Help with making a strong Soloable Assassin alt?

[iamstillwater]

<p>Hi folks,</p><p>I mentioned in a post over in the tradeskill forums that I had a bit of altitis recently, and I was hoping to get some assistance from the fine folks here regarding the assassin class.</p><p>I've already rolled one. Level 12 Ratonga Assassin, with armorer as a tradeskill so he as I level it up, it can basically do tradeskills that help my main, which is a Level 27 Sarnak Paladin.</p><p>My basic concern now is finding out how to build him up through AA. I know it's a tired question, but I was looking at the different choices over on an AA calculator, and I didn't know what the choices did relative to the assassin.</p><p>I know I want to make this character a super harvester, so I thought to put 5 points in the harvesting skill in the Shadows tree, but perhaps that would be better later on?</p><p>As it stands, I thought taking the STR line (at 4-8-10-1) would also be nice for soloing, but I'm not sure where to go from there if I want to be an effective soloer. I'm guessing I should do mad DPS and such to compensate for my general frailty, but which path do I take afterwards.</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>iamstillwater wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Hi folks,</p><p>I mentioned in a post over in the tradeskill forums that I had a bit of altitis recently, and I was hoping to get some assistance from the fine folks here regarding the assassin class.</p><p>I've already rolled one. Level 12 Ratonga Assassin, with armorer as a tradeskill so he as I level it up, it can basically do tradeskills that help my main, which is a Level 27 Sarnak Paladin.</p><p>My basic concern now is finding out how to build him up through AA. I know it's a tired question, but I was looking at the different choices over on an AA calculator, and I didn't know what the choices did relative to the assassin.</p><p>I know I want to make this character a super harvester, so I thought to put 5 points in the harvesting skill in the Shadows tree, but perhaps that would be better later on?</p><p>As it stands, I thought taking the STR line (at 4-8-10-1) would also be nice for soloing, but I'm not sure where to go from there if I want to be an effective soloer. I'm guessing I should do mad DPS and such to compensate for my general frailty, but which path do I take afterwards.</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #993366;">With the AAs to increase defensive stance bonuses and remove penalties + the mit bonus to defensive stance in TSO AAs assassins are anything but frail.  Not to mention, speccing for these doesn't really even lower your DPS at all (It can actually increase it for solo play).</span></p>