Anno said:
Finally found a way to make Rogues fun. Assassin/Ranger/Riftstalker. I was mostly just messing around and actually found something fun. It's nice to have options at range and close up and a skill to close that distance quickly, even while in stealth. That I can use my pet to distract monsters that've sensed me in stealth so that I can still get off my back attacks is pretty cool. Curious how long the combination can remain strong but for now I'm at least enjoying it.
I did basically that build up until my early thirties. At that point, your pet will stop leveling you (caps at 30), so it quickly becomes way less useful unless you dump more points in Ranger to get higher, which means you won't be very high in Assassin for close range...
Basically, I found I was forced to choose between the two at level 31/32. Because of the crapload of money you have, I tried what I thought were good builds with both, and kept resetting and testing over and over to get a feel for what I thought would be better. I settled with Assassin. I no longer have a pet now, but with Riftstalker, I'm very survivable, and with Nightblade, I have a range option (though I really only use it for the early passives). I actually do keep a Ranger build in another role though.
Actually, for me, it was around the mid-thirties (not that I'm very far from that now) that I finally had enough points to actually make focused and varied viable builds. Previous to that, I felt I never had enough to make a complete decent build, but maybe that was just me.
