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The Leaping Temple Strike build is designed for taking
out spell casters of almost all types, especially support monks. It
uses Shadow
of Haste to keep up not only a constant speed buff, but as a
means of escape used in conjunction with Dash. It uses Temple Strike to disable spell casters via Dazed, and other low cost
attack skills to finish them off. It also keeps in mind that most
players will run when inflicted with dazed, and has the appropriate counters.
Attributes and Skills
Equipment
- Silencing Daggers of Fortitude with +15% while in a stance
- Shrouded Armor
Usage
- Always keep Shadow of Haste on. This way you have a
constant speed buff and in the long run will always outrun your
target, it also allows you to fully utilized Leaping
Mantis Sting.
- Use Death's Charge as the best means of surprising
your target, giving them little to no time to react before you've
hit them with Temple Strike.
- Critical Strike is used as the dual attack
due to its energy mangement, you gain 3 energy at Critical Strikes
10, making up for the costly use of Temple Strike.
- If your target runs, you'll already have a speed buff with Shadow of
Haste to catch up to them and cripple them with Leaping
Mantis Sting - which will in turn allow you to inflict even
greater damage with Jungle Strike.
- With Dagger Mastery at 16, you can keep reapplying
the crippling as
the recharge of Leaping Mantis Sting is only 8 seconds,
and its duration is 16 seconds.
- Use Dash to cancel Shadow of
Haste to get yourself out of trouble.
- Try to reactivate Shadow of Haste before going after a target
if you figure that the time left on its duration is almost up, so
that you can keep an escape point further back, because it doesn't
help you as much if you have to activate again during combat.
Counters
- Casters with a significant number of anti-melee skills.
- Skills like Wild
Blow or Wild
Strike can mess you up.
- Not built to go toe to toe with Warriors (but you can
shut them down).
- Plague
Touch
Variants
Replace Death's Charge with one of these two
skills:
- Signet of Malice for quick and easy
condition removal, works well with this build due to the 3
conditions you can inflict - greatly increases survivabilty without
having to retreat.
- Signet of Shadows for an extra burst of
damage after your combo, drawback is having to move points to
Deadly Arts by pulling some out of Dagger Mastery, which loses you some
duration on Temple Strike's conditions.
Replace Critical Strike for Twisting Fangs to
cover the effect of Temple Strike, making it harder to heal.
Notes
- Recent skill update made this build much more viable.
- Have been using to great effect in Aspenwood and AB.
- A recent skill update reduced the duration of Shadow of Haste
below its recharge time, so the combination of it with Dash is not
nearly as useful.
Templates
Assassin / Any
