Assassin Replica

Necro Warrior
Attributes: Swords: 9
Tactics: 9
Death Magic: 12+4
Soul Reaping: 3+1

Skills:
1.) Flurry
2.) Sever Artery
3.) Gash
4.) Hamstring
5.) Virulence {E}
6.) Healing Signet
7.) Necrotic Traversal
8.) Rez Sig

Since you are the assassin, you may want to wait until a battle already starts unless you're the only warrior. Come up to someone unexpecting, make em bleed, deep wounded, then throw up Virulence and sprint off (evade if must) to next target, or if any corpses are around, Necrotic Traversal as your "shadow step" teleport, plus it'll do some hurt to anyone near it.

It's the best I can do with conditions when replicating the assassin. It is a decent build, I give it good props.

why not necro/warrior assains are slim not those beefy warrrios.. plus soul reaping over strength any day

ur smart!

Bacon!

can someone try this out for me and tell me how it goes? i dont have a computer with guild wars atm...

updated. now this build is much better than before. I got good kills for the team alot in the random arenas.

off topic: use the edit button, dont keep posting please.

also if you ask me, nothin new.

actually in the lions arch PVP arena I was playing an E/N and used necrotic traversal then hit aftershock and killed someone... it was the best day ever and this all happened long before factions was announced

Well goodbye Assassins for a while. If you liked them, try this build! I still love using this build, I even tried it for PvE in Elona's Reach and it worked fine.

How is this anything like an assassin? You can't do much damage, you can't daze people... all you do is some degen that's easily countered with Mend Ailment. Why bother?

Quote: Originally Posted by NatalieD

I'm thinking we'll be seeing Restore Condition and Martyr getting a lot more use in Factions. However, even with these skills being used, widespread condition stacking will be another way of applying pressure to an enemy team since it will take considerable energy to remove them and it requires players to use valuable elite slots on condition removal instead of energy management and offense. As I've said before, I think Factions will make GW a lot more complex and interesting.

A Flurry/Virulence Meleemancer...

*holds back the rage.*

Quote: Originally Posted by JR-

Quote: Originally Posted by The_Janitor Yeah, waste about 25 energy removing conditions. You don't seem to understand how Mend Ailment works. A monk wouldn't try to remove all the conditions as fast as she can. She'll just use Mend Ailment for a super-efficient heal whenever the degen starts to be a problem.

It really bothers me that I have to keep explaining this, but protection-based monks like it when you throw lots of petty conditions onto one character. It helps them.

That's good for them, but it's a support build, my god. You people think this build is supposed to go in by HIMself and kill everything? It's supposed to help with conditions and degen ontop of your casters and tanks/rangers dealing pure dmg to your target.

P.S. What makes you think monks are considered "shes"?

Quote: Originally Posted by Wretchman Drake That's good for them, but it's a support build, my god. You people think this build is supposed to go in by HIMself and kill everything? It's supposed to help with conditions and degen ontop of your casters and tanks/rangers dealing pure dmg to your target. But it's not helping. Not significantly. A real warrior would be indescribably more useful to the team.

Quote: Originally Posted by JR-

Well if you do this Warrior primary it'll do much better I'm sure. It's just a build for kicks; for fun.

Degen conditions are fine, but you have to use them correctly. As others have said, just stacking degen conditions will only give a bigger healing bonus from Mend Ailment, which essentially nullifies whatever damage they would have done.

However condition stacking can be useful to bury more serious conditions, such as blind, dazed, deep wound, and/or crippled. Assassins have a lot of potential in this department, which is why I think Restore Condition and Martyr will become more used in Factions. Should be interesting.

Quote: Originally Posted by NatalieD You don't seem to understand how Mend Ailment works. A monk wouldn't try to remove all the conditions as fast as she can. She'll just use Mend Ailment for a super-efficient heal whenever the degen starts to be a problem.

It really bothers me that I have to keep explaining this, but protection-based monks like it when you throw lots of petty conditions onto one character. It helps them. And it keeps bothering me after using this on and abusing Prot Monks how anyone can say condition stacking is worthless. <EDIT: not this build, but a condition build>

Its for a pressure build, which I see becoming much much more popular than it has been.

If you use it out of context, yeah waste of the skills and energy, but thats just like anything, use it at the wrong time or in the wrong team and BAM waste.

Insofar as the build in the OP...

Nothing special nor new, and the only thing you have that might work well is Virulence. Necrotic is about worthless as a Necro primary due to armor(Lack there of), what if you happen to jump yourself into the middle of their warriors killing your other casters? Dead. Or into your warriors going after a half team ball that they are using PBAoE and AoE to defend? Dead.

And then again a Necro can, from a distance, do a much better job with conditions and spread them on top of that than this build can. Which would be preferable for an interruptable(spells) condition inflicter. Not upclose where Plague Touch and knockdowns become a problem.