Why Do You Play an Assassin?

i like my sin cause she uses a scythe better than my shitty dervish :\

other than that, mainly a caller. a/p a/d a/n whatever the case may be.

Q:What first attracted you to the class?
A:Rogue style , i was an Abyss Walker on Lineage2 so , had to try sin on GW.

Q:What do you like about it that makes you want to keep playing it?
A:Its DPS style and piss off ppl/mobs.

Q:Any favorite skills?
A:Critical Agility ofc and a Good Blades of Steel combo.

Q:What is your least favorite aspect of the class? Would you change it if you could?
A:Shadow Steps , they are good but need some changes in PvE. I would change Shadow Form to a some kind of Stealth . Its a Broken skill.

well originally i created it to be a quick killer...then when people started permaing...thats all i did...i have no other reason for an assassin right now other than permas

I just played sin for the armor.

Though now that I have all the armor I want I dont play my sin as much anymore. =/

I was drawn to the assassin class my the description on the Guild Wars site. Not the wiki, but the actual site. Said something to the effect of "Masters of swift and lethal assaults." I actually bought Factions just to try it out. Soon thereafter deleted said assassin. Remade it about 6 months later when I had a better grasp of the game and how it works.

If your definition of "playing" is using the ever hated permaform to help find Nick, then yeah, I play still. The last time my assassin saw serious play was about 4 months ago, when I finally got around to beating the Factions campaign.

Beguilling Haze.
Yeah, I know what you're all going to say... expensive, waste of an elite, focus on DPS. Blah blah blah.

The reputation you get for going A/E even after you ping your bar to proove you don't have Shadow Form.

What first attracted you to the class?

When I first got factions back in the day, I wanted to play an assassin because of the rogue like play style. And the factions trailer where vizu shadowsteps shiro was pretty spiffy <.<;

What do you like about it that makes you want to keep playing it?

While my sin is not a main character, I enjoy various builds with it. Setting up a combo chain for various dagger builds is fun. Back in the day A/Mo flashing blades was a fun farming build (before hardmode/loot-scaling/all the anti-farming junk)

The old A/E SF boss farm build was also fun. For those that don't remember it, it used shadow walk. Target boss, SF, shadow walk, sliver, hope boss died within the 30 second window of SF duration and before shadow walk ported you back to initial location.

Critscythe is a fun build to play. (Just wish there was 1 decent looking scythe in game. The one in the art for mystic regen would be nice)

And 1.5k Luxon Armor set on female sin. Vabbian is nice except I dislike how the boots do not match the pants.

Any favorite skills?
no, not really, not really a main so yeah.

What is your least favorite aspect of the class? Would you change it if you could?

That they changed Dragon Scythes to Dragon Kamas because idiots couldn't tell the difference between them and a derv scythe. Hate when mmos cater to stupidity. And yes if I could revert that I would, and maybe even make a dervish scythe that looked like a large dragon scythe, (would look a lot better than the draconic scythe imo)

What first attracted you to the class?
The initial description of the Profession: quick in, priority kill, quick out (paraphrased, ofc). It was a melee Profession (which is what I prefer) that didn't depend on armor as much as it did maneuverability (Shadow Steps - oh yeah, they all have stupid-long recharges... meh) to survive. I wanted a change from my Warrior, but I still wanted a physical rather than caster Profession.

What do you like about it that makes you want to keep playing it?
My Assassin is one of my Mules, at the moment. I used to have a difficult time finding parties when I first rolled the 'Sin, now all they want is PermaSF, which is one of the most broken messes ANet's devs have ever had a hand in, and either way, it was a buzzkill.

Any favorite skills?
Golden Fox Strike > Wild Strike - just a killer lead > offhand combo; both are unblockable, and Wild Strike ends Stances, which are usually the perpetrators of the blocking in the first place.

What is your least favorite aspect of the class? Would you change it if you could?
Shadow Form and the Shadow Steps. SF is just plain broken, seeing as how it is infinitely maintainable with so few drawbacks there might as well not be any. Shadow Steps in general because their recharges make them undesirable to use, even though they are a key difference between Assassins and the other 2 main melee Professions, Warriors and Dervishes (since Assassins can use Scythes like nobody's business and Critical Agility gives them equivalent AL to Warriors).

On-topic - Naruto kawaiiiii

I originally bought factions to get the assassin class. They looked so cool spiking and shadowstepping and all. Then SF. that was just a little extra something!!

What first attracted you to the class?
they looked like ninjas. ninjas are awesome.
What do you like about it that makes you want to keep playing it?
i pwn with it.
Any favorite skills?
twisting fangs and blades of steel.
What is your least favorite aspect of the class? Would you change it if you could?
long recharges on good skills. weak numbers, due to nerfs, on skills with otherwise cool effects. yes i would change it.

Isn't this thread called "Why do you play an Assassin?"
Yeah, seems to be.

If you want to debate HB warriors vs msdb sins why not make a thread about it.