Unsuspecting Strike!!! Amazing!!!

The reason I don't use it is an initial high hit isn't all that useful for a sin, and is likely to get healed. It costs too much for something that doesn't help me kill my target. Now if it was Ununsuspecting Strike (if target is below 25% health it does a huge amount of damage), that would be nice.

Likewise I wouldn't use my Executioner's Strike on a target at 100% health. I save it for my adrenaline spike when I'm making my attempt to kill the target.

It's probably one of the (or simply the) highest damage Lead strike out there.

That said, I never use it. I spend all my energy on finishing my opponent off with high damage Dual's or followups, and I don't want to spend ten energy (two thirds my total energy....cough) on the lead attack. Its huge damage is only good at the start of an encounter, which means most of the fight it's going to be more or less a subpar lead attack. It also doesn't give any added benefit like most leads do - I generally use Black Lotus (for an extreme energy boost) or Disrupting Stab with my daze build.

I've found using unsuspecting strike first usually kills my energy, not allowing me to follow up my chain properly to finish off my opponent. Only time I use it now is if I'm farming Dajkah Inlet with my Rt/A.

Well I would like to disagree with unsuspecting strike is to much energy or I'm never beaten by it. This is what ppl have told me when I use it. I use this skill more than half the time. Its actually 1 of my favorite skills of all time. Think about it for a sec. Even tho its most effective at 90% or above enemies it still does around a warrior damaging attack if ur enemy is below 90%. Then also energy cost? No prob. Use zealous dagger tang and with NF an energy inscription. Then critical strikes at 13 dagger at 11 or 12 and if ur a monk healing can get up to 10. All depends on how u use ur runes and attribute points.

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i invite u all to use this build for example in AB


critical eye + unsuspecting + fox fangs + horns of the ox + moebius + syphon speed + dash + feigtened neutrality

dagger mastery 12 + 3 + 1
shadow arts 8 + 1
deadly arts 2 + 1
critical strikes 10 +2

and the last rune use

+ energy
or
the one that reduces blind and other thing



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use critical eye > syphon speed > dash > ususpecting > fox fangs > horns > moebius

only use moebius if target is bellow 50% HP!!! if he heals too much run, otherwise use 1 or 2 normal atacks and repeat

horns > moebius
horns > moebius
horns > moebius


until he is dead... belive 90% he dies at 1st try


then use dash or feignted neutrality as needed.



have a try

I like it in pvp simply because 120 HP drop will prompt heal from monk and I can do this every 4 sec. So basically I run around and stab people with full HP so monk reacts with heal. Goes through monk's energy quick.

Spura, that's actually a pretty good idea. Now combine with some other monk diversion skills...*ponders*

Unsuspecting Strike is an ok skill, but like some other people in this thread said, it doesn't give fast access to your dual skills and it has high energy to activate. I've been testing a build quite some time now and it seems quite worthy of guildwiki.

IGN: Prototype Xiii [[[Tester]]]

Dagger Mastery : 12*
Critical Strike : 12*
Deadly Arts : 3

*if you'd like use runes if you want to make the SS last longer as well as DP

Siphon Speed / Expose Defenses
Unsuspecting Strike
Temple Strike
Twisting Fangs / Critical Strike
Black Spider Strike / Malicious Strike
Burst of Agression
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-Variations-
Dark Prison for surprise attack
Resurrection Signet for resurrecting fallen allies
Return to get yourself out of bad situations
Feigned neutrality to kite and heal
Wary Stance to kite or tank while gaining energy
Viper's Defense for kiting

-Equipment-
Zealous Daggers
High energy armor (if using DP, i suggest about 40+)

-Usage-
Activate Siphon Speed for the chain and for kiting foes
[If you have DP activate that to surprise your foe so they can't react fast enough]
Activate US > TS > TF > BSS with BoA activated before US.
Repeat normal attacks to disrupt casters and melee enemies
[If you have Wary Stance, activate this]

For the other variations, i believe you can figure out what they're useful for.

-Counters-
Blind, evade, block, empathy, diversion (on TS), faintheartedness, etc.

have fun. it interrupts enemy skills (spellcasters) so fast with normal attacking b/c of dazed and the degen kills them eventually if they're not healed by a monk b/c they can't heal themselves .

I am using this chain and I tested in ısle of name less on 100 Al suit:
Critical 15
Dagger 11
Unsuspending Stirike
Palm Stirike
Horns of Ox
Falling Spider
Twisting Fang
Do you know how fast this kills. Only 6 sec. On 60 Al I usually cant use Twisting Fang.

Destro Maniak, misusing Palm Strike like that makes me puke. Also, critical strikes higher than DM makes me puke. Now I just lost my appetite and I got a fever. thanks.

test my build.. and plz ive some feedback

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I think you mean wiki. Link please?

well here is the link
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Build:A/any_Lotus_Palm I didnt mean there was unsuspecting strike. I put it myself

Attributes are still messed up, and Palm Strike isn't used the way it should.


Palm Strike and black lotus strike and black spider strike exsist so we can skip the useless lead attacks and hit directly with off/dual attack.

The way you use it now, means you probably could dump your elite, sub in a cheaper offhand, and take a more powerful dual attack or utility slot.

Its great when u use only once at the start........
I do it first,then a off hand elite atk that dosent need a lead,then twisting,get away with hearth of shadow,then use my second combo (jaged strike,wild strike,death blossom).If my victim is still alive elite off hand and twisting.......
IF its still alive i hit the monitor with my chair............

Twisting Fang is a great skill, but it isn't THE skill.
I run Assassin builds without Twisting Fang due to its high recharge and I end up killing faster than most sins do.
And yes, I use Unsuspecting Strike as a Lead Attack, it deals about 30% of my damage.

aura of mana, can u test my build and coment??

its in 1st post of second page....

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mana....blades is a waste...u have 2 skills that recharge in 4 sec and wild strike(and unsusp) will be done recharging by end of u combo so blades of steel wont do full damage.take twisting fangs or death blossom

Umm.. 4 seconds is a long time dude.. I usually use it before they are recharged and I get the max damage.
I have used this build numerous times in PvP (AB and HA) and it usually kills a target in one hit unless a monk intervenes (or some heavy tanking build, self heal gets interrupted usually due to KD).
One thing I don't liek about Twisting Fangs is its long recharge of whomping 15 seconds. That's why I never liked it... I can't jump on another target right afterwards.
Although right now I am trying to pierce together a Shadow Prison/Twisting Fangs build (I am aware it isn't new, but I like to make my own builds). The long recharge is still leaving Twisting Fangs in the low spot for me =(
How do you guys use it? What do you follow it up with (other than Moebius). What do you do if the target is almost dead but self healing (so the bleeding + deep wound, and possibly the poison if you used some thing of that sort won't take the target out)?
And there's going to be some attribute problems... I'll have to utilize all 4 Assassin attributes and I like my CS to be 13 and Dagger to be reasonably high (I use 16 =P). And as always, self-heal is needed (Shadow Refuge still gets my vote for the crappiest heal in the game, even with 16 in Shadow Arts).

1st off....15 sec isnt much. u can afford to wait 15 sec to start combo and if u have deadly arts points,folo [/skill]Twisting Fangs[skill] w/ impale for an insane spike

unsupecting rocks it matches others on damage even below 90 has the (joint) quickest recharge and can do HUGE damage over 90, so followd by wold then fangs or w/e it can be great-my fav lead ^^

NVM TWISTING FANGS owns.... umm it's better than Blades of Steel in my build due to Deep Wound and Bleeding =)