--------------------------------A Green Cow's Guide To Assassination-----------------------------

I made this to view on a 17" screen so if you got smaller or bigger... oh well

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In Memory of: 

Flamespike The Crawler... the Super Unique Spike Feind everyone will always
remember from Act 1 Inner Cloister Way Point. Who Blizzard decided to take him out in the 
patch/xpack

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Who da what?

This is my guide the the ultimate assassin... well at least what i view is the ultimate assassin.
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What happens each level:
The assassin's Life goes up 2
The assassin's Stamina goes up 1
The assassin's Mana goes up 1.5

Each time you level up a stat:
1 to Vit. is 3 to life and 1.5 to Stamina
1 to Energy is 1.5 mana

What stats you level up:
2 to Strength (you don't need that much after 118)
2 to Dex (same as strength)
1 to Vit or Energy (I alternate) (Don't get me wrong though life is important)
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Stats:

Martial Arts Skills- First off choose a charge up skill (other than cobra strike)

Ok what you wanna do is get to that one skill and max it out! What I did was maxed out Blades of
Ice (I charge it up 3 times and strike). Now remember you don't need any other stats in any other
charge up skills so just get to the one skill and max it out. If you really wanted you can lvl up
Cobra Strike some but I wouldn't you should have enough life and mana steal to live and still do
your charge up. Now that you got your charge up skill under wraps... ON TO FINISHING MOVE!!
This is very simple and you shouldn't of overlooked it if you did.. Dragon Flight! You max out
Dragon Flight. With Dragon Flight and Blades of Ice my assassin easily wipes out large groups of 
enemies. You charge up... back up let the enemies hit your shadow and merc... then strike at the 
hero (or just any random guy preferably in the middle if u can stand it). What I do is have 
Attack on F1 and Dragon Flight on F2 on my left click.

Shadow Diciple Skills- I maxed claw mastery, most people don't but I wanted the extra damage.
The skills you want here are fade (I say level 8) and Shadow Master (maxed)

Trap Skills- I just do Death Sentry (pretty high level). Don't touch Blade Shield high mana cost,
low duration and low damage.. whats the point? (May be fixed in later patches)
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Equiptment:

Low levels don't matter, just use what u want to live

Weapon- Claws Dummy! 51 is the highest damage you can get on a claw w/o damage ups so get 2 rare
Scissors Suwayyah with life and mana leech and damage increase. Speed and AR increase are also 
good. You should know what other stats you want on yours. + skills ARE on ALL Scissors Suwayyah.
Sockets are really not needed, but can help.

Helm- If you can get your hands on a Vampireglaze unique Grim Helm for the life and mana steal,
you should. It also has alot of other good mods for assassins (and any other weapon weilding
character) and if you did lay your hands on one you should socket it with Act 5 Quest 1 and stick
in a P Topaz. If not search for resist and MF helms. Circlet's can help too if you really want
plus skills.

Armor- The best armor I would say is Arkaine's Valor but MY GOD you would have to trade alot for
it. It's great for Assassin's you get SO much life. And of course u can socket that and put in a
P topaz =). If not than just get a high defense armor (so u don't gotta worry about def.) or good 
defense with resist.

Gloves and Belts- I am still confused in this department.. faster attack, and magic find are good
don't really wanna try to get defense out of gloves and belts so don't worry. I do love String of
Ears though... but I don't get the name.

Boots- Fastest Run! Stamina Drain and whatever else u want.

Rings and Amulets- + all resit and life and mana steal
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Skills By Level:

Char Level		Skill		Skill Level
1		     Claw Mastery	     1
2		     Fire Blast		     1
Den Quest	     Psychic Hammer	     1
3		     Claw Mastery            2
4		     Claw Mastery            3
5		        Save
6		     Burst of Speed          1
6		     Shock Web               1

All I can tell you is how to start you level up by what I told you in this manual and by what you
ever want to!
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PVP info:
Dragon Flight and Fade kills all mages in PVP unless your really really weak I wouldn't try 
dueling with any other skill because you'd get your ass beat.
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Thanks to:

Blizzard and the Arreat Summit:
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/
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Contact:

Email- AGreenCow@hotmail.com
Account Name- AGreenCow
Assassin Name- Magi-Slayer
Necromancer Name- SPIRITxKNIGHT
Druid (Main Character) Name- Primal-Magi
Barb Name- SHARPxBLADE
Amazon Name- ScaryZonMan
Sorceress Name- Flame-spike
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In Memory of: 
Flamespike The Crawler... the Super Unique Spike Feind everyone will always
remember from Act 1 Inner Cloister Way Point. Who Blizzard decided to take him out in the 
patch/xpack
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