Kuian

Primary Objective: Maximize my single target DPS

My MT is a Berserker, thus I feel that he has the AoE targets locked down and will need help more so on making sure that the single targets are locked down. If the MT was a Guardian I would want more AoE damage as the Guardian excels at locking down single targets.

KoS Lines: STR/INT

I was playing with the idea of going STA for more AoE damage and am closely looking at the thread comparing the two lines. Obviously the parse in places like LoA will be greater so waiting to get reports back from places like FTH and MMIS. I also liked the end ability in the STA line.

Assassin AAs: I followed Cochy's Assassin's AA's exactly in this thread http://www.eq2flames.com/assassins/7...-aa-trees.html

As a Ranger I used Caustic poisons but I'm noticing that in the AA build I have now that Hemo is the way to go, how much of a DPS increase/decrease would I see if I took 5 points off of Hemo? The problem I've had with Hemo in the past is that they're not done ticking by the time the mob is dead which is a waste of a Hemo proc. So I've used GM Caustic for a long time.

As a Ranger both the KoS and EoF trees were easy because if you wanted to do max DPS there were two lines in both trees that you had to go down. One of these lines included maxing out your short term DPS/Haste buffs. How important would it be to do that as an Assassin? What would I be losing if I went that route?

Ardain

Well just going to answer on that Hemotoxin question, as I said enough about the other things elsewhere ;).

I don't quite get the argument "hemo is not finished ticking once the mob is dead". Well hemo overwrites itself all the time during the finght ANYWAY! So it usually doesn't tick out at all. This was one of the reasons why assassins didn't take it before EoF. But with the EoF hemotoxin AA enhancement this isn't so important anymore. Hemotoxin will do more damage than caustic even though it overwrites itself all the time. At least this is what most of us think and has been tried out quite a few times.
I also say that it depends on the mob really when to use which poison. In longer fights Hemo gets to tick quite often, so its good there, same with mulit-mob-encounters. You might wanna use caustic (or tender seeds) on short single mob fights. Just a thought.

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Kuian

Thanks again

I use the days to gather up as much intel as I can, because when I get home from work I then try out all the information I've collected.

However last night was spent harvesting to get myself fully Mastered and Adept III'd out. And I duo'd a bit to get use to what CAs do what and when to use them. I'll tell you though, nothing feels better then pulling aggro from the person you have your hate on

Ardain

Well yeah, but Ranger time is over, sweety . It's not meant for an Assassin to pull aggro ;). Might wanna practise a bit on that. Well we CAN get aggro if we want to. But do you really want to? You'll still be dead despite for the ego-increase ^^.

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Kuian

Well, it was sweet for me because at the time I duo'd I was in nothing but Adept I's and App. IV's.

timmeh

If you get a dirge with cob, illusionist buff, or somehow get 70/80 haste the hemo is really worth it. Pinski posted some pretty authorative looking math on the regular forums if you want to see the technical details.

However, from having used both regularly I can tell you hemo is a lot better. Caustic poison used to be 6-8% of my dps. Hemo is regularly 10%+. (The tender seeds are even better if you can get em. However, its not as much better for us as other scouts).

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Askafael

well she is either a dirge or Fury noob if you cant pull aggro then DUH!

Askafael

and i am eating an icecream sandwich at this very moment

Kuian

Fuck you Aska she was on Juuni and doing her leather wizzy bit and I was in app IVs!

Askafael

i do it every night (fucking me i mean)