Originally Posted by poofighter

basiclly tell the world about your ideas like skills/attributes/etc....

Ill start it

attributes
Claw Mastery(meele-28-15 dmg)
Dagger Mastery(ranged-22-15 dmg)
Stealth
Proffesionalism(Primary Attribute)
Proffesionalism has two effects:
1. For each point in Proffesionalism you get 1% more gold when loot is picked up
2. For each point in Proffesionalism you get 5% more chance to land an assasin shot.

assasin shot can only happen in a stance and on an unawered enemy (not aggroed or with 80-100% health)

skills:

Sneak
Stealth-stance
You gain 33% more speed and get your aggro circle is 50% smaller for 10 sec. Assasin Shot: Claws +14-61, Daggers +5-48


Hit And Run
Dagger Mastery/Stealth-Stance
For 30 sec you loose 60 armor. You also get a +10-60% to land an Assasin Shot. Assasin Shot: Daggers +17-89


Low Shot
Dagger Mastery-Dagger Attack
Enemy is crippeled for 5-17 sec.


Full Zen (E)
Proffesionalism-Stance
ether for 1-4 sec or your next attack you land an Assasin Shot, But get drained from all energy after this shot. Assasin Shot: Claws +20-107, Daggers +18-96


keep developing this ppl!

Originally Posted by D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

some go as low as $400 retail..

Originally Posted by Shinomori

Yup. Pretty sure there's some skills there that would get the nerf bat in under a second. PLUS 107 damage? PLUS 89 damage for 30 seconds at a 60 percent chance? FOR A NON ELITE?

The ideas are nice...but I'm thinking the skills are way too powerful.

Originally Posted by Goonter

A reduction in the aggro circle is pointless in PvP.
If there is it would exsist for stealth skills.
For instance, your foe can not detect you (PvP too) while they are outside your aggro circle while using certain stealth skills.

Im assuming while you are stealthed you will be limited in either movement, your ability to attack or use a skill or a combination of the three.

I guess some of the melee type attacks will be attacks of oppertunity. Something like - wait 6 secs, if foe attacks/cast a spell/whatever then you strike for +damage and critical hit.

So it would work like this - Activate stealth. Get within attack range and activite attack of oppertunity. Once foe makes a mistake, you unstealth and hit them hard. Snare foe (if hes still alive) and run, repeat.

I could be wrong on this one, but maybe they will be better suited vs. rangers rather than casters and warriors.
Rangers are a casters thorn as it is and they are somewhat of a harded target that the other classes dont counter naturally.

They will be able to detect, remove and even replace traps, evade arrows, and close in on the target swiftly. To balance this, rangers will be better suited in detecting them.

...and I dont think they will be picking locks unless Anet decides to add PvE specific skills for all classes to the game.

Originally Posted by Asplode

Ooh, gonna play Nostradamus here and predict some more things.
This is just personal speculation, of course.

Attributes:
Stealth: Primary Attribute. Inherent bonus: Reduces the size of your aggro bubble; each level of Stealth gives a 2% chance for an enemy to "miss" targetted attacks made against you. Many skills that focus on movement and subversion rely on Stealth.
Dagger Mastery: Weapon attribute, attacks, inherent damage bonus, etc.
Dual Wielding: Inherent bonus: gives a 5% chance per level for a second-hand weapon to strike your target on each attack. This weapon hits for half base damage.
Assassination: Inherent bonus: gives a 1% greater chance per level to critical hit. Many skills that focus on disabling single opponents and executing deathblows rely on Assassination.

Skills...hmm...

Well one person guessed that assassins would be packing on many conditions, so I bet there's going to be an assassin attack that deals damage based on the amount of conditions that your target has. We'll call it, oh, "Assassinate" XD

I imagine there's plenty of movespeed skills in there too, a few teleportation skills, an AoE blind skill, some kind of energy-sapping skill, definitely something to cause Dazed, probably a throwing dagger version of concussion shot. Maybe even a very short duration AoE daze skill.

Maybe there can be some kind of magic with the assassin as well, some mesmer-like hexes that temporarily disable a target in one way or another.

I can almost guarantee some kind of throwing dagger interrupt move akin to Savage Shot.

Maybe there will be some way to toggle melee and ranged "modes" when wielding whatever the assassin weapon is, which I will just assume is "daggers". That would be creative.

I figure there will be plenty of anti-kiting measures for the assassin. Nothing's more un-assassin-like than being kited and walked around like a baby. Teleport, cripple, multiple ways to cripple or ignore cripple, maybe even a knockdown in their repertoir makes sense.