User:Morten/builds/A/W Save the Locust

The fastest way for an assassin to spam "SY!" and buff your party. Good when you're playing through any campaign with your sin to make things easier for your team. Compared to his warrior counterpart it takes care of the "shutdown through blocking/blindness" problem. has less damage, but more defense/utility. It also has highly spammable KD for caster disturbance and superior E-Mgmt/perma-blocking due to high crit strikes. It is also just cooler to watch in action because of the sheer number of attacks per second it performs.

Attributes and Skills
[build prof=Assa/Warr Critical=12+1+1 Deadly=12+1+1] [Save Yourselves!] [Brawling Headbutt][Optional][For Great Justice!][Expose Defenses][Critical Agility][Critical Defenses][Locust's Fury][/build]

Optional:
 * See variants section.

Equipment

 * armor-boosting insignia and dagger of your preference.
 * a bow to pull.

Usage
Basically:
 * autoattack at all times.
 * keep the last 5 skills on you whenever possible/needed;
 * hit the first 2 skills whenever they recharge.
 * Expose Defenses is gud if you need to negate any form of blocking.

Counters

 * General Anti-melee to a certain extent.
 * SS and insidious parasite will kill you in seconds, due to your insane atk speed.

Variants
(Lower deadly arts and throw some shadow arts in the mix if needed):
 * Lift Enchantment to be coupled with Brawling Headbutt.
 * WY
 * Low blow.
 * Assassin's Remedy to counter blind.
 * Wild blow to aid expose defenses in countering blocking.