The Assassin Guide

some1 can tell wich skills must be upgraded? i mean till lvl 7-10 :S

thanks this will help me alot

Chilidogg - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Why isn't this stickied?

Thank you for this.

Bumping because it was lost in the depths.

Because its not very good some of it is nice but a lot of it needs to be fixed b:surrender

i was also told he made the guide way 2 soon but like i said some of it is nice like the wizard pvp thing i just love when sin try to stealth when im casting and they get 1 shot right out of stealth if they try ed his idea i might have had a harder time in the fight =p

This guide really helped me out and opened my eyes to becoming a better assassin. I've been having loads of fun and loads of drops ( recently got me a new pair of wings ). Thank you very much for posting, this is on my bookmarks.

Thanks for posting!

WaffleChan - Sanctuary wrote: »

i dislike this guide, it is very biased, and opinionated on some skills that are fairly important; yet they are rated as low and not useful. on the other hand crappy skills are being labeled as good. shadow walk and escape are extremely important, for example, same with teleport stunning. rising dragon strike as well, 150 chi is -alot-.

I'd have to agree here. When I look at the skill list, some of it doesn't plain make sense at all and some it seems to be meant for oraclers and people who use Bh100 or other exp items to get to a high level quickly.

Liserus - Lost City wrote: »

For the moves, How exactly do you level them up? I dont get this thing with the 47,*7. Which moves should be on lvl 10 and which shouldnt be?

Well, personally, I'd recommend leveling the following:
Dagger Devotion
Bloodpaint
Focused Mind
Shadow Walk
Shadow Escape
Shadow Jump
Maze Steps
Wind Push
Subsea Strike
Power Dash
Rib Strike
Inner Harmony
Cat-Like Tread
Shadow Teleport
Deaden Nerves

Out of those, the priorities should be like this:
First priority: Dagger Devotion, Rib Strike, Inner Harmony, Cat-Like Tread, Focused Mind, Wolf Emblem
Second priority: Wind Push, Maze Steps, Shadow Teleport, Shadow Jump, Subsea Strike, Power Dash, Shadow Walk
Tertiary priority: Deaden Nerves, Bloodpaint

The first priority skills are all about making yourself a better DD and keeping you safer. The second priority skills make life easier and make you a better supporter. Leveling the tertiary skills is only about convenience, since Bloodpaint only gets more duration and Deaden Nerves gets a shorter cooldown.

I don't personally see the point of leveling Rising Dragon Strike or Tackling Slash because their highest priority, at least while still leveling, is to give you chi fast and often, so the damage is negligible and the mana cost should be minimized.

Also, leveling skills like Throatcut, Headhunt and Sharp Observer is useless outside of PvP.

Of course, some people will most likely disagree with a lot of the contents of this post.

best stats to follow would be 4 dex 1 str, playing on a PK server, i would level the ones listed by olblaze. thats a good place to start.

Typhyse - Sanctuary wrote: »

I disagree with Olbaze one one thing: no not level up Bloodpaint unless you are working toward Sage Bloodpaint. All it does is increase the duration, and it's easy to recast as has a cooldown on only 15 seconds, while level 1 lasts about 16 minutes.

dont forget demon too; they both last an hour. makes it less likely for it to run out at critical moments in endgame like a midsteelation fight

Typhyse - Sanctuary wrote: »

I disagree with Olbaze one one thing: no not level up Bloodpaint unless you are working toward Sage Bloodpaint. All it does is increase the duration, and it's easy to recast as has a cooldown on only 15 seconds, while level 1 lasts about 16 minutes.

Well, I did put it as a low priority. You should really only level it if there's nothing else left to do. The additional duration is just a nice bonus. And believe me, having a bloodpaint that lasts longer can save you, if it happens to run out during a bad timing. And well know that it always goes that way because the world a bad place, right?

Thanks for this, this should definatly be a sticky

what if u lvl this way every odd lvl 1 str 4 dex and every even lvl 1 str 1 vt 3 dex, does that mess up the hybrid build?

Typhyse - Sanctuary wrote: »

1: Don't double post
1: Do not post in a double manner
2: Hybrid Build is any build other than 1str 4 dex per lvl, no it is not possible to "mess up" the Hybrid Build (unless you stat magic, then you are using the Fail Build).

Technically, going non-hybrid is the same as **** up a hybrid. Whether it counts due to being intentional or not is a whole different question.

technically its not **** anything up, because technically its not a hybrid build. why the hell does vit =hybrid? its not a combination of anything. try a multipath BM, that is a hybrid of 2-4 weapon builds. an assassin/archer adding some vit is not.

^ /in1dayb4necro b:chuckle

LocoenelCoco - Harshlands wrote: »

Great guide, the best I ever seen. I wonder why its not sticked.

If you look on the front page, there is a sticky that is a compilation of the best bits of all sin guides here.