Strategies on staying alive

pretty much what your doing + a cleric

Assassins don't have the highest evasion.
They get the same acc and evasion per point as an archer (8 and 6), but archers get an evasion buff. So archers basically have the highest evasion still. Unless you have a 1 str 4 dex BM (lol) because they get 10 accuracy and evasion per dex point >.>

Its all about evasion and hit rate, they will have better crits than archer so obviously at this level, its hard. Once your Dex caps at 150 you would see big difference in killing mobs, and as they attack fast they could easily tank with evasion and would kill just as fast without using skills.
Just keep it at.

Well, the class is relatively unbalanced. The class actually gives you the illusion of going at normal pace when you're actually going almost twice as fast as any other class.

The thing that I would say is really troubling you is that you're rushing things without realizing it (killing roughly 80 Taurocs in 30 minutes seems to indicate something here...). Since you're going so fast, your pots and powders won't be able to catch up with the damage you're taking, so be sure to take breathers in between to perhaps double pot to fill up. Think of it as running a marathon; while Barbs and BMs are going at a regular pace, Assassin goes in an all out sprint.

Like a mounted machine gun, you really shouldn't hold down the fire and let the barrel melt from all the heat. Do short bursts and do a few pauses in between fights. A nice, regulated pace will insure that you'll survive every encounter with no difficulties. Of course it's painful for you, but it'll be more painful for them.

i use the blood sucking skill and spam pot >.>
ill have to get powders soon....

Athena - Raging Tide wrote: »

You missed my post entirely b:sweat

wow, sorry, i think i was replying when you post it..>.<

I'm a pure dex build with no vit, and I didn't find any trouble with the mobs really. Granted they can take my HP a fair bit, I always kill and or crit, before they kill me.

As a friend put it: We're simply melee archers. We gain 13 hp per vit like they do, so it's almost not worth putting in vit.

This is my usual attack combo with the skills i've got: Knife throw (To claim the mob since there's alot of people around), deep sting (Sleep skill, works alot of the time), wound puncture (bleed), splitstream strike (uber damage) and keel.

once u hit 29 and get ur spark its alot eaiser imo. I use alot more mana pots now thought. pretty much u fight each mob w/ a spark. I'm still working on combos but what i do is spark->tele->freeze->reduce attack speed->slip strike. by that time their dead. i usually take maybe 1 hit or none, it only works if i spark though. I was doing the bleed and sleep combo but i hated getting hit. i'm sure alot of ppl have diff combos though this one just works best for me.

I decided to try the evade route, my gear is semi poor since the lvls are so easy to gain and it's pointless to invest massive amounts into it.

Right now using only average evade shards, a phys belt with evade, and evade necklace and some random + dex gear I have a bit over 2k hp, 10% crit rate, and a 26% evade on targets my level.

When I use our short evade addition buff at lvl 6 I'm pushing a bit over 40% evade. While the evade gain only applies to normal attacks, the skill with added 19% also applies to magic skills, and aoe's as well ( just a tip). Seeing 1 dmg come up in fb 51 from myriad 4 times in a row was friggen sweet.

Personal choice as with my veno, capping vit at 50 and moving back to 1str 4dex per lvl. Keeps ya alive through aoe's, and anything you can't survive gets soaked by Dead Nerves (20% hp regain upon reaching 0 hp)


If you're using Light Armor I suggest either A: loading up with phys shards, or B: loading up with evade; mixing will not really grant the best of both sides here much unless you have 3 sockets or more. Our magic resist is already fair vs that of heavy classes, but to be a mele DD you need to have the vit and def to block or the ability to evade it and skip the damage all together

I'm doing a bow normal > switch after 3rd-5th normal (depends if the mob buffs itself in the process of coming) > puncture wound** > sleep > run away and switch to bow > fire again > switch and stream strike if not dead

Or doing bow normal > puncture wound > stream strike (usually kills the mob)

The first makes me take 1 hit, the 2nd makes me take 2 hits. Also sucks if the sleep doesn't work but some mobs will buff themselves by then so you can kite anyways.

**I tend to skip this normally, this is only for bulky mobs**