Assassin: Self Explanitory

In factions, they are highly useful against bosses. I haven't seen any assassin killing a boss, in the middle of a pack, yet. Many casters come in groups, killing any teleporting assassin instantly.

In factions, they are highly useful against bosses. Especially the "magic" bosses that bypass all the laws of the game, chain cast any spell they want, have infinite energy, and crit for 480+ even while you Protective Spirit on.....

I haven't seen any assassin killing a boss, in the middle of a pack, yet. Many casters come in groups, killing any teleporting assassin instantly. Not if you have the warriors sent in first to take the first casts.

But man,The problem is that the only decent teleportation skill is AoD and thats an elite that you can only cap in Echovald Forest(Which is absolutely,positively,RETARDED.)Death's Charge and Dark Prison are teleports,but with 45 and 60(Srsly.Wtf?) second recharges its a very shitty teleport.At least they lowered Returns cool down..But still.Also parties with two assassins should learn how to work eachothers combos out,since you don't want two assassins using skills that are affected by knockdowns like Falling Spider.

I got my Assassin to Broeas Seabed but got frustrated by the fact that Assassins simply arent considered a class thats needed.I can't count the number of peole starting groups and turning me away even though I was one of the first peopel who applied...and don't say make a party.I've tried numerous times where people would apply to join when I asked "Starting group for mission/quest" only to simply leave as soon as they realized I was an assassin.

Especially the "magic" bosses that bypass all the laws of the game, chain cast any spell they want, have infinite energy, and crit for 480+ even while you Protective Spirit on..... I somehow doubt that.

I got my Assassin to Broeas Seabed but got frustrated by the fact that Assassins simply arent considered a class thats needed.I can't count the number of peole starting groups and turning me away even though I was one of the first peopel who applied...and don't say make a party.I've tried numerous times where people would apply to join when I asked "Starting group for mission/quest" only to simply leave as soon as they realized I was an assassin. Every ranger has better armour than you do, and they don't have to teleport in the crowd. A good ranger will interrupt the caster and degen him to death (That is what I do). There are many bad assassins out there, and face it; You are not really needed. There is nothing an assassin can do better than a mesmer or ranger can do. My assassin has been rejected many times, because they rather have a lvl 12 mesmer than a lvl 20 sin.

Every ranger has better armour than you do, and they don't have to teleport in the crowd. A good ranger will interrupt the caster and degen him to death (That is what I do). There are many bad assassins out there, and face it; You are not really needed. There is nothing an assassin can do better than a mesmer or ranger can do. My assassin has been rejected many times, because they rather have a lvl 12 mesmer than a lvl 20 sin. Hi

Hmm, id love to see your mesmer/ranger build that can stop a character doing anything with more than a 1/4 sec cast, while at the same time doing 300-400 damage and deepwoud bleding an dpoison.

But hey if they can assassins are pointless, its not like they have the best solo spike ability is it?

And its awell known fact by now that all the "noob" assassins at the beginnnig of factions are what has caused the assassuns a problem, much more than them actually being a weak class.

I think in pve i have only died about 10 times going totally through the game.

oljomo

Not if you have the warriors sent in first to take the first casts.

But man,The problem is that the only decent teleportation skill is AoD and thats an elite that you can only cap in Echovald Forest(Which is absolutely,positively,RETARDED.)Death's Charge and Dark Prison are teleports,but with 45 and 60(Srsly.Wtf?) second recharges its a very shitty teleport.At least they lowered Returns cool down..But still.Also parties with two assassins should learn how to work eachothers combos out,since you don't want two assassins using skills that are affected by knockdowns like Falling Spider.
i find it funny how you compleately ignore the best teleport when trying to build your case for AoD being the best. fact of the matter is shadow of haste owns all, even AoD.

lets face it, you don't want to be exposed to takeing dmg when you are not attacking foes - which happens when you finish off your combo and have to wait for it to recharge, or when you finish off a squishy.. AoD will last untill you dis-enchant it, often times leaveing the sin saying to himself " oh i haven't gotten hit hard yet, i can stay here for a while longer." then when you do start getting pounded, you franticly have to try and double click that little bitty square b4 you lose your last bit-o-health while you are getting slammed.

shadow of haste, will pull you out of the fight reguarldless of how much dmg you have taken, compleately eliminateing the temptation to stand in the fight longer, - furthermore, it is the only true fire and forget TP in the skill set, you don't have to break your concentration of whats going on, it'll get you out automaticly. and the recharge on shadow of haste is practicly perfect, useing it on you're way in to attack a target, means it will finish rechargeing at the same time all of your attack skills used in your combo are done rechargeing.

AoD is nice, but it still shares all the disadvnatages of return and recall, shadow of haste does not.

Assassins don't pop in and kill anything better than a warrior runs up and unloads an adrenaline spike. Hell at least the warrior does some sustained damage and doesn't die incredibly fast. but the warrior has to sit in and build up his 8 adrenaline just to drop 2 skills to partially kill an opponent.

Assassins are in and out before the warrior can make his move


and yes, Vanguard's Chest piece is -blind 20%