Ragnarok DS

[Manifus]

position lag is very beneficial in this game. if you know the pattern of the monsters then you can easily avoid all damage, making agi or vit almost obsolete.

and yea, stabbers do suck on no vit monsters, but then again, it's acting just like an ice pick would in this RO. also, i don't know why but i was already near 160 aspd with around 50 agi using a katar. dual wielding on the other hand, yea only around 160 with max agi.

also, agi and luk is the way to go with assassins as crit damage far outweighs normal damage and is far more useful than skills are with assassins, save for possibly giga slave where that can be real damaging with the right set up. *read on gamefaqs message board about a guy there doing 11k giga slave damage*

oh and i just got the megingjard or however it's spelled lol from the taekwon quest for it. and yea, it makes things a bit broken lol. i duped it with a bongun card in it so i have two megings with bongun cards equipped to my TKM and can do between 2.5 and 3.5k damage to enemies in MT. of course i also have around 75 str 30 vit and 24 int for sp recovery and i'm pretty well good to go.

Owl barons + position lag = hate.
Also I have a priest back-up for my MT runs so I never have to worry about getting hit (for when I do get hit, which is rarely).

Um, stabbers ARE Ice Picks. A lot of the gear in this game has been renamed, this is especially seen with some of the katars.
(Legbone of Ghoul is actually katar of quaking, death knife is actually legbone of ghoul, etc.)

SB spam gives you the equivalent of about 180 aspd give or take, which so far as I've seen on Assassin is most efficient for speed killing at lower levels/gear/rebirths, I mean, the double attack and crit stacking is nice, but to get to a point in which you can build that effectively jut doesn't seem worth it (Meaning if you want to be awesome with crit be ready to pour a hundred of two hours into this game). The only play I can see crit being viable, (which can also be done with any def peircing weapons, is the last boss in MT...which I just auto attacked with gloria till it died. (This was before I got my [4] Jahamdar or hoodlum cards mind you.)

Btw, haven't seen Giga slave yet since I hate how the NPC characters build, especially thief class ones. How many hits does that do? Btw, when I said 2.5k SB damage, I meant 'per hit', not overall. Just to clarify. Though my STR was pretty low at the time compared to what it can be. :T

Let us see, 99 + 10 agi got me to 166 aspd unbuffed, of course that is without max job level, and checking right now I'm only 53/30 on this guy.
Or pure agi gear, though in this game STR seems to be full of win. Imagine with max dex it could also go above 170, however that is a lof of stat points.

Assassins have a purpose, but other classes can fulfill that purpose more efficiently, if that is your thing. Still like playing them though.