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Assassin
Assassin ascendancy class
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This page is about the Ascendancy class. For the Ascendant passive, see Assassin (Ascendant passive).

The Assassin is an Ascendancy class for Shadows.

Overview

The Assassin is an offense-oriented class centered around critical strikes. The class offers skills that enhance their power charges and bonus to critical strike effectiveness and utility under certain conditions. He has access to poison themed skills like Noxious Strike, as well as allowing poisons to synergize off of critical strikes to higher levels via Toxic Delivery. Furthermore with Mistwalker the Assassin has the ability to gain the Elusive buff on critical strikes and additional benefits while being affected by it.

Passive skills

Assassin skill tree

Assassin skill tree

Minor skills

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Notable skills

The Assassin has the following notable passive skills:

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Skill Modifiers Prerequisite Preceding Passive
Critical Strike Chance, Elusive Effect
Critical Strike Chance, Power Charge Duration
Unstable Infusion Critical Strike Chance, Power Charge Duration
Critical Strike Chance and Multiplier
Critical Strike Chance and Multiplier
Critical Strike Chance, Damage Over Time
Noxious Strike Critical Strike Chance, Damage Over Time

Version history

Version Changes
3.8.0
3.2.0
2.3.0
2.2.0
  • Introduced to the game.