Assassin skill build

Hi, i just created an assassin and i dont know which skills i should build up, can anyone give me a tip? which skills are better for pk and so on...
Which skills are best to build for pk?

Zatuka - Lost City wrote: »

not a hundred percent sure but the level 3 bleed skill might do well as the bleed does more damage then daggers right now lol so it could be useful arcanes later on?

i second this, and would add that you should keep your bleed skill (Puncture Wound i believe it's called) maxed at all times... as Zatuka said, bleed is highly useful versus arcane classes, because bleed damage is physical in nature (arcane classes have naturally low physical defense)

Nemesyk - Raging Tide wrote: »

i second this, and would add that you should keep your bleed skill (Puncture Wound i believe it's called) maxed at all times... as Zatuka said, bleed is highly useful versus arcane classes, because bleed damage is physical in nature (arcane classes have naturally low physical defense)

ya i agree to. the bleed skill is double-triple the melee dmg depeding on the skills lvl so it would be like doing crits with each bleed tick. its a good skill for sins to use early on but idk how useful it would be once u get higher up. slip stream strike (lvl 6 skill) and the lvl 9 skill are also good things to have. the lvl 1 skill also gets better the more u lvl it but the lvl 3 6 and 9 skill +meleeing are sufficient enought

I totally agree, That first skill is useless, Just ignore it. I lvld it to lvl four my first try on assassin and it does, like... 200 damage, my attacks did 150, and the other skills did 500+ on lvl 2 and 3. but like ashendal said, the second tier does so much better.

Ok, at the moment i'm level 24 so i can't do a total view among all skills, but i can help cause i've analyzed them with experience on the ground and i can say:

Twin Strike: forget about it, it's useless, like almost all the initial skills

Puncture Wound: It can be useful cause of bleed status but the damage itself isn't so good. You can level it if you want, but i don't know, I'm damaging so fastly enemies with normal attacks that bleed status doesn't do more than one damage to them. I don't thing it'll be useful until medium levels.

Slipstream Strike: This skill is awesome. The big damager you need to do a big amount of damage in the early levels. It'll be useful to level cause it kills fastly mobs practically without channeling. Thanks to it i'm doing a lot of damage to mobs in short time. Doing criticals with it it's supreme

Shadow Walk: I've leveled it at level 2 but i think i'll keep it so because isn't so useful. If it would be possible using it while running away from a mob, than it would change everything. Also, it seems that aggro has been fixed, and also it sucks your mps like hell. I would concentrate on more powerful versions of shadow skills

Wolf Emblem: Maybe now we are doing little damage withcritical, but i want to be trustful to this skill. Ok Ok, at level 10, 30% isn't that much >.>. But we must consider that assassins are based on critical hits, so we are going to do more crit at high levels and powering their damage is always good. even now some crit shows itself Maxing it it's good.

Windpush: We must consider that we have better skills than this if we talk about movements. But the one that teleports costs 20 Chi and the other one 1 spark. So, like we do to the blademaster's speed skill, i advice to max it at our level cause it can be used everytime and is helpful. BUT, once we'll get wings, we can set it apart for a while

Deep Sting: This skill is cool. But i can't say that is useful. Even mobs wake up too fastly while using it, and leveling it up doesn't add seconds. I can't say i'll get crazy for this skill even if it can sleep so rapidly. And its damage isn't so high but decent. By the way, it'll be a cool skill to max, but not so early.

Focused Mind: This skill is good. but i thing that against mobs works only with magical types, cause phys type doesn't use skills so frequently. By the way its real purpose is against players. So Max it, not only because it's a good buff but also because it'll be useful either to pve or pvp. It intends all kind of skills, so i think it can be possible to avoid even magic attacks

Knife Trow: You can set it for later. Vs magical mobs it can be useful, but even they hit phys when you hit them in close range. So level it later. Its true power is against every type of class. It's a 95% pvp skill. Max it at high levels cause you'll not use it very frequently and it doesn't do so much damage. but in pvp, used on the outstanding enemy's skill, can be useful to gain time.

Tide Form: leave it at 1. maybe when you'll do moresub marine quests you'll want to raise is level, but i can sure you that this skill isn't necessary other than level 1.

And so now. I'll continue to write information the more i'll try new skills

Infact when i said to use it on magical mobs i was referring on its ability to interrupt channeling, obviously its useless because it does too low damage and mag mobs will hit you with magic attacks. I'm curious about the shadow walk usage you mentioned. I'm playing on Rising Tide server, and unless the so called mini bosses, andof course some mob used for restricted quests, all toher mobs seems to have lost their aggro intentions, so why approching them in shadow ? Of course if you mean this combo speaking generally, it makes a whole different sense

To be honest, I'd only throw a couple points into Slipstream. At 29 you get Rib Strike, which is a vastly superior opener - more damage, and slows enemy attacks by a sizable chunk for 30 seconds.

Knife throw on magical mobs? pls don't.

I agree. Open with Tackling Slash on magic mobs. It freezes them in place, preventing them from running, and gives you 50 chi. There's really no reason you shouldn't be spark erupting and eviscerating anything that moves with this skill. Save Dagger Throw for when they're actually casting, or to pull melee mobs.

i can take down any mob my level with the following attack chain:

puncture wound -> slipstream strike -> deep sting -> wait for sleep effect -> slipstream strike

those three skills are the only attack skills i use. the rest are useless in my eyes

the two buffs (wolf emblem, focus mind) have been useless so far

pretty much straightforward class, been much easier than archer (i'm doing more damage than them too)

well at 31 i currently use

puncture wound > rib slash > slipstream strike and the mobs dead lol

i don't really use the others, i'll use tackle slash on mobs that run so i will lvl that and of course dagger mastery will be leveled too

but the other 29 skills i prob won't lvl for awhile, the tele is nice but more for just pvp, the forced stealth is also rather nice as it gives you a spark

Morty - Raging Tide wrote: »

Learn all skills except the 1st one, and that raging slash, it sucks.

god dude, you really do fail at this lmao

mmh at lvl 82 right now grinding for me goes Rib strike (crits 10k+) then regulair attacks
bloodpaint keeps my HP above 90%
and if i got 2spark ready, i'll start up with headhunt (lvl 5, 7-8k dmg regulair 13k+ crit)

i'm still waiting on the 79 skills QQ i'm hoping on some AOE or serious dmg (maybe even non-phy dmg)

Kriticalhitz - Raging Tide wrote: »

ok first things first <.< twin strike isnt useless... its a very useful skill.. assassin relies on skill damage (Chill f the deep) so twinstrike is good DPS between locks... likea BM.. they need to use lower level skills to maxamise damage between stun locks.

2nd. NEVER use stealth in PVE.. its not necessary and requires alot of mp,shadow jump is better.

3rd. if u want to pk.. max out all skills except for raving slash.. that sucks XD

i am in agreement, no normal attack, in fact, dont even put it on hotkey bar, replace with twin. use slip after, followed by puncture, then sleep, then tackle and rib stab, then twin and slip again