| Type | Armor – Set |
|---|---|
| Defense |  : 68 /  : 66 (set) |
| Set Bonus | : Your damage has a 10% chance to completely duplicate itself and deal 15% more damage : Your ranged damage has a 5% chance to completely eradicate the hit target This effect can only occur on bosses if they are below 5% maximum life |
| Rarity |  |
| Sell |  (set, one helm) (set, both helms) |
Assassin armor is a craftable post-Moon Lord armor set crafted from Death Essence. It takes a total of 10 Death Essence to craft a single full suit, or 13 Death Essence if you want to craft one of each headpiece. It is currently the best ranged set available.
It consists of a Assassin's Guard and Assassin's Walkers as well as two different headpieces: the Master Arbalest Hood and Master Marksman's Scouter Set. Note that only one of the headpieces may be equipped at once but both will trigger a set bonus with the body and legs.
The Master Arbalest Hood gives 28 defense, 24% increased arrow damage, turns arrow critical strikes into ricocheting death arrows and causes ranged damage to apply the Ichor debuff to hit enemies for 10 seconds; and the Master Marksman's Scouter Set gives 26 defense, 24% increased bullet and rocket damage, scouts the nearest enemy with a crosshair effect that causes them to take 10% more damage from all sources and causes ranged damage to apply the Cursed Inferno debuff to hit enemies for 5 seconds. The Assassin's Guard gives 22 defense, 16% increased ranged damage, 20% increased firing speed, 15% increased ranged critical strike chance and 25% decreased chance to consume ammunition; and Assassin's Walkers gives 18 defense, 15% increased ranged damage, 10% increased ranged critical strike chance and 25% increased movement speed.
A full set always provides a total of at least 40 defense, 31% increased ranged damage, 25% increased ranged critical strike chance, 20% increased firing speed, 25% decreased chance to consume ammunition and 25% increased movement speed in addition to any stats given by the particular headpiece. When the Master Arbalest Hood is worn, its set bonus gives a 10% chance for ranged damage to duplicate itself and deal 15% more damage, as well as displaying a green explosion. If the Master Marksman's Scouter Set is worn, its set bonus provides a 5% chance that the hit target is instantly killed, displaying when the effect occurs on an enemy with an "ERADICATED" message instead of the damage output; this effect only works on bosses below 5% maximum life. The set also causes a small pulsating effect around the wearer.
Set
Helmet variants
Crafting
Recipes
| Crafting Station | ||
|---|---|---|
 Ancient Manipulator
| ||
| Ingredient(s) | Amount | |
|
Death Essence | 4 |
| Result | ||
|
Assassin's Guard | 1 |
| Crafting Station | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Manipulator
| ||
| Ingredient(s) | Amount | |
|
|
Death Essence | 3 |
| Result | ||
|
Assassin's Walkers | 1 |
| Crafting Station | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Manipulator
| ||
| Ingredient(s) | Amount | |
|
|
Death Essence | 3 |
| Result | ||
|
Master Arbalest Hood | 1 |
| Crafting Station | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Manipulator
| ||
| Ingredient(s) | Amount | |
|
|
Death Essence | 3 |
| Result | ||
|
Master Marksman's Scouter Set | 1 |
History
- 1.4.3.8: Master Marksman's Scouter Set now requires bosses to be below 5% maximum life instead of 10% for the set bonus to proc.
- 1.4.3.4:
- Master Arbalest Hood no longer provides decreased ammo consumption and instead causes arrow critical strikes to turn into death arrows and ricochet; set bonus chance decreased from 25% to 10% but now applies an additional 15% increased damage.
- Master Marksman's Scouter Set no longer provides decreased ammo consumption and instead scouts the nearest enemy for increased damage vulnerability; set bonus chance increased from 2% to 5% and no longer has a basic enemy life cap but requires bosses it is used against to be below 10% maximum life.
- Assassin's Guard ranged critical strike chance boost decreased from 25% to 15% and now provides 20% increased firing speed and 25% decreased chance to consume ammo.
- Assassin's Walkers movement speed boost increased from 20% to 25% and now provides 10% increased ranged critical strike chance.
- 1.2.6.4: Introduced.
