Talk:Strider/@comment-81.105.144.154-20130908094715/@comment-69.126.128.96-20131224201304

There's plenty of reason to play strider. While an assassin is charging tempest harness/crackdown, and then slowly climbing up to the enemy weak point, the strider has already leaping stoned up to the top and has been attacking for a while now.

Add to that hailstorm volley, which is second only to tenfold in bow DPS and is fantastic with blast arrows, and fracture dart which does great damage if you can aim it properly. Both of which are far better than lyncean sight which wastes an augment slot to be effective and only works on small enemies in large areas.

Brain splitter is just one reason to play strider. It may not be able to get the raw DPS of a fully charged assassin, but it has a ton of uses and is a blast to play with. Cutting saurian tails from the front, falling from any distance without fall damage, spamming it on smaller bosses for great damage, using it with leaping stone for even higher damage, quickly putting status effects on any enemy. It's just an all around awesome skill.

Assassin is great and all, but when your dagger slots are filled up with two rather boring buffs and your only attack is hundred/thousand kisses, it isn't that fun. Gale harness really breaks the flow of combat and invisibility isn't that great if you're good at dodging and keep a good supply of HP items with you, especially since it has a time limit now. Masterful kill is pretty pointless as waiting around to get attacked is usually slower than just going on the offensive, and most of the time i'd rather dodge and counter than go through that throat slitting animation again. Any bow skill on the assassin is greatly outclassed by strider bow skills too.

If strider had decent stat growth i wouldnt even bother with assassin. It's a great class, but i find it incredibly boring compared to the strider.