Diablo 2 Resurrected – Best Assassin Builds

The Assassin is easily one of the most flexible classes in Diablo 2 Resurrected, dealing lots of physical damage and inflicting deadly wounds. She also boasts the ability to stun opponents, making her a nice teammate for group play. In this guide, we’ll take a look at a few of the popular Diablo 2 Resurrected Assassin builds.

Feel free to reference these Diablo 2 Resurrected Assassin builds if you’re new to the class or just getting started. Even D2 veterans may find something helpful in this guide. Keep in mind, there are many build variations, and we don’t currently have any hybrid builds listed below. These are just some examples you can follow to help you come up with your own ideas.

Diablo 2 Resurrected Assassin builds

• Trap
• Whirlwind
• Kick

Trap build

The Assassin trap build is good for farming Baal runs in Diablo 2 Resurrected. Below, you’ll find the breakdown for skills, stats, and gear to focus on obtaining throughout your grind in Hell. Lightning Sentry is the main skill her, capable of doing around 15,000 damage with optimal gear. Lay down a Death Sentry with Lightning Sentry to get a corpse explosion. Cast Shock Web on your left-click in PvE to pump more damage.

Skills

• Lightning Sentry: 20 points
• Death Sentry: 20 points
• Shock Web: 20 points
• Charged Bolt Sentry: 20 points
• Wake of Fire: 1 point
• Mind Blast: 1 point
• Shadow Warrior: 1 point
• Shadow Master: 1 point
• Fire Blast: remaining points

Stats

• Strength: Enough to wear armor
• Dexterity: Base
• Vitality: All points
• Energy: Base

Gear

• Weapon: Heart of the Oak
• Switch Weapon: 
• Shield: Spirit Monarch
• Switch Shield: Spirit Monarch
• Helm: Shako (um/ber)
• Gloves: Trang-Oul’s Claws
• Boots: Sandstorm Trek
• Armor: Enigma (Dusk Shroud or Mage Plate)
• Belt: Arachnid’s Sash
• Ring: SoJ, Bul’Kathos Wedding Band, Ravenfrost
• Amulet: Rare with +2 Sin Skill, FCR, Resists or Mara’s Kaleidoscope
• Charms: Annihilation, Torch, 8-9 Trap Grand Charms, Resist Small Charms

Mercenary Gear

• Weapon: Infinity
• Armor: Fortitude, Chains of Honor, or Guardian Angel
• Helm: Andarial’s Visage, Vampire Gaze, or Tal Rasha’s Helm

Whirlwind build

The Whirlwind Assassin (WWSin) build utilizes the Chaos Runeword (Fal, Ohm, Um) to use the Barbarian’s Whirlwind ability. You can either choose to build into Traps or go for pure Whirlwind with a high stun-lock chance. The build outlined below focuses on the latter, so we’ll be utilizing the Whirlwind build and optimizing around it.

It is a strictly PvP oriented build that prioritizes high physical Whirlwind damage synergizing with Venom and Open Wounds. 

Skills

• Claw Mastery: 20 points
• Weapon Block: 10 points
• Fade: 20 points
• Mind Blast: 20 points
• Venom: 20 points
• Dragon Talon: 1 point
• Dragon Claw: 1 point
• Dragon Tail: 1 point
• Dragon Flight: 1 point
• Shadow Discipline tree: 1 point in all
• Traps tree: 1 point in all except Inferno and Death Sentry

Stats

• Strength: Enough for armor
• Dexerity: 0-60 points
• Vitality: All
• Energy: Base

Gear

• Weapon: Chaos (Feral or Runic)
• Helm: +2 Assassin/20FCR Rare
• Gloves: Trang-Oul’s Claw Gloves
• Boots: Shadow Dancers
• Armor: Enigma (Archon Plate)
• Belt: Arachnid’s Mesh
• Ring: Raven Frost, Rare with FCR/AR/Strength/Dex/Life Leech
• Amulet: Highlord’s Wrath
• Charms: Torch, Annihilus, 45 Life Shadow Grand Charms, 20AR/Life Small Charms, Resist Small Charms

Kick build

The Kick Assassin is another classic build from Diablo 2. These types of builds normally lack some AoE, which can take some adjusting. However, they have great crowd control and a lot of different damage sources. It’s a bit gear-dependent, so it may not shine until you get the right equipment.

Aim for either 48% or 86% FHR, and get those resistances 75+ in Hell. You’ll also want a 50% minimum chance to block, especially for bosses and ubers. We’ll be using Dragon Talon for its high proc chance and ability to apply different mods, not to mention it is a physical damage attack that allows you to leech. Overall, this is a nice build to try out in hardcore.

Skills

• Dragon Talon: 20 points
• Dragon Tail: 1 point
• Dragon Claw: 1 point
• Tiger Strike: 1 point
• Dragon Flight: 1 point
• Cobra Strike: 1 point
• Death Sentry: 20 points
• Light Sentry: 20 points
• Blade Fury: 1 point
• Blade Shield: 1 point
• Shockweb: 1 point
• Shadow Disciples tree: 1 point in all except Shadow Master (get up to ~17 in SM total with gear)

Stats

• Strength: Enough for gear
• Dexterity: Enough for maximum block
• Vitality: All
• Energy: Base

Gear

• Weapon: Rift War Scepter (Hel, Ko, Lem, Gul)
• Switch Weapon: Heart of the Oak
• Shield: Head Hunter’s Glory
• Helm: Nightwing’s Veil
• Gloves: Dracul’s Grasp
• Boots: Goblin Toe, Goreriders, Shadow Dancer
• Armor: Chains of Honor
• Belt: Thundergod’s 
• Ring: Ravenfrost, Dwarf Star
• Amulet: Mara’s Kaleidoscope, Highlord’s Wrath, Cat’s Eye
• Charms: Fill with what you need for survivability

Mercenary Gear

• Weapon: Infinity 
• Armor: Treachery 
• Helm: Vampire Gaze (or Tal Rasha’s, Crown of Thieves, and Andy’s)

That concludes our Diablo 2 Resurrected Assassin builds. You can find more builds and other related content in our Diablo 2 Resurrected section.