Honestly, It could work, it wouldn't be ideal, but it could work.

If you're willing  to give up the capstone, there's a lot to be gained defensively by splashing though.

It would work.

Start with 20 dex, don't dump Str completely (so you might be able to pick up PA).

The bonus a rogue halfling can get is about +6 Dex (2 race, 2 race enhancements, 2 class enhancements). The str Bonus a human usually gets is about 6 - 9 (1 Class, 3 Action Boost, 5 Primal Scream) - if one chooses not to use Titan's Grip Gloves. It's a choice of constantly slightly lower base damage in favor of better, but bursty base damage.

For 32 pt builds, I could imagine that
11 Str
20 Dex
14 Con
13 Int
8 Wis
8 Cha

should work. IC: Pierce and Sacrificial Daggers, or IC:Slash and EMGs (of course, the ultimate non-Boss beater is Agony).
Assassinate is something which will work on casters other slected mobs when running EHs, even with moderate Int. I have only little experience in utilizing Assassinate in EEs.

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Nah, it wouldn't be shitty. But you won't be instakilling much in EEs on a non-Int build anyway.

Why not go int-based on the same build? There's no compelling reason not to dump strength (the only reasons are carrying capacity and dealing with exhaustion/etc.). Even 32-point you can spend 10 points in dex, 16 points in int, and 6 points in con. Your damage and to-hit will both come from dex which, as you've pointed out, will be quite good on a halfling even if you don't put your level-ups there and you'll be able to assassinate on all difficulties instead of just 'casters on EH'.

Now all that said I'd still spend all my enhancement points while leveling on boosting dex. Since your level-ups and starting points all went into int you won't need those extra points in heroic elites. That's how I leveled up my drow rogue that I took out of mothballs at level 14 some time after U19. I did heroics int-based on starting stats/levels but selling out for dex in the enhancements. Once I got to epic levels I reset my enhancements to sell out for int. It worked outstandingly well.

Don't worry about Power Attack either. For the benefit you get out of running Power Attack instead of Precision on the mobs that don't have Fortification it's not worth the build points. You're a pure halfling assassin...your sneak attack damage is going to be insane! Run Precision.

Vendui wrote on Nov 5^th, 2013 at 9:54pm:

Did you even read the post you were quoting?

How do you get Ninja Spy on a pure rogue?
Why would you use anything else than Daggers on an assassin? (Especially when you get Dex to damage and to hit with those.)

OP, if you are looking for a good undead beater for such a dex build, the best option is to get the first 2 Acrobat Cores (you take Haste Boost and Subtlety anyway) and use a Triple Pos Qstaff as Undead beater.

aDifferentHandle wrote on Nov 6^th, 2013 at 4:22am:


Yeah, definitely this. It saves you from needing to make 2 different undead beaters and as mentioned, you'll be taking the first two cores anyway. I really like going up to Kip Up because I loathe being knocked down. If you can't be bothered to make a triple pos the Stout Oak Walking Stick makes a reasonably good beater with the extra damage and the chance to knock enemies down on vorpal. Honestly mine's not even that good on my assassin...I just use some random gen lvl22 solar of quickstrike that I got in a quest once.

Wipe wrote on Nov 7^th, 2013 at 8:13am:


Fuck those people, swing Nightmares at Truthful One.

Wipe wrote on Nov 7^th, 2013 at 8:13am:

The fine print in my advice being "assuming you are on a dex build". You'd rather use two maces with a base Str of ~20 (13 base for PA, 7 from PDK gloves) than a Qstaff with a Dex of ~40?

22 Str TWF offers +6 damage mainhand, +3 damage offhand, which is 8.4 extra damage per swing.
42 Dex TWF offers +24 per swing. Both are excluding PTWF and other doublestrike bonuses.

Wipe wrote on Nov 8^th, 2013 at 3:06pm:


Yes

I don't consider dumping str to be bright idea: There are too many situations where PA is a better choice than Precision. With tomes, I'd aim for 13 str and take both feats.

Did you take enough dex to qualify for ISA?

chemist wrote on Nov 10^th, 2013 at 10:42am:

I wouldn't put it this way, but I think that a Progession of Pots, Heal Scrolls and Cocoon are enough healing options and don't require you to spend a feat. And APs are pretty tight even on a pure rogue.

Anyway, you should have enough feats to play with (for instance, my halfling took the rogue PL feat, PA and Precision).