User:The Gates Assassin/Temple Strike

If you have been directed to this page, you have submitted a build using Temple Strike or you don't understand what people don't like about it. Here is why.

Concept 1: A blinding skill should be spammable
Blinding Flash, the original Blinding Surge, and Ebon Dust Aura are great blinding skills because it was very easy to spam blinds on multiple enemies for little cost. Builds using these greatly reduced pressure on their team. The thing with Temple strike is you can only use it once every 20 seconds, there are no mods to extend the blind and the blind only lasts 9 seconds. That means you can only blind someone for 50% of the time, ignoring the fact that the blind can easily be drawn/foul feasted/dismissed. That's terrible, so all in all, the blind is useless besides acting as a cover.

Concept 2: A daze skill should be relatively maintainable with lots of damage or fully maintainable with others dealing damage
A few examples of builds like this are Thumpers and Broad Head Arrow Rangers. Thumpers have tons of knockdowns, lots of damage and a relatively maintainable daze. BHA Rangers have a fully maintainable daze, with tons of utility, and generally another character to deal the damage. That is what makes them great. Now let's think about a dagger dazer.

Daggers don't do a lot of damage for pressure. Moebius Strike isn't that much pressure since it's just straight damage. Shattering Assault is lots of pressure, but easily shutdown. And that's all assassins have for pressure! Easily shutdown low damage pressure! Now if we can't even use Shattering Assault or Moebius Strike, our pressure is terrible. So we don't have the damage to back up our daze, nor do we have it maintainable. So really, we have nothing.

Concept 3: "Bad" doesn't always mean "Bad"
A lot of times, people don't care enough to think of the right word which in this case is inferior. Temple Strike functions. It can take out some people and be helpful at times, however it is simply inferior to other options. If you like running Temple Strike, have fun with it, because it honestly isn't Echo Mending bad. However for a build site where it is compared to all other related builds, this falls short. So, take it with you to RA fine, but keep it off the site.