A/E: The Glimmering Lotus

By taking a bunch of offhands, you get to Death Blossom much more quickly compared to taking a lead -> offhand -> dual combo like that. You don't need a self heal as well- let your allies do the supporting. you dont need to get to death blossom quickly. its a blinding support build, not a DB spam.
and not wanting a self heal is just stupid, its not the monk's job to heal every scrap of damage you take.

also you dont have a rez. The only worthwhile rez is a hard rez, and an assassin with a hard rez is guaranteed to be worse at assassinating than one without.
I swear.... I will never get the fascination some folks have with sticking res-signets on every build. Biggest waste of a slot.... ever. If the assassin is the only member of the party left alive then things are pretty much doomed anyway.

[Of course there are exceptions... like the final fight against Abaddon, which pretty much requires Res Signets and Sunspear Rebirth Signets all round.]

The only worthwhile rez is a hard rez
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I will never get the fascination some folks have with sticking res-signets on every build. Biggest waste of a slot.... ever. Quoted for truth. Resurrection Signet is horrible in PvE in my opinion outwith some very specific uses. In PvE if you're going to take a res, take a hard res. If neither profession is Paragon, Monk or Rit, Just don't take one.

To the OP, as nice as those sort of builds are, I did a similar thing but with [wiki]Assassin's Promise[/wiki]. 2 "must require hex" off-hands and two duals...If the hex is removed, or your hex is diverted or interrupted etc. etc. then you're useless for a while until your hex has recharged.

I generally get around this problem by taking hex-heavy heroes so that if I for some reason Assassin's Promise has to have it's full recharge of 45 seconds the heroes have a nice spammable hex they can use so I can keep going.

I like the idea of Glimmering Mark, I've used it on a couple of physical damage dealers and in my opinion is better than Blinding Powder due to it's recharge, and it still has the AoE effect. It's also a hex, so that if the blind condition is removed, target for can easily be blinded again just by attacking. That being said, I Imagine Blinding Powder may prove more useful with a skill such as Assassin's Promise or Moebius Strike which (conditionally) recharge your skills.

That being said, I Imagine Blinding Powder may prove more useful with a skill such as Assassin's Promise or Moebius Strike which (conditionally) recharge your skills. I don't remember if it works with Moebius Strike or not (it isn't an attack skill), but I know that it works with Assassin's Promise quite nicely.
Not only that but it took me a while to realise that I could Offhand > Blinding Powder > Dual Attack rather than merely stopping at Blinding Powder.


Then again....
.... Just a thought....

But what about Contagion > Shadow Sanctuary (followed by some means of removing the Blindness from yourself) or Shadow Sanctuary > Plague Sending on an A/N?

Would those be too inefficient? I figure maybe some use can be made of them, but I can't think of how to improve on such an idea right now.
I mean if it was just one opponent then Shadow Sanctuary > Plague Touch would be fun, but we're talking about AoE blinding, aren't we?

The only worthwhile rez is a hard rez, and an assassin with a hard rez is guaranteed to be worse at assassinating than one without.
I swear.... I will never get the fascination some folks have with sticking res-signets on every build. Biggest waste of a slot.... ever. If the assassin is the only member of the party left alive then things are pretty much doomed anyway.

[Of course there are exceptions... like the final fight against Abaddon, which pretty much requires Res Signets and Sunspear Rebirth Signets all round.] You're wrong. Certainly in PvP, and high level PvE. Ressing your dead monk, or tank, within 3 seconds, in full health is an awesome skill. I'd bring people just for that.

You're wrong. Certainly in PvP, and high level PvE. Ressing your dead monk, or tank, within 3 seconds, in full health is an awesome skill. I'd bring people just for that. All fine and well if you're expecting to die a lot and still want to continue on (and I certainly wouldn't think to express an opinion of PvP here since I don't do that)... but generally if I'm in an area where three members of my party with resurrects isn't enough (aside from big boss encounters), I generally pull back to rethink my party builds and see if I could put a bit more survivability in there by other means before resorting to the signets.

Yeah.... sure... res your dead monk, tank or MM (see below) in 3 seconds. What if they die a second time? ... You're basically screwed. I would bring the SRS more often if it was re-usable without having to kill a boss inbetween.... but it isn't. Just due to my personality, I get VERY stingey with single-use skills and the like, and won't use it unless it is an absolute emergency, by which time it is often too late.

As I'm sure I've mentioned though..... it is generally enough for me to have the 2 monk henchies and Olias with resurrects. Putting Rebirth on Olias is one decision I will never regret, as he alone has saved me from more wipes than any of the monks (not least since he prats about at the back behind a wall of minions and is generally highest priority NOT to die). For this very reason, I would always recommend a Minion Master with Rebirth in the party....

You don't use a res sig in an emergency. You use it as soon as you see a blacked out bar on your screen.
This way, you avoid having your party neutered for twice the amount of time.
The main strength of a res signet is that it allows your party to quickly recover from a death and possibly carry on with no more casualties.
A hard res does NOT do this in most cases.
There are 2 viable hard rezes.

Glyph of Sacrifice+Res Chant
Healer's Boon+Res Chant (on a necro preferably)

If you aren't running these, chances are you're hurting your team more than helping.
The thing that makes me cringe most is seeing a ranger with 0 in protection prayers resing the monk with Rebirth in a PuG. Mid battle.
Not only do you waste 10 seconds and deplete all of your energy doing so, you will probably contribute to another untimely death of your monk and keep them on the ground even longer. Hurting more than helping because I'm paying more attention to my own and my enemy's health-bars than the rest of my party?
Excuse me... but since when did Assassin become a support-class? I have enough difficulty maintaining both the battle and the health-bars when I'm playing a Monk (one of the reasons I don't play one for anything other than soloing).... much less when I'm playing my sin.

Olias might only have 2 points in Protection Prayers.... but that has never hurt my Herohench set-up yet. It isn't as though having quicker access to your skills makes that much of a difference when you don't have the energy to use them anyway. For the while that I replaced Rebirth on his skill bar with Res Chant, things started going downhill.
My modus operandum is quite simple: If my character dies... and I notice that things are heading toward a wipe... I flag Olias well out of danger's way.... then concentrate on sending the others to safety away from Olias. Once aggro is broken, I get the O-man to rebirth the dead and regroup with the others.
If Olias is already dead... I rely on the monk-henchies. If all three are dead (very infrequent) then under most circumstances I just rely on a Res-shrine and burn off the death penalty carefully (once I have caused as many fatalities to the enemy as possible).

Nowhere does the Res Signet need to come into it.