A/R 4 second spike build

mrpiffatc

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

Banishers of Sin

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OK! this build i made up takes usually 4 seconds to take down a target w/o buffs


dagger mastery 12+1+3
critical strikes 6+1
deadly arts (cant remember but rest of points go on here)


Heres the build

A/R
Black Spider Strike
Horns of the ox
Black Lotus Strike
Blades of Steel
Impale
Expose Defences
Assassin's Promise
Lightning Reflexes

First use Both hexes then charge up use lightning reflexes (for speed and 75% block) and use the attack skills in order and theres almost 100% death rate for your target


I also use this build in PvE but i use Death Blossom instead of horns of the ox


Tell me how you like it

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

http://www.pvxbuilds.com/index.php?t...entless_Spiker
You changed one skill, I believe.
Also I notice you're not carrying any kind of res: Thats the kinda stuff that makes people abhor assassins.

mrpiffatc

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

Banishers of Sin

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OH! never saw that...i came up with this off the top of my head...and i use this mainly for PvE so i dont need res since im mostly doing 4 man HM with heros

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

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I would pump critical strikes to 8...6 critical strikes gives one energy on criticals.

Randomway Ftw

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ottawa, Canada

4 seconds is not a spike.

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Randomway Ftw
4 seconds is not a spike. Stupidest post ever. You've no idea what a spike is.

Yanman.be

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

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It's not pressure either. For a sin, it's a spike.

Randomway Ftw

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ottawa, Canada

Quote:
Originally Posted by ArKaiN
Stupidest post ever. You've no idea what a spike is. Whatever. you can believe what you want to believe. If you want to believe that hitting a whole bunch of buttons in succession is a spike, that's fine with me.

If this is a spike build then so is a warrior with 8 attacks skill on his bar.

Bloodied Blade

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by mrpiffatc
dagger mastery 12+1+3
critical strikes 6+1
deadly arts (cant remember but rest of points go on here)

A/R
Black Spider Strike
Horns of the ox
Black Lotus Strike
Blades of Steel
Impale
Expose Defences
Assassin's Promise
Lightning Reflexes Why wouldn't you swap Twisting Fangs for HotO to add a deep wound, bleed, and increase the chance of killing your target, and allow you to drop impale for a res sig?

Bloodied Blade

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Join Date: Jan 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Randomway Ftw
Whatever. you can believe what you want to believe. If you want to believe that hitting a whole bunch of buttons in succession is a spike, that's fine with me.

If this is a spike build then so is a warrior with 8 attacks skill on his bar. Most spikes *are* "hitting a whole bunch of buttons in succession." This assassin *alone* is not really a spike, it just possesses a high-damage attack chain. I personally don't consider the build a spike, but it could be used as such if needed.

Solus Spartan

Solus Spartan

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Join Date: May 2007

Australia

[Lawl]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Randomway Ftw
4 seconds is not a spike. Rofl @ You...........

Toilet Oni

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

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Moe wine plz

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[skill]flurry[/skill] or [skill]tiger stance[/skill] is way better than [skill]Lightning Reflexes[/skill] on a assassin

RhanoctJocosa

RhanoctJocosa

Legendary Korean

Join Date: Aug 2006

The Benecia Renovatio [RenO]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by ArKaiN
Stupidest post ever. You've no idea what a spike is. You're an idiot.

That is not a spike nor a good build.

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by RhanoctJocosa
You're an idiot.

That is not a spike nor a good build. Why hello random dumbass I've never talked to before. Go do some reading.
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Spike
Maybe it's not the definition *you* have of spike inside your tiny brain, but it's a spike.
I never said its a good build.

around

around

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

Aussie Trolling Crew - Diplomatic Embassy

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Please stop failing. 4 seconds is not a spike. Old-school RSpike in 1/4 second was.

orthrus

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Join Date: Sep 2005

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Quote:
Originally Posted by ArKaiN
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Spike

Maybe it's not the definition *you* have of spike inside your tiny brain, but it's a spike.
I never said its a good build.
"A spiker is a player who inflicts massive amounts of damage to a single target in a short period of time"

sadly, 4 seconds isn't exactly a short period ot time, and thus, can in no way be a spike. it could be a PART of one, but that's not what the OP posted..

Quote:
Originally Posted by spawnofebil
Please stop failing. 4 seconds is not a spike. Old-school RSpike in 1/4 second was. qft

phool

phool

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by spawnofebil
Please stop failing. 4 seconds is not a spike. Old-school RSpike in 1/4 second was. complete failure to realise that spike is used in two ways in guild wars, and a team spike is only one of them, and a completely worthless one in the context of a single player build at that.

The other one refers to something like [skill]Devastating Hammer[/skill][skill]Fierce Blow[/skill][skill]Crushing Blow[/skill][skill]Protector's Strike[/skill]. It's spread over a longer duration - by necessity, it's simply impossible for a single player to spike from full health a player with the damage compression that an entire team can manage. Hence the term spike as used in a team context is worthless in this context. Hence it has here a different, equally valid, meaning.



I haven't played the OP build but stuff like that owns pve.

around

around

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That's not a spike, that's just hitting something repeatedly in a short period of time.

By definition, a spike has to come as part as a team, because for a spike to succeed, it actually needs to kill shit, and if a character can instagib a 100% character down to 0 in a short period of time, then that's imbalanced.

Skuld

Skuld

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I know spike sounds cool and all, but that aint it >.>

Bloodied Blade

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Join Date: Jan 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by RhanoctJocosa
You're an idiot.

That is not a spike nor a good build. Holy crap...I think you're on my friends list. That makes possibly two people I personally know from in-game that I've seen on the forums. Oh well...back to the topic at hand-

The OP's build could be used *in* a spike, but no, it is not a "spike" if we are defining "spike" by how one is conventionally done in HA/GvG. Impale on it's own makes a rather good prequel to a spike (BLS, HotO, Impale/teamspike) because of the mileage that you get out of the Deep Wound condition.

mrpiffatc

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

Banishers of Sin

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lol...i think this build is good because...for one thing its kills fast as hell...you dont have ANY cool down time on your skills...so you dont have to wait like 30 some seconds to spike another person