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Cold-blooded killers of the most ruthless kind, assassins are lethal either with a bow and arrow, or a simple dagger. Calculating and cerebral by nature, they are known to use a wide variety of methods to murder their victims. Assassins learn many of the same skills as the rogue class, but generally don't stoop to stealing, picking pockets, or other basic thuggery. They also have the ability to use bows, and learn many archer skills, but never those pertaining to hunting or survivalism. Assassins combine these other classes' skills into one wholly unique and lethal package. To illustrate their calculating nature, assassins have a Prime statistic of Intelligence.

Abbreviation: Asn.

Prime Requisite: Intelligence.

Assassins in General

Assassins have the damage skills of both rogue and archer with some new skills mixed in, but they lose some of the utility skills of both as well like rescue, portal, exploding arrow and picklock. They also get less hitpoints than both their parent classes but get more mana. Assassins in general either run like a rogue, like an archer or both depending on their race. Majority of assassins like to stab through hero to raise reputation level.

Assassin Creation

Assassins are a remort class available only to lord archers, rogues and shadowfists. Ideally a race that has a positive mod to stealth and, if playing at all as an archer, archery. If planning to run lord a race that has a melee damage mod as at lord most assassins stab.

Assassins at Lowmort Tier

Training

The same as most classes train wis, con, int then dex or str.

Practicing

Practice most of the skills as you get them. If going the archer route you can Sneak Attack using a bow for decent damage. Insightful Strike is a must as this allows you a chance to insta kill mobs with Murder, Backstab and the like when wielding poisoned piercing weapons, and is also the only way of raising your Reputation level.

Worshipping

If your going to be a rogue like assassin - Tor. (Tor nerfs archer damage)
If your going to be a archer like assassin - Roixa/Werre. (both nerf stab damage)
If you want to be balanced between the two assassin styles - Durr or Aethiest.

Fighting

Soloing:

This can be done like an Archer or a Rogue. Using a crossbow with archer gear using Sneak Attack can be an effective way to solo the early levels due to the damage done with sneak attack and a crossbow. When the Assassin has learnt Lethal Aim at level 30 starting a fight with Vital Shot targeting the mobs eye with a piercing weapon and then swapping to a crossbow can also be effective.

Tanking:

Usually done in tank gear using piercing weapons for Sneak Attack or Vital Shot at level 30 learn Lethal Aim and start fights with Vital Shot targeting the mobs eye.

Hitting:

Best done in Archer gear using a longbow, but can easily be done using Hit gear.

Assassin Prestige Options

None.

Assassins at Hero Tier

Training

The same as Lowmort.

Practicing

Devoting

Fighting

Soloing:

Tanking:

Hitting:

Usually done as an Archer and depending on the group and kill ratio you may be able to use Sneak Attack if using a kill trigger. The reasons not to are, to much damage is being done to the mob by the tank or other groupies for you to be able to Sneak Attack, if kills are quick you can be stuck in lag and not able to kill trigger on the next mob. Aimed Shot also is useful here as this will boost your damage per round, I am not sure if 2 Aimed Shots are better than 1 Held Shot therefore can not say which is best against big mobs where the kill is slow, however against a big mob an Aimed Shot at the eye if successful will help the tank take less hits.

Assassins at Lord Tier

Most assassins stab at lord. Some switch between dr gear for initial stab and archer gear for the rest of the fight. Having a bow and ammo is handy for long shotting mobs into rooms, you might want to conserve poisons on your weapons and prefer to use a bow after the initial stab as archer damage with aimed shot in lord hitgear is not far off the damage done with weapons.

At lord 100 the assassin can learn Slip but does not learn Disengage, therefore Slip has to be used in a couple of different ways.

• If not the only stabber the assassin can rest before a group enters a room with a mob in so the assassin can slip into the room to stab.
• When the group is fighting multiple mobs, when a mob dies the assassin maybe able to walk out of the room to slip back in for the stab. This depends on the area as in maze areas walking out of a room doesn't necessarily mean you can walk back in.
• If there is a Priest in the group the assassin could arrange for the priest to cast Innocence on them so they can walk out of the room to slip back in, again be careful of maze areas.

Regarding archery, Assassins do not get scattershot, instead they have aimed shot, which does a bit more damage than normal. However, this damage is pretty mediocre. It can be used like vs eye to blind mobs and significantly reduce damage done, though.

Like any lord with Quickstrike, Assassins can use Quickstrike and Vital Shot mid-round at lord level to target eyes and blind (those mobs that have eyes anyway).

Assassin Remort Options

Several remort races are good for Assassins (pretty much the same that are good for Rogues).

• Demonseed - arc bonus, very good stealth, small dmg mod
• Griffon - decent dmg mod, negative arc mod
• High Elf - good stealth, very good arc mod
• Minotaur - terrible stealth but very good dmg mod, negative arc mod
• Troll - bad stealth, decent dmg mod, racial revive
• Tuatar - very good stealth and arc mods
• Imp - at lord, very good dmg mod and pretty good stealth