Yukilumi Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 All right, with the incoming Sorcerer nerfs, I'm taking this chance to make an assassin alt =D I've pretty much always leveled via questing, but this time around, I'm going to be mostly PvPing. So here's my question: for a 31/0/10 build, what would be the best time to get the Madness skills? Right now I'm just rushing for Wither, but getting Madness skills first is actually somewhat tempting. I'm sure there are some sweet spots where it'd be good to go Madness instead of going further into Darkness, but I hope not to respec too much while leveling. Oh, and any tips for a lowbie would be appreciated! I'm finding low-level melee to be significantly harder than just spamming Force Lightning XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astarica Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 The 10 points in Madness doesn't get you anything interesting so you should go for Wither first. Since Darkness as a whole doesn't get anything really interesting until Harnessed Darkness you could start as something else and just respec when you're level 40 or at least 36 (for Harnessed Darkness). Until you get HD you're pretty much just a hard to kite/kill guy that can Thrash and Guard, and that isn't very useful for PvE or PvP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sengar Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 (edited) You can respec for free if you only do it once a week. And the respec cost is only 1300 second, then 8400 the second third. Edited April 6, 2012 by Sengar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcadeboredom Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I've been levelling an assassin past couple of days just hit 22. I've been putting points into deception but using a shield off hand and the tanking stance. It's been working well so far. I can protect using guard and taunts when appropriate.. but still retain the dps output via maul procs from deception. Worked very well so far for pvp and feel incredibly useful in pvp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaigen Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 All right, with the incoming Sorcerer nerfs, I'm taking this chance to make an assassin alt =D I've pretty much always leveled via questing, but this time around, I'm going to be mostly PvPing. So here's my question: for a 31/0/10 build, what would be the best time to get the Madness skills? Right now I'm just rushing for Wither, but getting Madness skills first is actually somewhat tempting. I'm sure there are some sweet spots where it'd be good to go Madness instead of going further into Darkness, but I hope not to respec too much while leveling. Oh, and any tips for a lowbie would be appreciated! I'm finding low-level melee to be significantly harder than just spamming Force Lightning XD Be warned that all the cool toys for darkness are in the upper level of the tree. Till you reach level 40 its best to just use deathfield and wither combined with claws of decay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doozzer Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 darkness pvp is pretty much a train of disappointment up until you get HD and wither. You need to have wither in the rotation to have that second button that gives you HD stacks, otherwise it takes you an unreasonable amount of time to actually get your purple win gas. I went from having 2 medal games going 'what the hell am i doing wrong?' before I got HD and wither to having unstoppable 9 medal games once the tree came together. As a lowbie its just simply more expedient to play into Maul, go up deception and make your damage output work harder. Its perfectly feasible to hit 3 and 4k crits on a level 25 assassin in the lowbie bracket, rather than struggle through darkness on the way to HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukilumi Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 Interesting comments ;D I definitely am that guy who only guards and thrashes people. Luckily, once I got energize, it's been significantly more fun. Can't wait for force pull and HD and wither. Eh, I honestly can't stand the positioning deception requires to be effective in pve, and dots on an assassin really isn't my thing. I'll just keep playing as darkness. At level 20, I feel useful to the team, can carry and defend pretty well, and get on average 5 medals, so it's not so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desroth Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Interesting comments ;D I definitely am that guy who only guards and thrashes people. Luckily, once I got energize, it's been significantly more fun. Can't wait for force pull and HD and wither. Eh, I honestly can't stand the positioning deception requires to be effective in pve, and dots on an assassin really isn't my thing. I'll just keep playing as darkness. At level 20, I feel useful to the team, can carry and defend pretty well, and get on average 5 medals, so it's not so bad. Use khem val and you shouldnt have issues getting maul off when your proc is up. deception is amazing in pre 50 warzones, the burst from a reck discharge/shock exploit weakness maul is crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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