I don't have a name for this build - I don't know if there is one already out there but it is my current favourite (in both AB and PvE) it can pretty much hold it's own anywhere if you have a good prot monk behind you. It uses a number of the Nightfall assassin skills.

In AB it does not hold up well to mesmers and some necros as all your healing is from enchantments.

Skills
Critical Eye (Crit Strikes) or Res Signet
Seeping Wound (Crit Strikes)
Black Lotus Strike (Crit Strikes)
Black Spider Strike (Dagger Mastery)
Nine Tail Strike (Dagger Mastery)
Malicious Strike (Critical Strikes)
Assassin's Remedy (Critical Strikes)
Shadow Refuge (Shadow Arts)

Variants
You may wish to put in Signet of Toxic Shock, Critical Defenses or a shadow step skill.

Attributes
Critical Strikes 10 + 2
Dagger Mastery 10 + 1
Shadow Arts 11 + 1

Use
Always be sure to hex your target first (with seeping wound) or your off-hand attacks will not work.
If your target has no flesh, use Black Lotus Strike first, followed by Nine Tail Strike.
If your target is fleshy, use Black Spider Strike first followed by Malicious Strike.
If you are in an area with alot of conditions, make sure you keep Assassin's Remedy up and use Malicious Strike whenever your foe is suffering from a condition as this will count as a critical strike and Assassin's Remedy will remove one condition from you.
Use Shadow Refuge to heal.
 

--Last edited by Rose on 2008-04-18 14:44:40 --

maybe if your a A/Mo you could change shadow refuge for some healing prayer skill to heal yourself, and put attribute points from shadow arts to healing prayers, Since none of the other skills uses shadow arts.
just an idea, don't know if it works any better or not :P

I imagine that would work fine, equally if you were A/R you could swap Shadow Refuge for Troll Unguent. As A/Mo, you could also of course have res that doesn't need a morale boost to recharge it (but you all already knew that).

Since Black Lotus is no longer an off-hand requiring a hex, but is a lead attack this no longer works in quite the same way. I must confess I haven't used this build for a very long time (probably for just that reason). It will still work but there is definite room for improvement here.

This is a working version of the build labelled nerfed. It manages 50-80dps on Master of Damage. Spreading the Degen wide across two conditions and a hex, it's a nightmare for monks to lift before you can redo it.



A pair of Poisonous Daggers can hold keep the toxin in them to shock them with it but aren't needed. If you've got a pair of Poisonous Daggers, it's recommended to drop Dagger Mastery down to 9 and raise Deadly Arts a level.