Curse

Sol Deathgard · Mar 20, 2007, 04:22 AM // 04:22

About a month before NF came out I walked away from GW, I just came back about a month ago. Before I left my sin was only being used in AB after I had beaten Factions with him and was my extra storage. Now that I have NF, he's probably my 4th or 5th used char next to my War, Derv, & Paragon, and maybe monk.

Edge Martinez · Mar 20, 2007, 04:29 AM // 04:29

I'm running an assassin through the game now, though only as my 4th-5th character. Mostly doing it to get elites and to power up Zenmai. I also like their skills for secondary professions on my other toons.

countesscorpula · Mar 20, 2007, 05:20 AM // 05:20

I started my Assassin as a sin/ranger (for the pet at first) in the first week that factions came out. I found the body blocking of the pet to be a pain in the rear, so i switched from daggers to bow fairly early. Critical Barrage was pretty much the easiest way to move the character through all of the campaigns. Moved through Cantha until I got to the mainland, set sail for Tryia right away. Ran myself backwards to Ascalon and completed Prophecies with little difficulty. Returned to Cantha and rediscovered how difficult it was for an assassin to get into a group. Clawed my way through Cantha and after completing Elona with my primary char (a necro), soon followed behind with my Sin.

While moving through Elona, the sin was receiving some buffs, so i went back to daggers occassionally, but bow still seems to work best in most situations. I'm no mathmatician, but i'm no slouch with numbers either. As I see it, even when you factor in double strikes, daggers still yield the lowest damage per second of all physical weapons (swords/axes/hammers/scythes/bows/spears were the weapons i compared).

Only beef so far... the odds of scoring a critical hit on high-end mobs is low to nil, so many of the Sin skills are highly constrained if not rendered completely useless. Lvl 20 me vs Lvl 24-28 bad guy (non boss) means crit hit is pretty darn rare. Sort of puts a damper on most of the end game.

Regardless, my sin is still in the top 4 of my frequently played chars (I have a slot for each profession).

KZaske · Mar 20, 2007, 05:23 AM // 05:23

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Originally Posted by jon0592

Hello, this question is for the people who bought GW: Factions in the first 1-3 weeks of its release, and more importantly - those people who made assassins.

Over the months, the assassin has gone through quite a lot of punishment (people don't know how to play them, etc) so I just wanted to know where your assassin (that you made 1-3 weeks of Factions release) is today.

I still have mine, but I barely play him. When I had a lot of play time in the summer, I would go AB-ing with him, but now play time is scarce so I don't even touch him.

So...where's your assassin?

You mean my mule? OK, that is what he has become.

Kha · Mar 20, 2007, 05:27 AM // 05:27

My sin is living the comfortable life in Vabbi armor after just completing Nightfall a few days ago. Sure he was my 6th character through Nightfall, but that's cause I hadn't played him in a while and loss the art of playing a sin. Only campaign he hasn't done is Prophecies. He was a mule for a while, but so was my ritualist (now my paragon is a mule cause he's my least favorite profession). Now he's alive and back again. Currently working on my new ranger at the moment, but replaying my sin after a long break was a lot of fun and has me addicted to him as my favorite melee profession, and one of my favorite professions period.

I found Nightfall a lot more forgiving to sins than Factions was. As someone said, sins are very hard in Factions with all the exploding afflicted. And it seems anyone bringing sins to the other campaigns knows what they're doing, so there aren't a lot of poorly played sins in Nightfall, or so I've experienced. My ranger is in Factions and I'm being reminded why people didn't want to group with sins for a long time :/

Dione Davore · Mar 20, 2007, 06:03 AM // 06:03

My Assassin has completed Cantha and Nightfall.
Has 15K Kurzick armor and done a lot of quests.
Don't use her in PvE anymore. Only PvP/AB.

The game has become flooded with noob-PvP assassins that all play the well-known "steel blades" build. I think that's a pity for the real assassins.

holababe · Mar 20, 2007, 06:08 AM // 06:08

Got owned by all the afflicted at Vizunah Quarter, ported to Tyria and is currently a mule

blood4blood · Mar 20, 2007, 12:46 PM // 12:46

My assassin got deleted @ level 10 or 12 or so, and I never made another one.

EternalTempest · Mar 20, 2007, 02:29 PM // 14:29

She's been storing all the monster drop items while she taking a break from beating shirow.

Zedd Kun · Mar 20, 2007, 02:36 PM // 14:36

I made a sin 2 months ago or so, reached to lvl 10, bored as hell. So I started up a monk, easier to get a group, and more fun to play.

BliZZarD · Mar 20, 2007, 02:46 PM // 14:46

I completed Factions with mine and then used as a mule since one week ago that I bought another space and decided to do Chapter 3 with her too just for the treasures ^^.

HTW · Mar 20, 2007, 02:50 PM // 14:50

Mines always seems to amaze me, one my most used characters and always fun to play with, used him when facs came out and havent stopped using him,just getting to bone palace for that awsome ancient armor.

shiro Got Owned By My Assassin FTW:?@

BeatWolf · Mar 20, 2007, 03:13 PM // 15:13

Never got more than lvl 2 with an assasin in PVE they are crap (imo) in PVE id rather have a dervish/warrior for melee over an assasin in my PUG any day. Assasins only good for Random/Team Arenas and HA as it seems today. I hate the way they move around its really cheesy, they dont look cool they look like 12 year old ninja wannabes

BeatWolf · Mar 20, 2007, 03:13 PM // 15:13

Sry double post. Laggy site as usual.

Series · Mar 20, 2007, 03:39 PM // 15:39

Mine is deleted and remade as a PvP only character so that I no longer have to spend gold on him or beat campaigns as him to reach some elite skills.