[3.11] Infernal Cold Assassin | Maximum Dodge | Winter Orb + Ice Spear + Infernal Cry

- A very fast build
- Can clear all content
- Winter Orb auto aims for the nearest targets, debuffing and cursing them without having to stop moving.
- 100% critical chance with Ice Spear, and up to 6 million damage.
- Very tanky with a maximum attack avoidance chance of 95% and spell avoidance 75%
- Doesn’t require cluster jewels to function.

- Depends on flask maintenance, making it harder to go against Sirus and bosses without adds.
- Small life pool, so more susceptible to physical damage if you get unlucky.
- Not cheap to gear up.
- Uses many unique items, and it is tight on resistances.

Here comes the heavy hitter, as Ice Spear hits with 30 projectiles, or 40 projectiles with one cast, it makes it ideal for single target damage. Projectile counts are as follows:

- 2 standard projectiles from base skill
- 4 additional projectiles from two “Beltimber Blade” swords
- 2 additional projectiles from “Dying sun”
- Then comes Unleash, repeating the skill, and shooting 8 projectiles 4 additional times (within same cast time of skill)
- 4 Seals from Unleash takes 2.36 seconds to fully replenish. But you can shoot them at any moment, with any number of seals ready.


You can calculate your maximum single target damage by taking the “Average Hit” damage from Path of Building, and multiply it by the number of projectiles that hits the target. While noting that initial projectiles does full damage, and repeated projectiles do 10% less damage at skill level 21.

Total hit damage = (Average hit * number of initial projectiles) + (Average hit * number of initial projectiles * unleash seals * 0.9)

So without Dying Sun, and if your average hit damage is 200k, it goes as follows:

Total hit damage = (200k * 6) + (200k * 6 * 4 * 0.9) ~= 5.5 million damage

With Dying Sun, total damage can reach more than 7 million hit damage (on paper). In reality it’s like 60-70% of that (due to some projectiles shooting too far to the side, missing the target if the boss hit box is not very large).