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It was touch and go there for a little while, but man am I glad that the voting for BnS NEO Divine Gems went the way it did because my enjoyment of the game has ramped up quite a bit.

The voting ended with the suggestion for me to re-roll in the game with a more technical class and without any of the free purple goodies. I recall that the Assassin was a pretty demanding and involved class, so that was what I decided to go with, and for once my memories didn’t lie to me; this class is just as fun and involved as I remembered.

A lot of the Assassin’s kit, as one might expect out of the class name, is about taking out single targets as quickly as possible. That primarily means that I have to react to attacks a bit more and capitalize on the openings that I make for myself. So it’s more of the Blade Master counter stance stuff, only with tighter windows and more payoff over just mere defense. In fact, counterattacking is the Assassin’s bread and butter.

I’m not going to come off as an expert in this class, but it’s become very clear to me over the course of this journey that I have to unleash hell the second I’ve got an opening to enter my counter state. This, in turn, has required me to pay a little more attention to the animations of the enemies I’m fighting, which cheap BnS Classic Divine Gems also means that I’ve got to actually sit up and invest myself in combat.