Is there anything interesting to TH2? I've been wondering if its even worth making the jump from TH1 to TH2.
Talking about that, I've gotten back to playing The Hell and started out a new game as an Assassin recently. Currently just finished the first level of Hell, DAMN that was hard.
Some KKKs:
- Assassin is neat, good melee AND good magic. Being able to use two 1h weapons at once really ups the damage potential. The only weaknesses are the fact Assassins are clearly delicate and suck at bows (but who cares).
- Assassin feels like a class which starts a bit weak, relatively speaking. You need to go a bit above and beyond to unlock magics early on. Best early spell is probably Holy Bolt, especially if you end up rolling The Skeleton King quest. In my case I was super lucky and got a staff of Holy Bolt 80/80 before doing it, I pretty much Dr. Manhattened the hell out of King Leoric (came super in handy later on in the Chamber of Bone, too). I might have been a victim of RNG tho, because took me some time until I got Firebolt.
- The way to go with an Assassin is to, assassin-like, slowly-but-surely lure out the opposition from their hiddey holes (its the hardest to detect class due to smaller Light Radius, btw, use that), and take the enemy apart by detail. If a mob is coming to rush you, wipe out the chaff from afar with the appropriate spell. Keep hitting and running, only stop if you know you got it. Prioritize: Ranged/Uniques > Faster Enemies > Slower Enemies. A trick I use is to lure out the faster ones, use terrain to kill them first and only them engage the ranged ones, while ignoring the slow chaff as much as possible.
- Never face Uniques in anything but 1v1.
- I have an impression the way to go with Assassin is either two sword-class weapons or sword-and-club. The latter is better for zones with lots of undead, it might be to go between Leoric's Tomb and Chamber of Bone. After Chamber of Bone, I went double daggers/swords and never looked back. By the time I hit the caves, I don't see much worth in whaling on the undead, they are such meat shields you're better off just holy bolting them and avoiding the hassle.
- Your melee damage is going to go from "lol" to "carves Uniques like Turkeys".
- I have rarely been using Fury. Maybe its just me, but feels useless for such a delicate class. You're better off using all that -dfm. I actually don't have the spell yet.
- Is Sunless Sea even possible for an Assassin? I tried and even a single Rogue just 2-3 shoots my girl. And there's lots of them, fuckloads, even if I stack like 66% ranged dmg absorption. My spells and arrows don't do shit.
