BoA vs. Lightning Reflexes

QFT.

Also, Flurry could be an optimal choice for an IAS, except reapplying may be a pain and a bit harsh on your energy.

~Polynikes Yeah, tru dat. 5 energy every 5 seconds would be tough to manage even with zealous, especially considering all the other energy upkeep of your other skills.

I was looking through the available IAS skills, and I think two in the ranger line are pretty good, with EXCELLENT recharges, Bestial and Tiger's Fury. 10 energy with a 10 second recharge, but even with only 4 points in BM, you get 7 seconds duration out of it. And the skill disables only non-attack skills, which in many cases, is less than 1/3rd of a sin's skill bar lol.

But compared to the Warrior IAS skills, like Frenzy and Flurry, there really is no comparison, especially seeing as how those two ranger skills are 25% IAS only. And looking at the IAS skills available, almost ALL of the useful ones to a sin are in other classes' primary attributes. What's odd is that BOTH of the new Nightfall classes each have two IAS skills, whereas the Assassin is STILL the only melee class with no inherent IAS skill.

Ah well, I've started to get used to playing non-IAS sins again, especially now that my Sin has made it through the prophecies campaign and has access to some juicy Elites (Fevered Dreams hehe). Hopefully when the NEXT expansion comes out, or perhaps in an update, ANet will finally give the sin its own IAS, but I doubt it.

yea Locusts is only good in conjure builds or rit weapon builds, but even then its not that much DPS. Its good for killin doppleganger though since he doesnt use daggers Psssh, Doppleganger is so easy as a Sin primary or Sin secondary.

Equip two skills:

Shadow Form at leftmost position
Expunge Enchantments right next to it.

Auto attack the doppleganger, let him cast shadow form, then cast Expunge Enchantments, then kill him with auto attacks. I think I killed my Dopple in about 6 seconds lol.

Oh, and clawofcrimson, I meant that most of the real useful IAS apart from Flurry/Frenzy are in other classes' primary attributes. An IAS with 20 second recharge, 10 energy activation, AND being conditional on being enchanted is IMHO not a good skill for a sin, since they are primary targets for enchant stripping (after Dervish/Monk) due to many combos requiring being enchanted or skills like AoD being stripped takes the sin away from his target for a short while.

I hope in the next expansion ANet really considers adding at LEAST one IAS skill to the Critical Strikes line, either as a stance or just a "skill" like Critical Eye. Or add IAS to one or two existing skills, such as Locust's Fury (IAS for combo users, Double Striking AND IAS for auto-attackers) to give the sin some choices for a critical melee component without having to go outside to ANOTHER melee class. Basically, a sin should be able to do what he does, have access to IAS, and use a spellcasting profession as a secondary, just like a warrior, dervish, paragon and even ranger already can.