Curse

S!carius · Jun 30, 2006, 11:26 AM // 11:26

Hi, I made an assassin ahwhile ago but I have played only PvP with him b/c there was too much assassin hate in PvE. Now that the hate is dying down I've decided to go back to PvE.

My problem is I don't know how to play an assassin in PvE and I'm not sure on what type of build to use. My PvP build can drop another player with my 4 skill combo every time, even the pesky touch rangers with their stances. But when fighting high level npc enemies, I can't. Also, the enemy AI targets lower armor level targets so when I shadow step into combat, all the enemies turn on me

. This leaves me enough time to only get a short combo off before needing to shadow step out, and thus, not killing the enemy.

Right now, my PvE build looks something like this:
-Golden Lotus Strike (For energy management)
-Fox Fangs
-Death Blossom (enemies are often bunched out and this provides some nice AoE damage)
-AoD
-Critical Eye
-empty spot (right now I have Way of the Fox or Way of Perfection, but I'm not sure what to put here)
-Shadow Refuge
-Res sig

My stats:
A/R
-Dagger Mastery 12+1+3 = 16
-Critcal Strikes 11+1 = 12
-Shadow Arts 6 +1 = 7
5 unused points

I'm using the endgame Ceremonial Daggers

Does my build have any potential? Or would it be best to start from scratch?

Thanks for the help,
Sicarius

salamanteri · Jun 30, 2006, 11:48 AM // 11:48

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Originally Posted by S!carius

My problem is I don't know how to play an assassin in PvE and I'm not sure on what type of build to use. My PvP build can drop another player with my 4 skill combo every time, even the pesky touch rangers with their stances. But when fighting high level npc enemies, I can't. Also, the enemy AI targets lower armor level targets so when I shadow step into combat, all the enemies turn on me

. This leaves me enough time to only get a short combo off before needing to shadow step out, and thus, not killing the enemy.
Sicarius

AL is a bit problem. Thats why I made this build Critical Mastery for PvE tank. And for alliance battle.

With this build AL 70+15+20 = 105

S!carius · Jun 30, 2006, 12:30 PM // 12:30

I saw the vid you made for that build and it definatly has tanking ability but is the damge output high enough?

salamanteri · Jun 30, 2006, 01:27 PM // 13:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by S!carius

I saw the vid you made for that build and it definatly has tanking ability but is the damge output high enough?

For PvE it's enough. When you go PvP make some changes if u need more damage.

Kijik Oni Hanryuu · Jul 01, 2006, 05:27 AM // 05:27

this looks very similar to the build I started with, just use your secure combo you used in PvP and just only target secluded enemies like monks.

Oh and god PLEASE no more sin tanking, we just can't have that right now, this is really starting to0 worry me again.

Kijik Oni Hanryuu · Jul 01, 2006, 05:36 AM // 05:36

this looks very similar to the build I started with, just use your secure combo you used in PvP and just only target secluded enemies like monks.

Oh and god PLEASE no more sin tanking, we just can't have that right now, this is really starting to0 worry me again.