The A/W Fear-Inspiring Sin is designed to take advantage of the Assassin's double strikes and fast attack rate to spam "Fear Me!" in order to cause massive AoE energy degeneration.
Attributes and Skills
  Assassin / Warrior | Attribute Rank |
| Critical Strikes | 10 + 2 |
| Dagger Mastery | 11 + 2 + 1 |
| Tactics | 8 |
| Shadow Arts | 6 + 1 |
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| Locust's Fury | Critical Eye | Critical Defenses | Way of Perfection | Caltrops | "Fear Me!" | "For Great Justice!" | Flurry |
Equipment
Radiant Armor or Nightstalker's Armor
One pair of Zealous Daggers
One pair of Vampiric Daggers
Usage
Cast and Maintain Locust's Fury, Critical Eye, and Flurry.
Cast Critical Defenses and Way of Perfection
Cast "For Great Justice!"
Auto-Attack and spam "Fear Me!"
Counters
General Anti-Melee
Spiteful Spirit and Empathy will kill you in seconds
Variants
A Shadow Step rather than Caltrops
Crippling Dagger rather than Caltrops
An Alternative IAS
Healing Signet or Feigned Neutrality in place of Way of Perfection
In RA/TA bring a Resurrection Signet (obviously)
"To the Limit!"
Notes
Even more effective if backed up with Dark Fury
A necromancer with Barbs easily makes up for the lower-than-average damage in this build.