Low DPS Assassin

tehshadowninjar

tehshadowninjar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2007

Nite

A/D

[card]Locust's Fury[/card][card]Critical Eye[/card][card]Critical Defenses[/card][card]Caltrops[/card][card]Flail[/card][card]Death's Charge[/card][card]Way of Perfection[/card][card]Shadow Refuge[/card]

Attributes:
Dagger Mastery - 11 + 1 +2
Critical Strikes - 11 + 1
Shadow Arts - 5

(Not sure if Shadow Arts can go that high. If it can go higher, or not that high, make it lesser/higher)

You can also change out [card]Flail[/card] with either [card]Flurry[/card] or [card]Frenzy[/card].....Depending on what you will be encountering.

Usage:
This build is entirely DPS and glass cannon. Glass cannon meaning deadly, but also very fragile. Empathy or Insidious Parasite will rape this build into oblivion in about 3 seconds or less.

Equipment:
Vampiric Weapon with +15% Damage (while Enchanted) and +30 HP thingy
Enough Equipment to have at least 30 or 35 energy to maintain Locust's Fury, Critical Eye, and Way of Perfection.

phan

phan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

phantasmagoria

.. Sry but 2 points ;

1 : Assasins aren't ment for dps or semi-pressure but for spiking
2 : moebius + "insert assasin skills " would get higher dps =)

Nice try on the build though =) give it a try in RA and compare it with other builds

tehshadowninjar

tehshadowninjar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2007

Nite

A/D

Half of the assassin builds I use are pressure and DPS, guess what? They're better than most of the assassins out there. And FYI? I'm sick and tired of people saying "Moebius this, Moebius that". Sheesh, you see that frickin stupid elite in EVERY build. Make something original already. Also, guess what? If you go against a standard melee with this build, you always win. No one can continiously block (standard melee, keep in mind), and I'm continiously wailing on him with Crit Defs, Way of Perfection, which is about 100 health about every 4 seconds, then Shadow Refuge, and also Death's Charge. And you also can't keep that DPS up with the Assassin skills 24/7 without constantly spamming Deadly Paradox. >_>

Pyro maniac

Pyro maniac

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by tehshadowninjar
And FYI? I'm sick and tired of people saying "Moebius this, Moebius that". Sheesh, you see that frickin stupid elite in EVERY build. Make something original already. Another one ...

Bobby2

Bobby2

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2007

Delayed in order to meet ANet's high standards

[MaSS]

W/E

'against standard melee' ---> teh lulz. AL80 (assuming you have the brains to swap to Ele daggers) means daggers do shite even on crits. Hell, he might get away with just Mending.

About 6 Sin Elites are PvP worthy atm. LF is certainly not one of them.

Follow Pyro's link plz.

TheGreatPotato

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

WKT

N/

It may be a "stupid elite" but moebius allows you to constantly spam "high dps" since an assassin's true strength is using the +damage skills and not trying to rely on low damage auto attacking.

Div

Div

I like yumy food!

Join Date: Jan 2006

Where I can eat yumy food

Dead Alley [dR]

Mo/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by tehshadowninjar
Also, guess what? If you go against a standard melee with this build, you always win. No one can continiously block (standard melee, keep in mind), and I'm continiously wailing on him with Crit Defs, Way of Perfection, which is about 100 health about every 4 seconds, then Shadow Refuge, and also Death's Charge. And you also can't keep that DPS up with the Assassin skills 24/7 without constantly spamming Deadly Paradox. >_> No one cares about block when the main thing that kills you in PvE are 600 damage spirit rifts and 300 damage bsurges.

The Meth

The Meth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

R/

You are basing your whole build around 7-17 damage daggers? When assassins have skills that can deal 100-200 damage easy? I smell fail.

Quote:
Originally Posted by tehshadowninjar
I'm sick and tired of people saying "Moebius this, Moebius that". Sheesh, you see that frickin stupid elite in EVERY build. Make something original already. Want to know what Moebius is used often? Because its pretty good.

Original does not mean good, it means no-one else uses it. And often, there is a good reason for that.

edit: the idea of a frenzy sin trying to dps scares me. Trying to go toe to toe with enemies when you have the equivilent of 30 armor is suicide. You lose for even mentioning that skill on a sin.

Div

Div

I like yumy food!

Join Date: Jan 2006

Where I can eat yumy food

Dead Alley [dR]

Mo/R

If locusts fury works on scythes, that might be relatively hot. As it stands now, the DPS is probably even lower than most non-moebius combos.

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

aren't builds supposed to like... have attackskills in them?

phan

phan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

phantasmagoria

Quote:
Originally Posted by N1ghtstalker
aren't builds supposed to like... have attackskills in them? no ; ofc not .. then you are running a gimmick which is badzz

Ekelon

Ekelon

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Rebel Rising [rawr]

A/W

I lol'd when I saw this.

[skill]Moebius Strike[/skill] is win. The reason everyone uses it, is because it has the best PvE DPS. If your no combo build was better, then today you would be trying to promote a Moebius sin, but that's not the case now is it?

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

E/

while i hate to say it
mobious spam is the best dps in pve.

though it is jsut as boring as playning ursans blessing.

i like to run AP spikes though mine got nerfed with the bls nerf

BlackSephir

BlackSephir

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

A/N

What is this, what's the purpose of this build? Clearly not dps... Because you're depending on crits from 7-17 weapon.

And FYI- nobody cares if it's more original than Moebius Spam. Moebius Spam is simply better, has higer DPS and even allows you to put other skill (I use Save Yourselves to do something with that adrenaline).


And Locust's Fury sucks

Alex the Great

Alex the Great

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

America.....got a problem with that?

[Lite]

W/

you no what will happen if you use that build?

tehshadowninjar

tehshadowninjar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2007

Nite

A/D

Uh, heh, NO. I don't use it in PvE, only in PvP. (Not much organization in Gladiator's Arena), and it does quite well. x.x

moriz

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

R/

my mending wammo works better. gg

tehshadowninjar

tehshadowninjar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2007

Nite

A/D

Rofl, uh, no. Contact me on here by PM, I'll scrim ya in-game and rape you then ^.^

FlamingMetroid

FlamingMetroid

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

standing on your last control point, while the rest of your team is to busy killing mine

The Luminaries [Lumi]

A/

Quote:
everything good posted about moebius so far QFT

everybody uses this skill because it's the best skill to use.
it gives the highest constant DPS an assassin primary can pour out, and since nothing has yet to match it, people will always continue to use it.

Yoshikuni Mahsu

Yoshikuni Mahsu

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by tehshadowninjar
Uh, heh, NO. I don't use it in PvE, only in PvP. (Not much organization in Gladiator's Arena), and it does quite well. x.x
Quote: Originally Posted by tehshadowninjar
Rofl, uh, no. Contact me on here by PM, I'll scrim ya in-game and rape you then ^.^

dicecube

dicecube

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2007

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Pandra Pierva
nice necro numbnuts

and yes i used to. that got boring that was for pve only.

seriously when using the search function try checkin the dates. I didn't necro.. I just remember u said that a lot before. And look at the original thread I posted, I even replied to it back then and didn't even bump it up. You should be thanking me

RavagerOfDreams

RavagerOfDreams

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2007

somewhere over the rainbow....

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ekelon
I lol'd when I saw this.

[skill]Moebius Strike[/skill] is win. The reason everyone uses it, is because it has the best PvE DPS. If your no combo build was better, then today you would be trying to promote a Moebius sin, but that's not the case now is it?
there you go from the pro himself

Mesmer in Need

Mesmer in Need

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

[ToA]

Daggers have the worst auto attacking damage of all the weapons. Even wands do better damage with req met. Speeding up the attack wont do anything. People use moebius cause it works.

Beomagi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by tehshadowninjar
[card]Locust's Fury[/card][card]Critical Eye[/card][card]Critical Defenses[/card][card]Caltrops[/card][card]Flail[/card][card]Death's Charge[/card][card]Way of Perfection[/card][card]Shadow Refuge[/card]

Attributes:
Dagger Mastery - 11 + 1 +2
Critical Strikes - 11 + 1
Shadow Arts - 5

(Not sure if Shadow Arts can go that high. If it can go higher, or not that high, make it lesser/higher)

You can also change out [card]Flail[/card] with either [card]Flurry[/card] or [card]Frenzy[/card].....Depending on what you will be encountering.

Usage:
This build is entirely DPS and glass cannon. Glass cannon meaning deadly, but also very fragile. Empathy or Insidious Parasite will rape this build into oblivion in about 3 seconds or less.

Equipment:
Vampiric Weapon with +15% Damage (while Enchanted) and +30 HP thingy
Enough Equipment to have at least 30 or 35 energy to maintain Locust's Fury, Critical Eye, and Way of Perfection.
I surely hope nooone actually thinks this is serious. I can't. It looks like an initial attempt to make a highly defensive tank-sin. I don't this was even tested with the dummys on temple of balthasar. This CAN be run to snare attackers and keep them off softies, but nothing here ignores armor. against a 120 armor target, we're looking at what? 14 or 15 damage tops? not even counting damage reduction.


Still, best I can think of locusts fury is to make use of "event on attack" properties. in this case it's critical strike for energy and to replenish critical defenses (though it still lacks assured crits).

tehshadowninjar I empathise with you
[card]empathy[/card]

Seriously, if you consider having an orders necro with barbs/markofpain, A couple of these can do pretty mean damage. Consider a team build with heros if you intend to run with this.

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by dicecube
I didn't necro.. I just remember u said that a lot before. And look at the original thread I posted, I even replied to it back then and didn't even bump it up. You should be thanking me lol. and yet that was from close to a year ago. that was the kind of necro i was talking about. not the thread kind. lol that thread died hard a long time ago.

Div

Div

I like yumy food!

Join Date: Jan 2006

Where I can eat yumy food

Dead Alley [dR]

Mo/R

Changed the title to reflect others' opinion and to be a little more accurate.

Clarissa F

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

Fighters of the Shiverpeaks

Me/Mo

Didn't we have a "tanking sin" thread that was epic fail?

Flail on a sin is bad. Flurry on a sin, reducing the damage from the already weak 7-17 damage daggers is bad, especially with no true dagger skills to amplify damage. Eles and warriors tank better than you, which is about all this build will do. You do enough damage to keep yourself alive, but you won't kill anything.

Think about how to do the assassin's job better, not about how to try to do jobs other professions will always do better.

Coloneh

Coloneh

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

D/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by holymasamune
Changed the title to reflect others' opinion and to be a little more accurate. i love you


that made my hour...

Cherng Butter

Cherng Butter

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Maryland

The Mirror Of Reason [SNOW]

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by holymasamune
Changed the title to reflect others' opinion and to be a little more accurate. Haha ooooh I couldn't figure out why the OP was advocating a build that didn't do any damage...lawl

tehshadowninjar

tehshadowninjar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2007

Nite

A/D

Sad how most people shoot down a build without first trying it, or trying it against the creator. *Sighs*

Bobby2

Bobby2

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2007

Delayed in order to meet ANet's high standards

[MaSS]

W/E

Sad how one can mistake a turd for a bar of gold.

itsvictor

itsvictor

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by holymasamune
Changed the title to reflect others' opinion and to be a little more accurate. You made me lol...

BlackSephir

BlackSephir

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

A/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by tehshadowninjar
Sad how most people shoot down a build without first trying it, or trying it against the creator. *Sighs* It's sad that you try out every genius build that some guy on guru posts.

W/Mo
Hundred Blades, Healing Breeze, Mending, Sun and Moon Slash, Ressurection, Orison of Healing, Sever Artery, Gash.


Try this one out, it rawks.

FengShuiDove

FengShuiDove

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA]

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by holymasamune
Changed the title to reflect others' opinion and to be a little more accurate. I enjoyed it.

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackSephir
It's sad that you try out every genius build that some guy on guru posts.

W/Mo
Hundred Blades, Healing Breeze, Mending, Sun and Moon Slash, Ressurection, Orison of Healing, Sever Artery, Gash.


Try this one out, it rawks. hundred blades is nooby you should use

[skill]Healing hands[/skill]

Clarissa F

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

Fighters of the Shiverpeaks

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Pandra Pierva
hundred blades is nooby you should use

[skill]Healing hands[/skill] [skill]obsidian flesh[/skill]

gogogo 12chars

FlamingMetroid

FlamingMetroid

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

standing on your last control point, while the rest of your team is to busy killing mine

The Luminaries [Lumi]

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackSephir
It's sad that you try out every genius build that some guy on guru posts.

W/Mo
Hundred Blades, Healing Breeze, Mending, Sun and Moon Slash, Ressurection, Orison of Healing, Sever Artery, Gash.


Try this one out, it rawks. I do believe you are in need of another res, and some frenzy-healsig

RavagerOfDreams

RavagerOfDreams

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2007

somewhere over the rainbow....

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamingMetroid
I do believe you are in need of another res, and some frenzy-healsig QFT

frenzy is mah friend