Assassin Class In Dragon Nest

The Assassin is an upcoming seventh base class to be released inDragon Nest. It is decribed as the first class to use two mechanics: a stealth mechanic, which allows attacks while hidden from sight, and a cooldown charging mechanic, which allows the cooldown of skills to be prolonged in exchange for damage boosts depending on the amount of time added to that skill's cooldown.

Assassins are melee combat specialists who use Scimitars and Crooks to attack enemies at blinding speeds. He is also adept in fending off enemies from a distance using chains and shurikens. One main feature of Assassins is his ability to meld into the shadows and strike while unnoticed, and can evade incoming attacks with ease.

Personality-wise, the Assassin possesses a split personality. He has a girlfriend named Lunaria, and part of his storyline includes a talking ninja cat.

Assassin 2nd Job Change: Raven & Ripper



Raven and Ripper are two very different jobs.

Both jobs are elemental based but the dmg growth is much higher than normal non-elemental classes. In additon, the dev has lowered the fire and dark resist (in DDN), the disadvantage of elemental classes are not as severe as before.

Raven: dark elemental, mid-range, high burst, high skill damage. However, the disadvantages are the abundance of dark resist mobs and the low level of tough accessories (which gives high dark att %).
To make up for that, Raven has very high skill board damage ( in fact, it's the highest among all elemental classes)

Ripper: fire elemental, melee, high speed combo, short CD. However, fire elemental is relatively harder to stack. Nevertheless, fire resist monster are less encountered, and he has built-in fire buff (almost permanent).
Paladin's elemental aura is easily available as compared to the much rarer dark attack buff % from screamer. Futhermore, since you can equip high level accessories without the need to use low lvl tough accessories, Ripper has much higher raw stats than Raven. On the contrary, the skill damage of Ripper tend to be lower than Raven.

Last but not least, both these classes have a power basic job skill: Fan of Egde, which compensate their lower efficiency against high elemental resist mobs.
Fan of Edge Lv21: 2802% + 176166, CD 12sec!

Regardless if you are raven or ripper, this skill is a must learn!

For those who like fast combo, you should pick Ripper.
Attack speed 50% inc plates are available for most Ripper main skills; along with the +30% att speed inc from Cripple Punisher, the attack speed of Ripper is very fast

For those who prefer mid-range and burst damage, you should consider Raven instead.
Raven has very fast casting, burst DPS skills.

Job Descriptions:

• The Chaser, an inheritor of assassination techniques from ancient times. Uses concealed shadow weapons to pursue and assassinate enemies.

• The Ripper, a martial arts expert assassin who emerges from the cover of night without making a sound, consuming his enemies in endless darkness before they could turn their head. Uses Fire element.

• The Raven, an assassin whose ability to jump out of nowhere is beyond comprehension. His escape skills are outmatched by none. Uses Dark element.

Weapons

• Scimitar
• Dagger
• Crook

Skill List

Assassin

• Speedy Cut: Assault and slash enemy. When skill level reaches 6 and 11, cool time charging (CTC) count increases by 1.

CD 6sec

Lv1: 121%+4

Lv21: 234%+10944

Lv24: 244%+14109

Note: CTC means, that you will get to use the skill one more time, if u don't use the skill after the CD is completed.

For all CTC skills, lv1-5 = 0 ctc count, lv6-10 = 1 ctc count, lv11 above = 2 ctc cound.

• Piercing Star: Gather chi on hand and throw a spinning shuriken in the frontal direction. When skill level reaches 6 and 11, CTC count increases by 1. Piercing effect.

CD 8sec

Lv1: 201%+4

Lv21: 426%+12160

Lv24: 440%+15677

• Dirty Tricks: Throw soil to interfere with enemy’s field of view, leap forward and strike enemy by pressing "Normal Attack".

CD 10sec

Lv1: 221%+4

Lv21: 468%+13376

Lv24: 484%+17244

• Fan of Edge: Rotate the body to push away surrouding enemies and throw 6 kunai to surrounding enemies

CD 12sec

Lv1: 254%+15

Lv21: 467%+29361

Lv23: 476%+34798

Note: apparently, you can deal all 6 hits on large-sized boss. Total dmg is 6 times the board damage!

• Shadow Hand: Project shadow and create shockwave with high superarmor break.

CD 15sec

Lv1: 326%+14

Lv21: 685%+25466

Lv22: 693%+27730

• Triple Edge: While dashing, press "normal attack" to throw 3 kunai while moving.

CD 12sec

Lv1: 49%+5

Lv21: 100%+3821

• Sprint: While jumping, press "Jump" again to execute another jump.

CD 5sec

• Feint: Recover HP on near death condition.

Max HP 10% recovery; invincible for 3sec upon activation

Lv1: CD 300

Lv7: CD 240

Lv7+1: CD 230

• Raid: When you and your party member deal crit dmg, throw smoke bomb which can deal 10% additional damage. The additional dmg is not affected by the element of weapon. Duration 300sec

CD 10sec.

• Tumbling: Press arrow key twice or shift+arrow key to evade attack and tumble to the corresponding direction.

Lv1: CD 6sec

Lv5: CD 2.6sec

• Fake Clog: Evade enemies’ attack and leave a barrel which can induce debuff. Enemies which are affected by the debuff will receive critical damage when being hit.

Lv1: CD 20sec

Lv7: CD 11sec

• Aerial Evasion: While being floated by attack, press "jump" to adjust your position in air.

Lv1: 30sec

Lv6: 12sec

• Swipe: Press “special attack” near a knock-down target and continuously attack it.

CD 3sec.

Lv1: 317%

• Gore Kick: Press “special attack” to do a roundhouse kick and knock back enemies

CD 0sec

Lv1: 66%

• Circle Gore: Press “special attack” while jumping to spin and attack enemy with right leg.

CD 6sec.

Lv1: 198%.

• Leap: Press “special attack” near stunned enemies to kick the target into the air with both legs

CD 3sec

Lv1: 198%

• Smoke: While being knockdown, press "Normal Attack" to wake up and throw smoke screen to knockback surrouding enemies.

CD 16sec

Lv1: 198%

Chaser

• Open Edge: Throw kunai which will knockback targets.

CD 9sec

Lv1: 498%+139

Lv16: 780%+40329

Lv 19: 813%+52173

• Applause: Use chain sickles from both sides to sweep the enemies in front.

Reduce targets' phy and mag def by 10%. Duration 10sec.

CD 13sec

Lv1: 667%+174

Lv16: 1071%+32822

Lv18: 1093%+39031

• Rake: Throw multiple shuriken in a fan-shaped manner. The shuriken will return to the caster and deals additional dmg. Piercing effect

CD 18sec

Lv1: each shuriken 125%+53

Lv16: each shuriken 192%+9043

Lv18: each shuriken 196+10744

Note: Total 5 shuriken, 10 hits.

• Rain Drop: Crows take to the air and rain kunai down. When skill level reaches 6 and 11, CTC count increases by 1.

Dark elemental.

CD 20sec

Lv1: Each kunai 141%+190

Lv11: Each kunai 191%+5187

Lv15: Each kunai 199%+7366

Note: each bird deals 8 hits.

• Punishment: Spin the body and leap up high. Swing Chain sickles to hit the enemies 3 times.

Reduce targets' phy and mag def by 10%, duration 15sec

CD 24sec

Lv1: 1260%+2032

Lv11: 1885%+49891

Lv13: 1951%+59996

Note: the def reduction debuff is stackable with that from applause.

• The End (Level 40 Ultimate): Possessed by madness, chaser releases chains which slow movement speed of targets by 50%. After that, throw a lot of kunai from air towards the ground.

Invincible for 2sec while in air.

CD 125sec

Lv1: Each kunai deals 222%+535

Lv2: Each kunai deals 228%+2254

• Shift Blow: Move forward and swiftly punch enemies continuously

CD 10sec

Lv1: 448%+94

Lv16: 702%+27319

Lv19: 732%+35343

• Flame Locust: Kick and knock back frontal enemies. After that, execute a roundhouse kick to launch the target into the air. Can be activated by "Special Attack" when tumbling.

Lv1: 415%+132, CD 12sec

Lv6: 486%+2398, CD 10sec

Lv11: 558%+12930, CD 8sec

Lv16: 629%+24568, CD 6sec

Lv18: 640%+29207, CD 6sec

Note: CD reduce by 2sec at lv6,11,16.

• Blade Runner: Dash forward and launch enemies into the air with elbow. After hitting, the caster disappears and re-appears in the air, knocking down enemies with his fist.

CD 13sec

Lv1: 435%+169

Lv16: 695%+22675

Lv17: 702%+24722

• Mortal Blow: Disappear after knocking back nearby enemies. After that, reappear in the air, spin his body and slashes down from above. When skill level reaches 6 and 11, CTC count increases by 1.

Fire elemental

CD 18sec

Lv1: 636%+915

Lv11: 861%+24862

Lv15: 898%+35184

• Izuna Drop: Suck surrounding enemies up into the air, leap to the air and dropping them back to the ground, inducing big explosion.

CD 24sec

Lv1: 1203%+1847

Lv11: 1799%+45552

Lv13: 1863%+54779

• Cripple Punisher (Level 40 Ultimate): Use the power of illusion and enter berserk stealth state. Under berserk stealth state, attack speed increases by 30%.

Under stealth status, ‘normal attack’ is changed to a berserk attack and using ‘special attack’ allow you to dash forward quickly. Duration 10sec.

CD 125sec.

Lv1: Each berserk attack deal 795%+4012 .

Lv2: Each berserk attack deal 813%+16902 .

• Receive Edge: When being attacked by enemies in air, counter-attack by pressing 'normal attack' and throwing 3 kunai before regaining position.

Lv1: Each kunai 88%+28, CD 30sec

Lv6: Each kunai 133%+2631, CD 25sec (each lvl reduce 1sec CD)

• Fade: Fade into darkness. Remove all aggro on himself within 5m. While in this state, the dmg he deal increases but dmg received by him is increased. Duration 5sec.

CD 20sec

Lv1: Attack increase 10%; receive 10% additional damage

Lv11: Attack increase 35%; receive 35% additional damage

Lv11+1: Attack increase 37.5%; receive 37.5% additional damage

• Illusion Step: While tumbling, press jump to release a shadow in that direction and move forward one more time.

Invincible for 0.5sec.

Lv1: CD 15sec

Lv6: CD 10sec

• Access Chain: Throw chain sickle to the front and attack enemies. While chasing targets, execute additional attack by pressing "Normal Attack".

Lv1: 277%+159, CD 20sec

Lv5: 344%+7695, CD 16sec

Lv5+1: 395%+11859, CD 15sec

Note: this is another movement skill.

• Burning Call: Exploding surrouding enemies and himself, disappear with ashes and reappear behind the enemies. While using other skills, this skill can be also activated by pressing “Jump”.

Lv1: 271%+3, CD 12sec

Lv6: 350%+51, CD 9.5sec (each level reduce 0.5sec CD)

Lv9: 378%+80, CD 8sec

• Dedicate Shadow: Sacrifice shadow to reduce magical damage and recover Hp when receiving magical damage. Duration 3sec.

CD 45sec.

Lv1: 50% magical damage reduction; 10% max HP recovery

Lv4: 65% magical damage reduction; 25% max HP recovery

Lv4+1: 70% magical damage reduction; 30% max HP recovery

• Dedicate Crow: Sacrifice crow and grant a damage boosting buff to party members. Enemies with HP higher than 30% will receive additional damage. Duration 15sec.

CD 90sec

Lv1: every 1% of HP grants additional 0.6% of additional dmg.

Lv4: every 1% of HP grants additional 0.9% of additional dmg.

Lv4+1: every 1% of HP grants additional 1.0% of additional dmg.

Secondary Specialization

Raven

• Umbra: Create a circular force field and slow enemies’ movement by 50% inside the AOE. Deal additional damage to enemies who resist the force field. Every time the affected enemies try to attack or move, deal dmg to them equal to 30% of normal attack. Dark elemental. Duration 10sec.

CD 25sec

Lv1: 1120%+12647

Lv6: 1438%+36709

• Crooking Dead Fall: Summon crows to attract and gather frontal enemies before inducing a strong explosion. Dark elemental.

Lv1: 1552%+26096

Lv6: 1900%+50785

• Crow Ability (Lv65 passive)

Dark elemental attack + 10%

• Open Edge EX: Strengthen Open Edge. Kunai is enhanced with crow kunai and knockback enemies.

Dark elemental.

Damage + 30%

• Applause EX: Strengthen Applause. After the initial attack, press 'normal attack' to raise additional chain sickles to attack enemies.

Dark elemental.

Damage + 30%.

• Rake EX: Strengthen Rake. Throw another 3 shurikens. "Normal attack" to throw the shurikens at the same spot; 'Special attack" to jump backwards and throw the shurikens.

Dark elemental.

• Punishment EX: Strengthen Punishment. After the initial 3 hits, attack the enemies once more with chain sickle and deal additional shockwave damage to further reduce targets' defence.

Dark elemental.

Damage + 30%.

Additional 10% phy and mag def reduction.

Duration 15sec.

Ripper

• Arsonist: Possessed by madness, accumulate flame aura in body. Strengthen fire attack and fire resist. Duration 24sec.

CD 30sec.

Lv1: Fire elemental attack +15%; Fire resist + 10%

Lv6: Fire elemental attack +30%; Fire resist + 35%

Lv6+1: Fire elemental attack +33%; Fire resist + 40%

• Artful Chaser: Possessed by madness, pummels frontal enemies.

Fire elemental.

CD 20sec.

Lv1: 2127%+32185

Lv6: 2604%+62634

Lv7: 2655%+68632

• Werewolf Ability (Lv65 passive): Fire elemental attack + 10%
• Shift Blow EX: Strengthen Shift Blow. After the combo attack, charge up chi within fist and punch to knockback surrounding enemies. You can immediately release the charging attack by pressing 'special attack'.

Fire elemental.

Damage + 50%.

• Flame Locust EX: Strengthen Flame Locust. After the two kicks, kick once more by pressing "Normal Attack" to induce explosion with another kick.

Fire elemental.

Damage + 30%.

• Blade Runner EX: Strengthen Blade Runner. Deal additional fire shockwave and knockback targets

Fire elemental.

Damage + 30%.

• Izuna Drop EX: Strengthen Izuna Drop. Increase the dmg of the landing hit and increase the explosive AOE

Fire elemental.

Damage + 30%.