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Ky's Blade Fall + Blade Blast Slinger / CoC Assassin Leaguestart to Endgame

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Shadow

Assassin

Starter

End Game

3.29 CotA

By Ky

Updated on Aug 6, 2026

Aug 6, 2026

Path of Building Code

Build Overview

Bladefall Blade Blast Spellslinger Assassin is a super fast incredibly strong all-around character that can be taken from day 1 and scaled all the way to pinnacle Ubers with ease.

This build is 1 button from start to finish with no need for piano-style gameplay.

We start off in act 1 with Blight Essence Drain Contagion setup, which we stay on through to Act 3. After killing Gravicious in the barracks in act 3 is when you unlock Bladefall and it is here we can fully transition into a Spellslinger setup.

DO NOT LEVEL YOUR Arcane Surge Support THAT IS SOCKETED INTO YOUR FROSTBLINK, IT WILL LOSE YOU TONS OF DAMAGE IF U DO.

DO NOT SWAP TO Spellslinger UNTILL YOU HAVE Eldritch Battery ALLOCATED AND AT LEAST 250 Energy Shield

This will be around level 36!

Once into a Spellslinger setup look for wands with good FLAT damage on the wand such as +#-# added Physical/Lightning/Cold/Fire damage ( phys is best ), but any line is a huge amount of damage. You can also craft on % Inc physical damage on the crafting bench for a huge damage boost.

In act 4 you will allocate Eldritch Battery. You need to have an ok pool of Energy Shield to use this keystone, so make sure you have around 150-200 AT MINIMUM on your gears total. You can allocate Essence Surge early on to help with this.

Look to swap into Mind Over Matter at level 70-75ish. You should have AT MINIMUM around 3.5k life and 1k Energy Shield before doing this. Ideally around 1400es. *THIS KEYSTONE SHOULD NEVER LEAVE YOUR CHARACTER EVER AGAIN ONCE ALLOCATED* Please do not Swap off it in the final tree without a Cloak of Defiance ( with +2 AOE Gems Corruption ) or a Skin of The Lords ( Mind Over Matter Variant .)

Recommended to Help Alira in Act 2 & Swap to +1 passive point later.

Our asendency order will be:
Unstable Infusion 1st
Deathmarked 2nd
Mystical Infusion 3rd
Mistwalker 4th

Strengths and Weaknesses

One-button
Obscene DPS
Solid clear and CRAZY single target
10k+ Hybrid Leech per second

Low Phys Max Hit for now, will be looking to fix this

Build Variants

act 1 {1}

act 2 {2}

Act 3 {3} Part 1

Act 3 {4} Part 2

Act 4 {5}

Act 5-9 {6}

Early Mapping {7}

CoC Swap {8}

CoC Step 2 {9}

CoC Step 3 {10}

CoC Step 4 {11}

CoC Step 5 {12}

Bow CoC?? WIP {12}

You can swap to this setup when:
1. You are around level 85
2. You have a crafted foil with Hit's can't be Evaded, Crit Chance, and attack speed
3. You have 90%+ Crit chance on Lancing Steel of Spraying
4. You have Any combination of trash Cluster jewels but *MUST INCLUDE* Overwhelming Malice .

Large cluster can be any 2-3 Notable Cluster, Ideally with 30% inc chaos damage notables.
Such as the example one here with Overwhelming Malice and Grim Oath

Mediums Ideally having any combination of Basics of Pain Pressure Points Quick Getaway. Basically anything that is giving global crit chance. You can get Overwhelming Malice on either your medium or large cluster, but only get it on a large cluster if it is in front of your jewel sockets.

Grab a Ming's Heart ASAP and don't forget to Catalyst it for chaos damage.

Also Grab a Runegraft of Time ASAP and apply it to any Mastery we do not use for 20% more damage effectively.

Grab a Greater Spell Cascade Support ASAP aswell, it will literally double your damage.

All of your rares should have AT LEAST t2 life on them with as much Energy Shield and Evasion Rating as possible.

Crafting Clips Avalible in twitch chat: twitch.tv/pathofky

!foil

!bbbelt

!bbfoil

!bbhelm

!bbbody

!bbshield

!bbgloves

!bbring

Equipment

act 1 {1}

act 2 {2}

Act 3 {3} Part 1

Act 3 {4} Part 2

Act 4 {5}

Act 5-9 {6}

Early Mapping {7}

CoC Swap {8}

CoC Step 2 {9}

CoC Step 3 {10}

CoC Step 4 {11}

CoC Step 5 {12}

Bow CoC?? WIP {12}

Passive Tree

act 1 {1}

act 2 {2}

Act 3 {3} Part 1

Act 3 {4} Part 2

Act 4 {5}

Act 5-9 {6}

Early Mapping {7}

CoC Swap {8}

CoC Step 2 {9}

CoC Step 3 {10}

CoC Step 4 {11}

CoC Step 5 {12}

Bow CoC?? WIP {12}

main:

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ascendancy:

Keystones

Ghost Dance

Cannot Recover Energy Shield to above Evasion Rating Every 2 seconds, gain a Ghost Shroud, up to a maximum of 3 When Hit, lose a Ghost Shroud to Recover Energy Shield equal to 3% of your Evasion Rating

Eldritch Battery

Spend Energy Shield before Mana for Skill Mana Costs Energy Shield protects Mana instead of Life 50% less Energy Shield Recharge Rate

Mind Over Matter

40% of Damage is taken from Mana before Life

Masteries

Energy Shield Mastery (1)

100% increased Energy Shield from Equipped Helmet

Mark Mastery (1)

10% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge when you Hit your Marked Enemy

Critical Mastery (1)

+25% to Critical Strike Multiplier against Unique Enemies

Charge Mastery (1)

Cannot be Shocked while at maximum Power Charges

Evasion Mastery (1)

+15% chance to Suppress Spell Damage if Equipped Helmet, Body Armour, Gloves, and Boots all have Evasion Rating

Life Mastery (1)

15% increased maximum Life if there are no Life Modifiers on Equipped Body Armour

Skills

act 1 {1}

act 2 {2}

Act 3 {3} Part 1

Act 3 {4} Part 2

Act 4 {5}

Act 5-9 {6}

Early Mapping {7}

CoC Swap {8}

CoC Step 2 {9}

CoC Step 3 {10}

CoC Step 4 {11}

CoC Step 5 {12}

Bow CoC?? WIP {12}

6L CoC Setup

Lancing Steel of Spraying

Cast On Critical Strike

Bladefall

Spell Cascade

Blade Blast

Increased Critical Strikes

2L movement - 2L guard

Frostblink

Arcane Surge

Steelskin

Cast when Damage Taken

3 Socket Auras

Grace

Herald of Purity

Flesh and Stone

3L Movement

Shield Charge

Faster Attacks

Momentum

Animate Guardian

Meat Shield

Elemental Army

Assassin's Mark

How it Works

FAQ

What Spectres to Run?

Perfect Pain Artist / Perfect Forest Warrior.

Other Options to consider Depending on Circumstance:

If you are post-Necrotic Armour ( unique chest ) and do not have another source you can get Endurance charges with a Perfect Warlord.

Perfect Forest Tiger is very expensive but nice for speed. Although I found its frenzy charge generation not reliable enough to remove mark mastery as I hoped I would be able to.

Animate Guardian Setup

Weapon: Early Either a Dying Breath or Sign of the Sin Eater + 5% life gain on block shield. Sin Eater doesn't do anything if you have your Stormshroud in, but not many good alternative 1 hander's I could see.
Late Weapon - Kingmaker.
Body: Gruthkul's Pelt
Boots: Windscream
Gloves: Rare Glove with Despair on hit and as much res as possible.
Helm: Early - Leer Cast Late - Crafted Rare Helm with -9% Chaos Res to Nearby Enemies ( Hunter Mod ) with res.
Animate Guardian's Default res is 40% for all elements and 20% for chaos. Its very important you cap his res on elemental and hopefully 1 line of chaos if possible.