[Diven]

Hello guys. I am an old school aion player since beta launch. I quit the game before 2.0 update hit. So now with the new f2p model i am comming back to give aion a second chance I will be probably rolling asmodian assasin on the new server. I don't have much experience with sin since i played cleric/gladiator only. So i would like some basic advice on stigmas mainly and what gear is worth getting
tyvm

[Milliardo]

Well atm you the 2 most popular builds are:

Sigil Strike build

and

QD build

And about gear, the best gear for assassin are 40 elite, 50 elite and eternal arena set.

As for weapons you need to know if youll go for d/d, s/d or s/s. Some good weapons for assassin are Tac officer sword/dagger, eternal arena sword and brigade general's sword/dagger.

For jewelry, full 55 eternal jewelry are the best choice for an assassin.

Its very hard to tell you what exact build, gear you should aim for, its all about personal oppinions and how much time you are willing to spend on this game. But this gives a general idea about the current options.

[Reev3]

Diven, on 22 January 2012 - 07:51 AM, said:

Hello guys. I am an old school aion player since beta launch. I quit the game before 2.0 update hit. So now with the new f2p model i am comming back to give aion a second chance I will be probably rolling asmodian assasin on the new server. I don't have much experience with sin since i played cleric/gladiator only. So i would like some basic advice on stigmas mainly and what gear is worth getting
tyvm

Hey Diven, Ronin here.

I'll just explain you the possibilities for high lvl assassin *55.

Stigma Hybrid #1: Ambush, Sigil Strike, Shadow Walk, Flurry, Apply Deadly Poison, Oath of Accuracy, Flash of Speed, Blinding Burst, Venemous Strike, Aethertwisting, Sensory Boost.

Stigma Hybrid #2: Ambush, Shadow Walk, Flurry, Apply Deadly Poison, Oath of Accuracy, Blinding Burst, Aethertwisting, Lightning Slash, Apply Lethal Venom, Sensory Boost, Dash and Slash.

Stigma Quickening Doom Abyss: Ambush, Apply Deadly Poison, Oath of Accuracy, Blinding Burst, Lightning Slash, Apply Lethal Venom, Dash and Slash, Sensory Boost, Quickening Doom, *pick last 2: Aethertwisting, Shadow Walk, Flurry.* <- The more important stigmas to make the build work properly.

Equipment Leather: Elite Guardian Tribunus (50 gold), Guardian Primus Pilus (55 gold), Noble Coliseum (55 eternal).
Weapons *dagger*: Noble Coliseum's Dagger, Archon Brigade General's Dagger.
Weapons *sword*: Noble Coliseum's Sword, Archon Brigade General's Sword.

Accessories Leather: Elite Guardian Tribunus (50 gold), Guardian Primus Pilus (55 gold), Archon Brigade General (55 eternal) -> I didn't add Archon Brigade General to the armor because it just takes too long. if I were you I would take less good armor and aim for the best Weapons, then Accessories, as a last.. Armor. The Archon Brigade General Accessories are amazingly good due to it having huge amounts of Strike Resist (Reduce chance of getting a critical strike from enemy).

Noble Coliseum: If you didn't read the updates, we have a 10 man FFA arena and a 1 vs 1 arena where we can earn Crucible Insignias and Courage Insignias. With these insignias you can buy the Coliseum items which are very good at a price of conditioning them (there's an NPC at Marchutan's Priory for conditioning your items at it's cheapest). They are all PvP equipments.

Archon Brigade General: Better than the Noble Coliseum but they are not a set, they are individual parts but very strong. If you would go for the Archon Brigade General weapons I suggest as an Assassin you go for the Daggers, they have Bonus Attack and Accuracy. Which makes them finally worthy to take instead of Swords. You can boost up Critical with Foods and Scrolls upto like 190 ~ 200 additional anyway.

Lvling: There's a Mentoring system now where u can get your character boosted in no time, the more people in your group the better experience you will receive *Not too sure about this but as from what I saw this is a fact*. Just get someone to mentor you, fill the group. Start grinding with mentor, you will receive the loots and heaps of EXP.

3.0: I know we're getting new stigma's, and I believe 1 additional Stigma slot, Mounts etc but really I'm too damn bored to start thinking about what's the right thing to take and what isn't. There will be alot more PvP sets too.. Conditioning types aswell as regular sets (f.e. Elite 50).

Hope it helped dude!

This post has been edited by Reev3: 25 January 2012 - 04:26 PM

[Diven]

Reev3, on 22 January 2012 - 11:05 AM, said:

Hey Diven, Ronin here.

I'll just explain you the possibilities for high lvl assassin *55.

Stigma Hybrid #1: Ambush, Sigil Strike, Shadow Walk, Flurry, Apply Deadly Poison, Oath of Accuracy, Flash of Speed, Blinding Burst, Venemous Strike, Aethertwisting.

Stigma Hybrid #2: Ambush, Shadow Walk, Flurry, Apply Deadly Poison, Oath of Accuracy, Blinding Burst, Aethertwisting, Lightning Slash, Apply Lethal Venom, Dash and Slash.

Stigma Quickening Doom Abyss: Ambush, Apply Deadly Poison, Oath of Accuracy, Blinding Burst, Lightning Slash, Apply Lethal Venom, Dash and Slash, Sensory Boost, *pick last 2: Aethertwisting, Shadow Walk, Flurry.* <- The more important stigma to make the build work properly.

Equipment Leather: Elite Guardian Tribunus (50 gold), Guardian Primus Pilus (55 gold), Noble Coliseum (55 eternal).
Weapons *dagger*: Noble Coliseum's Dagger, Archon Brigade General's Dagger.
Weapons *sword*: Noble Coliseum's Sword, Archon Brigade General's Sword.

Accessories Leather: Elite Guardian Tribunus (50 gold), Guardian Primus Pilus (55 gold), Archon Brigade General (55 eternal) -> I didn't add Archon Brigade General to the armor because it just takes too long. if I were you I would take less good armor and aim for the best Weapons, then Accessories, as a last.. Armor. The Archon Brigade General Accessories are amazingly good due to it having huge amounts of Strike Resist (Reduce chance of getting a critical strike from enemy).

Noble Coliseum: If you didn't read the updates, we have a 10 man FFA arena and a 1 vs 1 arena where we can earn Crucible Insignias and Courage Insignias. With these insignias you can buy the Coliseum items which are very good at a price of conditioning them (there's an NPC at Marchutan's Priory for conditioning your items at it's cheapest). They are all PvP equipments.

Archon Brigade General: Better than the Noble Coliseum but they are not a set, they are individual parts but very strong. If you would go for the Archon Brigade General weapons I suggest as an Assassin you go for the Daggers, they have Bonus Attack and Accuracy. Which makes them finally worthy to take instead of Swords. You can boost up Critical with Foods and Scrolls upto like 190 ~ 200 additional anyway.

Lvling: There's a Mentoring system now where u can get your character boosted in no time, the more people in your group the better experience you will receive *Not too sure about this but as from what I saw this is a fact*. Just get someone to mentor you, fill the group. Start grinding with mentor, you will receive the loots and heaps of EXP.

3.0: I know we're getting new stigma's, and I believe 1 additional Stigma slot, Mounts etc but really I'm too damn bored to start thinking about what's the right thing to take and what isn't. There will be alot more PvP sets too.. Conditioning types aswell as regular sets (f.e. Elite 50).

Hope it helped dude!

That's all great advice, thanks a lot for your time )
As for the mentoring system i dont think i can take advantage of this since i will start on the fresh servers !
Overall how do you think sin stands among others in pvp? Cause especially with my gladiator there was really minimum threat back then from sins. I have heard that they got buffed though !

[PowerSauce]

Diven you greek slacker, I have a better idea, check your pm.
Good to see you again !

Your account can't use the messaging system you fail.

This post has been edited by PowerSauce: 22 January 2012 - 12:59 PM

[Milliardo]

Well assassins are one of the fastest class to level, because they could kill mobs in a fast pace.

The thing that makes assassins very good is the element of surprise. An assassin also could beat all classes ingame if played right. (Clerics have no chance vs Sorc or Templars have no chance vs SMs, assassins dont have a setup like this)

Another thing that makes sins very good is that they are the class with highest survivability vs Magic skills. Since magic skills have highest dammage ingame and most skill effects ingame are magical this is a huge advantage.

And of course their high dps and the new 55 eternal weapons makes them very dangerous.

[Diven]

PowerSauce, on 22 January 2012 - 12:51 PM, said:

Diven you greek slacker, I have a better idea, check your pm.
Good to see you again !

Your account can't use the messaging system you fail.

hey there :DD
I ll check the option to see if i can fix this !
I changed some options, check to see if u can send now ! (edit)

This post has been edited by Diven: 22 January 2012 - 01:15 PM

[Reev3]

I give Assassin a score of 7, from 1 out of 10.

Have fun practising Diven. xD

Oh and I forgot to mention, have fun gearing and getting money for 2x +10 and 2x godstones, mwhahaha!

This post has been edited by Reev3: 22 January 2012 - 01:39 PM

[LKaz]

Milliardo, on 22 January 2012 - 10:43 AM, said:

Well atm you the 2 most popular builds are:

DnS build without QD is also a decent option

Also if you quit long ago you might be not aware of the quite high amount of players using radar hack allowing to see you while in hide, that's one of major drawbacks as sin when it comes to OWPvP

This post has been edited by LKaz: 22 January 2012 - 01:58 PM

[Shinju]

LKaz, on 22 January 2012 - 01:57 PM, said:

DnS build without QD is also a decent option

Thats why milliardo said "most popular ones", of course there are more builds that can be used but each one of them depends on player.

[LKaz]

And...?

OP asked for tips, not a post competition

[Shinju]

I'm not actually trying to compete, instead im just stating the fact that there are more builds than those that were mentioned. XD

[Wolfen]

Just make a glad and wtf chainknockdown rape everyone with their amazing totally not random or lucky knockdown knockdowning skills.

This post has been edited by wolfen: 22 January 2012 - 08:55 PM

[LKaz]

Bouncer05, on 22 January 2012 - 08:27 PM, said:

instead im just stating the fact that there are more builds than those that were mentioned. XD

That's what I was doing, you just came to hate on me

[Shinju]

LKaz, on 22 January 2012 - 08:59 PM, said:

That's what I was doing, you just came to hate on me

Ok, I'm sorry.

Please, forgive me for such sillyness.

[LKaz]

Shinju, on 22 January 2012 - 09:12 PM, said:

Please, forgive me for such sillyness.

bend over

[Shinju]

LKaz, on 23 January 2012 - 06:25 AM, said:

bend over

[LKaz]

[Shinju]

Ew.

[LKaz]