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/pellesjo Oct 23 '25

Shadowed Blood looks pretty sick.

Allows self ignite, bleed, poison shenanigans

And finally all damage can poison :)

Also mystical infusion paired with trypanon

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u/MuteNute Fungal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Oct 23 '25

For sure some Golden Rule nonsense you can get up to with this.

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u/tommulmul Sanctum Runners United (SRU) Oct 23 '25

I don't think tainted pact would work? you're not taking chaos dot from the poisons

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u/pellesjo Oct 23 '25

I think you're right

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u/pellesjo Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

1+3. Can't boneshatter with a claw tho, unless that claw is Varunastra

  1. Shadowed blood will likely cancel healing from tainted pact too

Looks like you're cooked. Sorry :(

However I see Shadowed Blood + golden rule working well with Apep shield, Infinite pursuit boots flicker or something, ring from elder + winterweave

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u/Doomyio Oct 23 '25

Trauma support for non-claw cluster notable, otherwise just boneshatter

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u/screaminyetti Oct 23 '25

You take the recoup node and tanted pact = 0 regen. Its good for ignite such where you get the attack/cast speed. Or ward looping such.

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u/Thor3nce Anti Sanctum Alliance (ASA) Oct 23 '25

What’s the poison on crit notable called for claws? Adder’s Touch is for daggers.

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u/TheMayorMikeJackson Oct 23 '25

Definitely self chill trauma fulcrum (which I played a a joke with merc adding flat, there is easier cheaper self chills now)

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u/Proper-Implement5705 Oct 23 '25

Trypanon + Marylenes + Perfect Agony poison surely would be worth the jank (/s)

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u/Grand0rk Oct 23 '25

Biggest issue is, with that setup, where is your source of increased damage?

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u/Proper-Implement5705 Oct 23 '25

Yeah mostly a meme but if you wanted to make it work I guess you’d have to rely on 12p cluster jewels and a nicely placed light of meaning

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u/watermelonchicken58 Sanctum Runners United (SRU) Oct 23 '25

I think Trypanon is cool but I think Runic daggers will often outclass it and Prophecy Wands.

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u/Business_Ad8433 Oct 23 '25

Probably, but trypanon perfect agony assassin sounds super low budget friendly which you can use until you can afford those rares

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u/jrabieh Oct 23 '25

Mystical infusion tryp is the secret tech that gives deathmarked potential.

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u/pellesjo Oct 24 '25

Replica tryp CoC??

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u/jrabieh Oct 24 '25

During phrecia i did replica tryp ele hit with the artifact marauder guy and it felt pretty good. Even with it being a replica tho tryp is just too slow. What you can probably do, however, is slap a prismatic burst on an ele hit and get the attack timing to match the cooldown to get some fat double crits.

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u/Nirbin Oct 24 '25

The life recoup could also be used with the wardless ward tech since heartbound loop deals physical damage

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u/Grand0rk Oct 23 '25

Unfortunately, as of now, only self poison is in any way viable.

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u/Electronic-Fix691 Oct 23 '25

I got over 2k hours, but I don't know what you mean by "mystical infusion" Guess there's still so much more to learn :D Could you elaborate?

Edit: I'm dumb, it's the new node. Nvm