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<blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 7640055" data-attributes="member: 6993955"><p>Fighter is definitely needed IMO. Maybe not 6 levels worth to start, but synergizing action surge and multiple attacks is pretty key to a lot of assassin builds. I'd probably start F2 for the save proficiencies and surge, then go R3 for Assassin, and then move on from there. F2 - R3 - F3 is probably how I'd build the first 8 levels for an assassin. If you really want to prioritize your sneak attack pool then you could also just continue on in rogue. I'd probably continue in rogue after 8 either way to keep stacking sneak attack. </p><p></p><p>The Ranger 3 dip for gloomstalker isn't bad, but it comes at an ASI cost. I'd be more tempted to just replace the F5 with Ranger 5 than to dip both. Ranger 5 gets you the extra attack and the gloomstalker 1st round bonus/ambush goodies (and some spells). I wouldn't go any higher than 5 in Ranger though. It's a cool build, and I like the flex you get from a little bit of spellcasting (hunters mark and disguise self esp).</p><p></p><p>The sneak attack pool is great when things go your way and you get to nova stuff, but the extra attacks from the fighter or ranger will help in all those other situations where you don't get to carefully organize a surprise round. I think there's more to building a cool assassin than <em>just</em> stacking as many dice into the surprise round as possible, although that part is also fun.</p><p></p><p>*edit* hmm ... replace instances of F5 above with F6 - you want that ASI</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fenris-77, post: 7640055, member: 6993955"] Fighter is definitely needed IMO. Maybe not 6 levels worth to start, but synergizing action surge and multiple attacks is pretty key to a lot of assassin builds. I'd probably start F2 for the save proficiencies and surge, then go R3 for Assassin, and then move on from there. F2 - R3 - F3 is probably how I'd build the first 8 levels for an assassin. If you really want to prioritize your sneak attack pool then you could also just continue on in rogue. I'd probably continue in rogue after 8 either way to keep stacking sneak attack. The Ranger 3 dip for gloomstalker isn't bad, but it comes at an ASI cost. I'd be more tempted to just replace the F5 with Ranger 5 than to dip both. Ranger 5 gets you the extra attack and the gloomstalker 1st round bonus/ambush goodies (and some spells). I wouldn't go any higher than 5 in Ranger though. It's a cool build, and I like the flex you get from a little bit of spellcasting (hunters mark and disguise self esp). The sneak attack pool is great when things go your way and you get to nova stuff, but the extra attacks from the fighter or ranger will help in all those other situations where you don't get to carefully organize a surprise round. I think there's more to building a cool assassin than [I]just[/I] stacking as many dice into the surprise round as possible, although that part is also fun. *edit* hmm ... replace instances of F5 above with F6 - you want that ASI [/QUOTE]
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