A-W Flourishing Blades

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Reason: Introduction of Nightfall skills and updates

The Flourishing Blade uses the power of Flourish to cut the recharge of Assassin attack skills.

Attributes and Skills

Choose a target not in proximity of any allies, preferably overextended.
Cast Siphon Speed on the target.
Close in and use Black Lotus Strike, Twisting Fangs, Black Spider Strike and Blades of Steel, in that order.
Use Flourish to recharge all your attacks. Flourish can also be used to restart the combo if disrupted or Diverted.
Ensure that your target is still hexed with Siphon Speed, and repeat the above combo. Casters who don't have any blocking/evasion skills should be dead by your second Black Spider Strike.
Use Shadow Refuge as a self heal.
To coordinate spike damage within a team, recharge all your skills using Flourish, but allow Flourish to recharge before spiking. This allows your combo to be completed twice in a row, with a one second pause.

Black Lotus Strike and Flourish should suffice in terms of energy management.

This build can, at least in principle, be adapted to any other dagger combo chain.
If a Resurrection Signet is not needed, such as in Alliance Battles, bring a shadow step (such as Death's Charge) or crippling (such as Caltrops) skill. Repeating Strike is another possibility for high sustained damage.
Feigned Neutrality can be used instead of Shadow Refuge, but keep in mind that Feigned Neutrality has a longer recharge then Shadow Refuge.
In a team enviroment, Burst of Aggression is recommended instead of Shadow Refuge.