Changes: Build:A/any Flashing Blades Farmer

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This build has been designed for the following use:

PvE
farming

Multi purpose Assassin build that can be used to farm mobs in PvE through redirected damage from Flashing Blades while spamming attack chains and self healing from maintained Monk spells.

Attributes and Skills

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Equipment

Zealous Daggers of Fortitude with +5 Energy inscription.
Spear and Shield of Fortitude defensive set for grabbing agro.
Radiant Insignias and Runes of Attunement on armour.

Usage

Equip defensive weapon set.
Activate Live Vicariously and maintain.
Grab agro (under Dark Escape if taken).
Activate and maintain Critical Agility, Vigorous Spirit, and Flashing Blades, switch to your daggers, and auto attack for a few seconds to regain any health/energy if nessacary.
Spam Dagger attacks until everything is dead.

Farming Locations

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Prophecies

Trolls (HM)
Hulking Stone Elementals (HM)

Nightfall

Termites (HM)

Eye of the North

Fenrir's Cave (HM)

Counters

Blind
Anti-Melee hexes
Enchantment interruption or stripping
Stance removal

Variants

Dark Escape to reduce damage taken from mobs when grabbing agro (Reduce Critical Strikes by one and add four points into Shadow Arts).
Ebon Battle Standard of Honor for extra damage.
Radiation Field for degeneration (don't use on human foes).
Wild Strike can be used if mobs use blocking stances.
"I Am Unstoppable!" against foes who can KD.
Brawling Headbutt for interrupting melee boss self heals.
Critical Eye to help with energy management and maintaining Critical Agility.
Death's Charge for jumping into the middle of the group or to the boss
Critical Defenses for more blocking against larger groups.
Against weaker groups, it's possible to drop the Monk spells and attributes entirely in favor of Critical Strikes/Shadow Arts.

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 Multi purpose Assassin build that can be used to farm mobs in PvE through redirected damage from Flashing Blades while spamming attack chains and self healing from maintained Monk spells.