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Originally Posted by hated
Well you're only supposed to use it when you're attacking, so you teleport in, hit flashing blades, do your spike, and then get out. Problem is new players come to the game and go; OMG HAXX I TANKZ GOOD NOW, wherein lies the problem with sins trying to tank.
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Originally Posted by Kyle
agreed. ONE hammer does up to 35 dmg.
and TWO daggers do 17. you should be able to take TWO eyes out. Dagger base dmg needs to be upped a little bit |
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Originally Posted by hated
I was just saying that is the general application to using it. As it has no use if you're not attacking, keeping it maintained forever would be a waste of energy.
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Originally Posted by hated
Throw dirt is listed in the expertise line of rangers making it unuseable for other classes, also it has a recharge time of 45 seconds.
Blinding flash has a cost of 15 energy making it usuable by anyone but casters. Now both of these abilities only work well with their base professions more or less, any changes would make them overused and overpowered. Blinding powder at a measly 5 energy and 20 second recharge gives assassins a defensive and offensive (unseen fury) ability that only they can use because of off-hand requirements. All these skills work very well for the class they belong to, and if done right are very powerful. |
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Originally Posted by wilebill
Seriously, and purely from a PvE perspective out solo with henchies, the assassin is usually very good.
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Originally Posted by Pick Me
Lol Legendary.
At first I thought you were serious about your tweaks to the Palading build. That was until I read Sever Artery. If you are in the slightest serious about your tweaks on skills, then ANet would no doubt put them into effect and say, "all W/Mos automatically cannot attack unless they themselves attack." Thus all the paladin can do is heal or protect and never attack until he/she is the last one standing. Every skill you mentioned automatically becomes an elite as well. Restore Life will require X amount of energy per allie ressurected. Which could mean that your Paladin could in fact be at a negative energy for minutes. I'm not sure what you meant for Galrath's Slash; make it like Flesh Golem? Yes, increase sword damage, but then increase all weapon damage (bows, wands, rods, axes, hammers, etc.) As for Running, yes, I agree that Spring should give you 200% faster movement, however I also believe that the ritual spirit that hinders movement by 10% or so should not affect Primary Rangers. Adrenaline should not however, start at full in beginning of matches. I do believe however, there should be a way(s) that warriors can gain adrenaline before a match starts. Sort of like psyching up before a big game. |
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Originally Posted by Legendary Battousai
look at lord's suggestion for death charge.
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Originally Posted by Lord Deathknight
Aura of Displacement: The range needs to be the radius or your radar so that you can teleport to the soft targets, and allowing you to get past the front line. So you can do your job as a assassin
Dark Prison: Need to have duration reduce by half; you could open up a couple of slots on your skill bar with this skill. But with its current duration, I doubt it is used much. Range could use a tweak also. Mantis Touch: Remove the part where it says "Counts as a off-hand attack" Scorpion Wire: Increase the Duration of spell or make it 20 seconds like all the other hex's the sin has. Put a 2-5 second pause before you return to your target (it would give time for your combo to recharge). Blinding Powder: Make it independent, or count as a lead attack Deaths Charge: Make it more similar to shadow strike the Necro skill Return: This should be like a panic button, you hit it to get out, it should teleport you to the nearest ally outside of your arggo circle. Flashing Blades: needs to be increased from 50% to 75%, after all, Rangers, Warriors and Elementals get 75% (Just because it says while attacking don’t make it any better plus its an elite skill) Also I would make it a skill or an enchantment an not a stance. Crippling Dagger: It should just cripple your target, along with the damage it does. Shadow Form: The only thing I don’t like about it is the low health at the end of the duration; only because it leaves you to vulnerable at the end and open to an easy kill. With the current skills, it’s more of a suicide attack run. Even if you echo, mirror it. I would have it black out your skills use for a bit or have it like Shadow of Haste, and return you back to the point that you used it. Or both on the latter two, then I would also reduce the duration of its recharge Two skills that work similar to the two black lotus skills but on conditions not Hexes. The ability to hit something while you’re blinded with an attack. The Sin is the only one that can’t out of the ones I have tested, test it for your self at the training grounds vs. the Blind Condition Warrior. (Worth repeating, slightly modified) Personally I think that all an assassin needs is an inherent evade/block ability that could coincide with the critical strikes. Have Spells, skills, hexes and attacks that effect that directly target the assassin miss. This would give the assassin a better chance to survive an attack or bypass something that would normally be a defense i.e. throws dirt, blurred vision, blinding flash. The counter would be if the assassin does get hit then it would carry the same effect now, quickly dead. I would have it as a % chance or it would work if it was a hit-miss ratio. The % chance does not need to be that high as the rangers evade skill either. Like 40% at max with runes (16) Another thing would be the able to either carry your attack chain to another target or if that target dies have it refresh even it its at an energy loss when it does Even in most two part attack builds you’re vulnerable as you wait on skill recharge and normal none combo attacks do little damage to most targets. Of course this defense would not work on things that effect an area even thou it does require a target, i.e. 100 blades, cyclone axe, unholy feast, fire storm, fire ball, Barrage ect. And things that would be cause and effect, i.e. shield bash, holy wraith. Increase the amount of damage to the daggers, by 2-3 points, if your attacking between skills, your not doing more than 10 points damage if your lucky. This makes you so dependent on your attack skills. These are my opinions and suggestions, with the hope that someone from Anet will say “hey that’s a neat idea” and use it or add their own tweak to it. |
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Originally Posted by Bloodied Blade
AoD -> Range should be the range of your aggro circle, if rangers can shoot me I should be able to teleport to them.
Dark Prison -> The only problem that I have with it is the recharge time, which in my opinion should be put back at 10 seconds. Mantis Touch -> Give me a break, you want an instant cripple at range? The skill is fine as it is. Scorpion Wire -> If there's a pause before you return to the target, then now Falling Spider is useless. The skill is a snare that you use on a runner, you really shouldn't be using it to initiate combat. Blinding Powder -> ...you want a ranged, 5e, instant blind? It's fine as it is, maybe a recharge reduction is all it needs. Death's Charge -> ...no. Just no. I would want to reduce recharge by maybe 5-10 seconds at the most. Return -> What happens if the nearest foe outside your aggro circle is another melee fighter? It's targetted so that you CAN choose to run specifically to the monk if you wish. Flashing Blades -> Increasing the defense would just mean more people would try to tank with it, thus dying and lowering the mentality people hold towards assassins. Just remove this elite skill all together and replace it with a powerful elite heal or a temporary boost to your daggers that does something like- For 5 seconds your dagger attacks have a 50% chance to blind the target. Just anything but what it is. Crippling Dagger -> It's fine as it is. Maybe increase the range to your aggro circle at the most. Shadow Form -> This skill is laughable. Possibly the second worst elite ever (second to Flashing Blades). It's just crap. Sins can still hit things while blinded, just like anything else can. There is no *attack* skill that cannot *miss*. Everyone can miss through blind, did it just occur to you that they had a skill that wasn't an attack? With your proposed evasion change to Critical Strikes, Assassins would need to be balanced with lower armor than they already have. Bad idea. As for Dagger Damage, I thought it sucked...for 2 days. After that I realized that any higher damage would just be unfair to every other class in the game. I can kill almost anything in the game with 1 combo, can you? What if your daggers hit even HARDER? We're fine, the only thing we really need is maybe a 5-10pt armor boost. I mean, our chest armor already reduces condition duration...many people would KILL for that effect on their armor. I would enjoy the armor boost though. |
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Originally Posted by Kijik Oni Hanryuu
I think that the dagger damage should either be upped, OR have a faster attack rate than swords, regardless of double strikes, like have the attack rate be .75 while swords is 1.33
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