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Assassin is perhaps the only class that can meaningfully use the Force Hatchet, which doubles your power but empties your stamina the moment you get hit. The Assassin not only has powerful defensive tools, but can simply build up power in the Force Hatchet and then switch to ranged sniping. With all your arrows dealing double damage, you become the best archer in the game.
Same for Ranger, use force hatchet (i builds power with arrows kill), a single tenfold should one shot pretty much anything, Daiomn dies on one tenfold blast (1st form), and repeat twice) for second, don´t get hit by anything and you whipe the floor with arrows.
@@junkaname6900 Rangers can't wield swords though, and the Force Hatchet is a One Handed Sword. Only Fighters, Magic Knights, & Assassins can wield the Force Hatchet, and of those only the Assassin has a bow.
Snakebite is pretty nice for what it is because it knocks down small enemies almost guaranteed, letting you combo an enemy to death and while you are in the snakebite you can’t be hit, but to each their own. One of my fave assassin skills.
I'd say the worst thing about assassin is the augments, all of them are situational, some more than others, however, it's easily fixed by... Just getting other augments from different classes.
I can't believe this was posted 10 hours ago haha. Literally perfect. I just started this game today after it'd been on my list for months. I just beat dark souls 1 a few times and am moving on to this game! Your guide stood out among all the other crap guides I watched! Dropping a like and subscribe! Looking forward to the next video!
I've been waiting for this. Started playing a couple weeks ago, loved all the other videos. But imagine my disappointment when the one vocation I decided to play most was the one video I had to wait for. Distraught. Thanks
Thief of Crystals is like the Assassin class, he drops whenever no one least expects it. Congrats on hitting all 9 classes, bud! Monk class mod review when?
It looks like Fighter and Thief (Formerly Strider) in DD2 now have abilities from Assassin to make up for the fact that Assassin isn't an available Vocation any more which I think is a good thing cause Assassin had a bit of an identity crisis
I'm going through all the vocations to find my favorite and just got done with assassin the day before this video came out. Definitely my favorite vocation so far, using gale harness, cutting wind, and instant reset is so much fun, and not to mention getting off those successful parries with the sword and dagger is just 🤌. Your channel is amazing and whenever I'm playing and I see radiance I'm reminded of your "GOIS I CAN'T SEE WITHOUT MY LYANTERN" joke and start laughing. Hope you keep it up man and I'm excited for the brawler video :)
If you're running with a sorcerer pawn that has voidspell or high voidspell they can remove the defense decrease from showdown. Not sure if that changes it much for you but I liked running it once I learned that.
I just picked this game up the other day because it was on sale for 5 bucks on steam because I heard it was pretty decent, but boy it's actually so fun lol. I started out as strider and really liked it but wasn't the biggest fan of the dagger skills, then I ended up swapping to warrior for a bit but found it to be a bit too slow and not having range kinda felt bad so I figured why don't I try the hybrid assassin? oh man its so much fun, easily my favorite vocation now since I can take the 1 handed sword and a bow, its great.
I love the Assassin class so much it was my first class I switched to. I’m so sad they didn’t go in to developing the other classes as much as the assassins.I’m thinking of making a poisoner build.
@@Mephistofeles nah. Strider is better climber and dagger fighter (just Splitter;), fighter has dragons maw and can literally bludgeon enemies to death with his shield (whereas assassin's shield skills are mostly meh, if pretty fun to use). And as for the bow, Ranger is better sniper and strider's shortbow skills like fracture dart are just superior (lyncean is great but that's all assassin has going for it, except force hatchet exploit)
I am doing a solo assassin build and autonomy doesnt lack anything at 20 %. Still a handsome boost, and as expected as a lone arisen i have already outleveled a regular full party run at the same part of the game, thanks to the 75% xp boost. So more levels, more stats, that get a 20% extra attack, and before even grinding as a warrior for Clout.
Personally i like to run assasin with gale harness (daggers) and showdown (shield) to get that super powered feel combined with thousand kisses (using a daggerists band) to get fast insane damage
I assumed this was an old series. Was just about to try the game again since I tried it a long time ago and didn’t like it. Like this video and plan to try the assassin. But thinking this video was old, seeing that brawler teaser and the date on this video caught me off guard and was exciting to see. Great vid by the way 👍
It scares me though that the 2 vocations I wanna play, warrior and assassin, are so far apart in terms of play style XD. I wanna play monster hunter greatsword but for now I’m more excited to play assassin like Shadow of the Colossus and climb on all my enemies
@@happylion1859 IMO you should play Strider for that, it's the classes whole shtick. I know DG looks like a great climbing skill but 1000k is an all-round better skill with Striders passive climbing damage bonus
I wish DD2 gets a hotkey or something for hybrid vocations like assassins, magic knight, magic archer; who have access to 3-4 different types of weapons, to switch between each weapons on the fly..
When I was playing as the assassin I was running around with daggers a sword and shield and a bow cause it had many very useful skills for all occasions
Do you know how long ive used invisibility to sneak or durin them follow missions? Just to now finally learn its true purpose. I started playin this game on the damn ps3. I never woulda known.
What's the Best Equipment (Armor Pieces or Sets, and best Weapon Choices) to Use for Assassin? Also, for a NG+, which Assassin Skills are Good to survive throughout the whole game without switching out for others?
I main as Assassin but like to mix it up sometimes with Magick Archer, but I'm torn on two builds for my next playthrough: Health - 4130 / 4030 Stamina - 3110 / 3210 Strength - 503 Magick - 500 Defence - 400 / 420 Magick Def. - 446 / 426 Basically, do we reckon swap the -100 Health for +100 Stamina and -20 Defence for +20 Magicka Defence?
Ok, so my only question is HOW do I go about building this character?? Because I see that there are guides out there that show me the endgame, but never how to build the character through the game. Also, this was damn good, and hilarious at times. And the Mando theme at the end was a dope touch 😂💪🏿you gained a subscriber good sir 🤞🏿😌
Don't sweat 'builds' because this isn't Dark Souls, levels do the majority of the heavy lifting. If you absolutely must min/max, then fortunately in this case Assassin benefits most from its own strength gains, so levelling specifically Assassin optimizes Assassin. However, levelling exclusively Assassin will leave you with fuck all magick damage, so bear that in mind.
Hello, I have a question about my equipment, I changed to Assassin at level 15 and now I am level 26 but I feel that my equipment is a little bad for my level I use sword and bow, my statistics are: 328 strength and 134 magic in primary weapon and secondary weapon are 231 strength and 134 magic, buy these weapons in the capital of Gran Soren in the armory, the names of the weapons are Broadsword (level 3 stars) and Wild Bow (level 1 star) . my armor: 297 defense and 259 magic defense, I try to balance it (sorry if I have spelling mistakes and if I write some words wrong since I am using the translator) any advice will help
I'm finally going to start this game and I want to do this dagger Specialization! Do you have any recommendations on which class of the 3 to start with, and how to progress thereafter? Character creation suggestions are also welcome! thx xD
If you've an interest in daggers, I'd recommend starting as Strider, it places the most immediate focus on those weapons compared to any other vocation. After that point I'd say it's really up to you, feel free to experiment with different vocations and feel out what you enjoy most between them. Aside from stat gains (which can still be compensated for if necessary) you really don't have to worry about being locked into any given path. As far as customization goes, go with whatever you like, but interestingly larger characters are capable of walking/jogging faster (but not sprinting,) and roll farther - they also have longer weapon reach along with a larger hitbox. whereas smaller characters can fit in certain places larger ones can't, and since their hitbox is smaller they're that little bit harder to hit. Similarly, heavier characters have greater encumberance values and base stamina, while lighter ones restore stamina at a faster rate. Small differences really, so feel free to go with whatever you like!
@@ThiefofCrystals Thank you very much for your answer and congratulations on the work done on this game! I've read elsewhere to start with Warrior for the first 10 levels and then switch everything else to Assassin, I think for a 10% strength damage bonus. Do you think it might be worth it? As far as building the character is concerned, it seems to me that it might be better to make a character who is less vulnerable given his fragility. Thanks so much for the very helpful advice!
@@ThiefofCrystals I honestly don't know what to aim for now because I know very little about the Game. I think I'll try Strider because it already has double daggers then I'll see in the future.. your answer made me think and think, I'll try to take the Game more lightly and less statistically. It seems to me from what you are saying that there is nothing really compromising in the choices and that everything can be remedied.. TY Very Much
I'll definitely look into it as I've always wanted to play DDO but my options might be a bit limited there, plus I do wanna give myself something of a break from DD content for now since it's all I've been doing for the past year and my channel's supposed to have some amount of variety lmao
I think the only reason why I myself am not a big fan of Assassin is its early game presentation. Like... all Advanced classes gain a new awesome weapon, Warrior gets greatswords, Ranger gets longbows and Sorcerer gets the Archstaff (which is boring as hell but he makes up for that with cool new spells). Then the Hybrid classes come, with Magick Archer gaining the most unique weapon of all as that "magebow" (forgot the name), the Mystic Knight having a glorious greatshield (and a mace, but I don't care about the mace) while the Assassin... gets all the weapons from Fighter and Strider but nothing unique... yeah. To be fair, the game does let you know really quickly that this is a different class by making one of your first sword skills be a completely different one (the Intimate Strike, something like that), but playing this class the first time I just felt like I was playing a "Jack of All Trades, Master of None" and switched off really quickly. Only came back now because I've seen footage of how fun this seems at max rank (and also I wanna min-max damage and magick in this run, so it's 90 levels as an Assassin and 100 levels in Sorcerer).
I think part of my stance on this one is based on the fact that I see humanoid enemies as such a non-issue once you start getting stronger, a single regular arrow is typically enough to kill a regular goblin or bandit, though this naturally shifts in Bitterblack Isle
Invisibility is useless. It was godlike back in vanilla when it didn’t consume your stamina and didn’t have a time limit. Yes, back then you could stay permanently invincible. Sadly, with the release of Dark Arisen, it was nerfed, along with Autonomy and Bloodlust.
You need to rank up the vocation itself which will happen naturally by playing it. Notice that whatever vocation you started at is higher level than the others. Keep killing stuff ect. and you'll gain enough discipline (EXP but for vocations, also the currency used to buy skills) to unlock more stuff.
@@ThiefofCrystals Oh man, that is the first thing I did after installing it. I installed a mod that gives infinite carry capacity (technically 10k), unlimited sprint stamina, and 1.6x jump height. Basically I wanted to remove any friction involved with transportation since the game already makes you walk everywhere. Skills and attacks still use stamina btw
I love seeing creators use obvious stock photos for jokes, not much puts a smile on my face faster then the over exaggerated expression that those photos usually have.
Ah, the golden days of endgame vanilla in ye olden 7th gen of consoles. It's sad 'cause back then there wasn't even anything strong enough to warrant the kind of violence that the unholy union of Autonomy + Bloodlust was dishing out and now that we do have strong enemies in BBI we will never truly know just how bad Daimon would get disrespected on a daily basis. Tbh Ranger's still out here being a complete menace to the entire concept of anything at all ever being alive while suffering from a heavy addiction to Blast Arrows but it just. ain't. the same. But then again we wouldn't have force hatchet shenanigans nor MA actualy being top tier if it weren't for DA so it evens out i guess. still gonna miss it tho.
Enchanted weapons or even tomes are available, although not in large quantities, but they can be crafted as well. Took me forever to find an enchanted weapon though, and I found it in BitterBlack Isle. Dragon's Ire was the name. Best melee weapon I had until I beat Grigori.
Dire Gouge is just better Hundred Kisses. A Cursed Light build properly done can speedrun cursed dragons. It's not Magick Archer Immolation good, but it's close.
So Assassin is like a quality build from a Souls game. Im torn between Mystic Knight or Assassin, I Love the paladin style from the MK but seems it would probs get boring after a while with all the buffing, Whereas Assassin is the most versatile and i love using bows.
Mystic knight is super satisfying with it's perfect blocks when the shield is enchanted. Plus, the great canon and ruinous sigil pair with any enchantment you have and give you a close range trap that'll target any enemies that get too close and a magic ball you strike like a bat to send magic projectiles at enemies in the distance, and they track. I used those two abilities and antler toss. Was great. I still like the assassin better, have a harder time feeling satisfied with my skill choice with it.
Generally speaking my favoured weaponry with Assassin is Sword + Bow. My sword skills are usually comprised of Burst Strike (for covering distance + knockdown,) Clairvoyance (for some measure of defense,) and Dire Gouge (for raw damage to large enemies.) Bow skills are Fivefold for immediate damage, Mighty Bend for precision and knockback, and Lyncean Sight for longer ranges.
@@ThiefofCrystals bro like how are you defeating wraiths with enchanted sword?😭 I was like lv 112 and I have a holy enchanted sword from my pawn I was a warrior. It barely did damage to it and that thing keeps teleporting.
@@Saiko1516 In fairness Assassin will basically always deal with that situation better than a Warrior, but also my strength stat is off the charts due to most of my levels being in Assassin so it's possible I'm crossing a defensive threshold there
