A/E Double Armor Assassin

Err... Armor of earth, and Shiver armor... Yeah... Shiver Armor FTW! What is "Shiver Armor"?

On a side note, Sliver Armor is an excellent skill which any earth ele tank should consider carrying.

Heh, sounds like a fun build, but only for PVE.

PVP, no way, sighs, why do you even need tank in PVP? Humans always attack the tanker first?... much better being off as an barrager or interupter... You would be surprised at how many people actualy waste energy and time on a warrior or assasin.

sundering arrow, horn bow, judges insight along with the elite=this build's ownage[someone in my alliance made a 70% or 60% sundering arrow attack combo] and my guide[prima's for chapter 1] says holy damage [other than wands] do not take armor added by enchantments and such into account in reducing damage[aka:you are a normal assassin to this kind of damage] The Prima guide is full of shit. And all of that armor penetration doesn't stack, you won't get 60-70%. Judges' Insight does not deal Holy damage, whatever the description may say.

I don't like it at all, not at all. Actually, I like it alot. Not the exact skills he listed, but an A/E *can* afford to cast a spell every 8 seconds. And enchant removal is surprisingly slight in Cantha in comparison to some places where Tyria... in Cantha you can use enchantments in most areas if you are careful, in Tyria, there are many areas where you just *cant* without 'perma' SB.

Im going to respec my sin and see what I can do with him using this approach...

Mythic Eternity...

My point of USing AoD instead of Temple strike for your elite is two-fold. Maybe you didnt quite understand. You responded to my first post that your build was aimed at snaring a target, and have high def for staying alive while doing dmg, and then retreating.

With Armor of Earth, you arent going to be retreating from anything. Even with only a few seconds remaining on that enchantment, ANY dmg class can heavily dmg or kill you before it disapates and you can fully run. THIS is why i think AoD will help you so much. 1, you will be able to GET to targets that much faster while taking full advantage of any snare you choose (there are many to choose from =D) 2, You have a maintained enchant for Golden Phoenix Strike. 3, Even with slowdown from Armor of Earth you can get away MUCH faster and MUCh safer by simply taking AoD off. 4, Overall, being a teleport, you will be 10x more mobile for any PvP situations...

And YES! I did try the build, then modified it to utilize AoD, and guess what!? It truely becomes that more affective. In my opinion, of course. Hope that feedback helps a little better...

enjoy Ya i see you in point that AoD can add mobility to the build, but when I use this build to Pvp, I seldom retreat from enemies, and temple strike is for dazing and finishing the casters off, and to blind someone to protect other one, maybe our monk.

Without temple strike, you will find that this build wont be effective to kill, but just to deal some continuous dmg to a target. You cant do anything if the target can heal in the middle, and then your assualt and combo will be a fail one to kill

Also, Iron mist can be used to prevent enemy from keep chasing our soft teammate. You know, 90% slowed is almost same as spot running.

Moreover, i prefer to see enemy fleeing from me because they will find that they cant kill me by themselves if they are alone. Trust me, even you solo a E, you will see that he will flee after a few attacks from him and a few attacks from you. Once he know you can daze him and he cant hurt you, they will flee from you if they are clever.

Again, I'm not telling this build is an invincible one, but the position of you in a team when using this build can be varied to different team formation to give you more choices:

1: You can be a tank, a more godly tank than a W, even you may find that you cant kill W, but they wont be able to kill you too.
2: Prevent enemies from chasing our soft teammates
3: Aid to kill monks and casters with daze, or even able to solo them 1 by 1
4: Lower the work load of a healer in the team. At least they dont need to concern about the sudden death of a A before they can finish their job

here's a nice pic of judge's insight for the non believer Dude, they don't stack (not all of them). And Judge's Insight doesn't deal Holy Damage like the description says, since Holy Damage is armor ignoring. Try using Penetrating Attack and Judges Insight together on the Isle of the Nameless, see if they stack.

You would be surprised at how many people actualy waste energy and time on a warrior or assasin.
and you would be surprised how many people really dont care that you hate assassins or warriors because your so close-minded you cant see any use for them.


Nice build, really solves the problem of kiting casters, unless of course they remove the hex then your still pretty much out of it with the +slow from AoE

Any build that relies that much on enchantments always worries me. Especially when using an enchantment on something as fragile as an assasin then trying to play tank. In my Opinions, actually i dont agree with the hit and run stragegy for Assassins, below is my reasons:

1: Assassins are melee classified, and a melee class should keep giving continuous dmg to the enemies in the frontline. Our dmg is not overpowered compared with a W, so if we retreat, ppl will think that W can replace our position.

2: Most of the time after we proceeded our combo, the enemy would still be alive, so will you retreat even your enemy is standing? once you retreat, you lose your value as a Assassin because teammate would think that you cant do anything and just standing behind, or will you keep trying to kill him? Then you may die because Assassins are weak in absorbing dmg

3: So the most problably, you will use are enchantments to keep you alive during the battles: A/Mo: Prot spirit, Healing hand, Mending, Life Sheath, Vigourous spirit, etc; A/Me: Illusion of weakness, physical resistance, ele resistance, etc; A/E armor of earth, kinetic armor, magnetic aura, etc; even a A, you need shadow refuge, critical def, shadow of heart, etc to keep you stand as long as you can.

So i dont think 2-3 enchantments would be too much for a Assassin if you do want to contribute more to your team but not just hit a few and stand back a while, that's why ppl thinking Assassins are useless, why dont we take a W? Longer life span, with comparable dmg and can tank to avoid the casters from danger most of the time?

Again. i am just developing a brand new concept for assassin lovers, as we have 4 pipes of en regen, we can spam spells and use our energy more wisely to outweight the W!~

Hey guys, i want to share with you all that my 'Mixed and Matched" Assassin armor set. I know many people like to mix and match the armor, so pls feel free to post your "Great combination"

Dont know if i can post the pic because i am a noob for it

I am using:

1.5K Seitung Mask
15K Luxon Guise
15K Canthan Legging
15K Kurzick Shoes and Gloves
I <3 the way your assassin looks.


Personally, I think this might actually make monks happy about you, seeing as you apparently take less damage (Got this info from the description), so if your build works in the way you intended it to, then, as I said, monks'll love ya

ive used my own little a/e build from day1. I just use armor of earth when i feel that im trapped or running will just get me killed. Armor of Earth for me is more of a last resort kind of thing since it is kind of heavy on the energy to use mid battle. Or if i know its going to be an ugly fight i armor of earth AoD in then AoD out when needed. Ya armor of earth is a bit heavy, and i should say the meaning of double armor is that, during critical situations, neither one of them in single can save your life but to maintain both of them at the same time can save your life. Moreover, during the battles, i will keep maintaining my kinetic armor by shadow refuge. So even armor of earth fades out, i just need to wait for energy or simply recast it for replacing that turn of my shadow refuge.