One of the most popular classes in Outriders is the Trickster (English: Assassins). MeinMMO shows you a build that helps you easily get through the endgame expeditions of Outriders and achieve Challenge Rank 15.
This is the Assassin: The special feature of the class is manipulating space and time. This allows Assassins to teleport, slow down enemies, and weaken them further.
With the right combination of equipment, weapons, and skills, you can build a deadly and lightning-fast machine that makes you mow through the endgame.
The YouTuber NickTew has presented a build that showcases one of the strongest build variants for the Assassin. This is also adapted to the armor bug that emerged with patch 1.04. We will show you what you need for the build.
Assassin Build – Skill Tree, Abilities, Equipment
These perks you need:
- Weapon Trickery (x4)
- Increases weapon damage at short range by 15%
- Trump Card
- Increases armor penetration by 10%
- Death Probability (x3)
- Increases weapon damage by 8%
- Mastery: Shotguns
- Increases damage with shotguns by 15%
- Increases the chance of enemies dropping shotguns by 20%
- Equilibrium
- Reduces cooldown of mobility abilities by 15%
- Devastating Firepower
- Activation of deception abilities increases weapon damage by 35% for 8 seconds
- Singularity
- Reduces cooldown of deception abilities by 15%
- Unexpected End (x2)
- When attacking enemies from behind, weapon damage is increased by 20%
- Bounty Hunter
- Increases weapon damage against elite enemies by 15%
- Strange Growth
- Increases magazine size by 50%
- Expert: Shotguns
- Increases shotgun damage by 12%
- Cold Calculation
- For every enemy at short range, weapon damage increases by 8%
The Skills of the Assassin Build
- Hunting Fever: Choose an enemy and teleport behind them. You gain an energy shield.
- Time Tear: Creates a shockwave that makes enemies hover in the air for 3.5 seconds and also causes weakness.
- Deceptive Bullets: You receive a magazine filled with anomaly-charged bullets that increase your damage and ignore resistances.
Weapons, Armor, Mods
These weapons are used by the YouTuber: The most important weapon of the build is the legendary shotgun, which appears in numerous builds and is one of the most popular weapons in the endgame of Outriders.
Due to item restoration, which went differently than planned, he even got this shotgun as a god roll. With the rank 3 mods “Fortress” and “Dark Sacrifice”, one of the most powerful damage combinations in Outriders is possible.
Fortress gives you a damage bonus of 43% when you exceed a certain armor value. Dark Sacrifice continuously drains your health until you have only 50% of your health points left. However, you get a permanent bonus of 75%.
The missing health points can be recovered through the damage you deal. This is a very risky playstyle, but if you move correctly and react quickly enough, you should be able to survive.
Alternatively, instead of Dark Sacrifice, the rank 3 mod Frenzy is recommended. This does not drain your life but also allows a strong damage bonus when you kill enemies. You have almost free choice for your secondary weapon.
These armor mods are used by NickTew: One of the most important armor pieces is Ugake Otarah’s legendary hood. This gives you a rank 3 modification Instant Reload. This mod refills your magazine every time you teleport with the Hunting Fever skill.
This makes maintaining your deceptive bullets easier, and you hardly ever have to reload.
- Head
- Eagle Eye (Rank 3): Increases your weapon damage when you kill an enemy while aiming through your scope. Can be stacked up to 3 times.
- Shotgun Ammo (Rank 2): Increases shotgun damage by 10%
- Chest
- Captain Hunter (Rank 3): Increases your weapon damage against elite enemies by 25%
- Protective Death (Rank 2): Increases your armor when you kill an enemy while aiming through your scope. Can be stacked up to 3 times.
- Pants
- High Range (Rank 1): Triples the range of the skill.
- Pain Transfer (Rank 3): 10% of weapon damage and 30% of anomaly damage are transferred from one enemy to another.
- Gloves
- Instant Reload (Rank 3): Your magazine is refilled every time you teleport with the Hunting Fever skill.
- Individual Distance (Rank 2): Increases your damage at short range by 15%
- Shoes
- Ammunition Bargain: If you kill enemies while Deceptive Bullets is active, you regain 20% of your ammunition.
- Blood Rage: Kills increase weapon damage. Can be stacked up to 3 times.
As attributes, you should focus on bonus weapon strength, cooldown reduction, and damage at short range.
You can see how this all looks in action in NickTew’s video. He demonstrates the build in the Starchasm Expedition:
With the build, he not only manages to complete expeditions at Challenge Level 1, but he also achieves times around 3 minutes. This makes grinding through the endgame incredibly fast.
The playstyle may cause some issues for some, as you don’t take too much damage from enemies. However, the shield of the assassin, which can be constantly built up through Hunting Fever, helps with this.
Currently, the armor system of Outriders is bugged. The bug does not seem to occur with the same intensity for all players. Keep this in mind when building similarly offensive builds.
There is also a trick that has helped some players: Here is a simple trick to bypass the armor bug of Outriders
