Flashing Blades

Acquisition

 * Lou, of the Knives (Shenzun Tunnels)
 * Waeng (The Undercity) (Only during the Assist the Guards quest.)

Usage Notes
With sufficiently high Dagger Mastery, an assassin can have this skill constantly active, to keep received attacks to a minimum.

If used in conjunction with critical defenses 100% block can be maintained when attacking, if a critical hit can be guaranteed every 8 seconds.

This is a very useful elite because it gives the assassin a cheap, reliable defensive skill without having to invest points into Shadow Arts, or attributes of their secondary profession such as Tactics or Healing Prayers. This frees up attribute points to invest in Deadly Arts or another offensive attribute of a secondary profession, or simply max out Critical Strikes and Dagger Mastery, without putting undue pressure on the party's healers.