Assassin17 skills

Two daggers, quick and critical: plays on the basic attack with weapon buffs, leaps onto enemies, vanishes into the shadows and finishes with Blade Storm.

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Dual Dagger Mastery Lethal Instinct Assassin's Step Blade Storm Shadow Lethal Leap Ground Blades Distill Poison Deadly Poison Frenzy Coup de Grâce Prey Eclipse Reaping Strike from the Dark Cast Shadow Death Mark

Where there are two numbers, the first is at level 1 and the second at max level.

Dual Dagger Mastery

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Passive
Max level: 10

Effect

Strengthens the second blade's hit when fighting with two daggers.
Damage: 64% of the first blade's hit, +4% per level (100% at level 10).
Without this skill the second blade deals 60%.

Needed for

Blade Stormlv. 3
Frenzylv. 5

Lethal Instinct

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Passive
Max level: 10

Effect

Increases critical chance.
Critical: +2% per level.

Needed for

Assassin's Step

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Passive
Max level: 5

Effect

Increases attack and movement speed.
Attack speed: +2 per level.
Movement speed: +3% per level.

Needed for

Lethal Leaplv. 1

Blade Storm

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Physical
Max level: 10
SP: 30
Cooldown: 10 s

Effect

Hits the target eight times in a row; the last hit counts double and stuns it.
Damage: 35% of attack per hit, +5% per level; the eighth deals double. Weapon element.
Effect: Stunned for 0.8 s. Not on bosses.

Requires

Dual Dagger Masterylv. 3

Needed for

Eclipselv. 5

Shadow

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Physical
Max level: 5
SP: 15
Cooldown: 20 s

Effect

Hides you in the shadows: monsters that were targeting you lose you.
Effect: Hidden for 6 s, +1 s per level.
Attacking or using a skill brings you out. The first hit within 1.5 s is an Ambush: critical and +50% damage.
These don't bring you out: Backstep, Smoke Bomb, Ground Blades, Deadly Poison, Frenzy, Prey.

Needed for

Lethal Leap

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Physical
Max level: 10
SP: 18
Cooldown: 6 s

Effect

Leaps where you aim: if there is an enemy there it lands on it and hits it, otherwise it is just the leap.
Damage: 135% of attack, +15% per level. Weapon element.
During the leap nobody can hit you, and on landing the basic attack is ready at once.
From Shadow it is an Ambush: critical and +50% damage.

Requires

Assassin's Steplv. 1

Needed for

Eclipselv. 3

Ground Blades

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Physical
Max level: 10
SP: 20
Cooldown: 5 s

Effect

Raises a row of blades from the ground that hits every enemy on the line.
Damage: 112% of attack, +12% per level. Weapon element.
It doesn't break Shadow.

Requires

Shadowlv. 3

Distill Poison

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Poison
Max level: 5
SP: 12
Cooldown: 1.5 s

Effect

Turns a Viper Fang, a Snake Skin and a Jelly into a Vial of Deadly Poison.
Chance: 60%, +10% per level (100% at level 5).
If it fails, the materials are lost. Without materials it costs no SP.

Needed for

Deadly Poisonlv. 1

Deadly Poison

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Poison
Max level: 5
SP: 30
Cooldown: 30 s

Effect

Drinks a Vial of Deadly Poison: your hits deal more damage and build up poison on the enemy.
Damage: 16% of attack per second per dose, +2% per level. Poison.
Effect: Deadly Poison, one dose per hit up to 5; it lasts 8 s from the last hit.
Duration: 30 s.
Bonus: +50% damage on non-magic hits.
Requires a Vial of Deadly Poison (Distill Poison). The poison only starts with bladed weapons. It doesn't break Shadow.

Requires

Distill Poisonlv. 1
Lethal Instinctlv. 3

Items it uses

Vial of Deadly Poison

Frenzy

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Powerful
Max level: 5
SP: 30
Cooldown: 40 s

Effect

Increases attack speed and critical chance for a while.
Duration: 15 s, +2 s per level.
Attack speed: +25.
Critical: +15%.
It doesn't break Shadow.

Requires

Dual Dagger Masterylv. 5

Coup de Grâce

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Physical
Max level: 10
SP: 24
Cooldown: 10 s

Effect

Strikes the enemy with a slash that deals triple if it has few HP left.
Damage: 145% of attack, +15% per level. Weapon element.
Under a third of HP: triple damage.
On an Exposed enemy: +50%. It is Exposed if it is Stunned, Rooted, Frozen, Blinded, Asleep or Confused, or if it is targeting a party member.
If it kills, the cooldown resets.

Requires

Lethal Instinctlv. 5

Needed for

Reapinglv. 3

Prey

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Powerful
Max level: 5
SP: 16
Cooldown: 12 s

Effect

Marks the enemy as prey: the whole party deals more damage to it.
Effect: Prey for 10 s, +2 s per level.
Bonus: +15% damage from the whole party.
The mark can be seen from afar. It doesn't break Shadow.

Requires

Lethal Instinctlv. 3

Needed for

Death Marklv. 3

Eclipse

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Physical
Max level: 5
SP: 60
Cooldown: 25 s

Effect

Strikes from behind, one after another, up to six enemies around you, then brings you back where you were.
Damage: 190% of attack, +30% per level. Weapon element.
Effect: Stunned for 1.2 s. Not on bosses.
Takes the 6 nearest enemies within 5 tiles. Nobody can hit you for the whole duration.

Requires

Blade Stormlv. 5
Lethal Leaplv. 3

Needed for

Death Marklv. 3

Reaping

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Passive
Max level: 5
Class level: 51

Effect

When you land the blow that kills an enemy, your skill cooldowns go down.
Cooldowns: -40% at level 1, +15% per level (reset at level 5).
At most once every 10 s. Does not affect Death Mark or Eclipse.

Requires

Coup de Grâcelv. 3

Strike from the Dark

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Passive
Max level: 5
Class level: 51

Effect

Ambush, the first hit after Shadow or after returning to the Cast Shadow, stuns.
Effect: Stunned for 1 s at level 1, +0.2 s per level.
On bosses it does not stun: the boss stays Exposed for 3 s.

Requires

Shadowlv. 1

Cast Shadow

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Physical
Max level: 5
Class level: 51
SP: 20
Cooldown: 18 s

Effect

You leave a shadow shape at your feet. Within 10 s press the skill again to return there in a wisp of smoke.
On arrival you are Hidden for 1.5 s: your next hit is an Ambush.
Cooldown: 18 s, -1 s per level. It starts when you return or when the shadow fades; meanwhile the skill costs 0 SP.

Requires

Shadowlv. 3

Death Mark

Assassin

Class: Assassin
Type: Active
Kind: Physical
Max level: 5
Class level: 60
SP: 70
Cooldown: 60 s

Effect

You mark an enemy. For 3 s the mark counts the damage you deal to it, then it bursts.
Burst damage: 50% of the counted damage, +10% per level. At most 30 times your attack.
If the enemy dies first, the mark bursts at once on monsters within 2 tiles.
Does not bring you out of Shadow.

Requires

Eclipselv. 3
Preylv. 3