Perfect World International : Pioneer [○Assassin 1v1]
Here's an unlikely person I'd like to thank - chezedude. That's right, the chezedude who started as an Archer on Dreamweaver and then rerolled Assassin on Lost City under the name cheze.
To be honest, I hardly knew him. He was already a fully geared rank 8 +10 archer by the time I got to level 100, and he rerolled on Lost City very soon after Tideborns came out. The few times I met him was in TW and PvP; and I talked to MageFizban and Adroit like once, but that was about it.
Yet, his contribution to the early days of Assassin on Lost City was what ultimately sealed the deal and made me switch to Assassin.
You see, at the time, Assassins were widely believed to be terrible without stealth, hard-countered by heavy armor classes, and completely useless in TW. And for the longest time, those two factors held me back from ultimately making the switch from Archer to Assassin. But then cheze held his 20m bet against Calvin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJa7dGyT3E), and that is when I realized - how come I never tried Power Dash canceling on Assassins? I already knew that you can cancel Drake's Breath, Cyclone, and Glacial on BM, but I never tried it for Power Dash?
One thing led to another, and I became more interested in the class again. I became more confident about its capabilities. I became more confident in myself, and I started to formulate my own ideas. I knew that there must be a viable role for Assassins in TW. After all, if cheze beat Calvin without stealth when everyone believed that was impossible, what else are people wrong about?
That was when I first speculated on the viability of DPH assassins, and begun gearing towards it. Sadly, I never achieved it in my TW career. But hey, years later, at least it turns out I wasn't so crazy after all.
Still, it is regrettable that cheze and I never talked. Yet he influenced me in ways he must not have imagined. Sure, as time went on, he moved towards Psychic/Wizard. Yet he was the Pioneer of Assassins, unlocking a path many would've disregarded as impossible. Hmm, I wonder who would've won had we 1v1ed in our prime? I guess we will save that story for an alternate reality.
This video does NOT feature cheze. Instead, it's me 1v1ing my friend DTK not long after I formally switched to Assassin. For those who aren't familiar, this was during a time when you can cancel skills like Power Dash and get the self buff without consuming Chi. All you had to do was use the skill and then switch to an incompatible weapon. BMs and Assassins were most notable for doing this. In particular, canceling Power Dash would nearly double my damage for free due to the 40% crit rate buff - probably why it ended up getting nerfed. And this is me, using, for the most part, cheze's exact strategy vs Calvin.
My editing for this video was a bit fancier than usual. Mainly because I didn't want to make yet another standard 1v1 video after I just made one. So not too sure how well this is going to work out.
Either way though, I hope you enjoy reminiscing about the time Power Dash was op. Oh, and I hope you enjoy the video!
Until next time!
Character Played:
Zsw - Lv 101 Demon Assassin - Dreamweaver
Music Played:
Beat Service feat. Neev Kennedy - Not This Time
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