assassin hero
icedutah
Any good builds for an assassin hero? I tried using a death blossom and Moebius build but Zenmai wasn't really using it very good. She was hardly using Moebius for some reason.
Stormlord Alex
What this dude says:
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Originally Posted by Ensign in some other thread
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I was messing around with builds for the weaker hero professions this last week trying to figure out what they could use effectively. Heroes are sufficiently bad at skill chaining that any common Assassin build you'd want to give her is going to fail miserably.
That said I've been pretty happy with this bar on my Zenmai, happy enough to want to run the character in certain zones:
Siphon Strength
Siphon Speed
Black Spider Strike
Black Lotus Strike
Death Blossom
Impale
Disrupting Dagger/Critical Eye
Resurrection Signet
13 Critical Strikes, 11 Dagger Mastery, 11 Deadly Arts
Unlike every other bar I've made the AI uses this particular character really well. It'll pick a target, put Siphon Strength on it, then is happy to use one of the Black skills on the hexed target. It isn't super fast with using the Death Blossom followup, but you're waiting on the recharges on your Black skills anyway so it isn't a big deal. Impale is used consistently after Death Blossom when it's recharged. It's not a fast combo like it would be on a player Assassin, but everything is used about as fast as it could be.
The Siphon Speed is basically just a backup hex when targets die quickly, and gets used for that purpose. It's also pretty good for Hard Mode mobs that like to run away. You can put any other hex in there though, or drop it entirely if you have a heavy hex build to take both Critical Eye and Disrupting Dagger. Heroes are good at Hexing stuff.
That said I've been pretty happy with this bar on my Zenmai, happy enough to want to run the character in certain zones:
Siphon Strength
Siphon Speed
Black Spider Strike
Black Lotus Strike
Death Blossom
Impale
Disrupting Dagger/Critical Eye
Resurrection Signet
13 Critical Strikes, 11 Dagger Mastery, 11 Deadly Arts
Unlike every other bar I've made the AI uses this particular character really well. It'll pick a target, put Siphon Strength on it, then is happy to use one of the Black skills on the hexed target. It isn't super fast with using the Death Blossom followup, but you're waiting on the recharges on your Black skills anyway so it isn't a big deal. Impale is used consistently after Death Blossom when it's recharged. It's not a fast combo like it would be on a player Assassin, but everything is used about as fast as it could be.
The Siphon Speed is basically just a backup hex when targets die quickly, and gets used for that purpose. It's also pretty good for Hard Mode mobs that like to run away. You can put any other hex in there though, or drop it entirely if you have a heavy hex build to take both Critical Eye and Disrupting Dagger. Heroes are good at Hexing stuff.
housecalls
I have run Zenmai as a Critical Barrage she does that well, sorry i dont have the build handy.
street peddler
black lotus is now a lead attack so i dont think heroes would use that build very well anymore.
critical barrage is really the only thing sin heroes can do by themselves.
critical barrage is really the only thing sin heroes can do by themselves.
Racthoh
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Originally Posted by street peddler
black lotus is now a lead attack so i dont think heroes would use that build very well anymore.
I don't see why it wouldn't? One lead, one off-hand, one dual.
Drak Totenruf
after trying lots of dagger-based builds and watching skills used by enemies, i'm running my sin-heroes this way
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[card]Jagged Strike[/card] [card]Wild Strike[/card] [card]Death Blossom[/card] [card]Disrupting Stab[/card] [card]Flashing Blades[/card] [card]Plague Touch[/card] [card]Critical Eye[/card] [card]Resurrection Signet[/card]
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[card]Jagged Strike[/card] [card]Wild Strike[/card] [card]Death Blossom[/card] [card]Disrupting Stab[/card] [card]Flashing Blades[/card] [card]Plague Touch[/card] [card]Critical Eye[/card] [card]Resurrection Signet[/card]
Marverick
[skill]Way of the Master[/skill][skill]Critical Eye[/skill][skill]Mystic Sweep[/skill][skill]Eremite's Attack[/skill][skill]Dark Apostasy[/skill] or [skill]Ebon Dust Aura[/skill] or [skill]Way of the Assassin[/skill][skill]Critical Defenses[/skill][skill]Shield of Force[/skill]
Get It
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Turbobusa
And this would be even better with full attributes 
I'd use another preparation than rapid fire personnally.
I'd use another preparation than rapid fire personnally.
distilledwill
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Originally Posted by Get It
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This is a good build for taking down caster bosses:
[card]Way Of The Assassin[/card][card]Critical Eye[/card]Way Of The Master[card]Disrupting Accuracy[/card][card]Keen Arrow[/card][card]Called Shot[/card]Sloth Hunter's Shot[card]Resurrection Signet[/card]
[card]Way Of The Assassin[/card][card]Critical Eye[/card]Way Of The Master[card]Disrupting Accuracy[/card][card]Keen Arrow[/card][card]Called Shot[/card]Sloth Hunter's Shot[card]Resurrection Signet[/card]
Teutonic Paladin
When I'm not in HM and I need single target damage (Hell's Precipice) I've been taking A/P Zenmai for spammable deep wound.
12+1+1 Critical Strikes
12 Spear Mastery
Vicious Attack
Spear of Lightning
Swift Spear
Way of the Master
Way of the Assassin
Critical Eye
Optional
Resurrection Signet
12+1+1 Critical Strikes
12 Spear Mastery
Vicious Attack
Spear of Lightning
Swift Spear
Way of the Master
Way of the Assassin
Critical Eye
Optional
Resurrection Signet
payne
you should check out my post...it has a 'sin hero bar on there that I personally used when I beat Gate of Madness HM - so it is proven to be effective...its a very effective tank bar with massive damage deduction from set target foe! enjoy...
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10219798
all hero bars are on there including the new 'sin bar I have recently been using for HM missions / vanquishes...just to prove that all professions are useful as heroes including the discriminated ones!
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10219798
all hero bars are on there including the new 'sin bar I have recently been using for HM missions / vanquishes...just to prove that all professions are useful as heroes including the discriminated ones!
John Panda
sin heros are badd.. unless you give them a simple build like barrage or some other gimmick.
heros fail at spamming Deathblossom with moebius which is the best combo in pve for a sin to possibly have.
heros fail at spamming Deathblossom with moebius which is the best combo in pve for a sin to possibly have.
payne
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Originally Posted by John Panda
Mine seem to be able to tank shiro / lich on HM without a designated healer and not die...interesting that (Zenmai; so not with new GW:EN AI improvements that are on the new heroes)
Draikin
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Originally Posted by payne
Mine seem to be able to tank shiro / lich on HM without a designated healer and not die...
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Originally Posted by payne
(Zenmai; so not with new GW:EN AI improvements that are on the new heroes)
What makes you think that GW:EN heroes are different? They all have the same AI.
Adriaanz#Shiro
@ AI discussion : I think he means that GW:EN had a big update concerning Hero AI.
@ Why sins aren't bad: I Agree with Payne and Ensign. The Siphon Strength build has proven to work pretty well. I even see some options for a solo build to farm melee bosses with it. Payne, I'm using your bar atm. ~Shiro
ensoriki
Zenami is just a bad hero.
She can't function her role properly unless you put her in a gimmick build (critical barrage) or some form of build that you yourself would not normally use. Anyways I like to run Locust Fury Mark of Rodgort Conjure Flame Malicious Strike Golden Phoenix Strike Black Lotus Strike Doesn't really matter what she does she can do something as long as she whacks.
payne
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Originally Posted by Adriaanz#Shiro
@ AI discussion : I think he means that GW:EN had a big update concerning Hero AI.
@ Why sins aren't bad: I Agree with Payne and Ensign. The Siphon Strength build has proven to work pretty well. I even see some options for a solo build to farm melee bosses with it. Payne, I'm using your bar atm. ~Shiro would really be pleased if you could leave a post in my thread with your views on the bar... BTW you can swap out the combo skills for wild blow and distracting blow (alternative if you are interested) azizul1975
uh...my zenmai spam death blossom + moebius without problem.... i gave her these
[skill]resurrection signet[/skill][skill]sharpen daggers[/skill][skill]critical eye[/skill][skill]unsuspecting strike[/skill][skill]wild strike[/skill][skill]death blossom[/skill][skill]moebius strike[/skill][skill]critical strike[/skill]
tmr819
Is there a good anti-caster/interrupt Assassin Hero build that someone can recommend?
I use Anton pretty effectively in EotN's dungeons for damage, but I'd like to make him more effective against the Elementalist and Mesmer bosses (like Ilsunder [sp.?] in Catacombs of Kathandrax). I have been using [skill]Beguiling Haze[/skill] as his elite, but I'm open to suggestions. I don't think this elite working that well with the rest of his skill bar and, besides, it's a major energy suck as skills go. 
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