Talk:Strider/@comment-81.105.144.154-20130908094715/@comment-11368851-20131229143141

Also - to continue my role as devil's advocate - Assassins and Striders share many of the same bowskills, The only one worth noting that Assassins can't also use is Downpour. It's a great skill don't get me wrong, but Lyncean Sight, the skill you're comparing it to, plays a completely different role, but Lyncean is still arguably the better of the two, imo of course. The key is something obvious you might be overlooking; aim for the weakpoint.

With the preemption augment I can take down Dragonkin in a handful of Lyncean shots when aiming at the heart. I can kill Eliminators in 5-6 shots, Silver Knights in 3-4 shots, and Gold Knights in 2 sometimes a single shot, if each shot is a headshot. And Lyncean has insane range and loads extremely fast, almost instantly. Honestly, at higher levels, Lyncean can be used to kill weaker bosses (Cyclops, Chimeras, Liches etc.) before the average player would probably be finished positioning their character and aiming Downpour.

This is all without conquerors periapts or blast arrows, mind you. So your comment about Lyncean only being useful on small enemies is pure falsehood. Whereas downpour is great for crowd control, when it comes to the more powerful bosses, if your not using periapts or blast arrows, you're usually better off climbing the enemy and using Kisses or Splitter instead of Downpour. Downpour is good in combat no doubt, but not as good as Lyncean is at stopping combat from ever happening in the first place - and swiftly I might add. So this "vastly superior bowskills" point of yours is again, falsehood.

And fyi, most Assassins don't run with nothing but support skills equipped, that's just silly. I have Crackdown equipped on my shield, but that's it, and after use it I can then instantly switch back to dagger/bow for pure offense. No, the cookie cutter dagger Assassin is usually running with Hundred/Thousand Kisses and Masterful Kill, the third skill varies. For me I personally use Snakebite, because it can be exploited for infinite stunlocking on almost any enemy under certain size threshold...and perma-stunning Poisoned Undead/Liches/Gold&Silver Knights/etc. looks awesome, is useful, and again isn't "boring." I can assure you it is every bit as "fun" as jumping in the air and falling over and over again on your Strider is.