MAY THE RNG BE WITH YOU

Builds are never wrong probably the timing you initiate sucks.
You need to find weakness or create one .You can spam daggers till you get a crit dagger and then finish the target off .Normally enemies cant handle 630 pure damage .

I dunno these early carry builds are not working for me.
i go aquila phase and bracer , then i get 3 shotted down.
can anyone tell whats exactly the style of the gameplay.
If its 5 man doto doesnt that make PA redundant?

I dont think Drum of Endurance is a core. Helm of the Dominator is, since it provided DMG, lifesteal, armor, and creep dominate. As for the skill build, you focused on Phantom Strike and the dagger, which is good. But you need to take the enemy heroes into considerate. What if you are fighting long range right click support heroes like Lina? You really need that Blur right? I suggest you break those build into more consecutive parts. I sometimes play 1-1-3-1 PA if I'm fighting many right click heroes.

About the drums of endurance ,I ve done some thinking too .Drums have brought many forgotten carries to meta (especially before their nerf) .You need the hit points in order to be able to walk away safe and sometimes when crisis comes you need the drums active.
Its not great as an item, its the meaning of mediocre but remember most carries turn into beasts with 2-3 mediocre items and 2 huge ones.Thats their beastly state of game.Because in Edgy levels like 7 11 or 16 they become deadly on 7 having cost effective ones
11 cost effective and something big (preferably upgradeable like maelstorm)
and on 16 something huge like Abyssal/Hot/Fly/Daedalus that will allow them to chop down.

Mjollnir actually works pretty decent in some situations also if you are the chosen of the RNG it works miracles.It was placed on situational tho because you dont really profit from it.
Also remember Mjollnir and AC never fill the same slot AC is a 5th-6th item while Mjollnir is 2nd-3rd (at least maelstorm start)

The stats should be explained, I'm not sure if they're worth skipping 2 levels of either Phantom Strike or Blur.

Honestly I don't think Drum of Endurance is worth it. Don't get me wrong, PA should be more of a position 2 instead of a position 1 in her current state, but I think skipping PMS or seeling it early and replacing drums with Medallion of Courage would give Phantom Assassin the ability to fight much earlier and more effectively.

Seriously medallion is a free (pseudo) deso for 1000 gold, you should try it

Nice guide, I like the cheap item - mid carry PA better than the farm allday hard carry. But a few notes:

Butterfly evasion stacks diminishingly, this means that you will not get 80% evasion but rather 67.5% so there is reallyno point in getting a 6k item just for that, you are much better off gettig AC. The enemy team should rush his MKB to counter you anyway so you lose that from butterfly too. The damage and agi is great though

Black King Bar should be core since magic damage is your greatest weakness. I get it almost every game

Mjollnir is not that great item on PA, you don t really need attack speed..again AC is a much better option

Good job

Pretty decent guide.

But why would you level stats inbetween?