine
Naginata (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (22 - 25) to (29 - 36)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 6
Required Dexterity: 58
Item Level: 9
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
20% Chance to cast level 4 Flamefront on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 2 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+6% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
15% Attack Speed
+(35 to 40)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (8 to 10)-(13 to 20) damage
Elemental Resists +(21 to 25)%
Physical Resist (3 to 5)%
Socketed (2)
Two-Hand Damage: (74 - 84) to (91 - 106)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 26
Required Dexterity: 95
Item Level: 29
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
30% Chance to cast level 12 Flamefront on Melee Attack
7% Chance to cast level 8 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+12% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
25% Attack Speed
+(81 to 103)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (13 to 15)-(28 to 35) damage
Elemental Resists +(31 to 35)%
Physical Resist (9 to 11)%
Socketed (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (194 - 214) to (221 - 246)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 47
Required Dexterity: 192
Item Level: 51
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
40% Chance to cast level 20 Flamefront on Melee Attack
9% Chance to cast level 14 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+18% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
35% Attack Speed
+(126 to 149)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (18 to 20)-(43 to 50) damage
Elemental Resists +(41 to 45)%
Physical Resist (15 to 17)%
Socketed (5)
Two-Hand Damage: (255 - 277) to (290 - 320)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 57
Required Dexterity: 382
Item Level: 90
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
45% Chance to cast level 24 Flamefront on Melee Attack
10% Chance to cast level 17 Bloodlust on Melee Attack
+24% Bonus Damage to Bloodlust
40% Attack Speed
+(149 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds (21 to 23)-(51 to 60) damage
Elemental Resists +(46 to 50)%
Physical Resist (18 to 20)%
Socketed (6)

do very well.
Best shrines are intimidating > Abandonned >> Weird > The rest
A crafted nagi have shrine bonus + 4 affixes, among them, you want to search for :
Enhanced damage 150-200% > Max damage(can go up to 300) > Skill levels(up to +10) > interesting procs > 15% max life, enhanced weapon damage (both are very rare)
Situationnal : + to Shunpo, slow target (up to 30%) / cast speed (for Laz)
When the nagi is to your liking, you can bless it with an intimidating shrine to get a second time the shrine affixe (abandonned if Enhanced damage already is 200%) : for that transmute shrine + weapon + 2 arcane crystals


Possible Naginata proc and skill list :
The best
Broadside 2 second cooldown reduction : The holy grail, useful anytime, but especially against bosses. In end game make an infinite broadside, which is awesome.
Broadside on kill : Very good farming proc, the broadside level is low but will still do it's job.
Forteress on melee attack : less cool than broadside on kill but the proc is more consistent and useful anytime, bonus points because it make you feel like you're a big boy that have

Frysturgard

Frysturgard
Naginata (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: (374 - 403) to (526 - 560)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 558
Item Level: 105
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
Area Effect Attack
15% Chance to cast level 12 Fortress on Melee Attack
5% Chance to cast level 18 Glacial Nova on Kill
+(5 to 7) to Assassin Skill Levels
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
Adds 100-200 damage
10% Chance of Crushing Blow
Enhanced Weapon Damage +90%
(21 to 25)% to Strength
(21 to 25)% to Dexterity
Socketed (6)

even though you're a pleb using a craft.
+ to laserblade : in lategame a good +30 will give you around 1000 bonus magic damage to weapon and 120% total defense. Less good that +skills but certainly not bad. And both can be together anyway.
+ to shunpo : Cool for mobility, I usually make a second crafted Nagi with shunpo on it that I use situationnaly (trophy/charm farm, bremmtown in less than 30 seconds...)

Weird things :
Bear stance : look strong : around 20% phy resist and 300% def + ignore physical resistance of the undead bonus, but is impossible to use correctly with that many skills, you'll need some big autism I don't have, and to actually like stance mechanic (you're weird)

You can see they exist :
Bloodbath duration increased by 5 seconds : If you don't think this is good you don't know the horror of having to recast bloodbath everytime.
Spike nova on kill : Nice free weapon damage everywere but that's it, 10 time weaker than broadside on kill
Time strike on striking : proc everywere with broadside, whirlpool and hades gates but doesn't do much  
Spiral danse on melee attack : Pretty cool and fun looking, that's it.


Useless :
Mind flay on melee attack : Reduce movement speed, magic and light resistance of enemies, which is very nice but only last 1.5 seconds, but after testing it myslef I don't really feel the difference, honestly. Even using coup de grace which is only magic and lightning damage. It's cool looking and make a cool sound tho so even if it's useless I'd keep it
Shower of rock on kill :Rrarely useful debuff, does a lot of visual pollution
Lionheart on kill : give an insane boost of defense (around 700%) and some weapon damage but last like 5 seconds and the proc chance is really low, it's more than nothing I guess but don't rely on it.
Hades Gate Cooldown Reduced by 1 seconds : omegalol time to respec to put ONE less point in hades gates I guess !! Or be less punished the few time you use it without buffing ! No seriously it's useless, I would seriously consider it if it were at least 3-4 seconds, to simulate having bloodbath or something, like a weaker version of dark pact passive only for Hades Gates, but it's not.
Rapture on melee attack : Same as lionheart, doesn't last long but this time it only give movement speed (you're not supposed to get a new breakpoint with it) so it's awful
Magic missile on melee attack : Does close to 0 damage but at least it look pretty cool.
Pain spirit on striking : same as magic missile
Flamestrike on melee attack : proc chance too low for what it does, which is like 2 damage (if it hit)
Arcane torrent on melee attack : 0 damage and no other utility
Balefire on melee attack : Same
Cataclysm on melee attack : same
Punisher on melee attack : Same but actually too slow to even hit enemies.

Boots shrine crafting :
Shrines : Abandonned >>> Hidden > quiet/ Enchanted > Creepy > weird > rest
Affixes to search for : +to whirlpool >>> +to assassin skill (max is +2) > life (max is 170) > Enhanced defense > attributes > resists/hit recovery

Sockets / Jewel crafting :
Perfect Ametyst and resitances gems are perfectly fine, but you want some juicy jewels for runewords, reducing requirement -especially thoses of your crafted boots early- or even for free sockets if they are good enough, so keep a lot of ilvl 99(there an option in game to see item level, activate it if it isn't) jewels and crystals and try it out !
Using Ber rune, your never have enough life and mana steal.
Ilvl 99 jewel + oil of craft + Ber rune + arcane shard = crafted jewel

Mendatory stat : 40-50 to life - 2% to dex/1% to all attribute
Secondary : missing attack speed/hit recovery > %bonus to attack rating > Min/max Damage > +to dex/vit/str
Situationnal : Requirement - Indestructible - Magic Find

Don't forget to oil of luck them for a chance of getting some bonus attribute !

Jewels lose 5 ilvl every time you transmute it, once they are lower than 82 they roll lower attribute, especially life, so you can throw it, that's why you need a lot of them. Jewels you find in high level zone are hidden lvl 100+, and they return to 99 after a save and quit for some reason. When using a fresh Fauzt or Viz jun jewel for exemple, they are ilvl 120+, be aware while using them that your Arcane crystals will mysteriously dematerialize at unscientific speed.

Mercenary

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I will maybe detail 1.7 merc info after testing them all, from now Act 1 Priestress with an Amazon bow look INSANE, as well as act 2 Exemplar (colosseum is very useful for us). The 1.6 info should basically be ok, instead of the fauzt farming with bloodmage part, now it's probably better to get an Abjurer for big damage, and to have act 2 something instead of barb during leveling. Bear is still the Lab dude, so actually not that much changes.
I personnaly did all my 1.7 run with act 1 priestress, I just put on her my best

Ice Breaker

Ice Breaker
Amazon Bows
'Sur'
Runeword Level: 61
25% Chance to cast level 46 Flamestrike on Kill
+(87 to 114)% Enhanced Damage
+(26 to 38) to Maximum Damage
7% Chance of Crushing Blow
Regenerate Mana +15%
Cold Resist +(51 to 70)%
Cannot Be Frozen

on every reflex bow I found, then the Xis version. She's destroying screens while giving vindicate (+45% EWD and big regen) , feel really gud.

1.6 OLD INFO
Good thing in this game is that most mercenary are cool, and come to personnal preference. Here's my choices :
From normal act 1 to act 5 : Ranger, only for her dark power buff so we can have some free attack speed. Put on her gear litteraly whatever you find, or nothing, who care she'll survive anyway.
From act 5 normal to ~lvl 120 : Barbarian : Since we have no summon, a tanky dude is really nothing to laugh at. He have a passive that scale with strength, giving him an insane amount of life regen. It make his tankyness pretty weird since he most of the time look immortal, then he take too much in a short time and get one shotted. His survivability depend on the zone you are currently. Tran Athulala ? RIP. Kurast or torajan jungle ? Immortal. After getting to lvl 120 rift it's a big rip unless you give him absurd stuff, witch we don't have. So you can forget about him. Bye bye !
Gear : Random uniques you find that give strength/tankyness, he's cool so let's give him some some cool runewords :

Erawan

Erawan
Body Armors
'Nih'
Runeword Level: 100
10% Bonus to Buff/Debuff/Cold Skill Duration
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(144 to 171)% Enhanced Defense
25% to Strength
25% to Vitality
Physical Resist (11 to 15)%
Total Character Defense (11 to 20)%

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Bogspitter

Bogspitter
Helms
'Yul'
Runeword Level: 100
20% Chance to cast level 11 Miasma on Melee Attack
+1 to All Skills
Adds 60-179 poison damage over 1 seconds
-3% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+(115 to 143)% Enhanced Defense

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Megalith

Megalith
Boots
'Ath'
Runeword Level: 90
+1 to All Skills
25% Cast Speed
15% Hit Recovery
+(115 to 143)% Enhanced Defense
+(41 to 50) to Strength
Regenerate Mana +30%
Physical Resist 5%

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Truce

Truce
Belts
'Vith'
Runeword Level: 98
-5% Cast Speed
-5% Attack Speed
Stun Attack
+5% to Summoned Minion Damage
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
Physical Resist 10%
Slows Attacker by 5%

, this combo will make him super tanky with no investement.

~Lvl 125+ : By this point you want to farm Fauzt, thankfully every mercenary survive in there, but since elemental is what work best in there, my choice ended at act 3 bloodmage, to have him do poison damage in our place.
Base gear :

Gehenna

Gehenna
Weapons
'Xar'
Runeword Level: 100
20% Chance to cast level 32 Frozen Crown on Melee Attack
+(144 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
Adds 94-125 cold damage
Adds 150-200 poison damage over 1 seconds
+25% to Cold Spell Damage
+25% to Poison Spell Damage
-2% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-2% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
-27% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-27% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Increase Maximum Life and Mana 23%
Requirements -33%

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Glowskull

Glowskull
Crown (4)
Defense: (164 - 187) to (248 - 281)
Required Level: 10
Required Strength: 64 to 72
Item Level: 17
+(6 to 8)% Bonus to Poison Skill Duration
+(4 to 6)% to Poison Spell Damage
-3% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(41 to 60)% Enhanced Defense
Poison Resist +(16 to 25)%
Total Character Defense (11 to 20)%
Durability (21 to 25)%
Requirements -(11 to 20)%
Socketed (1)
Defense: (561 - 620) to (785 - 868)
Required Level: 28
Required Strength: 89 to 99
Item Level: 32
+(11 to 13)% Bonus to Poison Skill Duration
+(10 to 12)% to Poison Spell Damage
-6% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(81 to 100)% Enhanced Defense
Poison Resist +(36 to 45)%
Total Character Defense (21 to 30)%
Durability (31 to 35)%
Requirements -(16 to 25)%
Socketed (3)
Defense: (1272 - 1392) to (1754 - 1920)
Required Level: 46
Required Strength: 175 to 198
Item Level: 53
+(16 to 18)% Bonus to Poison Skill Duration
+(16 to 18)% to Poison Spell Damage
-9% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(101 to 120)% Enhanced Defense
Poison Resist +(56 to 65)%
Total Character Defense (31 to 40)%
Durability (41 to 45)%
Requirements -(21 to 30)%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (1911 - 2076) to (2614 - 2839)
Required Level: 54
Required Strength: 337 to 384
Item Level: 90
+(18 to 20)% Bonus to Poison Skill Duration
+(18 to 20)% to Poison Spell Damage
-12% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(121 to 140)% Enhanced Defense
Poison Resist +(66 to 75)%
Total Character Defense (41 to 50)%
Durability (46 to 50)%
Requirements -(26 to 35)%
Socketed (4)

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Destroying Angel

Destroying Angel
Small Shield (4)
Defense: (59 - 65) to (112 - 123)
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 2
Required Strength: 15
Required Dexterity: 34
Item Level: 4
+50 poison damage over 2 seconds
+(6 to 10)% to Poison Spell Damage
-3% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Attacker Flees after Striking (4 to 5)%
+(12 to 23)% Enhanced Defense
Poison Resist +(21 to 25)%
Requirements +10%
Socketed (1)
Defense: (229 - 248) to (363 - 392)
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 20
Required Strength: 24
Required Dexterity: 55
Item Level: 23
+150 poison damage over 2 seconds
+(16 to 20)% to Poison Spell Damage
-6% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Attacker Flees after Striking (8 to 9)%
+(35 to 46)% Enhanced Defense
Poison Resist +(31 to 35)%
Requirements +20%
Socketed (3)
Defense: (581 - 621) to (880 - 941)
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 37
Required Strength: 55
Required Dexterity: 124
Item Level: 43
+300 poison damage over 2 seconds
+(26 to 30)% to Poison Spell Damage
-9% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Attacker Flees after Striking (12 to 15)%
+(58 to 69)% Enhanced Defense
Poison Resist +(41 to 45)%
Requirements +30%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (858 - 914) to (1287 - 1371)
Chance to Block: Class%
Required Level: 46
Required Strength: 126
Required Dexterity: 278
Item Level: 77
+600 poison damage over 2 seconds
+(36 to 40)% to Poison Spell Damage
-12% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Attacker Flees after Striking (16 to 20)%
+(69 to 80)% Enhanced Defense
Poison Resist +(46 to 50)%
Requirements +40%
Socketed (4)

, and every others pieces with shimmering craft. The only affixes you can search is « Burning veil on kill » proc on gloves (it create a wall that give 70 enhanced weapon damage buff when you pass though, it's hard to see but still is a nice bonus). On others pieces only big number on poison things and some tankyness matter(defenses and res). Any rare Amulet will work, or

Angel of Death

Angel of Death
Amulet
Required Level: 90
Item Level: 123
2% Chance to cast level 33 Punisher Bolt on Striking
+(0 to 2) to All Skills
+(11 to 30)% to Poison Spell Damage
-(6 to 15)% to Enemy Poison Resistance

Astrogha's Moon
(Wyrd Set)

, very common.
Upgrades :

Cathedral (Xis)

Cathedral
Body Armors
'GuXis'
Runeword Level: 120
+(76 to 100)% Bonus to Poison Skill Duration
+(45 to 55)% to Poison Spell Damage
+190% Enhanced Defense
+2420 Defense
+1 Life Regenerated per Second (Based on Character Level)
Cold Resist +20%
Level 40 Infected Roots (50/50 Charges)
Cannot be Unsocketed

(the only easily farmable one),

Astrogha's Moon

Astrogha's Moon
(Wyrd Set)

Angel of Death
Viper Skin
Darkling

Set Bonus with 2 or more set items:
Maximum Poison Resist +2%
Poison Resist +75%

Set Bonus with complete set:
Wyrd: Stuns Target for 0.2 seconds
Wyrd Cooldown Increased by 0.3 seconds
-25% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+23 to Amatoxin
Slow Target 5%

full set,

Eternal Vigil

Eternal Vigil
War Sword (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: 46 to 50
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 1162
Item Level: 120
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
+200 Spell Focus
3% Chance to cast level 53 Supernova on Death Blow
3% Chance to cast level 53 Glacial Nova on Death Blow
3% Chance to cast level 53 Cataclysm on Death Blow
+(3 to 4) to All Skills
+(31 to 40)% to Spell Damage
-(28 to 35)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(200 to 250) to Mana
Requirements +100%
Socketed (3)

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Celestial Barrier

Celestial Barrier
Spiked Shield (Sacred)
Defense: (2525 - 2828) to (3012 - 3374)
Chance to Block: 1% + Class%
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 550
Item Level: 120
+(4 to 5) to All Skills
30% Cast Speed
-50% Attack Speed
1% Base Block Chance
-(20 to 25)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(150 to 180)% Enhanced Defense
Total Character Defense 50%
(0 to 2)% Reanimate as: Burning Titan
(0 to 2)% Reanimate as: Cruel Titan
(0 to 2)% Reanimate as: Frostborn Titan
Socketed (6)

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Dementia

Dementia
Belt (Sacred)
Defense: (3111 - 3348) to (3272 - 3524)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 634
Item Level: 120
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(15 to 25) to Fowl Fight
Slow Target 5%
+(120 to 140)% Enhanced Defense
+500 Defense
Maximum Life 5%
Maximum Elemental Resists +1%
Physical Resist 5%
Requirements +20%
Socketed (2)

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Indigo

Indigo
Circlets
'Shaad'
Runeword Level: 100
+100 Spell Focus
+2 to All Skills
50% Cast Speed
-(13 to 15)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+20% Enhanced Defense
-500 Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Requirements -100%

if you're patient enough to farm Toraja )
Mystic orb : cast speed on weapon, poison damage everywere else
Socket : poison pierces rune(no runes), and zod crafted jewels on runewords. A little bit of strength from ko rune can help him tank too.
His cast speed breackpoints  : 58-86-138

Alternative : Priestress with

Webspinner

Webspinner
Short War Bow (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (8 - 9) to (23 - 29)
Required Level: 8
Required Dexterity: 73 to 77
Item Level: 12
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Dexterity)%
5% Chance to cast level 5 Arachnomancy on Kill
3% Chance to cast level 4 Miasma on Striking
+(18 to 35)% Enhanced Damage
+(11 to 15) to Maximum Damage
+(2 to 3)% to Poison Spell Damage
Maximum Life (3 to 5)%
Miasma Effect Duration: +2 seconds
Slows Attacker by (6 to 10)%
Requirements -(11 to 15)%
Socketed (2)
Two-Hand Damage: (28 - 32) to (57 - 70)
Required Level: 28
Required Dexterity: 95 to 100
Item Level: 31
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Dexterity)%
6% Chance to cast level 10 Arachnomancy on Kill
4% Chance to cast level 10 Miasma on Striking
+(52 to 69)% Enhanced Damage
+(16 to 25) to Maximum Damage
+(5 to 6)% to Poison Spell Damage
Maximum Life (9 to 11)%
Miasma Effect Duration: +2 seconds
Slows Attacker by (11 to 15)%
Requirements -(21 to 25)%
Socketed (4)
Two-Hand Damage: (76 - 83) to (135 - 153)
Required Level: 47
Required Dexterity: 161 to 171
Item Level: 52
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Dexterity)%
7% Chance to cast level 14 Arachnomancy on Kill
5% Chance to cast level 16 Miasma on Striking
+(87 to 103)% Enhanced Damage
+(31 to 40) to Maximum Damage
+(8 to 9)% to Poison Spell Damage
Maximum Life (15 to 17)%
Miasma Effect Duration: +2 seconds
Slows Attacker by (21 to 25)%
Requirements -(31 to 35)%
Socketed (5)
Two-Hand Damage: (102 - 110) to (179 - 199)
Required Level: 54
Required Dexterity: 294 to 313
Item Level: 85
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Dexterity)%
8% Chance to cast level 18 Arachnomancy on Kill
6% Chance to cast level 19 Miasma on Striking
+(104 to 120)% Enhanced Damage
+(41 to 50) to Maximum Damage
+(9 to 10)% to Poison Spell Damage
Maximum Life (18 to 20)%
Miasma Effect Duration: +2 seconds
Slows Attacker by (31 to 35)%
Requirements -(36 to 40)%
Socketed (6)

, priestress give Vindicate buff = Around 100% Enhanced weapon damage and nice passive life regen, while Webspinner will spread miasma to the whole screen. It's a support set up that work well, but big damage is probably better. Also Act 1 merc take dex gear while act 3 demand only some shrine you don't need.
Act 3 abjurer : This dude also hurt a lot with strong lightning spell, I just prefer bloodmage better but if you're maxing way of the spider obviously you want him.
Lvl 140+ : Barb and Shapeshifter apparently do well in Labs, I used a Act 2 Shapeshifter and it did not dissapoint, he die pretty fast if it's too crowded or encouter some elites of course but he can help, I guess. His gear is everything that can help him tank, my old ithxis boots, some witchhunter's hood, things that give lots of strength, and perfect bloodstones so he have some fire res and tank the most dangerous and common lab attack.
That's about it for the merc I tried and know well, if you want a more detailled and general description, this is probably what you're searching for.

d2 stats set up

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D2stats is a very important tool, it give items notifications and a more detailed character stat. Just for reference, here's what I added to the notifier section for my playthough specifically :
#leveling items
"Halberd"
"Naginata" #TU upgrade levels ; 9 29 47 57
"Heavy Gloves" 2 3 4
"Hard Leather Armor" 2 3 4
"Light Belt" 2 3 4
"Skull Cap" 2 3 4
"Heavy Boots" 2 3 4
"Rune"
"Sapphire"
"^(Skull)"
"^(Flawless Skull)"
"^(Perfect Skull)"
"Shrine \(10" # Shrines
Ring$" rare
#sacred rare
"Perfect Diamond" #for str based merc (if you one)

#mid game items:
"Katar|Wrist Blade|Claws|Blade Talons|Scissors Katar" sacred rare
#"Breast Plate" 4 #for kra rw when enough str
#"Quilted Armor" sacred #for kra rw when enough str

"Signet of Learning"
"Signet"
"Naginata" sacred
"^(Boots)" sacred rare
"Jewel"
"No|Lai|On Rune"
"Perfect Amethyst"
"Perfect Ruby" #for craft
"Turquoise"
"Amber"
"Bloodstone"
"Onyx"
"Amulet" rare

#merc gear(and runeword base items)
#"Crown" 4
#"Small Shield" 4
"Greaves" sacred rare
"^(Light Plate)" sacred rare
"Diadem" sacred rare
"^(Gauntlets)" sacred rare
"Plated Belt" sacred rare

Afterword

I started sigma with this build, and am now stuck forever. I love Naginata Assassin, and hope I could transfer a little bit of my love to you, or even just make you reconsider the build strength. My ways may seem weird or even bad to most experienced players since I always played this game and tried to find solutions when stuck alone, with a naginata assassin approach only. Until this season at least, were for this guide purpose I tried to get the most information possible ; so I did some weird things like talking to people or playing multiplayer just to trade for the sole purpose of testing some items. But for every uber you see me destroying in a few second with broadside, know that behind that there's about 4 differents Naginata Assassin I starded since 1.0, with one billion death and problems with every new content I discovered. Now after the buffs, it's easier. Way easier. But I am aware still that this build is hard to get and even "mastered" (I'm very far from it and do billions of errors) this is not the best if all you want is the best possible TG gain per minute. Well actually I say that but I still don't know a thing or even care about what the meta is, or how others builds do. However there's one thing I can say for sure : if you want an unique and fun experience, with very dynamic gameplay, that can do all content, please try it.

I'm not an english native so if there's errors correct me please. I'd also like very much feedback in general, in videos descriptions or in there, or if I need to add something, if you have question, whatever. (but please at least read everything or ctrl+f before asking kek)
Thanks to everyone in discord who helped me when I ranted about Laz and Sam, or gave me knowledge in general. Thanks to everyone sharing their nagi experience there, directly to me, in showcases or whatever, all inputs are welcome so I can make this guide better.
I do not take responsability for any hand cramp, RSI, or any other hand problem you may encounter after playing this build too much.

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be quick to play it before 1.6 end, now that I've posted this, nerf is coming

[Lynderika]

4th reserved post just in case
I will use this post for updates

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06 sep : Corrected a few typos, added a few lines in early milestones about skills points, added relic /items (ty acry)
07 sep : Added two new samael video, part 111.5 and 111.6. Still not a clear but be patient is should come soon, I'm starting to slowly git gud (very slowly), replaced Sam link for 111.5 because it's the funnier
Added link to the vietnamese merc guide, It's probably better to read someone more experienced than me in this part
12 sep : Added Acry and Controlledanger "poison" and "elemental" set up showcase in my skills tldr. They are not my things but if they look fun to you feel free to try, all nagis are good nagis (even spearzon cosplays)
14 sep : Due to popular demand, changed Elemental and Poison set up description to be more inclusive, changed description of the Naginata set (thanks for everyone your input, I wanted to try all theses things but were too lazy)
15 sep : smol updates of ubers description, added the fact that 120 rifts is the part that felt the less good in my progression, and re added sam set up video
18 sep : Added labs video, some cool T11 and T12 runs, and a one shot from phoboss at T13 ( ), updated lab description, updated merc description to add Shapeshifter. Added a link to Arcology Samael kill showcase, changed black ice description to talk about it's end game potential
Theses labs are my last videos ! My playthough end here, with 59h32 of video content, representing 99% of everything I've done with this character, have fun lol (1% being a few things in normal and lots of sam try)
20 sep : changed title because who care if I'm playing ssf or not
07 oct : Changed again Black ice section, very smol UMO add
07 oct :

1.7 PATCH IS OUT ! From what I see just from that :
Nerfs :
BACKSTAB : duration AND magic damage reduced by 25%, so the effective damage take a lot. Early bosses and sam will be way harder but most of the gameplay should be ok.
Whirlpool cd : 1>1.6 sec, Overall gameplay doesn't change that much, Whirlpool always were here to be dropped every fews secs to support your skills, most of the time it's the best. I discovered this skill in 1.6 so ended up heavily abusing it, but most of the time others skills do around the same. A few places, like Bremmtown and labs, relied heavily on this though, this may be a problem.
Result : I don't even feel the loss lol
Edryem do not work outside of toraja : No summon anywhere, they were useful in somes places, rip

Buffs :
Sleep now give +1% max res for free, just thanks
Mercs are hella cool, go get some act 1 with cool amazon bow or act 2 with colosseum, can't wait
Storm blade have +40% dex now, super big bonus
somes places got easier ; jitan and astro reduced damage, TA arrowside easier to predict

Unknown because patch are very precise science :
Maybe buff : "Reduced the effectiveness of physical and magic resistance debuffing skills. Reduced the physical and magic resistances of endgame bosses to compensate." By how much? By what? The only place we were debuffing is sam with doom, How impactful is it? since most of damage is magic and phy and it's reduced it should be ok, but by what margin? Maybe "normal" set up sam is around the same and black ice sam take a lot because of that and backstab nerf, who know
Apparently a nerf : " Pure physical weapon damage builds (including damage conversion) will see a very small reduction in damage in the late endgame" Very small is not an indication.

A few very notifiable changes but nothing absurd

10 oct : Actually patch say backstab duration changed but the it's the cd that were increased, to be 1 more sec by base levels. so now 7 points to have 7 secs is the best, it indeed is a nerf since we lost a little bit of duration but gained 2 points hehe
Changed Backstab descrition to say now it's 7 points
My 1.7 feedback : Bosses are definitly a little bit tankier than before. Farming is about the same, if not better because mercs are super strong. Anyway Sam probably is super super hard now but every other content look still smooth (depend on your definition of smooth and skill level of course )

12 oct : Updated a few new 1.7 things, everything outside of maybe enhanced weapon damage values or some minor things should be gud

[huangyunshy]

It's great. The most important thing is to have a video. Very good guide

[oztor]

Amazing build, great guide. 10 extra fingers required to play it though
Maybe I'll give it a try one day.

[akbugger]

Fwiw, I don't think nagisin needs nerfs. It rewards skilled gameplay, which is perfect.

[Lynderika]

It's great. The most important thing is to have a video. Very good guide

Thanks ! I also think so, to the point I ended recording litteraly(almost) everything, I wanted anyone to be able to check how I get to an uber, or whatever they want, even the shameful part of the run (I won't say exemples) or the multiple hour trophy farming. Putting my first clear of every ubers and commenting my gameplay where it's flimsy or not and sometimes putting better exemples is a good way to learn, I think.
My goal were more to share my nagi experience than creating a short and easy guide, I just wanted to hand out litteraly everything I know and think it worked, now we'll see if anyone's interested. I ended with litteraly about 50 hours of content to clear everything, I know it's too much but the goal is to take whatever you want from it.

Amazing build, great guide. 10 extra fingers required to play it though
Maybe I'll give it a try one day.

Can confirm 2 finger is enough, but damn the mouse hand hurt, it's impossible to farm for too long haha

Fwiw, I don't think nagisin needs nerfs. It rewards skilled gameplay, which is perfect.

I think it's fine right now too. More than nerfs I'd rework a few things, like giving more interactions with vampiric icon, some changes in barrier strike and crucify that would make them useful and worth investing point into, differents 1 and 2 charged batstrike, for exemple. Maybe the recent defense bonus from laserblade is slightly too much as it add yet another defensive layer, or some may argue getting litteraly free max res from subterfuge doesn't make any sense... It's fine right now, but I can see some changes. I just hope backstab stay the same, invulnerability is stupidly strong but I like very much the idea of having to choose between an offensive broadside use or keeping it for the right moment. I sure hope it doesn't become a simple broadside support.

[Wulf]

10/10 banner

[akbugger]

I leveled up my nagisin to 110, but couldn't digest the Broadside skill. It feels to me as if I'm playing a trapsin rather than a naginata. I did use SSU with Broadside cooldown reduction, maybe I overused it a bit. (altough, seeing Akerat melting at lvl 110 in a single Broadside was rather epic - the first char who managed to kill him at that level).
Vampiric icon I'd rewamp completely. Assassin doesn't need it - you got Bloodbath from lvl1 to heal from packs.
Anyhow - really nice guide, t-up for taking time to write this.