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''Note: This article is intended to provide guidance for experienced characters playing new warriors or experience warriors looking for additional options. If this is your first time playing guild wars, please see Getting started in Guild Wars Prophecies.''

An Assassin’s Place
As an Assassin you are a scalpel designed to deal a lot of damage to a single target at a time. Often this will place you side by side in the front line in the warrior. However your armour is not comparable, if you become the focus of agro you will be the one who is taking a lot of damage!

Specialty Skills
Many assassin skills make use of daggers, a weapon that is weak on it’s own but through the use of Assassin skills can deal a large amount of damage, these have to be used in a specific order see Assassin for more details. Assassin attack skills all use energy.

Being an Assassin
In PvE Assassins should not charge headlong into battle at the 1st opportunity. Doing so will attract agro and you will find yourself become a corpse very quickly. Assuming you are a melee assassin, you should wait for the parties Tank(s) to engage the enemy while you choose your target. Then, when the monsters attention is firmly centred on somebody else, it is time you make your move. Close in on your victim and unleash your attacks and pull back while your attacks recharge. If you have Ranger as your secondary profession you may have a ranged build using a bow in which case you can behave as a ranger would. In either case, if you find yourself under fire you should kite and get away from the source of damage.

Assassins Are Not Tanks
A lot of players new to the class do not realise just how fragile an assassin is. Playing an assassin well requires intelligent play. If played without thought keeping the assassin alive can consume a lot of healing resources that may be needed elsewhere.

Secondary Profession Options
While many Assassin skills are dependant on the use of daggers the ones that don’t synergise will with both Ranger and Warrior as Secondary Professions.