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Honking Donkey · Sep 28, 2006, 05:01 AM // 05:01

I noticed somthing about your build, you don't seem to have a way of entering and escaping. I think you should really consider using a skill like Aura of Displacement for your elite. If you don't want to use up you elite skill on Aura of Displacement, Deaths Charge is just as good. You can also use a combination of Shadow of Haste and Dash/Dark Escape/Spring because since you end Shadow of haste with another stance, you can escape at will like you would with aura of displacement.

Combowise, you can use a modified Hotstepper build. The basic combo goes like this: Golden Pheonix Strike, Horns of Ox, Falling Spider, Twisting Fangs but before you start the combo you MUST enchant yourself or the combo will not work. You start with an offhand attack so it opens up even more combos. If you dont want to go the enchanted way, you can use the above build except swap GPS with Black Lotus Strike. That takes a REALLY long time to recharge but it gives energy so you really wouldnt get much trouble getting your combo interupted because you ran out of energy.

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Originally Posted by dgb

My first comment is on your equipment. -10 while attacking is pretty crazy on an assassin

I agree with what you say but there is a way to avoid that. Use Critical Defences with Wild Blow. You can keep up wild blow with every critical Strike and you can basically hold your own against a bunch of warriors with these two skills alone.

It's not easy being an assassin. Dont worry about feeling like a newbie because of your combo. The more you play as an assassin, the better you develop your build. Just stick with it and youll be pissing off casters in no time.

Me And The Henchies · Sep 28, 2006, 05:04 AM // 05:04

I'm not far enough to get any elite skill besides Palm Strike.
So getting AoD would be kind of hard for me at the moment.

XxUberMonkeyxX · Sep 28, 2006, 05:46 AM // 05:46

iono if anyone has mention this combo b4 but i like running it,
palm strike - horns of the ox - falling spider - twising fangs with that you should be able to do a huge amount of damage plus adding deep wound, bleeding, and poison, in the case that you get AoD already you could try using (Golden pheonix strike - horns of the ox - falling spider - twisting fangs) the diffrence between the 2 combo is that you can do a hit and run on 1 target by simply using AoD to get in, and execute as follows GPS HoX FS TF then taking off AoD to get out of the mess you got urself in

or if you want to be use Warrior skills go with the (Shove*warrior elite* - falling spider - twisting fangs) but thats more along the lines of PvP or the famous shock-sin which is basically the same but uses shock instead of shove

Me And The Henchies · Sep 28, 2006, 12:23 PM // 12:23

Is that for pvp? Cause I'm really looking for something along the lines of pve...
I'm going to try Lord_Shar's build

Me And The Henchies · Sep 28, 2006, 09:39 PM // 21:39

Lord_Shar, what atr should I use?
I sold my daggers for some Ceremonial Daggers+15k

lord_shar · Sep 29, 2006, 01:10 AM // 01:10

Here's what I recommend for attributes:

Dagger Mastery - 11
Deadly Arts - 2
Shadow Arts - 11 (or 10 Beast-mastery if you're going with ranger using Tiger's Fury)
Critical Strike - 13

Since you don't have access to Prophecies, you'll have to modify the build around Canthan-only skills. A ranger secondary is a reasonable substitute.

Me And The Henchies · Sep 29, 2006, 01:47 AM // 01:47

Where do I change my 2nd proffession? I'm only at Kaineng..

lord_shar · Sep 29, 2006, 02:32 AM // 02:32

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Originally Posted by Me And The Henchies

Where do I change my 2nd proffession? I'm only at Kaineng..

***SPOILER***

After you pass Nahpui Quarter's mission.

Me And The Henchies · Sep 29, 2006, 02:39 AM // 02:39

How far would that be?

lord_shar · Sep 29, 2006, 04:45 AM // 04:45

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Originally Posted by Me And The Henchies

How far would that be?

Just south of the Marketplace, but you can't get into that area until you finish the quests that lead you there (finding the Oracle).

Me And The Henchies · Sep 29, 2006, 04:52 AM // 04:52

Mmk, well so far using your build without Flurry is fine, I'm trying to use Tiger Stance but it isnt very long and I cant make it better because it's a strength skill.
I did some work in the undercity finishing 2 quests and it works well so far, thanks alot.
I tried killing the 4 dummies on the isle of the nameless without any of them rezzing before I was done and it worked

Yanman.be · Sep 29, 2006, 11:35 AM // 11:35

How about kd+ "on your knees" so you can renew tiger stance? If you really really want to...

Spura · Sep 29, 2006, 11:52 AM // 11:52

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Originally Posted by lord_shar

The fastest raw-damage spammer I've developed for an A/W is my "hyper-sin" build. I haven't seen any other assassin build that can drop all 4 Isle-of-Nameless target dummies before the first one gets reset (sub-35 seconds total kill time).

I managed to kill all 4 with one of those Flourish builds.
Moebius is better than Flourish in that regard because it does damage and recharges skill at the same time while you have to stop for flourish. But I found in pvp Moebius is not as good as Flourish, often target gets healed and is not under 50%, so I prefer Flourish, even though it kills lifeless dummies a bit slower.

Me And The Henchies · Oct 08, 2006, 04:15 AM // 04:15

I have an idea..

I tried this and it worked to kep me alive much much better.

Instead of a attack speed increase skill, use way of perfection.
It heals you everytime you hit with a critical hit.

This is just an idea though..