Knife Assassin

Overview

The Knife Assassin is a high-skill-ceiling build that excels at single-target burst damage. It revolves around throwing multiple knives per attack, each with a chance to trigger additional effects. When fully online, this build can delete bosses in seconds.

Core Skills (Priority Order)

1. Throwing Knife (Common) - Your bread and butter. Throws knives after attacks.
2. Mirror Knife (Mythic, S) - Double knife throws. Doubles your output.
3. Consecutive Knife (Legendary) - Chain knife strikes for multi-hit combos.
4. Convert Knife (Legendary) - Converts other damage into knife synergy.
5. Cooldown Knife (Legendary) - Reduces knife cooldowns for more frequent attacks.
6. Knife Expertise (Mythic, S) - +15% knife damage. Requires 5 knife tags.
7. Boost Knife (Legendary) - Direct knife damage increase.

Supporting Skills

• Crit Mastery (Legendary) - Each knife hit can crit independently.
• Combo Mastery (Legendary) - More attacks = more knife procs.
• Knife Bolt (Common) - Adds bolt damage to knives for hybrid potential.
• Knife Poison (Common) - Adds poison to knives for DoT.

Strategy Tips

• This build requires more skill investment to come online compared to Fire or Bolt.
• Mirror Knife is the biggest power spike. Prioritize it above all else after basics.
• Knife Poison + Knife Bolt create hybrid damage that’s hard for enemies to mitigate.
• In Raids, this build excels against bosses but can struggle with large waves. Consider pairing with AoE support.

Tier Rating: S

Top-tier single target damage. Requires more investment than Fire/Bolt builds but rewards skilled play.