Is Assassin Really That Bad?

Now of course in Gavel, Assassin turned from broken to what was considered to most people to be the worst class in wynncraft. Assassin had many mobility issues due to assassin having to depend on either using walkspeed stuff or horses to travel and had horrible sea traveling experiences in general along with having them have to do parkour. They also get outclassed in their "damage output" department by classes like archers when that was technically supposed to be assassin's specialty and assassin is a very mana hungry class along with having only one ranged attack being smoke bomb, what was considered to be assasin's most usable weapon. But in actuallity, is assassin really THAT bad? And does assassin needs nerfs? Well... Outside of multi hit buffs and maybe a slight damage upgrade to spin attack, i think assassin is good as it is. While I do think its probably one of the harder classes to play by far, but it still lives up to all the other classes and assassin should seriously not get slept on, like at all.

Assassin does admittably have by far the biggest learning curve of the other 3 class by FAR. Assassin has the least spammable moves due to huge mana consumption and you must be smart about what you do. Now I did play assassin a bit in the run where i play as assassin but I can't use potions making me even more careful. But anyways, because assassin's tools are much less spammable and exploitable makes it much weaker than any others right? WRONG! Take for example mage's meteor, it has high dmg output and is quite exploitable by many mage builds which makes mage very good along with heal. However, outside of those things and maybe a couple of combos for meteor, there isnt much things you can do else, its reward is great but it cant be used for anything better. Assassin however, can use things like vanish to trick enemies which allows for many situations to be open and especially beneficial situations in combat. Vanish may allow you to go behind the enemy and attack from behind or you could use a useful spell. You cannot exploit this due to heavy mana loss if you vanish a lot so you must think carefully, and smoke bomb can be used for great stage control and can be used to lure enemies inside to deal great damage and to slow the enemies down. This allows for many strategies between the two abilities and to think of the best situation ahead of your opponent. While mage's tools are very powerful and are easy to use, it is still quite predictable and they are only useful in a specific situation or strategy (like healing is just for you know healing and meteor is just for mage's only damage), assassin is a class where you are being given a sky high amount of potential in your tools when used right. However, your tool isn't easy to use. You must think the other way around and beyond to know what you want to do and you are after all, an assassin. Like if you were to assassinate some one, you must think ahead of the game for you to become in a beneficial situation for you to be given the chance to kill with the tools you have. And your tools again can be quite unpredictable on what you want to do.

Overall, while assassin may have "flaws", it is a class that is very good in the right hands and asssassin doesn't need honestly that many buffs for assassin is fine how it is. Playing assassin requires great thinking and you must think of the other way around in order for you to become successful and to use your tools to the fullest. The tools at the fullest allows for assassin to be able to do many unpredictable things. The lack of spammability is used to balance assassin and for people to come up with different ways to defeat their opponents in both pvp and pve allowing assassin to become a very very strong class when used right. And assassin isn't underpowered a single bit.

tl;dr: assassin is basically a class with a high learning curve and may have some minor flaws (specifically mobility), but assassin has much more potential and shouldn't be slept on and is a very balanced class overall.

 

Holy wall of text.

 

p sure most of the forums knows that already.
theres much lesser threads about it

 

@Selvut283 has gained a minion.

 

Yea... but theres a lot of people still that I know (not on forums) that generally complain, Its not just the threads, people will still obviously think of assassin as the worst. Its just the most difficult class to master, though mastering the class allows for high potential.

 

its their own way of thinking and thats their own, you can't change it

 

Well I'm not really saying their thinking is wrong necessarily. But its more on how some people i know are "sleeping" on assassin and I just want to get a few things out of my chest. And you know, maybe have a few people realize a bit of assassin's potential, but it is perfectly fine if someone says assassin is relatively weak compared to the other classes since assassin is a bit of in a weird spot tbh.

 

I actually prefer assassin to warrior. It's the same melee style, but instead of slow and powerful I get to be stealthy, quick and dictate the pace of the fight.

 

I think its fine. Although the damage is shit, its a cool and fun class which makes the game more challenging

(#lvl85assassin)

 

Its damage isn't really bad at all and is actually still decent, but it just was "outclassed", and its lack of mobility can make the game quite challenging, assassin may have higher reward compared to most other classes and can have more pvp success than other classes in right hands.

 

*Incoming selvut*

 

just remove mana consumption during vanish and boom.

 

Just become a cactus like I did.

 

I hug cactuses all teh time :3

 

Assassin isn't really underpowered. Personally I think it's just really fun and challenging to play. Plz nu buf

 

I don't play assassin too much but to me it seems like the spells conflict with it's "intended" use (as a damage dealer). It would be much more fun if it was based around a playstyle similar to arrow shield archer, which is running into a group of mobs and dealing heavy damage at a high risk of getting hurt. But then again I heard that @Selvut283 hates glass cannons. Idk if this risky playstyle constitutes as a glass cannon though.

 

Any class can be good, every class has their own powerful things, assassins downside is the mobility. That's why I don't play them. But I don't they are bad.

 

Please don't.

 

To all who say assassin sucks now:

 

I should seriously get my flame shield up just in case selvut rants about how I slightly mentioned a possible buff in the beginning