Assasination on undead & construct with granting sneak attack chance skills

[draven1]

Can we get a chance to assasinate undead & construct with Assasin's trick, Shadow Mastery, etc?

Assasins can sneak attack those mobs, but why can't assasinate them?

U21 have a lot of undeads, rogues just drop tears

[dualscissors]

Though one downside of using Assassin's Trick as is is the diminishing return of the power beyond level 20 since it's based on a crappy +half-level/class DC.

Secondly, Assassin's Trick is so slooooooow that it becomes junk.

This reminds me of Improved Feint, which could also be worth the 2-feat buy in for those who really want AoE feinting. The problem is Improved Feint is also terribly slow and thus not very useful.

But I am sympathetic to your point. It's one thing that a substantial boon like lots of sneak attack damage isn't optimized against every foe. But when it becomes completely harmless, that is a downer. I can't remember the details but I think there was an epic feat in 3.5 pen and paper that offered partial damage on sneak attack vs. undead.

[dualscissors]

But I am sympathetic to your point.

I missed the distinction b/w Assassinate and Sneak Dmg on my first read through.