The Blades of Balance Assassin, utilizes the assassin’s powerful damage with the Necromancer’s powerful Grenth's Balance, to quickly regain health after talking damage, wile also using Plague Touch to remove all conditions to the enemy.

Attributes and Skills

Assassin / Necromancer	Attribute Rank
Critical Strikes	12 + 1
Shadow Arts	9 + 1
Dagger Mastery	9

Unsuspecting Strike

Fox Fangs

Twisting Fangs

Optional

Shadow Refuge

Grenth's Balance

Plague Touch

Resurrection Signet

• For optional slot any Shadow Arts based attribute skill is suggested.

Equipment

• Shrouded Armor to have enough energy for the combos and Grenth's Balance.
• Any max daggers will work, the more damage the better.
• Attunement runes for max energy.

Usage

• Use your 3 Dagger skill combos to quickly damage your target with and repeat while keeping energy at about 5 or 10 in order to heal if needed.
• Use Plague Touch as soon as a condition is received to transfer it to opponent.
• Use Grenth's Balance when low on health and it is possible to life steal from an enemy with more or preferably maximum health.
• Use Shadow Refuge when health reaches a low point and you either don’t have 10 energy to use Grenth’s Balance or there are no enemies with sufficient health in range.

Counters

• Any hexes since this build has no counter for them.
• Huge spike damage so that the Assassin has to time to use Grenth's Balance or Shadow Refuge to or maintain health.
• This build also has no interrupts which means long cast spells are safe to use without fear of interrupts.

Variants

• For Unsuspecting Strike, Fox Fangs, and Twisting Fangs you may use any other dagger mastery skills you prefer, most likely ones that require less energy.
• You can throw Horns of the Ox in the optional to help with interruption.