Assassin soloability ?

Yzyh · 07-11-2009, 12:35 AM

Heya I'm returning the game as an ex brigand and found the class to be... kinda gimped nowadays.

My main is going to be an SK (that I play with my real friends) but I want an alt to play for fun when they are not logged on.

So I'm wonderign what's make the assassina fun class ?

And also are they good at soloing in dungeon ? When I quited they was seen as one of the bad soloing class due the lack of frontal dmg and lack of stun/ spin around skill to help them using their positional.

Is it still the case ?

Ahmassar · 07-11-2009, 05:36 AM

highly dependent on gear etc ofc but assassins make great soloers in my exp. if you are, like you were saying, going to use it for soloing mainly just enhance cheapshot and use stifle poisons.

there are several posts dedicatd to this in this forum tho, so a search would do you good

crazeof · 07-11-2009, 10:59 AM

yah with the state of the game and its population, you may do a lot so soloing depending on if you have some friends/guildies that run with you

Hoss · 07-11-2009, 11:06 AM

What makes assassins a fun class, in all honesty, is harvesting. We have an uber speed buff, 2 stealths for sneaking around, we can increase our stealthed speed quite a lot, and if a mob is guarding a node, you can assassinate it and pretty much one shot it.

Orochan · 07-11-2009, 11:15 AM

Soloing as an assassin fucking sucks. Especially if you're grinding to 80. First off there really is no solo spec per se and the less AA's you have the worse it will be. This is true for every class, but the assassin specifically gets crippled from lack of AA.

I made the mistake of getting my sin to RoK with only enough AA's to fill out str/agi endlines and repeated stabbing in the eof tree, and it fucking sucked. I didn't even have frontload, which only made things worse.

First off you will most likely be waiting 1min between pulls so ur stealth attacks can refresh because ur dots/auto attack just won't cut it while lvling up, at least in rok, Also you get hit like your paper so almost every fight ull end up at or around 50% hp, unless u decap/mortal blade. Then if you accidently get an add, well just evac because good luck getting a stealth attack off with 2 ( or more ) mobs hitting u.

HOWEVER

Once you get your mythical, all your AA endlines, and some gear, you can ignore this entire post because you will pretty much one shot every solo mob that comes your way.

There is nothing better then opening up with ur weakest stealth attack and then seeing flurry across the screen as the mob falls to the floor. The difference is literally night and day.

Ahmassar · 07-11-2009, 02:53 PM

don't call it sin..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Orochan

I made the mistake of getting my sin to RoK

Hoss · 07-11-2009, 02:55 PM

yeah, he made the mistake of thinking he was a sin at all.

crazeof · 07-11-2009, 03:42 PM

hes a ranger at heart tho

Orochan · 07-11-2009, 04:30 PM

Well sin sounds better then ass!

Solmors · 07-11-2009, 04:37 PM

I think I have said this before, but IMO assassin is the hardest class to solo in the game. This is for a couple reasons.
1) A lot of our damage comes from the mark like, while soloing it takes forever to go off, even with AAs increasing proc-rate. This makes it nearly worthless.
2) Lack of stuns. Unlike brig and swash, assassins get one stun, cheap shot. We can get another one if you are speced int like. But still, 2 stuns doesn't relly cut it compared to all of what rogues get.
3) The next major part of our damage is from invis. When soloing, you cant get more than 1 invis attack off, much less a chain. So when soloing, our dps is limited to auto attack, poisons and frontals.
4) Because of 1 and 2 we do the damage of a plate tank, less than zerkers and sks actually, and we wear chain. Standing toe to to hurts.
5) Kiting blows. Sure you can kite, but all you can do is ranged autoattack. Assassins get 3 bow attack. The two good ones you have to be behind the mob, which wont happen soloing unless you start with it. The third skill is worthless. It does less than an autoattack hit.

Basically what I am saying is: If you are making an assassin for purely soloing, be ready for a challenge. It is not impossible, just difficult. More so than any other class. Anyways, good luck. Hope this helped...