12-27-2003, 11:51 AM
Hello
It is strange to me that you can't find a role for an assassin in a party like this.... when she is the most likely candidate for this type of play. She has the ability to gain resistance and PDR from skill, can reduce monster defense and change their behavior with cloak of shadows, can take dangerous enemies out of action with psychic hammer, and able to deal with packs using mind blast. C'mon, conversion, stun, damage from one skill, what do you need?
Ah, and if the necro can use skeletons, I am sure the assassin would be allowed to use her shadows.
True, most of her beneficiant skills don't show up until lev 12 or later, but do not underestimate the potential of psychic hammer!
If we have the necros and the zookeeper druids as mass killers, sorcs and paladins as tanks (forgetting conversion here I am afraid, let alone thorns if it's allowable), barbs as crowd control, then the assassin can be the boss-tamer in the beginning, then gain crowd control tasks as they get cloak of shadows and mind blast.
Wonder if a party like that would ever come to be :)
Quote:still no good ideas for assassins, though.
It is strange to me that you can't find a role for an assassin in a party like this.... when she is the most likely candidate for this type of play. She has the ability to gain resistance and PDR from skill, can reduce monster defense and change their behavior with cloak of shadows, can take dangerous enemies out of action with psychic hammer, and able to deal with packs using mind blast. C'mon, conversion, stun, damage from one skill, what do you need?
Ah, and if the necro can use skeletons, I am sure the assassin would be allowed to use her shadows.
True, most of her beneficiant skills don't show up until lev 12 or later, but do not underestimate the potential of psychic hammer!
If we have the necros and the zookeeper druids as mass killers, sorcs and paladins as tanks (forgetting conversion here I am afraid, let alone thorns if it's allowable), barbs as crowd control, then the assassin can be the boss-tamer in the beginning, then gain crowd control tasks as they get cloak of shadows and mind blast.
Wonder if a party like that would ever come to be :)