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Assassin

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An opportunistic striker that uses cheap tricks to surprise foes and gain the upper hand, no matter the cost.

Weapons: Seekers Armor: Medium
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Playable Races

Class Features

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Stealth Matrix

Activate your stealth matrix to become unseen at the cost of movement speed.

Gameplay Hook: Get the jump on your opponents or vanish from combat when things get dicey.

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Tricks of the Trade

Use poisons or illusory sands to turn the tide of battle in your favor.

Gameplay Hook: Create unfair situations for your enemies using a multitude of tools.

Specializations

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Executioners utilize poisons, positional advantages, and expertise to break down enemy defenses before securing the kill.

Core
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Poisons
Apply poisons to your weapons that add additional effects to your basic attacks.
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Expertise
Increases the Executioner's damage by 3% stacking indefinitely and lasts until the executioner has been out of combat for a period of time.
Passives
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Unfair Advantage
Your abilities gain powerful additional effects when used from behind.
Dodge and Parry
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Quick-Step
Dash in the direction you are moving and drop caltrops that deal damage to enemies who step on them.
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Counterstrike
Parry an enemies attack, teleporting behind them, dealing damage and gain expertise.
Sample Abilities
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Ruin

Stab the target, dealing heavy damage.
Unfair Advantage: Deals medium damage three times, generating three stacks of expertise.

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System Shock

Drive your blade into the target, dealing damage. Also grounds the target and applies a fading snare.
Unfair Advantage: Deals bonus poison damage that scales with your current expertise.

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Execute

Stun the target in place for 2 seconds and attempt to execute them. This ability's cooldown is reset on kill, but consumes 33% of your current expertise. Higher expertise lowers the threshold for execute. Enemies outside of execute threshold will still be stunned.
Unfair Advantage: Gain CC Immunity during ability channel.

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Mirage assassins utilize mysterious sands to summon illusions to distract foes and mimic their attacks. This power comes at the cost of the mirage assassin's own sanity.

Core
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Illusory Sands
Unleash your illusory sands to summon illusions which will confuse, distract, and attack your enemies.
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Mark of Delirium
Attacks and abilities apply Delirium to enemies, causing illusions to strike your targets with Illusory Lash.
Passives
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Psychosis
Whenever your illusions deal damage, you begin to build psychosis. Psychosis causes your attacks to deal bonus illusory damage. Upon reaching 80% psychosis, your illusions will begin to take a toll on your psyche.
Dodge and Parry
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Fade
Dash in the direction of your movement becoming briefly invulnerable, invisible and summon a lesser illusion in your place.
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Psyche-Out
Parry and teleport to your attacker, afflicting Delirium.
Sample Abilities
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Summon Illusion

Summon an illusion which mirrors your movement and abilities at reduced effectiveness.

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Illusory Lash

A lashing strike utilized by illusions which hits all enemies in a line. Damage from this ability scales with the assassin's psychosis meter.

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Mind Feast

Retract all illusions to your current position and begin eviscerating enemies in front of you, dealing heavy damage (scales with psychosis). This ability generates a large amount of psychosis.