Questions on duoing/2 boxing with an assassin

[Drevva]

Hey all,  Had some questions I was hoping to get help with.I currently have a lvl 70 swashie I raid with, but have had a seldom used ranger ~63, (stopped playing more because he didn't 2 box as well as my swashie)So was thinking of betraying to assassin.  Though I'm wondering if the number os positional/stealth required CAs might make this silly.  The swashie has  4 positionals though so I'm somewhat use to themFor the second character for my duo would be a fury.  I figure the fury could pull, My assassin would get off a stealth attack or two, then would straight up melee for a bit.  Now my hope would be this would be a reasonable combo for two boxing, and then of course straight dps when I group, and potential even might raid with him.  I'm hoping with the old and new AA's  I can maximize the duo straight up melee a bit without gimping his grouping/raiding dps.Is this just silly?  Would my dps be higher than the swashie in the duo mode at least for single targets?  My hope is if I can be about as successful in my 2 boxing (spend about 60% of my time there) and then fun in grouping and Raiding  it might be a fun to do.Does the assasin get any kind of stun/knowck down off of a combat art( I searched the spell list but didn't see any)?  (Swashies get one stealth attack that stuns/knockdown) so makes it a bit easier to get an extra positional off.Any thoughts on this much appreciated?Drevva

[steelbadger]

Assassins get a single stun.  Cheap Shot.  2 second duration, shorter on mobs with an up arrow (still gives me just enough time to get behind a ^^^ heroic and use my stealthing attack and a high damage from stealth attack)Hate wise...  we don't have the best frontal dps so if I am tanking I tend to let someone else get aggro and then loose a big ol' stealth attack on the mob, hard to drop aggro then <span>:smileyhappy:</span>Knockback?  What is this thing of which you talk?  <span>:smileytongue:</span>  (we do actually get ONE, as an AA.  Not sure on its usefulness though)With EoF we got a few really nice AA's for soloing (/grouptanking).  One removes all disadvantages of our defensive stance (once 5 ranks are on it) and another increases Cheap Shot duration by 1 second ( once 5 ranks are on it...  0.2secs per rank)Basically the secret to tanking with an assassin is to hit buttons VERY fast.  With Concealment we can loose a few decent stealth attacks even when infront of the mob, if you are very quick.We have decent survivability, being chain wearers, and we can give ourselves a bit of healage with a Vitality Breach poison.  Expect to take a lot of damage from most triple up mobs though.<div></div>