Unless the assassin has it in for you, he is going to go for the lowhanging fruit because assassinate is a substantial time investment for the assassin, especially when assassinate % is low (IMO % is the most important factor). This means if you avoid going to "normal" areas and avoid cabal raiding, the assassin is going to have to spend valuable playing time finding you when he could just stalk and kill the rager guy raiding nexus. Scions are generally harder to assassinate for this reason -they rarely cabal raid and tend to frequent low travelled dangerous areas. I would not have assassinated Mek, for example, if his Scion didn't spend ten minutes in the Maus, an easily accessible area. Ragers are easy to assassinate because they are often cabal raiding and rarely going to places like the silent tower even when they know an assassin is on. But I will say that if the assassin really wants to get you, you WILL get assassinated unless you can see hidden or just log out. So it's best not to challenge an assassin with comments like the ones below (I've only been assassinated once evah!). If I, for example were playing a high assassinate % char and knew who due or athiss or whoever were playing I guarantee you they'd get hit.


I actually do feel assassinate is OP particularly to certain char types and I also think it influences the game in boring ways (reduces cabal raiding, encourages players to avoid contact with each other, etc.), but I'm loathe to support what kostyan obviously posted as a troll.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/2009 06:29AM by Balrahd.