Assassin skills, thoughts on what to use

[Doomvora]

which skills would you all suggest i use and why?

I am currently running the following

Daggers
Hundred Kisses
Gale Harness
Masterful Kill
OR
Sword
Powder Blast
Clairvoyance
Dire Gouge

Bow
Fivefold Flurry
Mighty Bend
Lyncean Sight

Augments
Dexterity
Vehemence
Opportunism
Sinew
Arm-Strength
Clout

I have not bothered with the shields for assassin yet but if you think it would be a better choice i would be overjoyed to hear it.

[GrayHound]

I run:
Daggers:
Thousand Kisses (Hundred Kisses)
Shearing Wind (Cutting Wind)
Instant Reset

Instant Reset is especially important. No knockdown, no fall splat and most importantly immediate release from climbing. Climbing without IR is a pain.

[♪～くまモン～♪]

Thousand kisses/Instant reset/Tempest harness for dagger
Fivefold Flurry/pentad shot/Lyncean Sight for bow

[Tenshin51]

Lol why not use all weapons in as an assassin you do know you can use 4 weapons as an assassin. Doing this method is tedious due you need to switch to your inventory quite often but its fun in my opinion. Hopefully in the next sequel i could hotkey weapons.

Like dagger for mobility to easily climb monster and dodge. After climbing monster i change it to sword to use Dire Gouge also controlled fall is useful. Bow to recover stamina and use Lyncean Sight to shoot creature far away. Dagger and shield to safely approach a monster.

dagger:
Hundred Kisses
Master Kill
instant reset

sword
Great Windmill
Clairvoyance
dire gouge

Bow
Fivefold Flurry
Lyncean Sight
Full Bend

Shield
Swift Castle
Shield Storm
Staredown

Augment
Egression
Arm Strength
Impact
Precision (Planning) current Clout
Watchfulness
Regeneration

[Doomvora]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Saga:

Thousand kisses/Instant reset/Tempest harness for dagger
Fivefold Flurry/pentad shot/Lyncean Sight for bow

Do you find pentad useful?

Początkowo opublikowane przez GrayHound:

I run:
Daggers:
Thousand Kisses (Hundred Kisses)
Shearing Wind (Cutting Wind)
Instant Reset

Instant Reset is especially important. No knockdown, no fall splat and most importantly immediate release from climbing. Climbing without IR is a pain.

How often do you find shearing wind useful?

I tried using gale harness instead of instant reset and it was really nice for awhile but i rarely get the opportunity to charge it up on some monsters.

Początkowo opublikowane przez Tenshin51:

Lol why not use all weapons in as an assassin you do know you can use 4 weapons as an assassin. Doing this method is tedious due you need to switch to your inventory quite often but its fun in my opinion. Hopefully in the next sequel i could hotkey weapons.

I don't bother swapping weapons because of exactly the reason you specified, it was more of what skills do people think are more useful than others.

I never bothered with the shield as dodge typically lets me get close without any real issues anyway.

[♪～くまモン～♪]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Emperor Karl Franz:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Saga:

Thousand kisses/Instant reset/Tempest harness for dagger
Fivefold Flurry/pentad shot/Lyncean Sight for bow

It's the only AoE bow skill for assassin. Very useful againt harpies. Usually I just hate charging skills.

[GrayHound]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Emperor Karl Franz:

Początkowo opublikowane przez GrayHound:

Instant Reset is especially important. No knockdown, no fall splat and most importantly immediate release from climbing. Climbing without IR is a pain.

How often do you find shearing wind useful?

From level 1 to 200 all the time. With the ring (that you get at the start of the game) you get the third level that makes all wolves/dires/hellhounds/BBIdoggies as well as all groups of easy enemies a breeze. It also works pretty well on enemies with shields and allows you to close the distance to a caster far quicker than you could by running.

It basically makes you untargetable. You only get hit by lucky attacks if you run into them.

[Black Hammer]

I'm surprised there's no love for Toss and Trigger or the torpor arrow one. I've found the attacks that cause status effects without requiring enchants or items to be pretty handy.

EDIT: Also the Spiderbite/Snakebite one for dagger. Against anything human-sized, it's basically a stun (locks the enemy in place during the animation), a chance to poison, and an automatic knockdown. Even works on liches/wights.

[Hiroshi Raidon]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Tenshin51:

Lol why not use all weapons in as an assassin you do know you can use 4 weapons as an assassin. Doing this method is tedious due you need to switch to your inventory quite often but its fun in my opinion. Hopefully in the next sequel i could hotkey weapons.

Like dagger for mobility to easily climb monster and dodge. After climbing monster i change it to sword to use Dire Gouge also controlled fall is useful. Bow to recover stamina and use Lyncean Sight to shoot creature far away. Dagger and shield to safely approach a monster.

I agree with this for the most part. I normally run either daggers/shield or sword/shield and switch to a bow when ranged is needed. A shield is good to use for the skill Staredown which buffs your strength thus increasing your damage output. I find that Dire Gouge with a Devilsbane (end-game sword) does more damage than Hundred Kisses with Framae Blades (end-game daggers) when climbing on enemies. So basically use dagger to get around, shield to buff, sword to kill things you climb on and bow for those ranged situations.

Dagger
Hundred Kisses
Gale Harness
Masterful Kill

Sword
Powder Blast
Clairvoyance
Dire Gouge

Bow
Fivefold Flurry
Mighty Bend
Lyncean Sight

Shield
Staredown

Augments
Clout
Vehemence
Opportunism
Adhesion
Arm-Strength
Impact