Assassins are tactical, sneaky and dangerous fighters capable of infiltrating enemy positions while quickly and efficiently executing targets. In terms of Assassin skills, the progression concentrates on eliminating targets at the quickest time possible instead of evading or mitigating damage. Increasing an assassin’s accuracy and critical rates can help achieving this goal. However, even without knowing it, assassins can be very slippery and sneaky characters. Their defenses are relatively low, so they’ll need to rely on their excessive dodging and hide skills to avoid enemies and to perform rear attacks. And since they don’t have any effective healing skills, they’ll need to rely on potions and bandages for hit point maintenance.

Like scouts, assassins can equip swords, daggers and bows. The assassin’s weapon of choice will vary for their needs. Swords offer good hit rate but average attack speed and critical rate. Daggers has lower accuracy but have exceptional attack speed and lands critical hits often.

Assassins can still use bows for long-ranged DPS but since their combat skills are more blade-oriented, they won’t be able to efficiently use their skills without using a sword or a dagger. For their armor, they can only rely on leather armors. Light armors rarely provide adequate protection but since assassins can employ cloaking/stealth abilities, they can safely bypass unsuspecting enemies before landing a critical blow.

The passive skills of Assassins are enhanced versions of the Scouts’ and can be improved as their level progresses. Assassins can even use cloaking even while in flight, making it one of the tactical approaches a skilled assassin can employ. Assassins can also apply poisons to their weapons, capable of stunning and poisoning enemies at a fixed rate per attack. Combine it with an assassin’s deadly accuracy and his/her equipped weapon’s attack speed and you’ll have an unstoppable killer at your disposal. Assassins can also “mark” their targets after damaging them by engraving patterns. It works like a stackable chain which can be increased per attack. For example, hitting an enemy will add “one pattern level” to it. Use the skill again and it will increase to “two pattern levels” and so on.

Assassins can also remotely trigger a special attack afterwards, like the Pattern Explosion skill that erases the engraved patterns on a target, damaging and stunning the target. The damage and probability of getting stunned depends on the number of patterns engraved. Assassins also have several stat boosting buffs, making them even more deadlier.

All in all, assassins live up to their class, capable of working behind the shadows and eliminating unsuspecting targets before they even have the time to react. Players that love stealth, espionage and shadowy assassin tactics will surely enjoy playing as an assassin.

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Scouts are light warriors that specialize in short swords, daggers and bows. They prefer speed, evasion and agility, making them nimble characters capable of joining the frontline ranks. Speed is traded at a cost of protection since the best gear scouts can wear are leather armors. Scouts can dual wield daggers, swords or a combination of both at an early level. Scouts rely on stealth and flanking manuevers to get the upper hand in battle. They are meant to deal damage at a safe distance or up close without getting too much attention for their targets. Scouts don’t have any good crowd-control skills so it will be a good idea to engage small groups of enemies, especially for low level scouts. When they finally reach ascension, scouts can choose to become Assassins, masters of stealth and efficiently executed attacks or Rangers, masters of bow and traps, capable of dealing huge amounts of damage at long ranges. Details regarding these two subclasses will be discussed on separate articles.

A Scout’s skill tree, like the other three “base” classes or professions is simple. All basic abilities a scout needs should be available to him/her after getting enough levels. They start off with the basic combat skill and evasion buff. At level 3, they’ll be able to execute surprise attacks but it won’t be that effective unless used with the “hide” skill. At level 5, scouts are allowed to dual-wield weapons, enhance their hit rates, use stealth to sneak around enemies and perform a counter-attack after dodging an enemy attack. Employing these skills early on will help aspiring assassins or rangers get the feel of using carefully planned movements and executing surprise attacks to their advantage. Since scouts lack any effective healing skills other than the typical first aid/bandage skill, they will need to rely on food and potions to keep their HP up. Just as scouts reach level 9, they’ll be able to use a passive skill that increases their evasion rate, as well as a combat skill that helps them “focus” to increase their physical damage. So far, scouts can perform two basic chain skills; Swift Edge – Quick Slash or Dodge – Counterslash. When paired with other skills, especially hide and boost accuracy skills, targeted enemies won’t even have that much time to react or defend themselves.

Scouts are meant to take advantage of their surroundings and situations in order to make the most out of it. They may rush in the middle of the battle if needed but their true potential can only be witnessed by launching surprise attacks or taking advantage of stealth to get into optimal position before attacking. Players that would like to use various tactics and strategies to win other than rushing into battle directly would definitely enjoy playing as stealthy and nimble scouts.

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