Assassin Endorsements

Even though the default ones are fine, I'd like to see what other options the assassin has.

I do Gold armor, Silver speed, and bronze attack speed

Mine are

gold: speed

silver: skill recov.

bronze: fire rate

Armor eh? I'll try it. If I prefer the speed I'll move armor to silver and keep the rate of fire.

You still have pretty good speed, I just prefer not to die whenever possible. It allows me to counter grapple and get a kill.

Would you be able to counter the grapple with Silver armor?

Not sure, haven't tried, but after being grappled from the front I tend to only have a small amount of health left, I would just try it out.

WTF you can counter grapple PLEASE how do you do that?

I agree but I feel a glass cannon is a glass cannon. The speed suites her for chases, and the silver health is fine enough for me. I feel like if you're in a situation where you're that low health, gold, silver, bronze, platinum, you're either going to escape or die.

By the way, you don't survive assassin backstabs but I survived frontstabs.

If you don't fly off far or anything, you could right away grapple them back. Takes good timing.

You cant counter grapple, but allies can save you before they punch/stab you and finish you off.

You can also charge them right after a face grapple which is effective for assault/tank.

If you have enough armor, you can survive some grapples and grapple the person who grappled you right when they are done, alas, Counter Grappling

Gold: rate of fire
Silver: Speed
Bronze: armor

rate of fire makes the sword swings like 3x faster

That may be true but the assassin needs the speed to get to the targets, or at least a lot of health to make the trip and back. Honestly I really think speed/armor should be gold.

Silver Armor protects you from assassin front grab only. I love it when the grapple me then i grapple them right back lol. But unless it's Gold, Silver is a waste in my opinion.

I've been playing as the default assassin to start, and then once I've upgraded to level 3 sprint i use a speed-less build - gold rate of fire, silver juice, and bronze skill recovery

That way you max your damage output without wasting the great gold spot on speed when you have a speed skill

Though I never tested, does the rate of fire endorsement make your sword attack faster for sure?

I agree, i keep Armor in my gold and Regen in my silver (probably going to change this though). You job is really to get in and get out. If you are staying in a fight long enough for attack speed to matter, you are probably already dead. I have lost count of the number of times I have gotten out with just a sliver of health, thanks to my extra armor. Also, gold armor helps you survive face stabs, assault grapple, sniper grapple, and sometimes tank/gunner AoE. Survivability > Slightly more killing power. After all, you are useless when you are dead.

Does Critical Shot help at all with the Assassin? I don't really know what qualifies as a critical, but I would love for my grapples to do just a touch more damage.

EDIT: Also, how about accuracy? I'm assuming that grapples and melee attacks are just straight up hit or miss, but does anyone know if it increases their chances of working? Also, is there anything that reduces the cooldown for grapple?

Gold = Armor. Period.

As others have said having Armor as your Gold Endorsement lets you survive all kinds of things. Heck, even other Assassins can't grapple me to death that often with the Armor boost. The point of the Assassin is to get a kill and live to tell about it so being able to take damage while you retreat/flank is mandatory.

For me, Silver is all about being able to relocate quickly or keep my cloak active. As a result I actually prefer Skill Recovery over Speed. The Speed I lose from the Silver Speed Endorsement is offset by having Dash recover more quickly. The bonus is that my Cloak recharges faster as well and we all know how difficult it is to hit what you can't really see.

As for Bronze, well, I actually don't know which one to pick. Currently I am using Rate of Fire to help me clear out Turrets/Bots at range but Juice Effect could be really good here too. As others have tated Critical Shot may also be huge even if the added damage is random. You could even use Health Recovery if you wanted. It looks like Bronze is going to take some testing to figure out what effect each Endorsement category actually does.

Counter-grapple works. It's one of the very few effective ways to play against an ***. I've put plenty in the ground after they think a face stab will stop me.

Health Gold
Skill Recovery Silver
Health Regen Bronze, although I'm not sure how useful this is exactly/what the rate at which health regenerates is.