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There are lots of questions that people ask regarding how best to build your Assassin. Which weapons, which weapon combos, how about Stigmas, which manastones should be stacked, etc. Here are a couple of guides that will fill you in and let you make the right Assassin build for your game.

This first guide covers weapon choice, armor sets, manastones builds, and stigma setups:

Assassin Build Guide (Yeah, I was bored) – Aion Forums

If you want a guide on sin skills, tactics, rotations, and so on, there’s a great guide here: http://www.aionsource.com/topic/2185…dium-of-a-sin/ Section 1: Weapons As an assassin, you can use daggers, swords, …
Publish Date: 04/05/2011 0:09

This next guide is only up to the Aion 1.5 patch, but otherwise does a very comprehensive job of covering pretty much everything about your ‘Sin. If you’re looking for anything 50+, this isn’t it, but if you’re lower than that then it will cover you nicely. The same author also has a post on Assassin stuns and includes links in the guide to gear (nothing recent, of course, but still good if you’re not close to 50) and to articles with more info.

Aion Assassin FAQ

The Assassin class is the “Rogue” or “Thief” archetype found within Aion. Like the majority of games which have such a class, you will find that dual wielding, stealth, and large amounts of melee (physical) based damage make up the class’ basic utilities. They rely on their ability to “burst” (do large amounts of damage in a short period of time) and restrict their targets movements through the use of stuns.

 

Some remarks on Stigma usage in your 40s.

stigma builds – Aion Forums

stigma builds Assassin. … I just might wait until QD at 55. The Assassin Advanced Stigma tree is probably the most *meh* tree in the game, especially since a lot of their non-Advanced are so useful. …

Publish Date: 11/18/2010 22:57

And now, for something a little more recent…

Level 55 Aion Aassassin PvP Video!

Includes some dueling at the beginning. Not in English, though there isn’t much text anyway. Published by DonMickCA on Mar 29, 2011

You can get a more complete, more updated Assassin guide with well over 300 pages of good stuff. It covers gear, builds, stigma, ‘stones, strategies, macros, crafting, leveling to 55 (including quest walk-throughs,) PvE, PvP, Kinah acquisition, and more. Grab your copy at Killer Guides.