Pve/Farming/maybe RA Build

The Assassin's Code:

Dagger Mastery:10+2+1
Shadow Arts: 10+1
Critical Strikes:10+2+1

Critical Defense

Way of the Assassin

Critical Eye

Golden Fox Strike

Wild Strike

Death Blossom

Way of Perfection

Optional (Ex. Shadow Refuge, Dash, Ressurection

With a chance of about 80% you can upkeep Critical Defenses until you are lacking a foe to attack. You are also gaining energy and health constantly because Way of Perfection(28 health every critical) and Critical Eye(4 energy every critical or 5 if you have zealous).

Being blocked isnt a major problem, but if it is you should bring fox fangs as the off-hand and Nine Tail Strike as your dual.

If anyone has any better ideas for the combo I would appreciate some ideas.

Not RA please! Keep it nice'n clean...

Strange that.

I was just thinking along similar lines with the blocking matter.

But there has to be a more effective way of avoiding a block than Golden Fox Strike, Fox Fangs, Nine-Tail Strike (which, for all their unblockingness, just cause raw damage). Way of the Fox would be overpressing the "ways" ... Expose Defenses is one opponent only. Blinding Powder and Unseen Fury aren't too bad, but take up two skills and require comboing into the former first.

I'm not sure how good your energy is at the start of the combo... but after activating all that, I'd imagine that Golden Lotus Strike might help. Then again you might just want to spam Golden Phoenix Strike => Death Blossom. (Its a shame not to be able to strip Stances though)...

Out of curiosity though, how can you have +2+1 on both Dagger Mastery AND Critical Strikes? I'm using Major Runes of Dagger Mastery and Critical Strikes myself (because they're deceptively cheap compared to the Minor and Superior runes, and can be countered completely with Superior Vigor and two Vitae) and have a Bladed mask... but that leaves a missing +1 for Critical Strikes.

yea, sorry about that.
I have 13 dagger and 13 critical though.

and golden lotus sounds good, thanks

Just remember though... By the time you're done activating Way of Perfection and Critical Defenses (along with Way of the Assassin and Critical Eye, though they have no activation time technically) your team-mates will probably have charged in and done much of the damage for you (if PvE), or worse you might already have got half your health knocked off. I tend to be a bit wary of using several enchants before charging into battle.... (not least because my AI team will get aggro-happy if I'm too close when preparing).

And yeah... to reiterate a point... thats quite a lot of energy thrown out there right at the start before you begin attacking. You'd better have a good energy pool. Perhaps leave activation of Way of Perfection until you actually need some health back (if I'm using that with Critical Defenses, I'll typically activate it the moment Critical Defenses goes down prematurely, which is less of a problem since the buff).

im fine on energy because i have shrouded armor on, also I only use way of perfection when farming. When in PvE I just use critical defense before a battle and they dont kill much in the one second im sitting there.

Why not replace golden with jagged/unsuspecting

Both recharge fast so that when you do your combo there almost recharged so you can start all over again.

in the original build it has golden fox strike, not golden lotus, which is spammable and does 29 boost damage.

That build will probably do alright for farming; with all the energy you'll undoubtedly have, you should switch something out for something crazy.

I dunno, [skill=text]Poisoned Heart[/skill], [skill=text]Suffering[/skill]... there's a ton of skills out there, I'm sure you could find one.

More importantly, how do you only have 165 attribute points currently being used? I might be crazy, but I could swear that the maximum is 200.

Because im running a minor dagger rune instead of a major and i guess i calculated wrong since i didnt have the rune to check it with.

I don't think a minor rune will make up a 35 point differential.

I think you're missing some attribute quests somewhere.

i have 200 atribs