Another question! For gear, do you guys take the heavy willpower, heavy Endurance, or try and balance em out? As madness at 39, I'm at 668 Willpower and 661 Endurance.

I don't think I called Darkness crappy anywhere.... As for a healer, I used the second healer we get, unfortunately I die against an elite or 2 strong mobs regardless. I am using every stun I can (electrocute and I believe that's the only one against elites and strong, since shock doesn't stun them), elites still crush me 1v1. I do like the taunt+deflect idea, thank you for that!

Its by design. The reason behind it? No clue =( The tool-tip says "to weak and standard" and "strong" but nothing about Elite/Champion

Is darkness able to kill **** effectively? I wasn't sure if the missing DPS would be made up with companions or if they are screwed for solo questing.

A post filled with lvl 15's responses and people talking from Beta who don't play assassins... I was hoping from some higher level players who are actually playing assassins opinions. That post was pretty much flame-bait =) But thanks for being helpful, big ups.

I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. It seems to me like my assassin character is extremely fragile and really doesn't do any burst compared to other classes. Every time I get into a 1v1 fight with a "Strong" enemy, Ill get destroyed and don't have any survivability to stay in the fight. If I fight a stronger "Elite" enemy, Khem gets destroyed and then I get destroyed. If I don't have Khem, I would die every pull with a Strong + 1 pull, which completely removes the ability to play with other companions, and goodbye RPG aspect. I'm level 38 Madness spec, Khem and I are both kept up-to-date as far as gear. I just feel like I don't have any tools aside from Force Cloak, which means I have to do it again, and am trying to see if other higher lvl assassin have this problem, and some advice. And I know a Marauder is the brawler class, but this class feels nothing like a rogue, not quick burst or anything. Edit: Just to add, our story seems really REALLY lacking compared to the warrior... We can't even turn our apprentice dark side but the warrior gets to seduce and corrupt every other person they talk to...