If for any reason you cannot see the above picture, i've listed everything below
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Attributes: arranged by: attribute+mask+rune
Shadow Arts- 8+1
Dagger Mastery- 12+1+1
Critical Strikes- 10+3
Skills
Shadow Refuge
Leaping Mantis Sting
Temple Strike [elite]
Horns of the Ox
Falling Spider
Twisting Fangs (aka the twanger)
Shadow of Haste
Dash
Armor:
I'm wearing 1.5k female kurzick armor, but that doesnt make a difference. What does matter is that im using a full set of +15armor while attacking. You might want to go for extra health, because you WONT ALWAYS be attacking.
Runes:
Minor Shadow Arts
Minor Dagger Mastery
Superior Critical Strikes
Daggers:
Im using the 15^50, 1/-1 zealous, +30 health ceremonial daggers but i would recommend any pair of +5 energy, 1/-1 zealous daggers with handle of your choice.
Yes, its been a while since I've came out with an assassin build, but i think the wait has been well worth. Experimenting in the random arenas and team arenas for a couple of months has helped me learn to play an assassin correctly, pvp-wise. Hopefully this build will teach you as well.
Now we all should have realized that there is no ressurection signet in this build, which i would normally shun to the gutters and let rats chew until they died of its poisonous aura, but i believe that the twanger can easily make up for it**.
---If your still uncomfortable, swap out shadow refuge for the res sig
The big thing that makes this build great is that it has the versitility of a ranger.
--With Temple Strike it can disable a targeted caster, or anything that uses weapons to attack rather than spells.
--Shadow of Haste can be used at the start of a round to give +10% faster movement, capture the flag stand, be canceled with Dash, then bring a spare flag for when/if the other team caps.
--Shadow of Haste can be re-applied while still in the stance, allowing you +10%faster movement for as long as you want.
--The 4 conditions following the dazed from Temple Strike (blind, poison, bleeding, deep wound) work as a great cover so that only an RC Monk would be able to completely reverse the Damage over Time (DoT) effects of this combo.
My goal is to not exhaust you with useful links, long texts, and in-depth definitions and tactics. So I will let you learn to play this build as you see fit, but remember that a shadow-stepping assassin is a safe assassin.
---Lambentviper
**-What i mean by this is that i have been able to win various 3v1 and 4v1 battles being the only one left alive on my team. Patience, good pulling, and a bit of surprises make this tactic easy to accomplish. Just hope you have patient teammates, as well.
) I've been trying a variant of this build using the same Att spread but replacing HotO/FS with Wild Strike and Rez sig - not as damaging but it proves effective in PvE
Now, if I could fit Fragility in there somewhere....
