The Trap Assassin is really a strong hardcore option in D2R given her inherent safety behind traps, mercenaries, and strong crowd control. While she might possibly not have the health pool of a few of her counterparts, she comprises it together with her high natural damage reduction and resistance to fade. While dual claw with weapon block is viable, it's not recommended for Hardcore.

When farming, be sure that your fade and battle orders are up all the time. Resummon your shadow master when she perishes, and be sure that your mercenary survives. You will be able to reposition your squad with Enigma teleport plus they should provide you safety as you’re teleporting. Mindblast should prevent categories of mobs from having the ability to focus you down. Start fights with Lightning sentry (higher initial damage), and start Death sentry as you’ve accumulated some corpses (corpse explosion). Given your dual elemental damage threat (corpse explosion = fire and physical), you don't necessarily require a lightning Sunder, yet it's beneficial for clear speed if you're able to still cap out resistances.

Skills:

Traps: 20 Lightning Sentry, 20 Death Sentry, 20 Shock Web, and 20 Charged Bolt Sentry.

Shadow Discipline A prerequisite of 5 skills is needed for Shadow Discipline. Equip 1 Mindblast, 1 Shadow Warrior, 1 Shadow Master, and 1 Fade.

Maximize your lightning damage. You can opt into more points into mind blast for added safety and cc at the cost of 1 of your synergies. Shadow Master is a superb decoy for damage, while some point in fade usually supplies you with capped DR and resistances with this suggested gear build. Players can buy D2R Ladder Items and d2 resurrected runes from a trustworthy shop like MMOWTS to gain access to powerful new abilities and strategies.

Attributes

Strength ought to be enough for gear. Put enough dexterity to attain a 75% block rate with Shield Shield). Put the remaining points into Vitality. Energy ought to be kept robust.

Faster Cast Rate BreakpointsFrame Per Cast: FCR needed (Bold = target)

16 Frames0%

15 Frames8%

14 Frames16%

13 Frames24%

12 Frames42%

11 Frames65%

10 Frames102%

9 Frames174%

Faster Hit Recovery BreakpointsFrames for Hit Recovery: FHR needed (Bold = Target)

9 Frames0%

8 Frames7%

7 Frames15%

6 Frames27%

5 Frames48%

4 Frames86%

3 Frames200%

Gear

Weapon - Heart from the Oak

This is the greatest option providing +3 to any or all skills, 40% FCR, along with a huge boost to resistance. The dexterity can help your max block and also, and you are able to summon an oak sage for any significant life boost.

Weapon / Shield Switch - Standard CTA and Spirit Monarch (given you're already investing the strength to equip storm shield).

Shield - Stormshield

Stormshield is really a standard in Hardcore for a good reason. It boosts your Damage reduction hugely letting you easily cap out, in addition to resistances, defense along with a good block %.