1. Reach level 5. Choose Occultist Class get Summon Hellhound
2. Max Summon Hellhound skill (16 points) Level 9
3. Now Max Solael's Witchfire (12 points) Level 13
4. Choose Nightblade Max Dual Blades (17 points) Level 19
5. Now Get Belgothian Shears & Pneumatic burst (6 points) Level 21
6. Now Shadow Strike & Breath of Belgothian (7 points) Level 23
7. Now Level Occultist & get Blood of Dreeg & Consecrated Blades Level 26
8. Any Extras Skill point are up to you. at 26 It should look like this.

General Thoughts Level 26 and Onwards
Hellhound is for fast leveling,while you build up the basics of the build, going Dual blades with Solaels Witchfire, with two healing skills Mark of Dreeg and Pneumatic Burst and Shadow Strike for Movement Utility, Belgothian Shears for clearing mobs. If you want to use more different skills along the way consider Phantasmal armor as the energy drained will definitely keep your energy bar filled up. later it can be swapped for Soul Shard.1 point In Mark of Dreeg is all you need Hp restore, As if doesn't increase beyond 15% while Pneumatic Burst you can increase to a desired %.



Attributes & Skills
Physique & Cunning Distribution is Up to You,attribute from Both Classes Lean towards Cunning and Spirit, So Investing in Physique Cannot go Wrong, Keep an Eye on Hit Chance and invest in Cunning per Weapon Requirement or if your hit chance is under 90%,Note: Maxing Anatomy of Murder with just 20 Points in Cunning Ensures you have enough Cunning to Equip Everything. everything else can go into Physique,

Hellhound Transition
You would want to Gear up and Keep Hellhound to the point where you start dishing out more damage than your Hound,then you can reset the 16 skills point to invest in whichever you like.could even try rushing more endgame skills like Execute with those 16 points in mind.

Itemisation
Aim To get all the Resistances roughly 20-50% each,Frozen heart for Rings,Soul Shard for Amulet, would be ideal.generally you might consider weapons along the Cold,Pierce,Chaos, Affinity as you have Damage Modifiers for those from Dual Blades and Witchfire.

Devotions
Vulture & Harpy or Which ever you Fancy
Personally i dont think Assassins Blade or Debuff Skills on Attack is worth the effort. you want the enemy to die almost instantly or within 3 secs. not slowly poke them till a debuff proc.so going for % Damage Increase along the Chaos,Vitality,Cold,Pierce & Bleed Devotion is better IMO.