Assassin

	Death is a banquet. It's up to the murderer to write the menu.

The Assassin is an Ascendancy class for Shadows.

Overview

The Assassin is a offense-oriented class centered around critical strikes. The class offers skills that enhance their power charges and bonus to critical strike effectiveness and utility under certain conditions. He has access to poison themed skills like Noxious Strike, as well as allowing poisons to synergize off of critical strikes to higher levels via Toxic Delivery. Furthermore with Mistwalker the Assassin has the ability to gain the Elusive buff on critical strikes and additional benefits while being affected by it.

Passive skills

Assassin skill tree

Minor skills

The Assassin has the following minor passive skills:

Name	Stats
Critical Strike Chance and Multiplier	15% increased Critical Strike Chance +10% to Critical Strike Multiplier [1] [2]
Critical Strike Chance, Damage Over Time	15% increased Critical Strike Chance 10% increased Damage over Time [1] [2]
Critical Strike Chance, Elusive Effect	15% increased Critical Strike Chance 10% increased Elusive Effect [1]
Critical Strike Chance, Power Charge Duration	15% increased Critical Strike Chance 15% increased Power Charge Duration [1] [2]

Notable skills

The Assassin has the following notable passive skills:

Skill	Modifiers	Prerequisite	Preceding Passive
Mistwalker	50% increased Elusive Effect You take no Extra Damage from Critical Strikes while Elusive Gain Elusive on Critical Strike		Critical Strike Chance, Elusive Effect
Unstable Infusion	20% chance to gain a Power Charge on Non-Critical Strike 10% chance to gain a Power Charge on Critical Strike +1 to Maximum Power Charges		Critical Strike Chance, Power Charge Duration
Deadly Infusion	+5% to Critical Strike Multiplier per Power Charge +1.5% Critical Strike Chance while at maximum Power Charges	Unstable Infusion	Critical Strike Chance, Power Charge Duration
Opportunistic	Damage from your Critical Strikes cannot be Reflected 25% more Damage while there is at most one Rare or Unique Enemy nearby 20% reduced Damage taken while there are at least two Rare or Unique Enemies nearby		Critical Strike Chance and Multiplier
Ambush and Assassinate	+40% to Critical Strike Multiplier against Enemies that are on Full Life 100% more Critical Strike Chance against Enemies that are on Full Life Critical Strikes have Culling Strike 15% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against Enemies that are on Low Life 100% more Critical Strike Chance against Enemies that are on Low Life		Critical Strike Chance and Multiplier
Noxious Strike	5% increased Poison Duration for each Poison you have inflicted Recently, up to a maximum of 100% Recover 0.5% of Life per Poison affecting Enemies you Kill 40% chance to Poison on Hit		Critical Strike Chance, Damage Over Time
Toxic Delivery	Poison you inflict with Critical Strikes deals 25% more Damage +0.5% to Critical Strike Chance per Poison affecting Enemy, up to +2.0%	Noxious Strike	Critical Strike Chance, Damage Over Time

Version history

Version	Changes
3.8.0	Added Mistwalker.
3.2.0	Ambush and Assassinate removed. Added Ambush and Assassinate and Opportunistic.
2.3.0	Swapped skill tree positions of Noxious Strike and Toxic Delivery.
2.2.0	Introduced to the game.