Curse

xaleo21 · Jul 10, 2007, 01:19 PM // 13:19

Req Zealous Daggs...

Max atts on
Dagger Mastery
Shadow Arts

Spare atts on
Critical Strikes

Order

Jagged Strike
Wild Strike
Death Blossom
eMoebius Strike
Signet o Malice
Death's Charge
Shadow Refuge
Ress / Shadow Sancuary

(Yes, used a varient of this before )
Jagged Strike causes bleeding, backup if you need to use Sig o Malice.
Wild Strike is a stance knockoff.
Death Blossom deals appx 57 dmg, double strike skill; repeat with Moebius.
Sig save for Daze / Blinding, exception when crippled vs coward.

moko · Jul 10, 2007, 01:23 PM // 13:23

no deepwound, no snare, no speedboost, bad teleport,

Quote:

Spare atts on
Critical Strikes

general attribute fail.

Cebe · Jul 10, 2007, 01:24 PM // 13:24

That's a pretty standard looking starter build. But why are you maxing out Shadow Arts? I use to use a pretty similar build (until I was shown how to play properly and discovered the way of Deadly Arts

) but have about 7 or 8 points in Shadow Arts and much much more in Critical Strikes. Critical Strikes is your energy management.

Btw, it's often hard enough for most assassins to stay alive with 70 armor, an Ele would die even faster with 60!

Sjeng oet Mestreech · Jul 10, 2007, 01:29 PM // 13:29

Why max Shadow Arts when you can max the energy management + extra damage + enchantment reapply (Critical Defenses + Critical Agility, although I don't see those either in your build) attribute: Critical Strikes?

There are way better builds that use Moebius Strike as their Elite. The build will work, íf it is a PvE build. Because in PvE you can just hit a foe to recharge energy (one hit of Zealous Daggers won't make up for the energy cost of your attack skills). You will run out of energy fast if you don't have any better energy management, and taking the Elementalist as a first class isn't really an option.
If it is a PvP build, it is worthless.

Take 13 Critical Strikes, 6 Shadow Arts, 12 Dagger Mastery as AP's.

Teutonic Paladin · Jul 10, 2007, 01:30 PM // 13:30

If you need to take a different primary class YOU'RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT. Critical Strikes at respectable levels gives you more than enough energy. It's nice to have Shadow Refuge to relieve some of the monks pressure or to help deal with crappy monks but it's your ONLY shadow arts skill. (Death's charge is typically used at full health so it doesn't count :-)) And because you don't exactly need to use your lead attack more than once per enemy maybe you could use something with a little more use like Leaping Mantis Strike.

xaleo21 · Jul 12, 2007, 09:25 AM // 09:25

I charge at enemies w/o the ShadowStep... I save the Shadow Arts skills for when I'm below 50%....

Sjeng oet Mestreech · Jul 12, 2007, 11:42 AM // 11:42

You're hopeless, really. Are you even reading what other people said?
Critical Strikes >>>>> Shadow Arts when using daggers. Shadow Arts is just an extra to keep you alive longer, which you also have monks or ritualists for. Rely on them to stay alive and only concentrade on the killing of thing, not staying alive with crappy Shadow Arts skills.

Spartan Link · Jul 16, 2007, 04:24 AM // 04:24

why soo much negativity? ^^ its a decent build most people use it when they first start a sin but yeah critical strike is more important than shadow arts

Takuna · Jul 16, 2007, 11:34 PM // 23:34

What people seem to have missed (Or just been a little vague about) is that as an elementalist, you can't put any points into Critical Strikes anyway.

Sjeng oet Mestreech · Jul 18, 2007, 04:39 PM // 16:39

Being able to use an Elementalist as your main proffesion isn't an excuse for it being a worthless build.
Even worst actually, since you'll have less armor and only +5 energy.

royal mercenary · Jul 18, 2007, 09:08 PM // 21:08

lmao...
E/A and use dagggers is nooby style...
not even able to use sup rue etc

Kiba of hidden leaf · Jul 19, 2007, 12:05 PM // 12:05

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Originally Posted by royal mercenary

lmao...
E/A and use dagggers is nooby style...
not even able to use sup rue etc

Well, as an elementalist you wouldnt use sup runes anyways.. its "nooby style". With 60 armor your going to need the health, and if you were gonna do it anyways you might as well just use two majors in different attributes because it gives you 5 more health -35+-35 = -70 < -75