Curse

Sun Fired Blank · Jun 10, 2007, 02:12 AM // 02:12

About a week ago, after I watched another player use a very similar build in the RAs, I tried using Assassin's Promise and Shadow Form respectively with an Insightful Staff of Enchanting. The greatest problem is energy management; you lose a great deal of time waiting for energy to strike any target after your second. Assassin's Promise only solves the problem if you drop your first victim. The second problem is your ability to disable a monk; if he or she manages to circumvent important parts of the chain, you're going to have very few options; your absolute greatest fear is if you run into a monk with Blessed Light (which is probably a 1 / 10 chance). The third problem is survival; even with Feigned Neutrality, I hardly consider you to be overly durable. To some extent, Shadow Form partially solves the problem, but it does leave a six second window that a very smart or persistent player is going to exploit it. I like the build, and of the various one-target spikes available, it's not bad, but I've yet to find a sin build that I really like.

ArKaiN · Jun 11, 2007, 03:57 AM // 03:57

by the time you run out of energy you either:
a)Killed the target and got your energy back
b)Are spiking the wrong target and haven't noticed your spells are doing close to no damage
c)Are for some reason using Assassin's Promise on the beginning of the spike and not when the target's at ~10% life
d)have a lousy team and are doomed.

FN takes care of survival, unless you suck(which brings me back to point c).

Yes, the build has counters. Duh.

P.S.: Shadow Form sins in RA have no dignity.