Why Do You Play an Assassin?

What first attracted you to the class?

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

Any favorite skills?

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

I stole this from luminumcan on incgamers.

uuuuhhhh lemme see the ability to kill fast and get out quick and you kno SHADOW FORM the skill half of gw hates because it makes people mony and nooo we dont want new little jonny having 10k now do we?

I play it now so I can imagine the look on a monk players face when I hit him with an unblockable combo through Guardian in PvP.

Because I enjoy playing pyro. Simple and effective.

1. was brand new when factions came out

2. don't play him much, played him some for speed clears

3.shadow form

4.meh

I started an assassin 2 years ago and had some fun. Left the game for a while, came back and mained a mesmer. Mesmer cop nerf hit and I got pissy so I switched to sin. Mainly play MS daggers and crit scythe. I use SF every now and again to sliver farm some things like DoA or raptors, but I mainly use my ele and monk to farm most things.

what makes me keep playing it? Eh, lots of high damage numbers flying around with very low downtime.

favorite skill? critical agility hands down.

least favorite: stigma associated with the class, specifically speed clears. I really dislike speed clears since I don't think it's the way the game was intended to be played.

What first attracted you to the class? ZOMFG NINJA

What do you like about it that makes you want to keep playing it? AL-ignoring Blossom damage

Any favorite skills? Wastrel's Collapse, Leaping Mantis Sting

What is your least favorite aspect of the class? Would you change it if you could? Requires no execution skills whatsoever - a 'good sin' is defined by positional awareness above all else. Wouldn't change it because that would require effort on my part

Assassin? The idea is cool, they can pump damage, neat armor.
It's simply a class I play when I'm in the mood for it/requested. A lot of times people want me on my healer.
Locusts Fury, it is godly powerful, just need smart people to use it.
The chains attacks are awesome, I would change Shadow Stepping for PvE

Assassins provide a constant rate of high damage and with good heroes, they should not worry about taking damage.

Honestly, I started Assassins for Perma. However, now, I use mine for missions, PvE, dungeons, etc.

It's not Assassins fault for SF. It's ANET. Assassins were made for high-power melee, not speed clears and all that junk.

Attracted me? I had 15 char slots and 4 characters.

They pump out more domoge than warriors in PvE.

3, critical agility, cmon.

They is squishy

When I created my sin, EoTN had just came out, so I didn't actually heard about permas. I created him just to see Factions from the beggining, but nowadays just use him as a perma anyway

I needed to add another set of elite armor to the hall, so here we are.

Wastrel's Collapse is hands down my favorite skill.

because it's my title hunter and i cba to start over with a new toon (war or ranger).

Serious, they are so boring after a while. So yh doing some titles and shadow form ofc :/

And in pvp they can be fun. for fast killing

i play mine when i'm too tired to think. the profession is one dimensional and simplistic enough that i can just run around on autopilot and still be effective.

What first attracted you to the class?
The speed and damage that it can pump out compared to the other melee classes

What do you like about it that makes you want to keep playing it?
The ability to farm and do great in PVP.

Any favorite skills?
It depends on what I'm doing. For PVP I love twisting fangs because it gives bleeding and deep wound, and Dash because of the ability for it to let the sin get in and out really quickly. For PVE Critical Agility because of speed buff, along with Death Blossom Moebus strike combo because of the mass and fast damage it pumps out.

What is your least favorite aspect of the class? Would you change it if you could?
My least favorite aspect is their dependency on a backline and weakness to blocks, hexes, and blind.
A healer in the back is necessary for the Assassin in PVE along with GVG/HA because of their crappy healing skills, but all classes basically are.
They get majorly screwed the worse from blocks because it could deflect a vital move. As for the whole "squishy" thing and being spiked to death because of it... you just gotta learn how to switch to a shield set really quickly and kite damage. Plus, people are wrong. Sins have just as much armor as the Dervish. 70AL.

I originally played assassin because of damage and shadow stepping to avoid damage. It was fun and lead to pretty wild experiences back when their recharges were shorter.

I love spiking, kiting, lurking in the shadows, and also causing a rediculous amount of pressure and dps. These days I only play monk and assasin. I either like to heal, or effing blow stuff up in 4 seconds.

Because it takes guts to fight on the front line with 70 al.

Although i most likely have have stupidest reason.. i play assassin for the armor... female vabbian armor is the most elegant armor set in the game (my personal opinion...)

Also, as far as melee goes, i LOVE daggers, yes we cant tank like warriors, we cant deal damage like other classes, but its just a fun class... idk maybe im just an idiot...

and as a note.. i REALLY hope they nerf SF, im tired of the idiotic SF farmers that give players like me and other sins such a crappy name, and i know for a fact that im not the only assassin player WANTING the SF nerf

last note, shadow stepping is soooo much fun to make any enemy useless :P

I like their armor.

Also even though their skill chains can annoy me at times due to requirements, its actually a fun little system. Too bad my heroes kill mobs too fast >_>.

I don't shadow form at all really. I do with my Ele for greens but that's it.