What does Assassination in Shadow's mean?

[Blood Wolf]

Trying to make Naoe and potent as possible in removing ALL health chunk's in one hit when killing things, and i noticed in the black smith engravings list that there is a helm with Remove Two Health Chunks Assassination from shadows.

Like technically what does that mean exactly? Do i need my detection all the way down before striking? Do i just need to be lightly obscured? Can i be in a shadow of a building mid day?

Google isn't answering this for me so i was hoping one of you know.

[ZemX]

Fluffy Shrimp님이 먼저 게시:

It works for me even in day time.
As long as you can get Naoe's status to be hidden, it will trigger.

Hmmm... interesting. Do you know if it works with a Rush Assassinate if you trigger it from a hiding spot? I assume a ceiling drop should work too.

[Fluffy Shrimp]

ZemX님이 먼저 게시:

Fluffy Shrimp님이 먼저 게시:

It works for me even in day time.
As long as you can get Naoe's status to be hidden, it will trigger.

Hmmm... interesting. Do you know if it works with a Rush Assassinate if you trigger it from a hiding spot? I assume a ceiling drop should work too.

Yes to both.

[Harris]

Letterit님이 먼저 게시:

Don't smoke bombs allow trigger a sort of invisibility?

They enable easy assassination in middle of combat and I wouldn't be surprised they trigger assassination in shadow.

It's an interesting question but ultimately irrelevant, as the only enemies that will allow themselves to be assassinated inside smoke are grunts who you don't need any kind of boost to take down in the first place.

Shin Happens님이 먼저 게시:

As someone else posted here... just ignore all this nonsense and turn on guaranteed assassinations

You know, I am starting to lean towards this as well. Reason being:

1) I am already in the endgame and have experienced all Naoe's step-by-step progression towards Master Assassin, so it no longer makes any sense why she wouldn't just one-shot anything.

2) More importantly, Shadows offers little room for build crafting - there's only a handful of engraving slots available on a handful of gear pieces. As a result, I feel forced to run boring yet best-in-slot engravings like "+2 to assassinations" while I could instead run engravings that give me more options to approach stealth... or perhaps simply make me better in open combat.

[Blood Wolf]

Despite my early comment about this perk being completely useless.... i take it back cuz i found a way to make it work consistently.

Chest - Muffled Movement / +2 assassination segments on assassinate from above
Head - +2 to assassination from shadows / + 1 to assassinations
Talisman - +15 to all stats for only tanto equiped / 50% chance on tool refill per kill (Has nothing to do with this tactic just lets me spam head shots with tools.)

Tactic for massive hp chunk targets - Line them up from a roof or bell them into position.
THEN smoke bomb your feet (they won't even notice it most the time) Bam you are now completely hidden, go ahead and jump for a plump +5 chunk take from gear alone, not even counting skills.