Assassins are tactical, sneaky and dangerous fighters capable of infiltrating enemy positions while quickly and efficiently executing targets. In terms of Assassin skills, the progression concentrates on eliminating targets at the quickest time possible instead of evading or mitigating damage. Increasing an assassin’s accuracy and critical rates can help achieving this goal. However, even without knowing it, assassins can be very slippery and sneaky characters. Their defenses are relatively low, so they’ll need to rely on their excessive dodging and hide skills to avoid enemies and to perform rear attacks. And since they don’t have any effective healing skills, they’ll need to rely on potions and bandages for hit point maintenance.
Like scouts, assassins can equip swords, daggers and bows. The assassin’s weapon of choice will vary for their needs. Swords offer good hit rate but average attack speed and critical rate. Daggers has lower accuracy but have exceptional attack speed and lands critical hits often.
Assassins can still use bows for long-ranged DPS but since their combat skills are more blade-oriented, they won’t be able to efficiently use their skills without using a sword or a dagger. For their armor, they can only rely on leather armors. Light armors rarely provide adequate protection but since assassins can employ cloaking/stealth abilities, they can safely bypass unsuspecting enemies before landing a critical blow.
The passive skills of Assassins are enhanced versions of the Scouts’ and can be improved as their level progresses. Assassins can even use cloaking even while in flight, making it one of the tactical approaches a skilled assassin can employ. Assassins can also apply poisons to their weapons, capable of stunning and poisoning enemies at a fixed rate per attack. Combine it with an assassin’s deadly accuracy and his/her equipped weapon’s attack speed and you’ll have an unstoppable killer at your disposal. Assassins can also “mark” their targets after damaging them by engraving patterns. It works like a stackable chain which can be increased per attack. For example, hitting an enemy will add “one pattern level” to it. Use the skill again and it will increase to “two pattern levels” and so on.
Assassins can also remotely trigger a special attack afterwards, like the Pattern Explosion skill that erases the engraved patterns on a target, damaging and stunning the target. The damage and probability of getting stunned depends on the number of patterns engraved. Assassins also have several stat boosting buffs, making them even more deadlier.
All in all, assassins live up to their class, capable of working behind the shadows and eliminating unsuspecting targets before they even have the time to react. Players that love stealth, espionage and shadowy assassin tactics will surely enjoy playing as an assassin.
