A question to those who bought Factions at its release

I started one near release, died repeatedly so I didn't play him much (damn those Afflicted and their explosions!). Then I looked over the skills and made a viable PvE build.

Right now, he's in Vabbi with decked out armor. He still hasn't beaten Factions, and only three missions in Prophecies. He's probably my second favorite character, but I don't play my alts very much.

Made mine the day the Tengu Festival started. Has 2 sets of 15k armor but is just sitting there while I work on taking other characters through Elona.

A bit off topic but point well made...

As for my Assassin she has Canthan 15k (+15 armor when attacking) armor carries Mallyx zeal daggers and has all Assassin skills and elites from Factions and Nightfall released. She has beat all 3 chapters and is my second favorite PvE character.

Assassins have earned their place by now I think. HERO monks help a lot where an assassin in concerned.

BTW My Assassin always uses the HERO Zenmai in her PvE team build and Zenmai has earned her Primeval HERO armor.

made an assassin first day I got factions (about week after release) rushed her through the game and got my first 15k armor..then never played her and eventually deleted her for a pvp slot >< then about..24 days ago I decided I wanted another assassin so I made one got her ancients, 15k luxon and already beat all 3 campaigns :P she's now my favorite char

Made mine during that preview event, and he's currently stylin in White 15 Luxon armor. He's a breadwinner baby, an unstoppable farming machine.

Im trying to get Shattering Assault, but i dont have the patience to get to beat the game again in order to get all elites ¬¬
The same goes for my ritualist, elementalist, warrior

R.I.P. Curare Seut
..deleted 2months after completing Factions and arriving in Marhan's Grotto to be never played again

I've created my assassin two months after factions release.
The first days/weeks were really difficult, because I had a hard time to get used to the assassin "type of gameplay" (I was dying a lot when I finished the tutorial island). But I eventually understood how to play with her ^^
I finished factions with her, got all of the assassin elite skills, then I came to tyria and finished prophecies...and then nightfall came out, and she was my first character who finished nightfall (I played with her first because I wanted the vabbian armor^^), and I managed to get all the assassin elite skills too.
Now I'm mainly playing AB with her, and I have lots of fun...and I love her armor

Pretty much the same thing I did.

Mine was deleted after about a month. I remade him twice and deleted both. Now if I feel the need to play an assassin I use a PvP Character in AB or use my Ranger and be an Expertise Dagger.

Not sure why you make it seem like they have been progressivly making the Assassin worse. They've been buffing the hell out of it compared to when it was first shown in the beta weekend. Most people, including myself, were using R/A due to the higher armor and better energy managment with expertise. When Assassins first started, they only had 60 armor! Luckily they were changed by release. And with the more adjustments made, if you are dying in PvE, start using Flashing Blades, another skill they buffed. 75% to block while attacking. Try that against Shiro, XD. I really like Assassins, they are becoming better and better in PvE, and even more deadly in PvP.

I've been playing sins since start of Factions, I went about through 7 remakes before I finally reached Legendary Survivor on him. He's now my only char I play, and will play till the end of GW.

When I get bored, yes i salvage the whole char armor... I've done the same thing fro my Mesmer FoW, necro FoW, rit armor and sin armor. Only my ranger have kept his armor. But now my encro got another set so its ok :P

Still there, not seeing much action, but still there, unlike the ritu.

Got factions, made a sin, got to lvl 10 and deleted him
made another deleted, and another deleted and know i have another in full vabbi storing weapons doing nothing :P

Made one, just to see the combo of the Factions CE dance combined with Divine Aura.

Now she's just a mule, like 4/5 of all my other chars.

My sin is well-known. He's also the only PvE character who is set up for PvP, but I don't update him anymore(no cash). He's a protector of tyria. I use a PvP sin for builds now, as it is really easy and I have a surplus of character slots. I don't PvE anymore, so I guess I don't use him anymore.

Deleted after UAXing in Factions.

My sin made it thru the game , he then became a leet solo farmer. Sins make awsome boss farmers , so they still have a place in the game

3 hours after making mine it was deleted. That includes going to the shop for beers also.