Build:A/Me Fragility Temple

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Contents 1 Attributes and Skills 2 Equipment 3 Usage 4 Counters 5 Variants 6 Notes

The Fragility Temple Assassin uses the Mesmer skill Fragility to add more damage to the Assassin's combo that includes adding conditions.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Assassin / Mesmer	Attribute Rank
Dagger Mastery	9 + 1 + 1
Critical Strikes	9 + 2
Shadow Arts	7 + 1
Illusion Magic	11

Fragility

Golden Lotus Strike

Temple Strike

Twisting Fangs

Death's Charge

Illusion of Weakness

Shadow Refuge

Generic resurrect

• "Generic resurrect" works like an Optional slot. Replace it if necessary.

[edit] Equipment

Any Armor that buffs up your energy. Daggers that either do 15% more damage while hexed, or daggers that do 15% more damage while enchanted.

[edit] Usage

Before the fight even thinks about starting cast Illusion of Weakness, then when the fight does start pick your target.Once you pick your target, usually a squishy, start off by casting Fragility on them. Then follow up with Death's Charge to get close to them, after that unleash the Golden Lotus Strike, Temple Strike, and Twisting Fangs combo. Use Shadow Refuge as healing when needed. You will be doing the regular damage from all of you assassin skills but you will also add the damage from fragility with them. Since Temple Strike and Twisting Fangs both add two conditions you will be doing fragility damage twice with those skills. And when the conditions run out, if your target is still alive, they will do the fragility damage again.

[edit] Counters

• The normal melee counters, such as Blind, Empathy, etc.
• Removing Fragility will hurt this build alittle.

[edit] Variants

You could replace Golden Lotus Strike with Black Mantis Thrust or Black Spider Strike to not only add another conditions but also slow your target down. Replace Death's Charge with Black Lotus Strike for more energy management.

[edit] Notes

Playing in RA leaves you with just your own heals most of the time. And although you can disable melee attacks and slow down casters, you are still vunerable to mass degens and spike damage.