Level 98 Spark of the Nova Assassin^3.27

Notes

NOTES ON BUILD **DEFINITELY ON THE BAITIER SIDE** (might pop off with Breach grafts though)

LEVEL 1-12 NOTES
	-Mule Ranger for Momentum, goes on Cobra Lash early, and then Shield Charge after
	-You can go through Sleight of Hand if you want a bit more damage before Poison Concoction
	-Upgrade weapons for more damage
	-Blackhearts OP early

POISON CONCOCTION NOTES
	-Switch to Concoction at 12
	-Important to spam Withering Step on bosses for Wither
	-Make sure you keep Life Flasks updated, this is your Weapon basically
	-You can rush Life on Hit + 50 Regen mastery to never die early on
	-Life Flask nodes are good for campaign bosses if you don't want to TP out, can save points if you have TPS
	-Mana is a bit annoying until you get Mana leech nodes, you can just run Herald of Agony at the start + mana flask until then
	-The more projectiles you get the more flasks get used, but it is a big damage increase, Upgrade to Greater Volley at 38 over Volley
	-If you find Poison Concoction of Bouncing it is just better most of the time, for this gem you run GMP and GV at the same time

THE SWAP TO POISON SPARK (THE BAIT BEGINS)
	-MAKE SURE YOU HAVE REVERSE CHILL SET-UP BEFORE SWAPPING (Golden Rule, Winterweave, Icefang Orbit, and Shadowed Blood Ascendancy Node)
	-Apep's is a nice early shield for max res and easy EB with Golden Rule
	-Make sure you have Pierce and grab faster projectile speed + duration asap
	-Lycia for Herald stuff will help with Poison Chance
	-Spark of the Nova is better than base version

ELDRITCH BATTERY
	-Make sure you click this as soon as you have Mana issues
	-You'll need some ES on your gear, and ES leech nodes
	-Apep's will help a ton with this too

ASCENDANCY ORDER
	-Noxious Strike first, poison duration is big on both skills
	-Shadowed Blood or Mistwalker for Poison Concoction 2nd, personally would just go Shadowed Blood to not have to respec
	-Infused Toxins as soon as you go Spark
	-Last point can be Mistwalker or a Bloodlines node, Lycia is good for Heralds

MAYBE USE FASTER PROJECTILE GEM EARLY
	-Projectile Speed will be a bit bad for a long time, until clusters and tattoos
	-Anoint Fury Bolts for a cheap Projectile Speed boost
	-Dagger + Dagger mastery for early projectile speed

WHY NO ELEMENTAL OVERLOAD?
	-When you have 100% chance to poison but you have critical strike chance, if you land a critical strike with EO, it won't apply poison.
	-On POB with low crit, it is a slight DPS increase but if you have power charges it will be a DPS loss.

WALL OF FORCE
	-This might help a bit on bosses that aren't in enclosed areas