Akido/Assassin

Trebor

Hey folks I am currently lvl 29 and have been pure akido until today. I started the assassin tree and got as far down as punt before I was broke! I realize it's hard to do a hybrid because of memory, but I was able to also get to combat toughness on the soldier tree. I have some questions I was hoping some of you killers SMILEY

can answer:

1. What exactly does analyze weakness do?

2. What are some of your strategies in solo and pvp?

3. What are some must have buffs and where can i loot them as opposed to having to buy them? (remember, i'm broke SMILEY

)

4. In PVP, doesnt' your opponent see your ghostly image which causes him to move therefore negating your attack?

I played with some higher levels and found myself doing the following sequence sneak-analyze weakness-punt-repeat. Is this about right?

Thanks for your input.

Sykin

Analyze Weakness is your best bet to do massive amounts of damage if
the ability works and if you have leveled it up quite a bit. It has the
potential to render your opponent's physical (Melee and Ranged) damage
resistance to -50%, which means a regular attack that would have done
200 now does 300.

Opponents in PvP cannot see you while you're in stealth mode--They will
occasionally spot you if their concealment detection is unusually high.
I believe if they spot you it brings you out of stealth mode
immediately, I'm not sure.

Your strategy is fine for now at a low level but once you get to 50
your Aikido/Assassin loadout can be critically devastating to some
hackers and has the potential to fight other hybrid interlock classes
since Aikido scores the highest combat rolls. The main buffs you will
need are viral deflection, movement speed, and stealth boosts.

Your loadout, though, I do not recommend for solo unless you're just
out to farm $info as quickly as possible and as dangerously as possible
(I.E. run through Assassination missions and take out the contract with
two-odd punts).

I could be wrong, as I have not yet focused on building a spy loadout, but yours is definitely an inspiring one.

Charlenna

Can't really do hybrid classes until around lvl 39 or so if memory
serves, not exactly sure been awhile, because at 50 creating a hybrid
class is pretty simple, but I remember around lvl 39 or so I started
combining my MA with Hacker for viral deflection :smileytongue: But as for your questions:

1. What exactly does analyze weakness do?

It does exactly that, you have to run up fairly close to do it, but
what it'll do is lower their resistance so they take more dmg from
attacks. Very useful, but not the wisest thing to use if you're solo
because it burns time having to run up to the enemy and the animation
for it is slow, and of course, makes you uncomfortably close to the
enemy (or enemies which is worse for obvious reasons).

2. What are some of your strategies in solo and pvp?

Now that's a secret :smileytongue: But really it isn't that hard to come up with one by simply reading what each ability does and testing them out :smileytongue:

3. What are some must have buffs and where can i loot them as opposed to having to buy them? (remember, i'm broke

)

Good question, honestly I'm not sure, but most crafters will charge you
only for the cost of making an item so long as you give them the red
frag (if required) needed for making it. I don't know much anything
about male RSI clothes, but your faction mates or the faction you join
should be able to help you out with that.

4. In PVP, doesnt' your opponent see your ghostly image which causes him to move therefore negating your attack?

Depends on their Preception, the higher their Preception the higher
their chance for detecting you, although the higher your Focus the less
likely they'll detect you. Preception raises Concealment detection
while Focus increases stealth. But for the most part, they won't see
you, but the closer you get to them the greater the chance they have of
detecting you, and once they spot you then you're stealth is popped and
you'll become visible to everyone. Or the closer you get to them the
more likely they'll see your "ghostly image" regardless of detecting
you or not, so it's generally a good idea to keep a fair distance away
from enemies to avoid being spotted.

"I played with some higher levels and found myself doing the following
sequence sneak-analyze weakness-punt-repeat. Is this about right?"

Yup :smileywink: That is also the best thing you can do,
learning from the higher levels, especially from the lvl 50s who PvP
avidly from your faction, crew, and/or organization. Have fun out there
:smileytongue:

Message Edited by Charlenna on 11-10-2005 12:40 AM
Message edited by Charlenna on 11/10/2005 00:40:04.

Shady0314

just my 2 cents...if i were you i wouldnt really combine akidio and
assasian....because from my understanding akidio is used to keep some1
in interlock and assasian is used mainly based on stealth [out of
interlock] unless you would lvl them both up to their max then it would
be good SMILEY

anywwaze have fun!