weapons?

Little Shenanigan

Little Shenanigan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

which weapons/mods, for an assassin, do you think are the best? i mean this not for a specific build, but for multiple ones. i'm thinking that a zealous 15^50 +30 hp, and a vampric 15^50 +30 hp, so are those good, or are there more?
thanks for answering

fireflyry

fireflyry

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

New Zealand

A/D

Zealous seem to be the bread and butter Sin mod.

Lately I've been using +20% enchants as opposed to +30hp though.

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

E/

Zelous work well but I usually just use a 20% enchant mod and something else. But I did find a pair of daggers that have +30 health +5 energy and room for 1 more mod. If only they were max dmg V_V.

Bobby2

Bobby2

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2007

Delayed in order to meet ANet's high standards

[MaSS]

W/E

The Sundering upgrade also seems fairly popular.

Coloneh

Coloneh

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

D/W

sundering is stupid. zealous is the only reasonable choice for a sin, possibly elemental on occasion.

X Cytherea X

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

A/Mo

go vampiric if you're hardcore \m/

odly

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

N/

zealous, +5 energy, +20% enchantment.

I think that is the best generic daggerset for PvE.

BeowulfD7

BeowulfD7

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2007

A/

I run 4 sets of weapons...
Zealous daggers of Enchanting --- 1/-1, 20%, 15^50
Icy daggers of Fortitude --- Ice damage, +30, 15^50
Fiery daggers of Fortitude --- Fire damage, +30, 15^50
Sundering daggers of Enchanting --- 20/20, 20%, 15/Enchanted

Zealous is my normal run but obviously Fire for Ice elementals, Ice for Hell's Precipice/certain dungeons, sundering for bosses...

20% is better for my PvE build to keep criticals up... +30 because i have NO elemental defense...

Shuuda

Shuuda

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Guildless

Me/

Zealous
Vampiric
Ebon (elemental)

These are the basic ones you'll want.

Yanman.be

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

[ROSE]

A/

Real sins swap, but the best? zealous 15>50 +30

Slashing used to be best, now Piercing is the better choice ( No more shield's up! reduction )

Kiba of hidden leaf

Kiba of hidden leaf

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

Knights of the Ninth

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yanman.be
Real sins swap, but the best? zealous 15>50 +30

Slashing used to be best, now Piercing is the better choice ( No more shield's up! reduction ) More things in PvE are susceptible to slashing damage than piercing(only undead). In PvP it all depends on what the meta game is. If there is alot of rangers and paragons (meaning that people will bring piercing shields) then you bring slashing damage because that is the opposite. Piercing excells if the meta is axe and sword warriors.

Sqube

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Behind you...

A/

1. Elemental, +5E, 20%Enchant (warriors)
2. Zealous, +5E, 20%Enchant (general usage)
3. Zealous, +5E, +30HP (for DP)

Obviously, there's a specialized dagger set for every build that you run. But if you don't want to have your storage full of daggers, I really think you could do well with just the above three. You can replace the +5E with 15^50 and the 20% Enchant with +30 HP for the first two if you're so inclined (defeats the purpose of the third one to do it that way); I do it that way because I'm generally running an enchantment and, if I'm running it, I probably want it to last longer.

milkflopance

milkflopance

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

England

The Cult of Scaro [WHO]

As everyone has said, zealous is by far the best. I also carry a vamp set for when i dont need the extra energy and an elemental one.

Please stay away from sundering though, it only affects the base damage of the weapon, not the skills, so the extra damage from it is pretty pathetic.

Mekkakat

Mekkakat

Whiner

Join Date: Aug 2006

i have two 15^50 zealous +30 dags, one slashing, one piercing. i know how much damage i should be doing on certain ALs ect, so if it looks low end, i know someone's insignias are against my type. i have fiery for elemental to trigger rogs in case thats out there due to an ele on my team, and i have vamp dags i haven't used in forever...

generally, i use my zealous Dragon Scythes.. (slashing)