Quote Originally Posted by redoubt View Post
And you are again responding with muscle memory and neglecting responding with any sort of intelligence.

An assassin is NOT a fighter. The act of assassinating someone is not combat. It is a preplanned surprise attack that kills the target without the target even getting a chance to defend or respond. You can see that DDO has and still does operate under this assumption. If you are seen by the target you CANNOT assassinate. The game will not let you. You MUST be in stealth and you MUST NOT have agro. This means that you are NOT in combat with your target.
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Try sneaking up on someone while youre out of shape, untrained, clumsy, overweight, not athletic, lacking hand eye coordination. Tell me how that works out for you. Then try to even get a hit in on someone when youre slow.

The whole int to assassinate dc is laughably inane