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Table of Contents
Important 2
The short version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The long version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Preface 8
Introduction 9
Role as an Assassin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Choosing a Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Positives and Negatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The Bad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Differences Between Elyos and Asmodian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Assassin's characteristic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Basic Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Available Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Available Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Class Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Combat Strategy 20
Leveling 23
Elyos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Levels 1-10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Levels 10-20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Levels 20-30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Level 20 to 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Level 21 - 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Level 22 - 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Level 23 - 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Level 24 - 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Level 25- 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Level 26 - 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Level 27 - 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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Level 28 - 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Level 29 - 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Levels 30-40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Level 31 - 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Level 32 - 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Level 34 - 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Level 35 - 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Level 36 - 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Level 37-38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Level 38-39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Level 39-40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Levels 40-50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Level 40 - 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Level 41- 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Level 42- 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Level 43 - 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Level 44 - 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Level 45 - 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Level 46 - 47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Level 47 - 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Level 48 - 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Level 49 -50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Level 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Asmodian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Levels 1-10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Levels 10-20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Levels 20-30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Level 20 to 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Level 21 - 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Level 22 - 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Level 23 - 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Level 24 - 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Level 25- 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
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Level 26 - 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Level 27 - 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Level 28 - 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Level 29 - 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Levels 30-40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Level 30 - 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Level 31 - 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Level 32 - 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Level 33 - 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Level 34 - 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Level 35 -36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Level 36 - 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Level 37 - 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Level 38 - 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Level 39 - 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Levels 40-50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Level 40-41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Level 41- 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Level 42- 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Level 43 - 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Level 44 - 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Level 45 - 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Level 46 - 47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Level 47 - 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Level 48 - 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Level 49 -50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Level 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Assassin Skill List 177
Scout Skill List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Assassin Skill List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Divine Strike Vs. Strike of Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Raid Posture Vs. Alert Posture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
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Vaizel's Dirk Vs. Triniel's Dirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Light Burst Signet Vs. Darkness Pattern Nova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Equipment 207
Recommended Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Level 1 - 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Level 11 - 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Level 21 - 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Level 31 - 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Level 41 -50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Recommended Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Earrings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Necklaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Helmet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
PvP Strategies 224
PvP as a Assassin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Recommended PvP Stigmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
PvP Gearing Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
The Assassin vs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Macros 239
Kinah making strategy 241
Crafting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Cooking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Armorsmith/Tailoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Handicraft and Weaponsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Farming/Hunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
The Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Selling High Demand Skins Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Morphing to Earn Kinah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
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Extracting for High Level Enchantment Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Conclusion 250
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Introduction for your Faction, doing all the dirty work
of assassination. So what does James Bond
do, other than getting the beautiful ladies?
He acts in stealth, undercover, and uses
any means necessary to achieve his goal.
- Role as an Assassin
- Choosing a Race In many ways your role as an Assassin
- Positives and Negatives will be just like James Bond. With all your
- Differences Between Elyos and attacking skills and the ability to inflict a
Asmodian large amount of damage in a short period
- Assassin's characteristic of time, being an Assassin makes you one
of the most valuable damage dealers (also
known as a DD class in the game).
Role as an Assassin Assassins rely on their speed, the ability
to hide, and their evasion skills. The
Assassin also has a special set of skills,
which includes the ability to Engrave
The Assassin is usually viewed as the
Patterns on their enemies. Various patterns
scoundrel of the race in many
can be engraved on the enemies very
MMORPGs. Assassin, also know as Sin,
quickly, and can be removed just as easily
is closely related to the archetypical thief
afterwards with your skills to cause severe
class. Although the thief class in Aion
damage and debuff status to your enemies.
doesn't exist, the Assassin is still viewed
Solo Player vs. Environment (PVE)
as a dishonorable class because of their
ambush and poisoning skills. The two words you should always keep
in mind as an Assassin are "Damage
According to the official Lore of Aion,
Dealer", and that's what you should stick
"Elysean Assassins have been known to
to, whether you're in a group or going
follow Vaizel, the Lord of Free Souls,
solo. Your objective while solo is to inflict
while Asmodian Assassins tend to serve
as much damage as possible to your
Triniel, the Queen of Death."
enemy while keeping them stunned. As an
So What is your Role of an Assassin?
Assassin it is very important to know your
As much as you are despised for your skills and to be able to use them at the
sneakiness and sly tactics, you are still a right time. The goal is to kill your enemy
very important class in your Faction. Just with one swift combo, and if you find
think of yourself as James Bond working yourself in a bad situation just RUN
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AWAY. As an Assassin, you're not the in a hopeless situation someone must stay
heavy plate wearing tank there to take alive to revive the group. That is your job
damage, but rather you're the light as an Assassin since you can use your hide
leather wearer that runs away, so don't skills and wait for the enemies aggression
feel bad for running away since that's to subside. Again, don't feel bad for being
part of your job. a coward; it is for the better in the long
run.
Group Player vs. Environment
(PVE) Your Role in Player vs. Player (Group
or Solo)
In a group your role is ... guess what?
Damage dealer! You will be doing what If you like to go for honorable, one vs.
you normally do while going solo, but in one close combat pvp then Assassin is not
a group. The difference between solo and the class for you. Your role as an Assassin
group play is that you don't have to in any pvp is to ambush; to sneak up on
watch your health points as much, and your enemy and unload all your skills to
hopefully you don't have to run away. In kill them in 1 swift combo. It is widely
a group, skill combinations become less known that the Assassin can kill any class
important, but that doesn't mean you can or leave them near death in one single
use whatever skill you want. So it is still combo, and if you don't kill them just run
good to know your skills so that you can away, hide and go back and try again. The
increase your groups efficiency. best strategy for Assassin in pvp is to hit
and run. Many other players might call
Apart from being the damage dealer in
you a coward or being cheap, but
your group, there are also two other
disregard what they say since that is your
minor roles that you fit into sometimes.
role as an Assassin. You're not there to
These are the scout and the coward. The
take damage, so use your skills and the
scout is straight forward because the
environment to your advantage. In my
Assassin has the ability to go deep within
experience, an Assassin works best alone
the enemies territory without being seen.
as opposed to group pvp. It is, by far, the
So sometimes you could be asked by
best class to sneak into your enemies
your group to search out a path. As for
realm and kill someone while they are
the coward, you're probably thinking
leveling, afk, or resting, then run away,
well "I'm no coward" and you're right,
repeat and do it again. In group pvp, you
but being a coward as an Assassin
don't have to hide as much, because you
sometimes is crucial. Let me explain;
have a healer to heal you. Your job in the
when your group is being wiped out or is
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