Talk:Ur-Dragon Class Strategies/@comment-76.19.73.160-20140821122829/@comment-23878607-20140825060009

I can only respond by empirical observation. No, it's not worth it. While doing rounds on the online Ur, a high strength strider Arisen with a pack of climbing Striders/Rangers can easily exceed the damage cap on the online Ur, but so can a high-strength Assassin. The difference is how long it takes to get to the damage gap, say, a minute of difference. Since the Tempest Harness Assassin is going to be using up stamina items more than the Strider, it's my supposition that since both of them gets the job done, whichever one feels more comfortable with (and can afford the curatives) will be just fine.

As for killing it in grace? Either one. Usually a grace round goes by so quickly that using Gale Harness really isn't necessary. You're shooting out the inconvenient hearts with blast arrows, and then climbing to get the easier ones. Again the only significant difference is how long you can be up on the ur before Tempest Harness runs out, and then... why bother climbing down? I've yet to have missed a kill in hundreds of Grace rounds for failing to have used either Gale Harness or Tempest Harness when taking one as an Assassin.

For the offline Ur? it's most expedient as an assassin to shoot it to death. A low-leveled Assassin, say level 50-100, doesn't have the stamina to sustain a lot of climbing around the Ur unless one brings a heckuva lot of stamina curatives that one may not be able to afford round after round anyway. It's simply easier to load up about 300 blast arrows on a great big pawn and shoot it out.

Tl/dr:  Tempest Harness is fun, but not all that practical.