Assassin (the Marillion track is my favourite)

So here I thinking just how do I explain what I am doing? Everyone will think I am nuts because what I am doing makes no sense, a rogue Assassin can only work if he runs in a PUG but here I go as a soloist using Rogue Assassin and trying to specialise in Kukris with a focus on slashing weapons. Great and all but not fantastic for running by himself.

This is life 14 and Grouseman has already taken one life in Rogue but that was as a mechanic. So this time around I wanted to try something different. Yeah I want to be a trapper of sorts but the key is making things drop dead very very fast. The intention is for improved crits with Kukris so 30% of the time I should be getting boosted damage. At the moment I am waiting on my next feat to get critical damage up but still get 15% of my hits up there. As my focus is built that way I have gone out of my way to get burst damage Kukris, to which I have add festival Icy Burst as per my last blog entry including the grind.

I was going to be sexist here. Still they are work well

I was going to go into epic mode when I hit level 20 but with the expectation of another class being introduced I am probably going to just hold at level 20 and wait. I have plenty of other characters I could be working on. I have gone down the route of dexterity for chance to hit and damage and at level 11 he has what I think is a reasonable 35 including 2 from airship buffs. I really need to bump it up one but of course I will hit level 12 very soon so I think I will be okay there. And for anyone who is new to the game at level 4/8/12/16/20 you can increase a stat by a point. So constant investment in dexterity seems sensible.

I know not that Uber

Because I "solo" I don't get as many back stabs in which is a shame because I think 10d6+1 is an okay amount to add to a lot of burst damage. I have taken to using a cleric and sometimes a gold seal fighter to send in to draw aggro. I can usually take 3 or 4 monsters down almost straight away before they realise I am there and start on me. Because of this though I haven't taken the poison options and instead I am working with just venomed blades. I may choose to do the poisons later but it certainly isn't a priority. I must admit I do think I might have been better off if I had chosen to go Halfing and worked around the lack of a feat.

Look ma no poison attacks just venomed blades

So at the moment I am heading for 5000 slays in the Fens from which I will hit my level 12 and see where he goes from there. I have an idea of what I wanted but as the situation has changed because I am now not going end game with him I can perhaps put in one or two tweaks just to see how they might play out. But think once I am through warlock (if it is warlock they give us) I will still go back to rogue after all the trouble I went to with the Kukris. A kukri wielding Tempest Ranger? A kukri Kensei Fighter? Not really options I want but never say never.

So safe sneaking

Grouseman