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assasin vs. brigand? and a few more questions

khalilydiddykhalilydiddy Member Posts: 2
in Everquest II

what is the difference between an assasin and brigand?  i personally would like to use either daggers or swords, can you poison tip the weapons as well? and i would also like to use backstab and i would like to sneak around and stealth. 

is there pickpocketing in this game?

and what is the pvp like? is it actual fighting and is it good or bad?

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  • olddaddyolddaddy Member Posts: 3,356
    Both assassin and brigand can use daggers and swords, both have personal stealth, and can strike from stealth, brigands have group stealth. Both can poison weapons. Assassins have higher damage abilities. No, you cannot actually steal/pick pockets. No idea of what the PvP is like.
  • ab29xab29x Member Posts: 364

    Pick Pocketing (At least for Swashbucklers) is the first achivement point you're forced to put in as a starter.   Brigands are lockdown rogues and Assassins deal more damage.  However if you choose Assassin and decide to betray to Qeynos, you become a ranger and thats a whole different ball game.  Brigand = Swash.

  • FlemFlem Member UncommonPosts: 2,870
    Both the Swashbuckler and the Brigand get the pickpocket skill when they spend their first AP.
  • quaikyquaiky Member Posts: 566

    assasins can deal out more damage with single abilities, but overall dps of brgands is really high too. if you have both in raids it usually depends on equip and acheivement choices which class has higher dps. Both can use poison and gain a good dps boost from using good poisons.

    Brigands have the nr 1 debuff to increase group/raiddps cuase it reduces mitigation against all damage types, so everyone will do more damage. They have a nice achievement ability to increase the recasts of the aoes of mobs. and they can be immune to untargeted aoe. all this together which makes them a very usefull class in raids.
    Also the group stealth which they get relatively early makes them very usefull in all different situations.
    Brigand also has a taunt and makes a passable tank for standard groups that don't have to kill the hardest mobs in the game.

    Assasin on the other side is pure dps with (nearly) no other usefull features.

    So the decission is if you want a pure dps class or a class that is very helpfull and might be a bit lower dps (but i also have seen brigands outdpsing assasins so thats not allways the case).

    i have not much knowledge on eq2 pvp so cannot compare how they work there


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