Assassin Genie Skills

Extreme Poison - Perfect for the theme of 'lots of damage in a small time frame' that Assassins have.

Holy Path - Personal choice, I find it useful in many situations. Chasing someone down, or just trying to get to an npc faster.

Frenzy - Dangerous, but if used right can be devastating for whatever (whoever) you are attacking.

Tree of Protection - Speaks for its self.

Hope this helped.

Zeal (For Energy recovery rate, extra spells, and a natural pulling skill)

Metal 5, Water 5, Earth 1, Wood 1

Earthflame at genie level 1 - Used to pull monsters individually, useful if without a veno.

Leaf Dance at genie level 60 - +2% Crit Rate for 60 seconds (20 second cooldown)

Weakness at genie level 76 - Level 7: A weakening curse that reduces the target's attack speed by 100% for 5 seconds.

Second Wind at genie level 55 - Recover 800 HP instantly. Less attributes required than Tree of Protection, less stamina needed, and slightly less energy consumed.

Impact at genie level 15~30 - Level 1: more damage, little energy cost, little stamina cost, good cooldown.

The ones I have on the list so far are:
Extreme poison (20% of already ridiculous dmg can't be a bad thing)
Second Wind (Pretty effective when in a bind)
Relentless Courage (Uses same stat mod as SW to increase the attack speed)
Leaf dance (Extra crit rate makes for a nice combo with Wolf Emblem)

I'm still debating on Holy Path when Wind Push already gives a nice boost.
Earthquake(?) is a possibility for knockback (thought this might be a nice combo with knife throw when needing a quick out).

yeah but that uses 2 sparks i believe

i think tingling mire is a big no no. it's an awesome skill so use at your own risk, but i find using an AOE for a character that is squishy to be too risky. in places like swap or wraiths this could be a death sentence. personally i would go with wind shield, leaf dance (woot 2 % increase in critratexD) and thunderstorm (an extra attack never hurt anyone, and from my experience, this skill is pretty good:P)


extrme poison is good but personally i don't like the fact that it lasts only one second:/ and i would reather put points to my genit's str for my leaf dance and thunder storm.

personally i have played around with my genie for a freaken long time and i have not seen any skills that are really that important other then

-Absolute Domain

-Occult Ice

If you re stat ur genie into a full strength genie you could fine Tangling Mire extremely helpful. Extreme Poison is nice but not very effective unless ur a magic class >.> if you want a good amp for assassin use the Sub Sea Strike.

This is my opinion im just mentioning that Absolute Domain and Occult Ice are best for pvp and depending on how many skills ur Genie can use the rest is up to you.

ps - with 5 aps wind push is nice to give u a base 4 aps instead if the 3.33 base ull initially have

I started writing this post then realized the initial post date was a year and a half ago. Since its already been necrod by two other people, and writing my own post was a good way to organize my thoughts I decided to finish my post. GM, please close.

Athena - Raging Tide wrote: »

Relentless courage may not be a good idea. Assassins are actually more for spike damage with skills like wizards, not dps. And the channel times for skills on sins are pretty much irrelevant, so relentless courage wont really help much either way.
Unless you're just lazy and like to use auto attacks. b:chuckle

Lol, what? Sins are 'The' aps class, especially with their huge base damage each aps level increases their dps more than any other class.

So, Zeal Genie. As a sin your specialty is 1v1 and pulling will help you get there. Theres a bunch of options, actually, but try to pair up dex skills and str skills.

Heals:
Second Wind - Great for low level and very useful for saving your butt while you finish a kill but a smaller heal than ToP.
Tree of Protection - A larger heal than Second Wind and a heal over time but takes 2 seconds to start healing and as a squishier class that two seconds could be life and death.

I recommend SW until level 80 then replace with ToP when you have a bigger hp pool.

Debuffs:
Impact- The weakest physical debuff, but cheap to use, lasts 10 seconds, and cooldown is only 20 seconds so you can keep them debuffed half the time. Will only notice about a 7% dmg increase.
Tangling Mire- Stronger physical debuff. Aoe (can be both a good thing or a bad thing if you pull mobs you don't want). Lasts 10 seconds, cd is 30 so can keep something debuffed 30% of the time. 35% phys debuff + 1% every 5 genie strength. Typically you'll notice about a 20% increase in dmg. Only effective for phys dmg squadmates.
Extreme Posion- Not a debuff, but an amp of dmg by 20%. Causes the same effect as Subsea and they'll overwrite each other.

Players choice here. Having EP means you don't have to take 2 seconds and 2 sparks to Subsea. Having TM means you can stack it with your Subsea. Most players have TM so EP is a nice variation and will boost the magic dealers DD too, but on a nice strength genie TM has the greater dmg boost for yourself.

Speed Boosts:
Wind Shield - Attack speed increase is only 10% (usually 1 speed level icnrease) and cannot be boosted past 10%, but it uses less energy and has a 1 sec cooldown so is spammable as long as you have genie energy.
Relentless Courage - More expensive energy cost but lower stamina cost. Attack speed boost can be raised using strength. Has a 30 second cooldown so its not spammable.

People who are willing to burn genie stamina go for Wind Shield, primarily to bump 3.33->4.0 or 4.0->5.0. Below that neither skill is incredibly worth it.



Other skills are:
Holy Path-Increases yourself to 11.0 m/s. Very useful for keeping yourself ahead of the squad as often they'll be waiting for you to stealth to a guard. Also nice for zipping past mobs while stealthed soloing.
Occult Ice - Cast a freeze bubble on people. Basically a 6 second stun. Mostly used for pk but can be a life saver in pvp against sac strike mobs.
Absolute Domain - 4 seconds of invincibility.Great for pvp and pve. I like to use it when I pop into a group of mobs, kill the guardian and need to pop shadow escape. 3.5 seconds of no paint healswhile I channel and cast means I could die so I pop AD for it.
Earthquake - Since dagger throw is your best interupt skill and somewhat slow and unreliable having an interupt skill on your genie is nice.
Badge of Courage - A chance to breaks a stun (based on genie's dex). Very useful for pvp since as LA and typically with 5 vit base or less your survival is based on paint heals and killing them before they even have a chance to kill you and being stunned typically means its all over.

On my genie I have

Occult Ice
Extreme poison
Tangling Mire
Holy Path
Wind sheild
Absolute Domain
Second Wind

Plan on switching second wind for frenzy once I hit 100

Typhyse - Sanctuary wrote: »

Only Saku has seen the necro...lawl

Pretty sure at least a few others saw but didn't feel like pointing it out.

Krarenka - Raging Tide wrote: »

What?b:shocked

There was a point in time long ago before the APS craze went into full swing and assassins had just came out when the class was considered a DPH/skill spam class. Especially thanks to skills like chill.