Assassin Builds

Below, you will find a selection of user-created character templates for Assassins. Character templates are battle-tested methods for building your character, but do not guarantee success and depend mostly on one's style of play.

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Templates

Small Scale Mage Assassin

By Atone 16:00 , 31 December 2009 (EST)

• Race: Shade
• Base Class: Mage
• Prestige Class: Assassin
• Traits:
• -5 from Dex/Str/Spi, +10 to Con
• Brilliant Mind
• Tough As Nails

Stat Runes:

• Intelligence Of The Gods
• Constitution Of The Gods

Discipline Runes:

• Shroudborne

Gear:

• Resist/Shadowmastery rings (Change depending on situation. I normally ran with Holy/Unholy)
• Charmed/Shadowmastery neck
• 5 resist/5 resist individual cloth pieces. (Normally safe to stack pierce resist. Change depending on expected opponents. 10/10 stat hood optional.)
• 5 resist/Windlords boots
• Crimson Circle gloves
• ATR/Shadowmastery journeyman's staff.

Ability Points:

• Dex: Base - 5
• Str: Base -5
• Con: 135
• Int: 160
• Spi: 44

Trains:

• Shadowmastery: 156% (Gold)
• Warding: 40%

• Shielding: 40
• Spectral Bonds: 40
• Shadowbolt: 40
• Shadow Touch: 40
• Steal Breath: 40
• Shadow Mantle: 40
• Chilling Shadows: 40
• Blindness: 40
• Plague of Blindness: 40
• Enfeeblement: 40
• weakening: 26
• Fade: 20
• Invisibility: 20
• Ardan's Shroud: 20
• Oblivion's Caress: 20
• Slayer's Focus: 1
• Silence: 1

Support Mage Assassin

• Race: Human
• Base Class: Mage
• Prestige Class: Assassin
• Traits:
• Born of the Gwendannen
• Warlords Page
• Healthy as an Ox
• Tough as Nails
• Tough Hide

Stat Runes:

• Constitution Of The Gods
• Exceptional Spirit

Discipline Runes:

• Traveler
• Battle Magus
• Rat Catcher

Gear:

• 5/5 infernal cloth set
• 24 con staff
• Resist jewels of your choice

Ability Points:

• Dex: Base - 5
• Str: Base - 5
• Con: 170
• Int: 63
• Spi: 105

Trains:

• Shadowmastery: 115%
• Sorcery: 60%
• Warding: 40%

• Shielding: 40
• Spectral Bonds: 40
• Shadowbolt: 40
• Shadow Touch: 40
• Steal Breath: 40
• Shadow Mantle: 40
• Chilling Shadows: 40
• Blindness: 40
• Plague of Blindness: 40
• Enfeeblement: 40
• weakening: 40
• Fade: 20
• Invisibility: 20
• Slayer's Focus: 1
• Silence: 40

• Traveler gates: 5 (1 point each gate)
• Send to rune gate: 1
• Recall to runegate: 1
• Group recall to runegate: 5

• Demolish spell: 1
• Skirmish counterspell: 20

• Infection: 20
• Plague: 20

And you have some spare points left over

FoF/LMB Support: Aelfborn Mage Assassin

by Dyson

Starting Traits

• Warlord's Page
• Tough as Nails
• Tough Hide
• Fleet of Foot

Runes

• Constitution of the Gods (+40 Constitution)

Stats

• 145 Constitution
• 101 Intelligence
• 80 Spirit

Disciplines

• Battle Magus
• Optional
• Optional
• Optional

Discipline Powers

• Skirmish Counterspell - 20 (40)

Mage Powers

• Enfeeblement - 39 (40)
• Weakening - 39 (40)
• Shielding - 39 (40)
• Spectral Bonds - 39 (40)
• Mage Bolt - 39 (40)
• Lesser Mage Bolt - 1

Assassin Powers

• Fade - 20
• Invisibility - 20
• Cloak of Shadows - 1
• Blindness - 30
• Shadow Touch - 40
• Steal Breath - 40
• Chilling Shadows - 40
• Silence - 40
• Slayer's Focus - 40
• Shadow Mantle - 40
• Backstab - 1

Skills

• Warding - 6 (40%)
• Sorcery - 52 (90%)
• Shadowmastery - 59 (97%)
• Staff - 1 (26%)

Optional Trains

• Depending on the ATR gained via 90% Sorcery (the minimum requirement for Lesser Mage Bolt) and the DEF attained by this character and others that you'd want to utilize LMB on, you can drop X amount of trains from Weakening, Slayer's Focus, Blindness, or Steal Breath in order to train Sorcery to your required level.

Optimal Equipment

• Helm: +24 Constitution or +10.5 [Resistance] Assassin Hood
• Chest: +10.5 [Resistance] [Cloth Vest]
• Sleeves: +10.5 [Resistance] [Cloth Sleeves]
• Gloves: +10.5 [Resistance] [Cloth Gloves]
• Legs: +10.5 [Resistance] [Cloth Leggings]
• Boots: +5.5 [Resistance] / +15% Movement Speed [Cloth Boots]
• Neck: Charmed of the Gods [Neck]
• Ring 1: +24 Constitution or 12 Spirit / 12 Constitution or +35 [Resistance] / +12 Constitution [Ring]
• Ring 2: +35 Poison Resistance / +15 Bleeding Resistance [Ring]
• Weapon: +24 Constitution or 12 Spirit / 12 Constitution or +35 [Resistance] / +12 Constitution [Staff]

Notes

• The starting traits are achieved by doing the following at creation:

Select Rogue as your base class and take 5 points each from Strength, Intelligence, and Spirit. Take Tough Hide. Take Fleet of Foot, followed by Warlord's Page and Tough as Nails. Now change your base class to Mage and your setup is complete.

Vampire Mage

Character Optimization Contest Winner - June 2010 by snowmaN

• Race: Vampire
• Class: Mage
• Profession: Assassin

Applied Runes

• Warlord's Page
• Tough as Nails
• Tough Hide
• Constitution of the Gods
• Exceptional Intelligence
• Battle Magus
• Gorgoi
• Traveller
• Wyrmslayer

Stats

• Strength: 30/120
• Dexterity: 40/115
• Constitution: 170/170
• Intelligence: 130/130
• Spirit: 25/60

Skills

• Bloodcraft 71% (10 trains)
• Sorcery 30% (2 trains)
• Warding 40% (7 trains)
• Shadowmastery 97% (61 trains)

Powers

• Shielding 40 (Grand Master)
• Enfeeblement 40 (Grand Master)
• Spectral Bonds 40 (Grand Master)
• Weakening 40 (Grand Master)
• Skirmish Counterspell 40 (Grand Master)
• Shadow Mantle 40 (Grand Master)
• Silence 40 (Grand Master)
• Blindness 40 (Grand Master)
• Chilling Shadows 40 (Grand Master)
• Steal Breath 40 (Grand Master)
• Counter Venom 40 (Grand Master)
• Cloak of Shadows 40 (Grand Master)
• Fade 20 (Journeyman)
• Invisibility 20 (Journeyman)
• Flame Ward 20 (Journeyman)
• Uncanny Fortitude 20 (Journeyman)
• Dark Fortitude 20 (Journeyman)
• Vampire's Kiss 1 (Untrained)
• The Blood is the Life 1 (Untrained)
• Demolishing Spell 1 (Untrained)
• Slayer's Focus 1 (Untrained)
• Shadow Touch 1 (Untrained)
• Recall to Runegate 5 (Beginner)
• Send to Runegate 5 (Beginner)
• Open Spirit Gate 5 (Beginner)
• Open Air Gate 5 (Beginner)
• Open Earth Gate 5 (Beginner)
• Open Water Gate 5 (Beginner)
• Open Fire Gate 5 (Beginner)

Equipment

• Head:Truewoven/Trueson Assassin Hood (5.5s/5s)
• Chest:Truewoven/Trueson Infernal Chest (5.5s/5s)
• Sleeves:Trueshaped/Stoneskin Infernal Sleeves (5.5p/5p)
• Gloves:Trueshaped/Stoneskin Black Cloth Gloves (5.5p/5p)
• Pants:Beasthide/Pillar Infernal Pants (5.5c/5c)
• Boots:Beasthide/Windlords Black Knee Boots (5.5c/15%speed)

• Ring:Apostates/Treant (30holy/15bleed)
• Ring:Apostates/Treant (30holy/15bleed)
• Amulet:Charmed/Treant (20f,l,c/15bleed)

• Left Hand:
• Right Hand:Apostates/Treant Staff (30holy/15bleed)

External Links

• Shadowbane Emulator Assassin Forum