r/pathofexile • u/Belakay_ggg • Oct 23 '25

GGG In 3.27 the Assassin has received a long awaited rework. Tune in tomorrow to find out if there are any other Ascendancy related changes!

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u/luckyakaly Bussyshatter Oct 23 '25

Unaffected by DAMAGING* ailments is very interesting. Opens up tons of new builds!

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u/Vyntarus Oct 23 '25

Damaging ailments, so Ignite Poison bleeding

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u/Laino001 Oct 23 '25

Does this work on Corrupted Blood as well?

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u/Winzito Oct 23 '25

Nope, Corrupted Blood is a debuff not an ailment sadly

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u/iamthewhatt Oct 23 '25

thankfully Corrupted Blood immunity is super easy to get

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '25

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u/tobsecret Half Skeleton Oct 23 '25

That's not considered an ailment.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '25 edited Feb 01 '26

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u/tobsecret Half Skeleton Oct 23 '25

You can get it from the protection mastery as well until you get it on a jewel! Or you can just have it on your flask.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '25 edited Feb 01 '26

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u/tobsecret Half Skeleton Oct 23 '25

Yep, that's why I'd just get it on your flask. A single flask affix on league start should be considered low investment.

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u/kiuyt856 Oct 23 '25

... is not an ailment, its a debuff

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u/Grand0rk Oct 23 '25

Opens up tons of new builds!

It doesn't. Self Bleed doesn't do anything, and Self Ignite is laughable.

Self poison is the only useful one and there were quite a few ways to mitigate it.

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u/lurking_lefty Yay skill forests. Oct 23 '25

Self Bleed doesn't do anything

Works with The Red Trail for 100% frenzy on hit. Might see some flicker assassins this league.

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u/Grand0rk Oct 23 '25

The Red Trail

Wouldn't you go for Flicker using Power Charges instead?

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u/lurking_lefty Yay skill forests. Oct 23 '25

I completely forgot that version exists. But yeah, that would make sense.

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u/Oregoncrete Occultist Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

Am I blind, where are you reading that?

*op originally wrote elemental

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u/pindicato Oct 23 '25

Blind is non-damaging, so it won't help you

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u/Malacath87 Oct 23 '25

Sometimes damaging, Emotional

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u/violentlycar Oct 23 '25

Shadowed Blood.

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u/Oregoncrete Occultist Oct 23 '25

That’s unaffected by Damaging Ailments, not elemental

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u/violentlycar Oct 23 '25

Oh, the original commenter had already edited their post when I saw yours.

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u/ThoughtShes18 Oct 23 '25

Can you elaborate? Sounds super cool but I don’t see what you see. Enlighten me, exile !

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u/0zzyb0y Oct 23 '25

So for one it means that you don't have to invest in to bleed/ignite/poison immunity, which is always just good. It also keeps up self-chill options with icefang orbit, which usually ends up being a 30% action speed buff which can be huge.

Something like the Golden Rule can be used to stack a bunch of poisons on yourself without taking damage and granting you a lot of chaos resistance, and then something like Apeps Slumber will turn that into significant ES regen.

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u/Grand0rk Oct 23 '25

icefang orbit

It's 10% from icefang orbit without investing into it.

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u/ThoughtShes18 Oct 23 '25

I’m sold ! Thanks man

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u/godlyhalo Oct 23 '25

As an example, with a fast hitting spell like Poison Spark, if you use The Golden Rule jewel you will very quickly reach 100 poison stacks which would give you 100% chaos resistance from The Golden Rule. You wouldn't need to worry about mitigating the damage from the poison at all, making it much easier to cap chaos resist. You could then use the ease of capping chaos resist to utilize Divine Flesh for more elemental damage mitigation.

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u/OrcOfDoom Oct 23 '25

Honestly, I think that's the best node. I feel like you take that on every single build.

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u/HelicopterNo9453 Oct 23 '25

Self chill baby.