Blade & Soul Assassin Lasted Popular Build Guides

The Assassin can choose to use either a Lightning build or a Shadow build. This article will share the lasted popular build guides on Lightning and Shadow, some PvP and PvE basic build guides for you. Additionally, if you find yourself without time on leveling, choose blade and soul power leveling on U4GM will be a good decision for you.

 

 

Blade & Soul Assassin - Basic Guides

Part 1 - Assassin PvP Basic Guides

              PvP guide 1) - Assassin PvP Combo + Animation Cancel

              PvP guide 2) - Assassin Combo Guide - PVP (EU Level 45)

              PvP guide 3) - Assassin VS Force Master

              PvP guide 4) - Assassin VS Destroyer

Part 2 - Assassin Skill Tree & Attribute Points

Part 3 - Assassin Guide (The Basics)

 

Blade & Soul Assassin - Lightning and Shadow Build Guides

Part 1 - Assassin PvE Build Guides

              guide 1) - Assassin Perma Stealth + PvE Build

              guide 2) - Assassin Solo PvE Build

              guide 3) - Assassin PvE Guide - Darkstrike Build/Skill Rotation

              guide 4) - Assassin Lv41 PvE Gameplay

              guide 5) - Assassin PvE AoE build

              guide 6) - Assassin General PvE Dungeon Build

Part 2 - Assassin Lightning VS Shadow Build

              guide 1) - Assassin Dark and Lightning Build

              guide 2) - DPS Test Assassin (Shadow VS Lightning)

              guide 3) - Assassin Dark VS Lightning build

Part 3 - Assassin Lightning Build Guides

              guide 1) - Introductory Lightning Assassin Build and DPS Rotation

              guide 2) - Lighting Assassin Guide For Beginners

              guide 3) - Lightning Assassin Animation Cancel (rmb+4/lmb)

Part 4 - Assassin Shadow Build Guides

              guide 1) - Assassin Dark Build PvE Rotation on Dummy

              guide 2) - Assassin Dark Build + 5Stack Poison Guide

              guide 3) - Shadow Assassin Guide For Beginners

 

Blade & Soul Assassin - Basic Guides

 

Part 1 - Assassin PvP Basic Guides

 

Assassin is a very great choice for PvP. Master of the shadows Assassins primary attacks is done in stealth for burst damage or control. Well, it is really the best class choice if you love playing a ninja. You have moved to jump behind targets, stealthing, and more. Now you can see some basic PvP build guides here.

 

PvP guide 1) - Assassin PvP Combo + Animation Cancel

 

 

Created by Teldo, in this Blade and Soul guide, he talked about a fairly simple PvP combo, which allows you to take a good chunk of your opponent's HP.

 

It involves animation cancelling and a bunch of stunts combo together, there are some combos which allow you to take a hundred percent of your opponent's HP basically, which are infinite but those combos are a little bit harder to pull off, so I recommend starting to learn with an easier combo like this because you can learn your animation cancelling you can learn the timings and all that to get used to it and then later on you can transition into the more difficult combos.

 

Teldo said that he reached Platinum ranking solely with this combo. 

 

PvP guide 2) - Assassin Combo Guide - PVP (EU Level 45)

 

This video was created by GamersObservation, these are some of the combos you can use on your Assassin. Nothing is final in this video so feel free to experiment or change any of the combos. These are combos that are well known across many sins who play this style instead of the PvE (RMB/F) style.

 

Pocket Combos:

SS - F - C - into ground combo/air combo

SS - F - 3 - Web - into ground combo

 

At the end of this one use web if your opponent doesn't use F or tab to get away. You'll force him to use tab when you start the follow-up.

SS - F - F - Tab - LMB - LMB

 

When in stealth:

3 - LMB - X or V and combo from there

 

No ani cancel Combo:

Tab - 1 - LMB - F - Tab - 4 - F - C - F - 2 - F - LMB

Tab - 1 - LMB - F - Tab - 4 - F - 2 - RMB

 

Standard Combo:

Tab - 1 - LMB - ani cancel - tab - LMB - Web - 4 - 1 - 4 - ani cancel - F - Tab - LMB - ani cancel - F - C - ani cancel - F - 2 - RMB

 

The standard combo does loads of damage and is really effective if you're not able to pull of the advanced ones. Don't forget to LMB/RMB between each stun. How many you can get off depends on your ping so EXPERIMENT!

Leave out the C and ani cancel if your C is not specced for a stun. It'll make the combo slightly shorter which means you might have a couple seconds left on Tab before you can start the combo all over again. 

 

Advanced combos:

 

Air Combo into ground combo

Tab - 1 - LMB - ani cancel - Tab - LMB - 4 - Web - X - Z - 1 - 4 - ani cancel - F - Tab - Z - X - LMB - ani cancel - F - C - ani cancel - F - X - 2 - F - SS - LMB

 

From here on you can either press X for a KD so you can tab swap or V to pull him towards you and kick up in the air again. All your cd's are back up so you can start from the top again. Do note most of the time your opponent will be dead by now but if by any chance he isn't his tab will back so be mindful of that. 

 

Advanced Ground Combo

Tab - 1 - LMB - ani cancel - F - Tab - 4 - ani cancel - F - C - ani cancel - F - 3 - Web - X - Z - 4 - 1 - LMB - ani cancel - F - Tab - Z - X - 4 - ani cancel - X - 2 - F - SS - LMB

 

The only downside of this one is that they can roll out of Shadow Slash which is number 3 in this sequence. If they don't just web them and proceed with the rest. Otherwise, use SS - F and kick them up in the air. Web when they come and down and proceed from that point.

 

PvP guide 3) - Assassin VS Force Master

 

Created by Fevir, here is some Blade and Soul PvP footage from the technical alpha happening of him playing the Assassin class (level 22) up against the level 27 Force Master.

 

The fighting in this game is pretty great- much more like a fighting game than an MMO. The Assassin is like your typical rogue whereas the Force Master is like your typical mage.

 

PvP guide 4) - Assassin VS Destroyer

 

 

In Blade and Soul PvP, Assassin doesn't want to encounter the enemy of Destroyer. As we all know, the Destroyer has an inherent advantage to fight with Destroyer, not only it has high HP, but also it's close combat damage is very high. The only drawback for Destroyer is the long-remote damage. While, Assassin can only play close-remote, and its damage can't beat Destroyer as soon as possible. Then, how can we handle Destroyer? So I hope this video created by Teldo can help you.

 

Follow along in Teldo's journey to become better at Blade and Soul PvP. In this series, he commentates his experiences and struggles as he tries to climb the ranks. This match put him in a position where he is 1 win away from Platinum.

 

Assassin vs Destroyer Build: https://bnstree.com/AS?build

 

Part 2 - Assassin Skill Tree & Attribute Points

 

Created by GamersObservation, it is a short guide that is going to show you what the new skills are and Attribute Points. Of course, this video is for reference only because it may be out of date. 

 

Correction: things you should notice in this video that Lightning Stride removes all the stacks. Should have tried instead of going off the description. Also using Shadow Dash applies a poison stack now.

 

Part 3 - Assassin Guide (The Basics)

 

Created by GamersObservation, this video teaches you to learn the mechanics behind the assassin. This will be a basic guide on how to spec for skill points and how to utilize your many different ways of getting into stealth. 

 

Blade & Soul Assassin - Lightning and Shadow Build Guides

 

In terms of Lightning build and Shadow build on Assassin, I'm going to start off saying that neither build is straight up better than the other - it's really up to the preference of playstyle. They do have unique advantages/disadvantages over each other.

 

Part 1 - Assassin PvE Build Guides

 

guide 1) - Assassin Perma Stealth + PvE Build

 

 

Created by Teldo, in this guide, he explained how to build and permanently stealth with Assassin for leveling/PvE. You can solo almost anything with this because mobs won't attack you if properly done.

 

guide 2) - Assassin Solo PvE Build

 

 

Created by SirKoroshi, this PvE build will allow you to solo pretty much everything as Assassin from one to even some 45 dungeons.

Builds: https://bnstree.com/tree/AS?b=Syb9Mnxzx

Stats: http://eu-bns.ncsoft.com/ingame/bs/ch

 

Gems:

Ruby: +damage

Diamond: +additional damage

Green: +critical and immune on evasion

Purple: Life drain

 

guide 3) - Assassin PvE Guide - Darkstrike Build/Skill Rotation

 

This video was created by GamersObservation, he will explain in this guide what skills are important in order to pull off a dark strike build on the assassin. Stacking poison 5 times is the main issue so there is the requirement of getting at least 1 Hongmoon skill. he will also show you the exact rotation however if a boss interrupts it just improvise a bit!

 

guide 4) - Assassin Lv41 PvE Gameplay

 

 

Creator: iBluairJgR

 

guide 5) - Assassin PvE AoE build

 

 

Creator: OriginalMiro

 

guide 6) - Assassin General PvE Dungeon Build

 

 

Creator: MELOO

 

Part 2 - Assassin Lightning VS Shadow Build

 

guide 1) - Assassin Dark and Lightning Build

 

Created by GamersObservation, this video guide covering some of the important things about Dark build and Lightning build. If you have high ping go Lightning with low ping Dark build. Still up to preference though.

 

guide 2) - DPS Test Assassin (Shadow VS Lightning)

 

This video guide was created by GamersObservation. He figured he should see what is actually doing more damage for him. Shadow and Lightning are actually really close. Maybe dark requires some more effort to keep the damage going at maximum capacity. It also requires more effort in terms of positioning.

 

Even though the DPS wasn't that different from one another, Lightning had an easier time to keep up and stay up there. Animation canceling wasn't part of this test. If Lightning gets animation canceled properly, it would outshine shadow more.

 

Darkstrike numbers:

Skyrift + Primal Badge - with BB 75-84K / Without BB 48-52k

Skyrift + Courage badge - with BB 95-108k / without BB 50-58k

Skyrift + Courage badge and shadow earring - with BB 112k / without BB 50k-55k

Revelation + Courage badge - with BB 94k / without BB 45k

 

Lightning numbers:

Revelation + Courage - with BB 114k / without BB 55k

Holy Fire + Courage - with BB 90k / without BB 50k 

 

guide 3) - Assassin Dark VS Lightning build

 

 

This video was created by Twehbie, which is another Dark vs Lightning build video.

Lightning build: https://bnstree.com/AS?build=45000000

Dark Build: https://bnstree.com/AS?build=45000001

 

Part 3 - Assassin Lightning Build Guides

 

The Lightning Builds is very stealth based. In order to do the main DPS rotation, you must be stealthed. Luckily, there are also many different ways to get into stealth, from shadow dash to Hook Kick. This makes the Lighting builds generally considered harder to play compared to Shadow.

 

guide 1) - Introductory Lightning Assassin Build and DPS Rotation

 

 

Created by EvilDoUsHarm, it is a quick video guide detailing some of the combos and rotations a lightning assassin should know.

 

guide 2) - Lighting Assassin Guide For Beginners

 

 

Created by Rai, it is a video Lighting Assassin guide for beginners from Zer0 to Whale. 

Things it covers:

00:14 - Difference / Pros / Cons of Lighting build

1:17 - Early lvl dps

1:55 - Skillset explanation for beginners

5:35 - EndGame Skillset

6:12 - Past Storyline Build and Rotation

7:40 - Badges

8:10 - Rotation with badges

9:50 - BT Gear - Accessories, Soul, Bracelet, and weapon

11:45 - VT Gear

13:40 - Endgame rotation

14:00 Summary

 

 

Creator: Knumb Channel

 

 

Creator: Francesco Orlando

 

guide 3) - Lightning Assassin Animation Cancel (rmb+4/lmb)

 

Created by RJurmble, this video shows an easier way to cancel the animations between heart stab and lightning rod. The R key will take over for mist slash/spinal tap/lmb entirely. 

 

This is so that during boss fights your finger placement won't seem as awkward and uncomfortable when trying to move with WASD and spam 4 at the same time. It does take slight adjusting due to the R key becoming the double stun however.

 

Using this key binding will allow the user to animation cancel faster than with rmb+4. Please Note: Better ping= Better animation cancel. Remember to switch back to the default key binding when going into PvP.

 

Part 4 - Assassin Shadow Build Guides

 

The Dark build not stealth based. In order to do your rotation properly, you spend most of the time out of stealth. This means you don't have to manage to stay in stealth, and you have the benefit of easy party utility skills such as Protection Decoy, which can only be used when not stealthed. Shadow build is also more consistent. If you cannot stay in stealth, Lightning build suffers where Dark does not. Because of this Shadow builds is the more common build.

 

guide 1) - Assassin Dark Build PvE Rotation on Dummy

 

This video was created by Shiune, this is how the usual PvE rotation looks like on an Assassin playing with the Dark Build (non-stealth build).

 

The build is not completely finished because of missing 2 HM skills:

 

One is for faster anicanceling RB+LMB ( RB HM skill ) and the other one doubles our Dark Strike ( the 9-10k hit ) by its damage for 10 seconds ( V HM skill ) - which is an incredibly OP DPS boost.

 

guide 2) - Assassin Dark Build + 5Stack Poison Guide

 

 

Created by Twehbie, this will be a video of two things on how to sack up five poisons throughout the whole run and how to actually use the dark bill properly and what is the burn good actually.

Dark build: https://bnstree.com/AS?build=45030000

 

guide 3) - Shadow Assassin Guide For Beginners

 

 

Created by Rai, this video is a Shadow Assassin guide for beginners from zero to whale.

Things it covers:

00:16 - Disabling Skills

02:04 - Skillbuild

04:07 - Poison stacking

05:28 - Killing instinct - HS AtkSpeed Buff

06:13 - Explanation of 2 Shadow builds

06:46 - Past Storyline Gear & Rotation

07:35 - Shadow Dragon Gear

07:54 - Shadow Dragon Rotation

08:28 - Chi Problems For Dragon build

08:45 - Shadow Tiger Gear

08:52 - Shadow Tiger Rotation

09:30 - BT Gearing

09:59 - VT Gearing

10:18 - Shadow Dragon Rotation with VT Gear

11:04 - Shadow Tiger Rotation with VT Gear

11:32 - Summary and comparison to Lighting as well as future of shadow build