22 Jun 2008 at 10:52 - 13
If it wasn't for the energy, I bet find their weakness would be absolutely vicious with unsuspecting strike. I've hit for like 100 right up front with that on it's own with my daggers, on top of a DW and the rest of your attack chain that'd hurt... but then no IAS or conjure... and the energy... but damn... that'd hurt...
Thing about most assassin DW skills is they telegraph, unless they iron palm you I have enough time to slam on patient, PS, SB or RoF and give myself enough of a window to heal through the damage(I used to love healing hands in AB and fort aspenwood back when everybody had assassins... you throw that on an NPC and cover it well, it will not freaking die...). It's like once I see one coming up to me or I light up with SP or hear that poofhiss they make on a shadow step I hit F and start slamming self prots. Not many assassin skills cause a DW right up front, which is why people like those scythe builds, it makes for easy spikes on demand since they can do it up front then pile the damage on a guy with reduces healing and -20% HP.