Assassin attack chain quick reference

Many assassin skills have a requirement on their use beyond the usual energy cost such as "must follow a lead attack" or "must strike a hexed foe." Attempting to use an attack skill without meeting its requirement will cause the attack to miss and using any other type of skill will cause that skill to fail. In either case, the skill will not refund the energy cost but will not start its recharge cycle. The following tables give an overview of assassin attacks with such requirements. See the key at the bottom for help reading the tables.

Standard chains

In this table, off-hand attacks must follow a lead attack and dual attacks must follow an off-hand attack.

	Lead Attack			Off-Hand Attack			Dual Attack
Critical Strikes	Unsuspecting Strike	10	2				Critical Strike	5	6
							Twisting Fangs	10	15
Dagger Mastery	Black Lotus Strike	10	6	Fox Fangs	5	3	Nine Tail Strike	5	8
	Black Mantis Thrust	5	4	Golden Fang StrikeE	5	4	Blades of Steel	5	8
	Desperate Strike	5	6	Jungle Strike	5	10	Death Blossom	5	2
	Disrupting Stab	5	10	Lotus StrikeE	10	12	Death Blossom (PvP)	5	6
	Golden Fox StrikeN	5	4	Temple Strike	15	20	Horns of the Ox	5	12
	Golden Lotus Strike	5	5	Wild Strike	5	4	Shattering AssaultN	10	4
	Jagged Strike	5	1				Trampling OxE	5	8
	Leaping Mantis Sting	5	8
Deadly Arts	Dancing Daggers2	5	5	Mantis Touch2	5	15	Vampiric AssaultE	5	8
	Iron PalmT	5	20
Ebon Vanguard	Sneak Attack3, E, P	5	5

Irregular chains

In this table, the requirement for each skill is listed. A blank space means the skill has no special requirement.

	Req	Off-Hand Attack			Req	Other
Critical Strikes		Palm StrikeT	5	7		Assault Enchantments1, N, O	5	2
Dagger Mastery		Black Spider StrikeN	10	12		Exhausting AssaultD	5	8
	K	Falling Lotus StrikeE	5	12
	K	Falling SpiderE	5	8
		Golden Phoenix Strike	5	8
		Golden Skull StrikeN	10	15
		Moebius Strike	5	2
		Repeating StrikeX	5	0
Deadly Arts						Entangling Asp2, O	10	20
						Impale1, O	5	15
						Signet of Deadly Corruption (PvP)E, O	0	12
Shadow Arts						Blinding Powder2, O	5	20

Key

Skill names in bold are elite skills. Must follow a lead attack. Must follow an off-hand attack. Must follow a dual attack. No effect unless you are enchanted. Must strike a hexed foe. K: No effect unless target foe is knocked down.

D Dual Attack O Not a lead, off-hand, or dual attack. Does not affect the attack chain. N Nightfall campaign skill. E Eye of the North campaign skill. P PvE-only skill. X +15 second recharge if skill misses. T Touch skill, does not require daggers. 1 Skill (Skill type), does not require daggers. 2 Spell, does not require daggers. 3 Melee Attack, does not require daggers.

Picture of attack chains

Picture of attack chains (English version)

On the right, a picture of attack chains. Note that all changes made after 30 nov 2007 are not included in this picture. If any mistake, please report it in discussion section.

Related articles

• Lead attack skills quick reference
• Off-hand attack skills quick reference
• Dual attack skills quick reference