Denial-Proof BoA Spiker

After becoming frustrated with the BoA assassin's amazing ability to be disabled by ENERGY BURN, I thought "What makes this chain high on energy? Well.."

Anyway, here's my build:

[skill]Way Of The Empty Palm[/skill][skill]Dark Prison[/skill][skill]Burst Of Aggression[/skill][skill]Black Lotus Strike[/skill][skill]Twisting Fangs[/skill][skill]Black Spider Strike[/skill][skill]Blades Of Steel[/skill][skill]Expose Defenses[/skill] or [skill]Resurrection Signet[/skill]

16 Dagger Mastery
10 Critical Strikes
rest in Deadly Arts

Armor: Shrouded, obviously
Daggers: Ebon 15^50, +30hp as base, hide Vampiric 15^50 20% enchantments daggers.

Eh? Free offhand+duals= love. The entire chain GIVES you energy. Essentially, this chain can be performed with 20 energy, and it will leave you with more that you started. Now that I think about it, it could be done by a warrior in Platemail armor xD

Counters: Blind, Hexes, Weakness. (but not energy denial )

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also add to the list: any type of dmg(bleeding ftw?)
unless this is pve, in wich chase you wont meet e-den after all

Damage is pretty much an universal counter for any build out there.

This is why we use Expose Defenses while Prison is recharging... who would've thought!?!?

As for damage, ect? If you're in HA or GvG, the monks will take care of you. It's not routine to bring self heal.

Exposing defenses hardly helps catching the enemy...

That's why you choose a target that is seems to like the place they're standing.

Then why use Dark Prison?

Any good sin has energy swaps...hide energy with -5, pop up your +5's, and BOOM! 10 free energy!

aww you didn't make use of my BoA build variant thread D: it was made for people to post their variants XDD

I just have to say that's a whooole lot of attacks in there and i did consider using dark prison in place of shadow prison...until i saw the recharge. Having Expose Defenses is always nice though *luffs it*

and meat shield...twisting fangs does the bleeding XD

i don't know, i haven't tried it but...i don't like the wait period >_<;;

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And 30 energy to get started *isn't* high-energy? How is shaving 5 enr off the initial spike worth only having a prison effect every 40 seconds rather than 20?

Are you really getting e-burned mid-spike that badly? Because once you hit black lotus you are home free. The attack skills aren't what makes this costly, it's getting started with expose that can be painful. Your energy should regen inbetween spikes with either zealous pressure or just running around, unless you are getting e-denied, which means your build won't work anyway either. If you really wanted e-denial immunity, you'd have to bring glyph of lesser on expose/shadow prison, though giving up important IAS.

Did you even try this build?

Getting smashed with 8+ Energy Burns in AB, RA, TA, and general PvE frustrated me, what can I say. But let's think constructively, don't just say "zomg you suxx", and be done with it. What hex would be a proper replacement for Prison?

Siphon Speed.

Lacks the surprise factor... but who gives a toss?