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DeathEater

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Best Secondary For Assassin?

Hey guys,

I have an Assassin lvl 6 in Shing Jea Mona.

What is the best secondary profession? In terms of being able to do good farming, selfheal etc. And without having the risk of having a nerf for the only farm build for that combo.

For instance: if there's great solo farm build for A/N but it's likely to get nerfed. Please let me know as well...

04/13/07 08:33

Keo

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

Well since you can change at Senjis corner I wouldn't worry too much.

Maybe go Monk for now so you can carry a hard res but most Sin builds I use are pure unless I'm farming and then it's Ele.

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04/13/07 08:36

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

id take monk as secondary at the beginning so that you can heal yourself ^^ after you reach senjis u can change to other secondaries... i hav a sin too it doesnt matter to me which sec prof because im a full assassin XD

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04/13/07 09:07

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

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04/13/07 10:22

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

There is never really a "best" secondary. With the ability to change whenver you want it really becomes key to identify what it is you want from the secondary. Usually it is only 1-2 skills that support your main goal. At this point of the gaem I would say your main goal it to get to Snji's so that you can get additional secondaries (although you may be able to do it at the great temple of balthazar at any time, not sure about this).

That being your main immediate goal I would go with monk b/c it allows you to bring a hard rez, as mentioned above, and also has some heals that may be useful until more skills open up for you. Once you have the ability to change proffesions whenever you want you can easily change proffessions as neccesary to Farm, Run, FF, and so on.

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04/13/07 10:30

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

It really doesn't matter yet or really ever because you can just buy them when you ascend so the best would be /mo for the hard res (rebirth)

HOWEVER
if you are going for the survivor title go /mo DEFINATELY for the hard res...u really don't need a secondary.

ONce you ascend and you can change profs buy /Me and /E for the Sliver Sin Boss Farmer and the TotPK Solo Build. Also for some quick cash you can use: Runner Build.

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04/17/07 16:09

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

it really depends on your type of taste.

monk - more survivability
warrior - constant up keep of adreniline shouts
ele - conjure spells
mesmer - more hexes
ranger - conditions and a pet
ritualist - sight beyond sight if u want to use it. also some suvivability
necromancer - plague touch and hexes

05/26/07 11:43

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

Off topic:

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ranger - conditions and a pet

Why does everything that goes /R have to have a pet..I noticed everyone who goes /r they HAVE to have their pet...I personally hate pets..they are pointless to me..a waste of a skill slot in your build...unless you are a straight B/P or Beast Master.

On topic:
There really is none because they all have benefits to them. It's just personal perference.

05/26/07 12:14

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

I would say monk, if you get some skills that give health with each attack you can really get a nice boost, assassins after all, are the fastest attackers.

05/26/07 12:18

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

well, there is no "best secondary" for any class, but lets look at the pro's of each class:

monk - self sustaining (healing from healing prayers, condition removal from prot prayers etc)
warrior - Stances, Wild Blow (which is very useful for a sin) and shouts (possibly)
ele - Farming
mesmer - hexes I suppose (not really sure what benefits a mesmer can bring to a sin)
ranger - pets, apply poison, stances, traps(?)
ritualist - weapon spells (splinter weapon on a sin can be pretty useful if used correctly)
necromancer - plague touch, hexes as well I guess

There is no rule saying that you have to use skills from your secondary profession, so if you don't have to if you don't want to.

Its all down to you really, test builds and see what works for you.

05/26/07 12:32

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

Well if i was to go right through it:

Monk: Skills like Vigorous spirit for survivablity or just go pure sin and take a hard res.

Ranger: NOT for a pet NOT for apply poison. Critical barrage is a good obtion however i never use it. Also it can be used for running and survivablity like using melendrus Resiliance.

Warrior: Wild Blow is a good option especially since Wild strike isn't unblockable. A few builds use "Fear me" Assassins to pressure since it gives -3 energy every 1-2 seconds. best not to use them for stances since most end on Skill useage which sins need to be effective.

Elementalist: There is the very old Falling Shocker build you can use. Like I said before the Sliver sin is avaialable.

Necromancer: Plaque touch and a few sins use parasitic Bond for a cheap hex on a combo and a nice heal. If you do use parasitic bond, DONT use it as your only heal.

Mesmer: Using Signet of Midnight and Signet of malice is a good way to keep someone blind and use epedemic to spread your conditions. The skill Feavered Dreams is great for sins in spreading conditions quickly.

Ritualist: Weapon spells are a great thing especially using Brutal weapon, Splinter weapon, and even more so Warmongers/Wailing weapon since sins have a fast attack speed. Also using the skill Consume Soul + Spirit walk can be good for killing enemy spirits. The Skill Sight Beyond Sight is great for blind removal.

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05/26/07 23:38

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

Go A/Mo there best for leveling.

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05/27/07 01:24

Gary WarriorZ

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

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Go A/Mo there best for leveling.

how do you work that out? ALL professions level up the same, its the experience u get, NOT your 2nd profession.

also, i know you asked for something that would self heal, but cmon guys, giv a bit more variety!! why does it always have to be about the monk!!! for example;

Warrior: lions comfort or healing sig

Mesmer: ether feast (i dont use ele so i dont know many skills)

Ranger: troll unguent + (able to attack faster and evade/block enemy attacks, a deadly combo 4 SIN)

Necro: blood renewal, soul feast (rigor mortis also: TARGET FOE CANNOT BLOCK OR EVADE ... - ... SECONDS)

Ele: nt sure on this one, but earth damage can lower attack dmg to 1 and 2 dmg per hit, pointless!

Hope this is of any use to you!!
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05/27/07 02:11

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

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Go A/Mo there best for leveling.

how do you work that out? ALL professions level up the same, its the experience u get, NOT your 2nd profession.

also, i know you asked for something that would self heal, but cmon guys, giv a bit more variety!! why does it always have to be about the monk!!! for example;

Warrior: lions comfort or healing sig My eyes...Healing signet NEVER. A sin with only 30 armor when using a skill IS going to die. Lions Comfort is ok i guess

Mesmer: ether feast (i dont use ele so i dont know many skills) No, don't. 3 second cast time for a healing skill is not worth proving a point

Ranger: troll unguent + (able to attack faster and evade/block enemy attacks, a deadly combo 4 SIN) Troll ungent NO, heal as one, YES. Blocking can happen BETTER for assassin primaries than Ranger secondaries (Critical Defenses ect). Also Tiger's Stance has a shorter recharge than all of the ranger skills that give IAS.

Necro: blood renewal, soul feast (rigor mortis also: TARGET FOE CANNOT BLOCK OR EVADE ... - ... SECONDS) Blood renewal, NO!, Soul Feast WAAAy to conditional. Rigor mortis is infieror to Expose defenses. Btw there's no Evading anymore

Ele: nt sure on this one, but earth damage can lower attack dmg to 1 and 2 dmg per hit, pointless! What?

Hope this is of any use to you!!
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05/28/07 13:53

Gary WarriorZ

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

okay okay! i get your point!!!
its just i hate it when somebody wants self heal and ppl immediately say MONK! MONK! MONK!
they were just examples of other possibilities!!! i mean come on! you cant say u dont get sick of people saying monk evre dam time when somebody even suggests healing!!! ARGH!!!
besides that im only new 2 the sin myself anyways, so i dont know much about them! just gimme a break!!!!!!!!!! :p

owel, i tried!

05/28/07 14:02

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

monk as secondary so that u can heal urself is only for the weak, unless you only want to use mend touch...

warrior is awesome, stances such as flail and tiger stance and shouts such as fear me or watch urself

dervish is not rly that good as the main thing will be encahnt and sins are not the main proffesion to carry lots of enchants on, but there are some good A/D builds

ele is great for conjure, maybe shock and then for the farm builds which are around

paragon i quite like, spamming go for the eyes

ranger i can't think of any specific combo atm except maybe troll unguent as heal combined with natural slide or critcal barrager

mesmer aint the best choice for a sin's secondary in pve tbh... taking conjure phanstasm or something like that on
sin is very weak/low xD

necromancer once again is not such good choice, just good for maybe plague touch

conclusion : Shadow arts provide exelent heals combined with skills such as dash,shadowsteps etc. if u need to use heal breeze or something then well..yuck xD
A/W > all

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05/28/07 14:02

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RE: Best Secondary For Assassin?

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Warrior: lions comfort or healing sig

--- I think Shadow Refuge or the other one (can't think right now) would work better.

Mesmer: ether feast (i dont use ele so i dont know many skills)

--- It takes too long to cast

Ranger: troll unguent + (able to attack faster and evade/block enemy attacks, a deadly combo 4 SIN)

--- The blocking/evading enemy attacks won't work too well because having a secondary ranger, you wouldn't have Expertise as a attribute so Lightning Reflexes and Whirling Defence wouldn't work.

Ele: nt sure on this one, but earth damage can lower attack dmg to 1 and 2 dmg per hit, pointless!

--- This would take a lot of skill points into the Earth Magic attribute, which would render a lot of other attributes very low. Also, those skills take up 4 to 6 slots.

QUOTE

i hate it when somebody wants self heal and ppl immediately say MONK! MONK! MONK!

--- But monk is a great self heal option for a 'sin because healing for a 'sin has to be fast and energy effective, not long or wastes energy.

--- IMHO, I think it's great just sticking to a pure 'sin, for PvP or PvE.

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