Double Strike IW Assasin

A/Me

16 Critical Strikes
12 Illusion Magic
4 Dagger Mastery

Skills:

Illusionary Weaponry, Distortion, Clumsiness, Recall, Jagged Strike, Mantis Sting, Sig of Malice, Rez Sig

Usage:

With 13 Critical Hits, your chance to do criticals becomes very common. When a critical hit is achieved you will actually hit your foe twice in one attack. Use IW to take full advantage of this to hit for 72 dmg strikes. Distortion to dodge attacks and Clumsiness to take down any warriors or rangers you're duelling.
At the start of the round, use Recall on the healer in your team and keep it maintained. Due to the lack of healing you have, when you're taking too much heat disable Recall so you teleport back to the monk and out of battle. Use Jagged Strike + Mantis Sting to cripple and bleed your target incase he tries to flee. Sig of Malice to remove conditions.
Think of this build as a stealthy ninja-like guy who does heaps of damage (72 per hit) and can also teleport out of battle at any given moment as well as stalk his prey using Jagged Strike and Mantis Sting to disable them.

you can't have more than 12 points in a secondary attribute, and I'm pretty sure that the dagger mastery attribute doesn't effect critical hits... It would be "critical attacks" that would, which is primary assassin only. Also, a critical hit isn't exactly hitting twice, so you wouldn't get double damage from IW. To be a critical hit, it has to in fact HIT, which IW doesn't do.

and you don't actually "hit" the target, so you have no critical hits either

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EDIT: Adrenal skills are supposed to charge only upon successful completion of a melee attack too. Supposedly, you only gain adreniline when you hit with your weapon; once your weapon deals damage.

But they will charge under IW.

If Warrior Adrenal skills which require "contact" to work can charge with IW up, why not Assassin's Critical Hits, if it is a double strike as the OP persists?

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i got another question


i used a a/w with wild blow, and wild blow = criticla hit right?

well i didn't get energry from it, even with critical hit mastery whatever

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Dagger mastery gives 2% chance to get another hit per point in it. Critical strike gives a higher percent chance to critical (NOT a chance to hit again). So, you need to move your points over to dagger mastery if you expect to get any kind of bonus out of the assassins dual strike chance. Even then, the bonus is very very small, with overall damage coming out to <1000 if the target does not kite, strip the enchant, interrupt an attack etc. A Me/W with flurry does more damage.

Attack skills will miss while IW is active, be they adrenaline skills or energy attack skills.

Meh.

Personally I've always felt that IW builds were overrated...

A decent elementalist will be better than a Me/W most of the time because they have more utility...the IW is limited to spamming distortion vs warriors and flurry to do damage.

I think mesmers are just all around more effective as interrupters / anti-X / energy denial.

IW mesmers are limited to caster armor and relying on the enemy not rending enchantments to do damage. With those limitations, many IWs are not adequate for fighting a casting target, since any anti-warrior mesmer, anti-caster mesmer (with shatter enchantment or interrupting the next IW), or a simple elly can kill them.

I keep bringing up ranger spikers because they are annoyingly popular (fun to play, but too many people play them)... IWs get slaughtered by a R/Me with Inspired Enchantment (often used for energy management on a spiker) and the standard damage dealing montague.

IW may work decently in PvP, but here another class is truly superior to an IW Mesmer. Mesmers shouldn't try to do something others can do more effectively in PvP.

What i want to see is me/r me/w with tigers/flurry using daggers because daggers are uber fast and i would like too see if this is better than sword.

Only problem is no focus/sheild

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