IW build

hey i was just messing around, with my l337 peppermint daggers and i decided to make a build using IW, just so it wouldn't matter what daggers i used, and I think i came up with a pretty good PvE build ^^

I guess any max armor would work, but i use Nightstalkers +15 armor while attacking

Any daggers can work, but i use Crippling platinum sickles of enchanting, that way I can keep IW up.

Shadow Arts = 10 + 1 + 3
Illusion Magic = 12
Deadly Arts = 8

Illusionary Weaponry {Elite}
Illusion of Weakness
Dancing Daggers
Mantis Touch
Blinding Powder
Augury of Death (can be replaced with Entangling Asp)
Dark Escape
Shadow Refuge

uhm energy can be a problem if you spam constantly.

Feel free to suggest things.

i suggest mesmer primary, and warrior secondary, and flurry.

You could have a reasonable spike with dancing daggers->mantis touch->augury->death blossom->exhausting assault. About 250 damage inc deep woud compressed over around 3/4 seconds. Dual attacks are useful on a me/a or a/me IW with no dagger mastery as they guarantee double strike. As they don't hit you can repeatedly use death blossom though that would be quite energy intensive. With 0 DM and no duals your dps is extremely low (IW has terrible dps even with flurry but nevermind that, it's just not a very good skill) so all the /a is really offering is masses of defense via feigned neutrality and/or dark escape. IoW and shadow refuge is crap, blinding powder probably isn't worth it here.

The whole point of going assassin for IW would've been doublestriking daggers, but I don't see any daggers mastery at all.

indeed, you'll need dagger mastery to make this build worthwile, or spammable dual attacks.

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Yeah Dual attacks don't work, but Dagger Mastery makes your daggers "double strike" if you autoattack.