A new use for assassins?

TidalFury - Sanctuary
TidalFury - Sanctuary Posts: 13 Arc User
edited June 2011 in General Discussion
Yay, the Assassin can be a hero for the squad.

Oh darn, our tank just died and we are dropping one by one, it is only a matter of time before our cleric dies too and eventually party wipe, this can't be happening to me.....WHYYYYYYY!!!

Never fear, there is a solution.

If an assassin has Alpha Male genie skill, the Assassin can use it to take aggro from all mobs to save the squad and cleric from wiping.

Use Alpha Male then run like hell, whether you can shadow escape OR die does not matter, you just saved the Cleric's life at least and squad can regroup and try again.

Of course we all hope situations like these never come about, but with all the carelessness these days there is no telling what can happen.
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  • __Astarte__ - Dreamweaver
    __Astarte__ - Dreamweaver Posts: 151 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    That's nothing new. It's just...well...

    That requires, y'know, forethought and effort. Two things many players nowadays just aren't any good at. b:cold
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  • Okeano - Harshlands
    Okeano - Harshlands Posts: 4,943 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    I think you are asking too much from your average Sin to even know what Alpha Male is.
  • Evict - Heavens Tear
    Evict - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,301 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    I don't even know what a Sin is. b:puzzled
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  • Angel_Spawn - Sanctuary
    Angel_Spawn - Sanctuary Posts: 3,034 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Evict - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    I don't even know what a Sin is. b:puzzled

    Something edible b:lipcurl
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  • AnimaBlanc - Sanctuary
    AnimaBlanc - Sanctuary Posts: 555 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    add to that... that used to be the PURPOSE of the assassin before several figued out that with the right (expensive) gear they could tank as well... go figure...
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  • Ermosa - Heavens Tear
    Ermosa - Heavens Tear Posts: 292 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    i wish sins would do that, mostly they go stealth mode and let cleric get agro instead and die...i think i havent seen any sin yet that would die for cleric
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  • Angel_Spawn - Sanctuary
    Angel_Spawn - Sanctuary Posts: 3,034 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Simple as that if you are a noob sin and you can`t tank it, don`t get aggro, at least that`s

    what I did when i was lower lvl, now most sins are so full of themselves, mostly low lvl ones

    and think they can do anything and go splat with the rest of the squad.
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  • truekossy
    truekossy Posts: 7,021 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    ... Anyone can do this, not just an assassin.

    Yet very few will even consider it. Heck, you don't even need Alpha male. Just run like the wind once aggro is on you. (Of course, there's also the idiots that will get pissed at you for running from the cleric or w/e BS but hey, this game is mostly idiots nowadays so yeah)
  • _Skai_ - Raging Tide
    _Skai_ - Raging Tide Posts: 3,407 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    @truekossy >.> only assassins can stealth, not anyone else.

    unless of course you'd want to sacrifice yourself for the squad. which is a noble move, but assassins get a plus with stealth.
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  • Longknife - Harshlands
    Longknife - Harshlands Posts: 4,843 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Okeano - Harshlands wrote: »
    I think you are asking too much from your average Sin to even know what Alpha Male is.

    Yeah, sins only know

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  • Okeano - Harshlands
    Okeano - Harshlands Posts: 4,943 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    Longknife - Harshlands wrote: »
    Yeah, sins only know

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  • truekossy
    truekossy Posts: 7,021 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    _Skai_ - Raging Tide wrote: »
    @truekossy >.> only assassins can stealth, not anyone else.

    unless of course you'd want to sacrifice yourself for the squad. which is a noble move, but assassins get a plus with stealth.

    Depending on class/genie/instance, you can fairly easily outrun and reset mobs/bosses once you know what you're doing.

    Of course, the problem with that is, like I mentioned, most don't have a clue what they're doing.
  • Foxchu - Archosaur
    Foxchu - Archosaur Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    well i'm a veno and there have been many times where i have "tanked" in fc after the barb died (cause usually my aoes aggro everything and if the barb isn't good i get aggro anyway b:sad) all i do is bramble hood and aoe everything (i have cloud eruption on my genie for a reason so i can use Nova and then get a spark and a half back for bramble hood if needed b:victory) so sins don't save the day in my squads :D it's the squishy veno that kills everything! one of my FC squads had 2 BMs, a sin, a barb, a cleric, and me a veno... well at the pull with mag mobs (which a lot of low lvl barbs fail at in fc cause they pull too many and die) the barb pulled too many and died while the cleric set up BB... well needless to say 1 bm died, the sin died and that left me and the BM to clear everything... between bramble hood and aggro hopping we saved a complete squad wipe :D so give it up to the venos and bramble hood for being sub tanks while in BB b:victory
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  • NiightmareXz - Harshlands
    NiightmareXz - Harshlands Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    lol at the op for thinking this is something new. I've been doing it on my archer for a long time, minus alpha male.
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  • Ikarium - Dreamweaver
    Ikarium - Dreamweaver Posts: 631 Arc User
    edited June 2011
    New use for assassins?
    I always try to do this, as should every other DD class. If things go wrong and the tank dies, get whatever it is OFF the cleric.
    Buy enough time for cleric to get tank back up and rebuffed. So what if you die doing it, you can get a res after tank is back up. The cleric can't (not 100% true anymore if you happen to have a Mystic buffer), but still.
    And even still, as people pointed out...you don't need stealth to run/deaggro a boss. Polearm/Gaurnob in fb69 for example. It was once common place knowledge how a whole squad could deaggro them. Now alot of people panic and die and have no idea how to do this.

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