Archive:A/W Flourish Assassin

The Flourishing Blade uses the power of Flourish to cut the recharge of Assassin attack skills.

Attributes and Skills Edit

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Equipment Edit

• 15^50 Zealous Daggers of Fortitude.
• 15^50 Vampiric Daggers of Defense.
• 15^50 Ebon Daggers of Fortitude.

Usage Edit

• Choose a target not in proximity of any allies, preferably overextended.
• Cast Siphon Speed on the target.
• Close in and use Black Lotus Strike, Horns of the Ox, Falling Spider and Twisting Fangs, in that order.
• Use Flourish to recharge all your attacks. Flourish can also be used to restart the combo if disrupted or Diverted.
• Ensure that your target is still hexed with Siphon Speed, and repeat the above combo. Casters who dont have any blocking/evasion skills should be dead by your second Falling Spider.
• Use Shadow Refuge as a self heal.
• To coordinate spike damage within a team, recharge all your skills using Flourish, but allow Flourish to recharge before spiking. This allows your combo to be completed twice in a row, with a one second pause.
• Switch to your Vampiric Daggers when executing attack chain. If you begin to run low on energy switch to Zealous. When not fighting or attacking a foe with high physical resistance, switch to your Ebon Daggers.

Black Lotus Strike and Flourish should suffice in terms of energy management.

Counters Edit

• All standard attack counters work. This includes conditions such as blindness and weakness; hexes such as Empathy, Faintheartedness and Spiteful Spirit; and blocking stances or enchantments such as Distortion, Guardian, and Shield of Deflection.
• Disabling Flourish.

Variants Edit

• This build can, at least in principle, be adapted to any other dagger combo chain.
• If a Resurrection Signet is not needed, such as in Alliance Battles, bring a shadow step (such as Death's Charge) or crippling (such as Caltrops) skill. Repeating Strike is another possibility for high sustained damage.
• Shadow Refuge can be used instead of Feigned Neutrality, and take out one skill point from Critical Strikes and put it into Shadow Arts.
• In a team enviroment, Tiger Stance is recommended instead of Shadow Refuge.

See also Edit

• Moebius Strike, which has many similarities to Flourish.