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Originally Posted by Dragannia
The reason Assassins are getting owned currently is because many of them are just prebuilts. Which suck. Assassin's strengths lie in conditions like Dazed, which will no doubt own any spellcaster. Still, a Mesmer with Spirit Shackles will take care of an assassin quite easily, hence the need for hex removal.
Very much true. Mobius is what they're all using as their elite, and I havn't seen anyone with Temple yet. I was running a R/A hoping to find out where to cap it, and gave up. The A also needs the Zealous mod desperatly, which means E-denial works that much better against him.
I only see the Asn as a prob if they get in Temple quickly, most likely with a tele. Mind you, once they have all those conditions on you, with the right support, you're in serious trouble.
They're faster than a War, in that they don't need adren and can do their thing from the start, but they had better accomplish their mission within 4 or 5 seconds or their dead.
What works against them? E-denial, enchant removal, blind, anything like SS, degen, and simple keeping them at a distance. Honestly, I don't understand the worry. I'm nearly positive the only real threat from the entire Asn line is some sort of Ranger spike using the tele skills to jump in, spike, and jump back out of harms way. And even that seems like a pretty fragile combo.
