This Assassin combines Ranger Bow attacks and Preparations with Assassin Critical Strikes to effectively shut down anyone without inflicting Dazed or Hexes and refresh Critical Defences constantly.

Attributes and Skills

Assassin / Ranger	Attribute Rank
Critical Strikes	12 + 2 + 1
Marksmanship	12
Shadow Arts	3 + 2

Focused Shot

Needling Shot

Dash

Shadow Refuge

Disrupting Accuracy

Critical Eye

Way of the Assassin

Critical Defenses

Equipment

• Armor with Survivor Insignias and 3 x Attunement Runes
• 2 x Recurve Bows with Sundering and Zealous String and Enchantmants + 20% Grip

Usage

• Cast Disrupting Accuracy, Critical Eye, Way of the Assassin, Critical Defenses at the beginning of combat, and recast as soon as they expire.
• Spam Focused Shot on your target.
• When your target gets below 50% hp, you'll want to start spamming Needling Shot as much as possible.

A Critical hit will gain you back 5 energy with the Zealous Bow so you can spam all you like as long as you have the stance/skills up. You'll never run out of energy with the Zealous Bow. Overall it takes a few seconds to get into combat but you can really shut down anyone with this combo.

Counters

• Anti-Attack skills, Spiteful Spirit and Empathy also Clumsiness and Blind.
• Blocking stances used by Rangers and Assassins. Warriors are not so much of a problem as they rarely use them.

Variants

• Use Keen Arrow instead of Focused Shot, but that provides overall less damage per second.
• Swap out Critical Defences for a longer lasting Enchantment if feel you cannot maintain it. Shroud of Distress will leave you with a 5 second down time whereas if you cannot maintain Critical Defenses, you will be left with an 18 sec down time.
• Swap out Dash for another enchantment if you feel you do not need a speed buff.