Perma-SF

I'm kinda surprised a thread hasn't been started on the new buffed Perma SF engine. I've gotten into the build and here's the build that I use.

	Assassin / Elementalist 12 + 3 Dagger Mastery 10 + 3 + 1 Shadow Arts 10 + 3 Critical Strikes You have an additional 13% chance to critical hit. Whenever you critical hit, you get 3 Energy.

EotN Glyph of Swiftness 10 1 5 Glyph. For 15 seconds, your next 1..3..3 Spells recharge 25% faster, and projectiles from those spells move 200% faster. (Attrib: Air Magic) Nightfall Deadly Paradox 10 15 Stance. All of your attack Skills are disabled for 10 seconds. For 5..13..16 seconds, your Assassin Skills activate and recharge 33% faster. (Attrib: Deadly Arts) Factions Shadow Form (PvE) 60 1 10 Elite Enchantment Spell. For 28 seconds, all hostile Spells that target you fail and all attacks against you miss, but you deal 50% less damage. When Shadow Form ends, lose all but 47 Health. (Attrib: 14 Shadow Arts) Nightfall Golden Fox Strike 4 5 Lead Attack. If this attack hits, target foe takes +30 damage. If you are under the effects of an Enchantment, this attack cannot be blocked. (Attrib: 15 Dagger Mastery) Factions Wild Strike 4 5 Off-Hand Attack. Must follow a lead attack. If it hits, this attack strikes for +35 damage and any Stance being used by target foe ends. This attack cannot be blocked. (Attrib: 15 Dagger Mastery) Factions Death Blossom 2 5 Dual Attack. Must follow an off-hand attack. If it hits, Death Blossom strikes target foe for +45 damage and all adjacent foes take 45 damage. (Attrib: 15 Dagger Mastery) Factions Critical Eye 30 5 Skill. For 32 seconds, you have an additional 13% chance to land a critical hit when attacking. You gain 1 Energy whenever you score a critical hit. (Attrib: 13 Critical Strikes) Nightfall PvE only Critical Agility 30 1 5 Enchantment Spell. For 4 seconds and 1 second for each rank of Critical Strikes. You attack 33% faster and gain 10..25 armor. This Skill reapplies itself every time you land a critical hit. (Attrib: Sunspear rank)

Perma SF daggers

Well, its a fairly obvious combo that was around before this buff (the perm shadowform bit). People are just running the old A/E farming builds again mainly.

	EotN Glyph of Swiftness 10 1 5 Glyph. For 15 seconds, your next 1..3..3 Spells recharge 25% faster, and projectiles from those spells move 200% faster. (Attrib: Air Magic)

	Nightfall Deadly Paradox 10 15 Stance. All of your attack Skills are disabled for 10 seconds. For 5..13..16 seconds, your Assassin Skills activate and recharge 33% faster. (Attrib: Deadly Arts)

	Factions Shadow Form (PvP) 60 1 10 Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5..13..16 seconds, all hostile Spells that target you fail and all attacks against you miss. When Shadow Form ends, lose all but 5..41..53 Health. (Attrib: Shadow Arts)

	Core Glyph of Lesser Energy 30 1 5 Glyph. For the next 15 seconds, your next 2 Spells cost 10..16..19 less Energy to cast. (Attrib: Energy Storage)

	EotN PvE only Ebon Battle Standard of Honor 20 1 10 Ward Spell. You plant an Ebon Battle Standard of Honor at your current location. For 10..20 seconds, non-Spirit allies in this area strike for +5..15 damage and an additional +5..10 vs. Charr. (Attrib: Ebon Vanguard rank)

	Factions Sliver Armor 30 1 10 Enchantment Spell. For 5..10..11 seconds, you have 25..45..52% chance to block attacks and whenever you are the target of a hostile Spell or attack one nearby foe is struck for 5..29..37 earth damage. (Attrib: Earth Magic)

	Nightfall PvE only Intensity 45 1 5 Enchantment Spell. For 10 seconds, your spells deal 15..25% more damage. (Attrib: Sunspear rank)

Optional usually being

	EotN PvE only Air of Superiority 20 5 Skill. For 10..30 seconds you gain a random Asura benefit every time you earn experience from killing an enemy. (Attrib: Asura rank)

	Factions Shadow of Haste 45 5 Stance. For 10..34..42 seconds you move 15% faster than normal. When Shadow of Haste ends, you shadow step to your original location. (Attrib: Shadow Arts)

	Nightfall Feigned Neutrality 25 ¼ 5 Enchantment Spell. For 4..9..10 seconds, you have +7 Health regeneration and +80 armor. This Enchantment ends if you successfully hit with an attack or use a Skill. (Attrib: Shadow Arts)

 or any preferred AoE depending on area.

Vastly more effective imo and has been around since the day of the buff.

I love this, I hope they don't change it! :D
It's worked wonders for me so far.

Originally Posted by Lyrie

I love this, I hope they don't change it! :D
It's worked wonders for me so far.

nice user icon you got there.

on-topic: i'm kinda suspicious about the connection of this and the fact that sup runes of shadow arts are sold out. i checked yesterday because i want a dedicated armor set for this (until they nerf it again) and found out that only minor shadow arts runes were on sale. no majors nor superiors.

I'm trying to think of a person in my guild who has'nt started a Sin, if they did'nt already have one, since the SF buff.

Nope...fail.

The amount of Sins in UW and Tombs running A/E builds in Canthan armor should be proof enough of how justifiably abused this build has become, rune shortage just backs the theory up.

Originally Posted by Silverwyng

nice user icon you got there.

on-topic: i'm kinda suspicious about the connection of this and the fact that sup runes of shadow arts are sold out. i checked yesterday because i want a dedicated armor set for this (until they nerf it again) and found out that only minor shadow arts runes were on sale. no majors nor superiors.

Oh, I had it saved from somewhere and it must have been from here a while ago, haha. I'll change it.

Originally Posted by fireflyry

I'm trying to think of a person in my guild who has'nt started a Sin, if they did'nt already have one, since the SF buff.

Nope...fail.

The amount of Sins in UW and Tombs running A/E builds in Canthan armor should be proof enough of how justifiably abused this build has become, rune shortage just backs the theory up.

you call it abuse, but think for a second. Tombs and UW just 2 areas. Have you ever seen a SF in a mission? No. How about dungeons? Doubt it. Face is SF still has limited uses, being to farm, and that's it. Besides, its not like you can't farm with other professions with other builds. Maybe run Droks since it is very hard with sins (but possible esp with alcohol + dwarven stability...but you need a lot of alcohol). 55ing and other builds are still viable to farm in their selected areas and are usually much faster too. I know that for sins, crit def/melee farming can be much faster than SF farming.

The original build uses 3 superior runes? Wow..

Guess it's cuz spells and attacks fail.

I haven't bothered with SF really.. but then I don't really play my sin very often either.

it uses 3 superior runes to be able to attain high enough shadow arts to mantain perma-shadow form, while reaching the max critical strikes break point (13) aaaand to keep pretty high dagger mastery too.

The ones using Earth skills don't need more than a shadow arts superior though.