Hello all just wanted to share this all with you as I came across this video. I was just amazed myself at Depredating volts and the damage.

I do not know where you get your information as you may say "Oh well I have played my own Assassin" please speak for yourself please as Assassins are very viable contribution wise. Just maybe all in all you need to L2p your class not bust the myths about them which are only your conclusion.

Madness is so Suishy at level 55 and deception has good burst though needs some love

As for the other trees madness is obsolete and deception is in need of some love.

As stated earlier keep a shield generator and talent Dark Ward and Dark Bulwark along with lightning reflexes as well and keep the route of dps gear as I can first hand say having a level 55 in full pve and pvp gear you can dps and dps quite abit with all the utility of a tank as well.

Well for starters my main is a Darkness Assassin as it has been sice early days of Beta and launch. I know darkness can be forgiving at early levels like yourself but there have been changes and even with patch 2.5! I would suggest as I run with mostly dps gear and augments with a shield generator too and it is a very very nice combination. The change to shield proccing off tech and force attacks has really made a difference even with a lower proc rate. The dark bulwark really shines as well as it will increase your shield absorbtion with every proc of Dark Ward charges as well. At level 55 though be aware that the rotation is very tight as you want to keep up Dark Protection as Bioware nerfed the 18 second window to 12 seconds instead so you are looking at Wither/shock/thrash until you proc energize/shock/then force lightning to renew the stack. anyways hope this helps you and Darkness Assassins are so much fun to play either with PVE or PVP as I find myself and do not let others say or guilds for that matter make you go full tank gear either play as you like. Have Fun

I certainly agree stay with darkness rerolling a madness assassin is so so squishy

Ok so first off to answer your question yes Darkness Sin's are still very viable if not more with a focus and dps gear. My main is a darkness sin with a focus and all dps gear as well. I personally keep my crit at 20% for force and 21 with melee and explosive strikes proc's another 9% to bring my melee to 30%. I also agree to have some power as well mixed into your gear as well too. I would also say get some surge rating as well as I am at 71% with all my partisan gear as we because most importantly energize gives an auto crit on shock. Wither is also very nice now too as it seemed to get another buff though unconfirmed in patch 2.0. so overall it is still viable and you still have all the nice healing and utility from the darkness tree with really nice damage. I am just going to say as well to comment on the above post there is no way you are going to get those numbers with a shield generator and or even with a focus either.

Just wanted to comment and ask you what rude awakening is that exactly?

Hi everyone just wanted to add some comments to this thread and first off Aggie just wanted to say the only real problem I see with that build is you are not skilling exploitive strikes which gives you a 9% up front crit percentage to your melee attacks which I feel is very important. I also wanted to ask all of you who will and who have read these posts is it just me or has wither's damage been buffed. It seems to me it has as wither for me on my assassin is hitting harder just wanted to see what you all thought as with patch notes with the increased cool down to 9 seconds and less force cost it states they were leaving the base damage alone but seems otherwise. I think when everyone is comparing assassin trees and such dps wise I think the advantage now that makes darkness pull ahead is the force management as to me we are now just drowning in it. The more fore we have the more we can cast and utilize our attacks. I will state for example even with a GCD I have noticed that HD stacks procs so much faster now that we have such freedom to cast without managing our force and such. I really feel that darkness as a whole right now is in such a very very nice position though we will still need to see more how we scale when the level 55 brackets come around if not now then on 4/14/13.

Yup sums it up for me too

Griad as a matter of fact yes as I do have a darkness Assassin and have a shield generator though with focus mods and it does work very nicely and now with shields being even better as well. I also have a few mods with that generator with shield absorption and and rating to buff it up some more.

I just wanted to say playing a Darkness assassin as my main mostly and with all the changes and such with 2.0 I feel the tanking tree is better than it ever has. The force management allows to chain thash, wither, shock, force lightning, discharge, and our new filler Maul from cloaked conspiracy. The shield generator is now so much more important as it now proc's and absorbs tech and force attacks and can be talented to give a very nice increased shield absorption that stacks. The 25% damage reduction from overcharge saber also adds to our utility and survivability even more with a buffed 15% heal on top which goes for all assassin trees. I have read and understand peoples frustration and disappointment with the other 2 trees in general and I understand very well too. I just wanted to say Darkness is now in my opinion just pure awesome.