Posted by Semi-first time assassin (but three in a row due to getting pissed and deleting) on March 10, 2000 at 13:01:19:
In Reply to: skill affects posted by Assassin Master on March 9, 2000 at 08:54:02:
Ok, having never played an assassin before these few, I did't know what the affects of each skill was, so I started researching.
Caltraps: -dex, -hitroll, -damroll. Not sure if the ammount is level based or not.
Nerve: shoulder/forearm -str, back of the knee -dex, devastating blow to the kidney -con
Kotegaeshi: haven't fully researched this one yet, but I do know that it affects strength by alot, since kotegaeshi alone will cause Jacklyn and Derrick in ofcol to be too weak to wield their ranseurs, and I think that ranseur wieghs like 20 lbs. I don't know what else Kotegaeshi affects, since I deleted my assassin that had it at rank 22 before I had a chance to do a bit of friendly sparring with someone to find out it's exact affects.
As for any skills AFTER Kot, I don't know anything about them except what others have told me, which may or may not be inaccurate.
Kanset affects str in some way (not sure what), and don't remember for sure, but I think it might affect other things as well (I could very well be wrong on that)
I think axe kick can affect strength by breaking the shoulder blade (again, could be wrong)
That's all I know so far. I'm on my third assassin now, this time, no more fuck-ups and deaths due to shear stupidity or arrogance on my part.
Lesson for the day, reguardless of the fact that if you know what you're doing, you have the ability to kill CERTAIN mobs that are hooded when ranking solo, you REALLY should learn to respect them anyway cause sometime you're going to get arrogant and think they're easy, then you're going to fuck up and they'll rip you a new asshole.