Assassinating priests and astral mags

[PvK]

If assassins were always an effective efficient attack, it'd be a bit silly. Assassins are good for surprise and keeping people off balance, and/or getting them to over-compensate. Many Dom players are highly paranoid and get overly upset when anything goes against their plans, so they tend to overreact to assassins. Assassin attacks at a ripe unexpected moment can be very worthwhile, especially if they get someone important, or take out a commander moving troops into battle.

[archaeolept]

2) Empoisoners (C'tis) come with Skele-Spam built in.

I believe you misspelled swarm

assassin's are most useful for irritating opponents, and increasing the micro-management cost, which is really the most important and limited resource in the end-game...

also, killing an occasional battlefield commander who is moving troops around can mean the difference between victory or defeat

[jimkehn]

Yeah, swarm is one of the nastiest one on one spells for being a cheap spell. I like using an indie druid and swarm spells at the arena. Almost always win.

[Edratman]

I have a lot of fun outfitting assassins with the bow that causes insanity. It doesn't work often, but it amuses me when it does.