Age of Conan Class Interview #4: The Assassin

Cody Bye · 12-10-2007, 07:49 AM

The time has come for stealth, guile, and the silent kill. The last few weeks have been rife with information on the classes in the Age of Conan as our bi-weekly class interviews covered all of the Soldier archetypes in thorough detail. With the soldiers finished, the Ten Ton Hammer staff has refocused our next set of class interviews on the Rogue archetype, which features the Assassin, Ranger, and the ever-popular Barbarian classes. For our first of these three interviews, the Funcom developers wanted to concentrate on the mysterious Assassin. To find out more about this class, we asked a series of questions to Evan Michaels, system designer for Funcom, and he was happy to give us the nitty-gritty info. Enjoy the article and start dreaming about your future Assassin!

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Evan: The basis of the Assassin is (as the name may imply) killing swiftly and efficiently. The Assassin is probably the deadliest of any class when it comes to raw power, having a variety of means with which to quickly dispatch his target of choice. So, simply put, an Assassin is definitely someone you want to have on your side of the battle as opposed to knifing you in the back. The Assassin is also the most proficient class when it comes to stealth, and has a bit of an easier time sneaking around than the other classes in the game.

Check out the whole interview by clicking here!

What do you think of the Assassin? Will there be enough stealth and guile involved for you? Let us know!

waku · 12-10-2007, 12:17 PM

*Drools* Great interview! Only problem is it makes my DT look soooo sad now

May have to switch to the Assassin.

Thanks for the interview!

Cody Bye · 12-10-2007, 02:29 PM

No problem Waku! Thanks for the compliments!

Nicosie · 12-10-2007, 04:19 PM

Very interesting interview!
I'm looking forward to reading the ranger interview now

By the way, Micajah, I really think you should dump Keaira. You deserve an elegant woman. I mean, look at her face, this barbarian wench, she doesn't even know how to use make up

Cody Bye · 12-10-2007, 04:39 PM

Thanks for posting Nicosie! I'm glad I could pull you and your desirous ways to the Hammer. Should be interesting to have you guys here.

Nicosie · 12-10-2007, 04:49 PM

My pleasure dear

I enjoy your AoC class interviews for some time now and it seemed to me only fair to post about it in this forum.
I wouldn't want you to feel ignored and give up on these :holiday_biggrin:

Cody Bye · 12-10-2007, 06:32 PM

Oh, I see all the responses on the AoC forums, but I always think it's a shame that more of 'em don't post here like you do. In any case, we'll just keep working away to get these interviews for ya.

Rocqu · 12-10-2007, 08:05 PM

Awesome interview Micajah!! I'm speechless. I still say you guys phrase the questions just right to get the answer we're all looking for.

Alongiv · 12-10-2007, 08:06 PM

Another outstanding job Mica...the only good news I've had the past few days (sick with the flu bleh!) I really liked the part about the confusion bomb...wonder how funny that would be in world pvp throwing it from stealth

Issiro · 12-10-2007, 09:11 PM

I've been itching to hear about my class for a LONG LONG time now, thanks for the interview TTH!!!!