User talk:St Lucretia/Skills/PvE/Shadow of the Assassin

HEADSHOT  Titani   Ertan  { {Snappy the Turtle}} 21:07, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Powerful, but I'd love the assassin to be able to do what it was meant to: Kill one foe and get out of there. This allows you to kill one foe pretty much alone every ten seconds. Hopefully would be too difficult to time with shadow form, but could make a very (overly?) powerful 2- or 3-man team. [[Image:Summit_Axe.png‎|16px]] St Lucretia 21:55, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Assassins aren't supposed to assassinate. They're not supposed to have a Headshot skill; especially not a maintainable one.  Titani [[image:User Titani Ertan Sig2.jpg|19x19px]]  Ertan  { {Snappy the Turtle}} 22:05, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * OVERKILL!!! - J.P. [[Image:User Jope12 sigicon.png|18px|Contributions]] Talk  22:07, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Vow of Strength -> Asuran Scan -> Shadow of the Assassin -> Unsuspecting Strike. I like one hit KO's, too! -~=Sparky  User Sparky, the Tainted charr sig.PNG  (talk)  22:49, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * After edit: Unsuspecting Strike -> Fox Fangs. I also like 2 hit KO's. -~=Sparky  User Sparky, the Tainted charr sig.PNG  (talk)  23:34, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Dedicating an entire bar to that combo is fine. If you maintain vow of strength and use that 25 energy combo every 10 seconds, and probably score one critical hit. Assuming you run with 14 critical and 12 earth prayers, you're going to hit with 106*1.41*1.33*1.75=~350 damage every ten/fifteen seconds. Yes it's spike damage, but it's not maintainable in terms of energy, and is really quite low DPS in the long term. (Similarly, 10 earth, 11 crits, 13 dagger gives (87+32)*1.35*1.33*1.75=373 damage, fox fangs included. A Discord Necro can outdamage it for less energy. Still, I added a 'no other hexes' condition. The high-damage combos still work of course, but it disallows asuran scan, meaning that this is just an in-and-out shadow step if you want to be in a hex team (Basically shadow walk + cancel stance), or a single skill to help with spikes. This isn't a 'headshot' skill, but if you work your bar around it you can of course turn it into a headshot assist. [[Image:Summit_Axe.png‎|16px]] St Lucretia 12:08, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * D/A are more imba than ever. That's all I have to say.  Titani [[image:User Titani Ertan Sig2.jpg|19x19px]]  Ertan  { {Snappy the Turtle}} 22:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC)