100B PvE Assassin

/Quote/ Something about versatility /endquote

Your sword build has no KD or party wide buffs, your build is entirely DPS, no utility whatsoever. You're a melee, it comes down to DPS. Daggers are better.

You can run A/R and get a few crits on barrage? Cool, my dagger sin pumps out more.

You can run disrupting accuracy for continuous interrupts on one enemy, cool, my mesmer can pump out continuous AoE rupts.

Just because you can do everything doesn't mean you should do everything.

Ok, your taking an old concept of a sin with high critical rate and another old concept of throwing splinter weapon and SoH on a hero to buff the output.

What I think everyone is a little confused about is yes, this build is pretty much a repeat of other melee sin builds. Sins use 100b in fow all the time. Discord hero bars have variants to take SoH if your running a melee proffession and discord usually carries splinter on it anyway so essentially all I'm seeing with this build is a stripped down basic concept of the Assasin melee member of the team, essentially with a bonder.
What's the point in the bar, Sins have the +4pips so there is less energy issues that warrior's can face which is a plus, but even the crit on a sin doesn't add that much of a bonus as i've said. I have read what you have said and yes you are saying a Sin can do a Warrior bar effectively. But so what? What's going to make me want to try this bar on my sin to any other 100b bars that I can find for sins? There is a bit of healing in there and a high chance to block but as a sin (What I've found a huge downside to melee chars that depend on enchants) If you meet a mesmer with enchant removal your going to die. All the sins defense is in the enchantments to block. Your actually going to be in a mob more than a few seconds and if your going after the melee first, the casters have loads of time to cast on you, all the things on you can suddenly hit you and your health is going to start to drop. Sins, without shadow form, are not tanks. They have 70 armor and depend on enchants to keep them alive. As soon as those enchantments are taken away your going to start taking a lot of damage quickly.

You are really going to start struggling against things that have higher armor unless your taking barbs and MoP (or there are other damage dealers with armor ignoring damage such as SS or Discord). Yes the Sins crit rate makes the damage a little higher but overall even a warrior using 100b isn't the highest damage output. I know you've added splinter to it but Splinter doesn't hit everything.

I mean it is probably a good build for a sin (as a non primary build goes). But I don't understand what it is that is a) new about the build b) would make me want to play it when all I have to go on is 1 hero and a build. I'm not told what armor is recommended as you say it's up to us? Well what do you use? Do you find having a lot of hp works for you?

Your running an adrenaline bar so wouldn't a furious mod be beneficial on the sword? Or is the build actually being run on a zealous sword? If you want slightly more dps I could take a vampiric weapon, would that be useful or are you confident that the spiking power is enough to take down each group? Are you taking a lot of damage? If you are should I be runing my armor for each occasion? Should I have (As is good for the sin they have all physical armor runes) 4 sets of armor for each? Or is one good enough? Should I have blessed armor as I'm enchanted? Do I need lots of hp if I'm going to be taking a lot of damage and know hero's can be slow on the healing. If I'm taking so much damage would a defense mod be useful on the sword? Or should I take hp?

There are a lot of unanswered questions I have raised and I know you said it's up to us but even telling us what you are running might give us more of a clue. This is only the backbone of the build there is so much more in my opinion that you should have added. At this point I don't see what this build is. I see some skills and some sort of advice on what to take. But not what you are using.

I totally agree with IronSheik, yes a Sin is very versatile. It can run A/R A/W A/D A/P and others quite well but ultimately your just pumping out the same things that is already out there in not nearly enough detail for anyone to start using this bar. You haven't said where you have been Vanquishing, it might have actually been easy in one area agaisnt low armor foes but in another area with high armor people start having difficulty.
If you take FoWSc 100bs for an example, the majority of the damage isn't done from 100b or splinter weapon. It comes primarily from Mark of Pain, armor ignoring damage. Your build has elements of the same build but lacks the key ingredient.