Curse

Kotetsu Rain · Jul 27, 2006, 12:43 AM // 00:43

The titel says it all. I'm a helpless wonder trying to balance these skills out fine ,(with and without pet) but my PvE is stinking...very bad... So once again I come to the forums with all you great gurus of Guild Wars Factions and ask for you to help me come up with a solid PvE skill setup for an Assassin/Ranger. (with or without pet.)

P.S. Whenever I start a combo all the baddies start to focus on me. Why?

dargon · Jul 27, 2006, 03:55 AM // 03:55

2 reasons;

1) the combo turns you into a dangerous threat, threats tend to get focused upon
2) you have thin armor and look soft and chewy

Yanman.be · Jul 27, 2006, 07:19 AM // 07:19

I remember seeing a great assassin build for use with henchies..wich I loosely based my Yanssassin on...let me search it for you!

Here's the build: http://www.gwkb.org/cBuild.php?mode=Show&ID=4467

wilebill · Jul 27, 2006, 12:31 PM // 12:31

Thanks for that link, Yanman! For daggers that will work very well.

For general PvE, A/R, and out with a full set of henchies, I often use a sort of strange mini-beastmaster build based on Assassin's Promise, no daggers, and a no-attrib or low-attrib point longbow. The idea is to keep out of the fight, doing minimal damage with your longbow to attract less personal attention, and let your pet serve as remote control daggers! Much less stressful for you sending your "daggers" out to fight for you, and pets have better armor and are more durable than an assassin (shame, shame ANet).

Beast Mastery 12, adjust Shadow and Critical to taste, Daggers 0, enough points in Deadly Arts for your reflexes to trigger Assassin's Promise at the right time. Shadow Refuge to keep yourself healed, pet skills that you like for the rest of your bar. Once you have this rolling, welcome to Mowing Down the Wildlife 'R Us! You finish taking down a monster with all skills recharged and usually full energy. Next monster please! Works very well against Dredge, Mantids, Wardens, and everything else.

I recommend an "Elder" or "Hearty" pet evolution, but anything works. For a pet, capture something at level 5 and level it up yourself, or for an instant level 20 pet, get an Elder Blue Reef Crawler, level 20, which you can find at the beginning of the Boreas Seabed Mission. I will describe this capture below with a couple more tips about pets for assassins.

This is an "anti-establishment" build. But work? Yes, it does, very well.

wilebill · Jul 27, 2006, 12:47 PM // 12:47

To capture an Elder Blue Reef Crawler (crab) at the beginning of the Boreas Seabed Mission, you can do the following. There may be other capturable elder reef crawlers in this mission, I haven't found them though.

Enter the mission with a full set of henchies. When your gate opens, run to the left (not down into the depression), and across the little bridge. This will trap the first group inside their gate which will stay closed. Kill the first group behind their gate except for the reef crawlers, who will both be bright red and hostile, and presumably untamable. But at least one of them is tamable!

Go up the path slightly with the henchies to get them out of the front of the gate, and behind you so they will not kill the reef crawler you are trying to tame. Use the charm spell on one of the hostile reef crawlers. If it doesn't work, kill it, and repeat with the other reef crawler which should now be your pet! Voila, instant level 20 Elder Blue Crab to serve as your remote control daggers!

Alternatively you can tame a Dire Orange Tiger outside the Boreas Seabed in Pongmei Valley explorable area, that is level 15. Dire hits 15% harder, but has 60 less hp as I remember. Practice running with henchies from the Boreas gate to the Yeti area on the left side of the trail without getting into combat enroute. The Yeti's tame the tigers, but sometimes tame one of the birds instead. If you see an available Dire Tiger (it will be "green" and neutral) make a suicide taming run at it, otherwise the Yeti's will tame it before you do.

You can tame an Elder White Tiger, Level 15, near Furfriend in Melandru's Hope, but since I have not done that one, I will let others tell you how.