Curse

Rizzen Firestorm · Jun 02, 2006, 06:45 PM // 18:45

Playing off the idea of a vamparic assassin, as the other thread was about, I thought degen would work well with other skills that compliment the assassin's quick attacking speed.

Blood - 12 ap
Order of the Vampire {Elite}
Siphon Life
Order of Pain
Critical Strikes - 11 ap
Critical Eye
Sharpen Daggers
Twisting Fangs
Dagger Mastery - 6 + 2 (major Rune)
Golden Lotus Strike
Unlinked -
Recall

For your weapon set you should start out with a staff that gives you an energy bonus at the cost of regeneration and use your blood skills. Then switch to daggers (This is set up for low req daggers, hence the 8 dagger mastery). It would be ideal to have 5:1 vamparic daggers. Critical Strikes and Golden Lotus Strike can help keep up your energy. Or if you run into trouble, switch back to the staff and use recall to get out.

And a question: is it possible to have daggers that are both zealous and vamparic?

Bloodied Blade · Jun 02, 2006, 07:03 PM // 19:03

You can only have daggers that are zealous **or** vampiric, not both.

I would reccomend Life Transfer instead of Order of the Vampire because OotV only lasts for a short duration, and you already have Order of Pain (orders don't stack anymore). Also, Sharpen Daggers + Twisting Fangs? Bleed doesn't stack with itself...

Maybe something like:

Life Transfer
Life Siphon
Order of Pain
Demonic Flesh (for your enchantment, also nice +hp)
Twisting Fangs
Golden Lotus Strike
Recall/Return/Rez signet

...still could use some improvement, but it's better.

EDIT: If you want a minor vampire bonus and a lot of degen:

Golden Phoenix Strike
Horns of the Ox
Falling Spider
Twisting Fangs
Life Siphon
Life Transfer
Demonic Flesh
Res Signet

Cast Life Transfer + Life Siphon on your target for 10 regen on you and 10 degen on them. Use Demonic Flesh for more max hp and an enchantment for GPS. Use Phoenix --> Horns --> Spider --> Fangs and your target should be dead. That gives you a lot of regen, vampire, and in case they remove the hexes, they still have degen on them from the conditions (and the deep wound from twisting fangs helps kill them faster).

Lambentviper · Jun 02, 2006, 07:45 PM // 19:45

nice idea...gave me something to play around with tonight and test

Rizzen Firestorm · Jun 02, 2006, 08:27 PM // 20:27

Thanks, I didn't know the orders didn't stack anymore, and I was really wrestling with either order of the vampire or life transfer to begin with. ( And I must have zoned out or something on the double bleeding thing

) To take it from here:

Golden Phoenix Attack
Horns of the Ox
Falling Spider
Twisting Fangs
Life Siphon
Life Transfer
Critical Defences
Order of Pain

I want to Keep order of pain, and on that note...
I'm going to be casting it alot because it only lasts for 5 seconds, and it requires a health sacrifice. My regen will make up for it, but I still don't want to over do it by including another skill (Demonic Flesh). I swapped it for critical defences.

I'm playing with the idea of using black lotus strike, but its recharge time bugs me... what do you think?