What are great assassin builds?
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What are great assassin builds?
Hi so I'm considering making an evil rogue/assassin and was wondering what build goes well with these two classes. Thanks!
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Re: What are great assassin builds?
fighter and wilderness stalker?
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Re: What are great assassin builds?
inivisible blade also works well for a little AC bonus. Especially good if you are going to add feint into the mix.
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Another classic is Fighter 8/ Elemental Archer 4/Assassin 9/Arcane Archer 9 for some big damage multishots, but that doesn't have any rogue in it. Rogue/Assassin/Invisible blade is the go-to build. One of the build monkeys might even post an example for you.
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R16/IB5/A9 is the baseline for a perfect TWF assassin build to gain epic precision, epic dodge, decent ac and assassin goodness.
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Re: What are great assassin builds?
R/Assn/IB
Monk/Assn
F/Assn/AA (any other class you might pick)
Wizard/EK/Assn/AT
F/Swash/Assn (any other class you might pick)
Monk/Assn
F/Assn/AA (any other class you might pick)
Wizard/EK/Assn/AT
F/Swash/Assn (any other class you might pick)
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GFK is also nice (Though it does not get true seeing here)
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Re: What are great assassin builds?
http://nwn2db.com/build/?231820 is the classic build.
Any ranged attacker works with Fighter/Assassin or Bard/Assassin as the base. Fighter/Assassin builds also work well with TWF; key to all these is making sure that you can do some damage to sneak immunes.
Any ranged attacker works with Fighter/Assassin or Bard/Assassin as the base. Fighter/Assassin builds also work well with TWF; key to all these is making sure that you can do some damage to sneak immunes.
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Just as a heads up, the prevalence of DR mobs on this server will likely leave you less than impressed with IB builds.
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Re: What are great assassin builds?
IB is for AC and AB. The Bleeding damage is just an occasional extra.Boddynock wrote:Just as a heads up, the prevalence of DR mobs on this server will likely leave you less than impressed with IB builds.
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Re: What are great assassin builds?
Hmm would it maybe be better to replace IB with fighter for bonus feats or no?
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Re: What are great assassin builds?
It's an option, but IB adds 5 AC (16 Int +4 Fox's Assassin Spell), which is more important.
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You want all the AC you can get.
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Re: What are great assassin builds?
It's not as important as you might think. You get quite a long way with UMDing mirror images (80ish gold per scroll) and displacement (don't remember the cost, but also cheapish [and as assassin, you get greater invisibility anyways!]), and having epic dodge and HiPS.chad878262 wrote:You want all the AC you can get.
It's certainly nice to have AC, though.
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Re: What are great assassin builds?
IB will bypass weapon type DR if you have the correct weapon equipped, eg cold iron or alchemical silverBoddynock wrote:Just as a heads up, the prevalence of DR mobs on this server will likely leave you less than impressed with IB builds.
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