Talk:Assassin/@comment-5347672-20120824164450/@comment-5991902-20130114074501

well the advantages are that when you level you get a large strenth boost. Also using a sword instead of daggers added with the large strenth boost make your melee attacks do a shit ton of damage.

the disadvatage is that the assassin doesnt get much defence or magic defence upon level so you will take more damage. Thats why normally you will go with a warrior for a while so you will get a good defence and if needed as a mage to get magic defence up.

If you start as mage to get magic and magic defence up to a good ammount then switch to a warrior to get defence up(i recomend to stay as warrior for quite a long time to end up with a very high defence). You can also go to other vocations to if you want to make a perfect charater. Also if being a MA you will get a large magik defence up so you wont have that weakness.

After all this you should switch to the assassin, you should do this befor lvl 100 if possible so you can get the damge bonus on lvl advatage the assassin brings.

doing this and using a sword and bow will make you a beast at all ranges, but the sword is slower then the daggers but as assassin you can still use daggers but i use sword to really take advantage of the assassins strenth bonus. For using a bow you should make sure your using the Fey Whisper so you can also deal a massive ammount of damge at medium to long range as well as short with the sword.

The assassin is what i used to kill the Ur-Dragon because the Gorge skill with the sword while clinging to one of his heart deals massive damage and the Fey Whisper to the wings but it takes a while even wiith the Fey but if you get a mage with a holy enchantment spell and explosive arrows, i mean a SHIT TON of explosive arrows like 200+ then you an destroy the wings and the other hearts at a range if he is whipping his tail around or somthing the means you need to stay away for awhile.

Overall this is my favorite class over the rest by far, i strongly recomend it to anyone who wants to be a tank and have the abilty to use a wide varitey of wepons (bow,sheild,sword,daggers.)