Diablo II Character Classes: Assassin

 

 

The Assassin depends on an assortment of martial arts abilities and the ability to lay passive traps. She can also open bolted chests without the use of a key. Her Shadow Disciplines tree carries a mixture of passive bonuses (like Claw Mastery or Weapon Block) and buffs (like Burst of Speed or Venom), along with a couple of spells like Mind Blast which stun and confuse the opposition instead of causing direct harm. She also can summon a Shadow Warrior or Shadow Master, which are valuable summons that are also capable of administering significant harm themselves.

 

The Traps tree allows for a few direct attacks, and more importantly, a quantity of summonable traps. The traps are stationary devices that will assault any unfriendly target in range a certain amount of times before collapsing. Traps are either founded on fire or lightning, although the Death Sentry trap can detonate nearby corpses as well as shoot bolts of lightning. The blade trap skills are basically ranged projectiles that cause physical harm.

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The Martial Arts tree comprises of charge-up skills and finishing moves. Attacking with a charge-up skill increases the number of charges, up to three, then the finishing move ejects the charges in a single herculean blow. The charge-up skills include attacks like Blades of Ice and Fists of Fire, which add elemental harm to the finishing attack, and also abilities like Cobra Strike, which adds life and mana thieving to the finishing blow. The finishing attacks are, for the most part, kicks, like Dragon Talon, which releases a number of kicks in quick succession, and Dragon Flight, which teleports on to a foe and kicks them, expelling any charges.

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