This is a Build that proves most useful in boss fights and the skills follow in order of: knock down then critical strikes (but also using health degenerations). There are not many counters to other skills but the Build works by making the opponent useless towards your attacks to let you stay alive in fights.

Attributes and Skills

Assassin / Monk	Attribute Rank
Dagger Mastery	10 + 1 + 2
Critical Strikes	6 + 2
Deadly Arts	6 + 1
Healing Prayers	6

Palm Strike

Horns of the Ox

Iron Palm

Entangling Asp

Enduring Toxin

Healing Breeze

Mending

Resurrect

Equipment

• Valkyrie's Armor for most of the armor (Nightstalker's armor also recommended)
• Others can be used but I recommend Shiro's Blades because they seem to work well with this build, mostly because of the Mending skill.

Usage

• Use the Iron Palm first to cause some damage and can knock down your opponent, then follow into Entangling Asp to knock down the opponent again (this also causes a health degeneration but as the opponent is knocked down twice this makes the opponent temporally useless)

• After the opponent is up again, Palm Strike then Horns of the Ox cause some damage.

• If the opponent uses skills to recover faster that you can gain energy, you can use Enduring Toxin to quickly start a health degeneration.

• Healing Breeze is used to heal yourself and other party members (this is useful when you have a -60% death penalty any you want to hold back and play monk for a wile).

• Mending can be used most of the time just to help keep you alive and Resurrect is there for obvious reasons.

Counters

There are not a lot of ways to get out of many counters in this build so it can be quite risky at points but this build is designed to mainly= knock down (with some additional damage) then main damage (critical strikes) and healing enough to withstand most other attacks.

Variants

• Black Lotus Strike can come in handy and deals some more damage but try not to replace any of the healing skills.

• Other healing skills can be used and if you find that the counters really cant be stopped by excessive healing then you can use a skill like Mending Touch which can replace Healing Breeze.

Notes

This build can need you to back off when you run out of energy or when the skills are recharging when you are fighting multiple enemies but this build works best for bosses and in pvp.