Lash/Gyre Assassin. 5-7 Million dps. 6khp. Max Dodge/Spell Dodge.

If you want to craft your own claw, there are a few things to keep in mind. For your base, select an ilvl 83+ Imperial Claw. Gemini is also popular for the mana on hit, but it is not necessary. Your hit damage is high enough to leech you enough mana, and if you get reduced mana cost anywhere, it will be unecessary. Gemini claw has 10 less life on hit and 1.5 base attack speed as opposed to imperial claw's 1.6.

If you are going to try using blasphemer's grasp (something I considered), you should select an elder base, but I strongly recommend against this for a causal player (or unless you're sure you want to use those gloves) because it opens many more affixes to roll during your crafting.

After you get the base, use perfect fossils 1 at a time until you get a quality higher than 20% that you're happy with (for me, 28+, but min-max as you will).

After that, use 2 socket resonators with aberrant and corroded fossils. This will open a few things for you.

The most important mod to look for is the prefix "60% chance to deal 100% more poison damage with this weapon". If you want, you can try to annul the remaining bad mods until you only have this left, and then multimod it.

However, I think you can do better, so I would keep going.

The next important mod is the malicious chaos damage prefix. This is a huge amount of flat chaos damage added to your attacks, and, as luck would have it, is also a prefix which means that you can craft "prefixes cannot be changed" and scour leaving this mod, and the 60% more Poison mod.

So ideally, you want your claw to have these 2 prefixes and an open suffix to craft the prefixes cannot be changed. If there isn't a suffix open, you can try for a lucky annul (what I did).

Other good mods to look for are 25%+ attack speed, or apply lvl 10 despair on hit (a unique mod from the aberrant fossil). If you have either of these, depending on what you can still craft on your claw, AND assuming you also have the required 60% more damage with poison mod, then you can keep it, try to annul off other mods so you can multi mod, or just sit on it and try to craft another claw with your remaining fossils hoping for something better.

In the end, it's expensive (6ex craft) but kinda easy.
Summary of steps:

1)Imperial Claw + Perfect fossil to 28+% quality
2) Aberrant + corroded fossil looking for 60% chance to deal 100% more poison damage.
3)If the other mods are bad, try to isolate this one with either prefixes cannot be changed (2 ex) + scour or lucky annuls.
4) If you get this mod and the malicious flat chaos mod alone, then craft "can have multiple crafted mods" (2ex)
5) Craft the highest tier attack speed (1ex), Increased physical damage (1ex), and Critical Strike chance (some odd chaos).
6) Divine until you have 20% attack speed and at least a middling flat chaos roll


A much cheaper option is to just get the poison mod + despair on hit/malicious mod and craft attack speed. This will still be better than wasp's nest, by about 15%, depending. The claw crafting I described is about a 30-35% dps increase.