Guide:Assacaster

Purpose

This is a compilation of various builds with primary or secondary Assassin using several Deadly Arts skills along with other skills, condensed into one page for ease of use.

Tactics

• Use Deadly Paradox before your chain
• Make sure that your target is Poisoned before using Signet of Toxic Shock
• Resurrect dead teammates as needed.

Attribute selection

• Deadly Arts: this atribute should be as high as possible because most of your skills are using this attribute.
• Shadow Arts: can provide some self-heals.

Skill selection

Core skills

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• Always have Deadly Arts maxed

• Augury of Death

Provides a cheap Deep Wound.

• Deadly Paradox

Makes your chain cast and recharge faster. Because of its high energy cost, energy management is needed.

• Dancing Daggers

A low-energy, ranged lead attack.

• Entangling Asp

Inflict poison for the following Signet of Toxic Shock while knocking down your target.

• Signet of Toxic Shock

Moderate damage to finish your target off.

Primaries

The following professions' primary attributes can help with energy management:

• Necromancer - Soul Reaping.
• Elementalist - used with Ether Prism for energy management and a panic button.

Optional Skills

The Optional skills should provide energy-management, self-heal or increased damage.

Assassin:

• Mark of Insecurity (anti-prot)
• Iron Palm (knockdown)
• Disrupting Dagger (interrupt)

Necromancer:

• Toxic Chill (Poison for SoTS, additional damage)
• Signet of Lost Souls (e-management, minor self-heal; necromancer primary is needed)
• Vile Miasma (additional damage + degen)

Elementalist:

• Ether Prism (energy management, minor anti-spike capability, requires elementalist primary)

Monk:

• Signet of Judgment (knockdown, additional damage)
• Castigation Signet (e-management, additional damage)
• Ray of Judgment (additional damage while enemy is knocked down)

Mesmer:

• Energy Drain (e-management)
• Lyssa's Aura (energy management)

Equipment selection

Armor

• Radiant Insignias

Weapons

• Hale Staff of Fortitude with "Hale and Hearty" inscription

See also

• Build:A/Me Lyssa's Assacaster
• Build:A/Me Energy Drain Assacaster
• Build:A/Mo Assacaster
• Build:A/P MoI Assacaster
• Build:E/A Prism Deadly Arts