Build:A/R Rampaging Locust

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The Rampaging Locust focuses on fast damage with a high critical percent using the skill Locust's Fury in combination with Heket's Rampage. It deals damage faster than most other assassin builds, receives a critical hit more, and ultimately reaps the benefits of Way of Perfection and Assassin's Remedy. Its attack chain merely has the purpose of "softening" a target, by going staight through defenses, stances or spells (Golden Fox Strike and Fox Fangs) and causing Deep Wound and Bleeding (Twisting Fangs) so that the build's main offense may have a higher chance to succeed.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

AssassinRangerAssassin / Ranger Attribute Rank
Critical Strikes 11 + 1 + 3
Dagger Mastery 10 + 1
Shadow Arts 9 + 1
Beast Mastery 4
Golden Fox Strike

Golden Fox Strike

Fox Fangs

Fox Fangs

Twisting Fangs

Twisting Fangs

Heket's Rampage

Heket's Rampage

Critical Eye

Critical Eye

Locust's Fury

Locust's Fury

Way of Perfection

Way of Perfection

Assassin's Remedy

Assassin's Remedy

  • If you're one of those "Res-Sticklers", you may want to consider replacing Assassin's Remedy for a Res. Sig., seeing as how most PvE monks now-a-days carry condition removal.
  • You can also switch out Assassin's Remedy for Signet of Malice.
  • If you're uncomfortable with Way of Perfection as your heal, you can also use Feigned Neutrality.

[edit] Equipment

  • Nightstalker's Armor with the appropriate rune set up, maybe a few runes of attunement.
  • Zealous daggers of Enchanting are reccomended.

[edit] Usage

  • Before entering battle, cast your enchantments. (You may want to cast Locust's Fury -> Way of Perfection -> Assassin's Remedy, to give yourself a larger chance of keeping your main offense up.) Maintain these enchantments at all times, it's best to leave combat for a few seconds in order to do so.
  • Upon completed setup, engage your target using your attack chain, as many skills as you can to lower the enemy's health to as low as possible. Once this has been done, use Heket's Rampage.
  • Repeat these processes as many times as necessary (though twice is typically the max on any one target), for energy management is not an issue.
  • If you should happen to target an enemy using blocking or evading skills, either switch to another target, or rely soley on Golden Fox Strike and Fox Fangs (though it's probably best that you simply ignore them for last, seeing as how your main offense, your fast strikes, will be completely negated).

[edit] Counters

  • Enchantment stripping (though a minimal threat seeing as how your skills are all nearly-spammable.)
  • Blindness.
  • Blocking and Evasion can become a hassle to cope with and will also hinder your healing.
  • Anti-melee skills like Spiteful Spirit or Empathy.

[edit] Variants

No major favored/completed variants.

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