Fav assassin archetype?

…2+?
also have you tried the specialist

 

Duh obviously, your mythic weapon, your mythic boots and, the most important piece: discoverer.

 

When they first introduced the archetypes, I thought I would probably spend most of my time using Shadestepper, since "glass cannon, high damage" sounded the most like 1.20 assassin to me and was how I intended to play assassin in 2.0. However in reality, Shadestepper utilises a playstyle based around smoke bombing an enemy to build up "marks" and then going in to vanish to meelee/backstab the mob. This kind of "heavy melee" or "one-shotty" game loop does not appeal to me very much. It's not an awful or horrible archetype, but just doesn't really fit my playstyle.

On to Trickster. I've not really played much trickster (not much meaning not at all), but judging by a lot of comments here on the forums and the discord, I'm not really missing out on anything.

Acrobat has to be my personal favourite out of the 3 assassin archetypes, having high mobility, engaging gameplay and a high skill ceilling. A lot of people have been complainging about the lackluster damage output, but the dps isn't that bad, it's probably even one of the more balanced archetype, it just appears to be weaker when compared to other classess.

 

7 spin attack
cry about it

 

Tbh I once approach my friend to talk to him but just realized 5 seconds later I was approaching his clone.