9.4.2 The Assassin Profession

"You are not afraid of being alone in the dark; you are afraid that you are in the dark, truly not alone."

Basic Information
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Armour:     Scalemail - Main
            Leather   - Limbs

Main stats: Dexterity - Damage mitigation, boosts dioxin and trioxin damage
            Strength  - Boosts garrote damage

Recommended statpacks:
            Agile    - Damage mitigation, boost to balance speed, boost to dioxin/trioxin damage
            Clever   - Slightly less dexterity, but better enhancement with intelligence for mana consumption
            Athletic - Useful if garrote is focused as the main hunting method against mobiles

Main balances:
            Balance     - Doublestab/Puncture      (Main)
            Equilibrium - Worm abilities/Hypnosis  (Secondary)

Skillsets
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- Sabotage: An Assassin's tools allow them to apply afflictions efficiently. This primary skillset has doublestab, puncture, shoots arrows, summons a cobra, and utilizes subterfuge to eliminate their target.

- Spatium: With their knowledge of wormholes, an Assassin can manipulate reality itself, such as deceiving their target with manufactured shadowplants. As a secondary skillset, these wormholes attach to different locations and give the Assassin ease of movement through time and space.

- Hypnosis: Not only is it important to flay the body, but an Assassin must afflict the mind as well. Through the means of Hypnosis, this tertiary skillset allows afflictions or actions to be embedded into the targets psyche until called upon with a simple snap or enthrall.

Combat Focus
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The primary goal of an Assassin is to hinder a target from curing out of their afflictions. Utilizing Shadowplant, Instill, and Confound will help slow down curing abilities while the Assassin applies affliction pressure using Dstab, Puncture, Suggest, Whisper, and passives from Cobra and Lamia. As they apply affliction pressure, an Assassin can account for which afflictions are applied and see if they can use Annihilate instantly. They may also use Devour quickly if mass has not been applied recently. Sulfonal relapse with Trioxin is useful if the target has low health or locked out of all curing abilities.

See also: HELP SABOTAGE, HELP SPATIUM, HELP HYPNOSIS, HELP WRAITHWEALD, HELP ASSASSIN ARTIFACTS.