The Silent Executioner
The Assassin is built around stealth, burst damage and back-attack bonuses. You position unseen, strike with devastating force and vanish before the enemy can react. Highest single-target DPS in the game, but fragile — mistakes are punished hard.
High skill ceiling rewards mastery. Solo, you're a glass cannon assassin — fast, lethal, thrilling. In coop, you're the boss melter, deleting priority targets while your team holds the line.
Nano-Blade Arsenal
Enter stealth for positioning advantage. Breaking cloak with an attack grants bonus damage. Timing your decloak is the core Assassin skill.
Dual-wield energy blades for fast combo chains. Each hit builds bleed stacks on the target. Rapid attacks that reward aggressive play.
Massive bonus damage when striking enemies from behind. Encourages flanking, repositioning and reading enemy patterns.
Short teleport dashes with i-frames during the blink. Chain up to 3 dashes in rapid succession for unmatched repositioning.
Key Skills
Teleport directly behind your target and deliver a massive burst attack. On kill, immediately resets your cloak cooldown. The ultimate assassination tool.
Short-range blink with full i-frames during the dash. Holds 3 charges, recharges independently. Your primary survival and positioning tool.
Unleash a rapid 8-hit combo with your nano-blades. The final hit applies a heavy bleed effect. Highest sustained DPS ability in the Assassin kit.
Enemies you hit from behind take 30% more damage from all sources for 5 seconds. Rewards flanking and benefits the entire team in coop.
The Defector
Start: Pirate Stronghold, Eridan Belt.
You were an elite operative of the Red Veil Pirates under Captain Drask. The best infiltrator in the crew — loyal, efficient, unquestioning. Until the night you sliced into the wrong terminal.
Drask was working with Nexus Corp. The raids, the heists, the "freedom fighting" — all of it was corporate wetwork dressed up as piracy. You found a data fragment that proved everything. You copied it. Then you ran.
Your escape through the stronghold was your tutorial dungeon — fighting through former allies who had orders to kill on sight. Now you're on Eridan Station, hunted by pirates and the corporation they serve.
Nexus Data Fragment — encrypted proof of the Drask-Nexus Corp conspiracy. Becomes relevant in Act 2.
Underworld contacts, knowledge of pirate operations. Unique dialogue options with pirate and criminal NPCs.
Who Should Play Assassin
You love burst damage and outmaneuvering enemies. You thrive on high-risk, high-reward gameplay — striking at the perfect moment, dodging by a pixel, deleting targets before they can react. Patience and precision make you unstoppable.
Highest burst DPS. Best mobility in the game. Stealth utility for positioning and scouting.
Lowest HP pool. No crowd control abilities. Heavily punished for mistakes and bad positioning.