Good Assassin Builds? Tell me Your Secrets

i'm using this pretty much all the time

Gold Skill regen
Silver Armor
Bronze Speed

However, dunno if i should go faster and sacrifice health for that...

what about Critical Shots? any other endorsements that may actually be useful?

Gold Armor
Silver RoF
Bronze Skill/Health Regen.

That's pretty much What I use all the time. It gives you enough HP to survive a face stabbing by another Assassin and you have enough damage to take down turrets and bots.

There are some very good tutorials for Assassins, check the Xbox strat forum too.

errr, im leery of losing the Gold Skill Regen, but is it really worth it? how much time do i save between the Gold, Silver, and Bronze version of Skill Regen and not having skill regen at all?

I'm not sure how much difference there is between gold and bronze regen. Gold Armor however will double your HP. Basically if I use gold armor and you don't and we exchange grapples you will die every time. Your face grapple won't kill me, mine will one-shot you instantly. (Hmm, maybe I need to lunge too with silver armor. Dunno, I do that anyway... )
Skill regen at bronze will give you a good enough buff imo.

Unless you're smoke bombing a lot, I don't see much use in Gold skillregen
Just slag bots and you can get Dash/Cloak to 3 in no time

XBox tips just suck for the pc forum, different playstyle, different controller. I wanna see good pc vids, but all I get is XBox assa stuff which doesn't care on the computer :evil:.

I use:
RoF: fast bot killing, good in jump duels with enemy assasins and very good with the shuriken launcher vs pros & turrets
Armor: survive from front grapples, more health, more regeneration
Skill reg: Dash, cloak, bomb - 'nuff said.

True but there is a lot of common ground as well. I think you have to be more careful on the PC. The chance that a player turns around in an instant is way higher...

Assa playstyle is totally different from the Xbox. Better pings, better control.
I don't learn anything from some console vids.

If anything, I would think armor is more necessary on the PC than the xbox. If people are aiming a lot better, than you're going to be taking even more damage as an assassin.

The only endorsement I could see working in gold besides armor is RoF because of the higher amount of bots and more turret health. But RoF really is necessary on the PC because of those reasons, most people don't think it, but it really buffs the damage of your sword and your shuriken launcher.

Never use criticals on the assassin, it's just plain stupid. It does nothing to the sword and only a tiny bit to your shuriken launcher. And if you use the shuriken a lot, try out clip size on bronze. It's what the xbox's best assassin uses because they can use it well enough to take on talented tanks an gunners, as well as the usefulness against firebases.

I don't really think the bronze health recovery is that helpful for the assassin, if I remember, it only cuts the delay by .5 seconds. But skill recovery is extremely useful in bronze because it is always recharging your skills faster (as long as you're not using them), it also helps your cloak recover faster if you're standing still with cloak 3, which is often helpful. Don't take my word for this, but I think I remember hearing that skill recovery reduces your grapple recharge time, although it might have been fixed.

Also, the only time speed is a valid endorsement is when you're dying a lot. But as an assassin, that shouldn't be happening. I don't care if it helps you get to pros faster, that's a secondary objective of the assassin. And besides, bots often drop speed upgrades.

Juice should never be used. Same with reload speed and accuracy.

I highly recommend these variations:

Armor
RoF
Skill / Clip

RoF
Armor
Skill / Clip

If you really feel you need health recovery:
Armor
Health
RoF



I might not be the best assassin, but on most PC games where I play assassin, I can end the game within 3 minutes.

Gold Armor, Silver ROF and Bronze Skill Recovery.
Tested it for 250 hours, definately the best build.

I've been putting some assassin vids up @ http://www.youtube.com/user/SSMrIous - not the greatest but probably better than your average pubber

Can't see them, you used content of Sony Music Entertainment and EMI so not available in germany .

Gunna swing by to agree with the Armor/RoF/Skill build. I've been running that since beta for the PC and i'm loving it.

Now I have been experimenting with a shuriken build, and I have to say I have been VERY impressed with the results.

Gold Crit
Silver armor
Bronze RoF/skill/regen

Many people dis the Gold Crit because they think the primary purpose is the crit % boost, this means nothing to the assassin. It is the 1.25x crit DAMAGE multiplier that helps tremendously. The second you get cloak 3 there is no reason for any of your shurikens should be noncrits . The 1.25x really shines there.

And I BELIEVE(not sure) that the Gold Crit helps your juiced crits. If this is true, it would bump the value even further, assassins are known for their juicing skills, and more effective juices is always helpful.(I really think it does, I have noticed a significant increase in moneyball damage since I've started using this build)

And you can still grapple people, a clip of critical shurikens does more damage than a lunge. Enough, in fact, to many times make up for the fact that they will be looking right at you when you slap them in the face.

That's... actually a brilliant build, in terms of bending the rules of the class. I can certainly see how that would make shurikens incredibly deadly. Standard crit shuris are already powerful. Nice work thinking outside the box.


Personally i've been thinking of running a new build (I run the standard Armor/FR/Skill build) for the purposes of expeimenting.... But i find the armor so hard to pass up. Being barely alive is a big difference compared to being completely dead.