Introduction
The Hashashin class is a male assassin class that uses a Shamshir as his main weapon and a Haladie offhand (double-bladed dagger). He is Aal’s warrior, who is the god worshipped in Valencia. With Aal’s powers, he is able to manipulate sandstorms to quickly escape from danger or suppress his opponents. This also gives him an advantage in the desert, where he can travel slightly faster than other classes and has a slightly higher resistance to desert diseases.
At level 56, Hashashin can complete his awakening quest, allowing him to better harness the power of Aal, and unlocks his awakening weapon, the Dual Glaives.
Awakening VS Succession
Hashashin Succession and Awakening can be unlocked after level 56 after speaking to the Black Spirit and completing the Awakening and Succession quests under the suggestions tab.
- The Awakening will unlock a completely new skill tree, which will be your primary skills from now on. The skills in the pre-awakening are mostly utility skills, and your main damage dealers will be your Awakening skills.
- The Succession skill kit enhances your Shamshir skills instead and only has a few awakening skills.
Your awakening weapon still affects your succession damage and vice versa. For example, if you are using the Succession kit, then 30% of your Awakening AP is still applied to the damage of Succession skills, as well as the additional item stats on the awakening weapon, such as Human/Species Damage and Accuracy.
In PVE, both Succession and Awakening are considered fairly equal and more dependent on the spot. While in 1v1s, Awakening tends to be easier and better, Succession is still viable but requires more class knowledge to really shine. The Awakening kit also has a grab skill whilst succession does not. I recommend trying out both playstyles and seeing which you prefer.
Skill Builds
Since the skill point update in late 2022, you can obtain all skills for approximately 1,000 skill points. Focus on your main skills first, then level the passives. The Weight Training skill should be leveled last, since it only gives you weight limit increase.
Protected Skills
It is important to read through your skills to understand which skills have protection and crowd control effects. Read through your skills carefully to get familiar with what each skill does. You can also filter the different effects in the Skill Window (K).
- Super armor (SA)
- This means you cannot be crowd controlled while this effect is active (except grab/grapple), but you will still take damage from any attacks
- Forward guard (FG)
- This means you will block damage and crowd control effects coming from the front direction of your character. The block can be broken if you take enough damage and you will see a blue shield with a number, indicating the % left of the block.
- Some classes have an “S block”. This means you will automatically use Forward Guard when moving backward with “S”.
- Invincible (I-frame)
- This means that you will not take damage and cannot be crowd controlled from any direction for the duration of the effect
Locked Skills
To lock a skill, press the lock icon on the top of each skill icon in the skill window (K).
These are the Awakening skills I recommend locking to help prevent messing up combos during PVP.
- Evasion
- Paradise Beckons
These are the Succession skills I recommend locking to help prevent messing up combos during PVP.
- Evasion
Hotbar Skills
These are the minimum skills I recommend putting on your hotbar.
You may also want to put more skills on your hotbar and cooldown slots to keep track of them. For more information about how to do this, check out our Edit UI and Settings Guide.
Awakening:
Aal’s Breath, Descent, Sin Splitter, Quicksand, Haladie Assault, Haladie Throw, Aals Command
Succession:
Prime: Binding Spirals, Prime: Aal’s Breath, Prime: Blade’s Pact, Haladie Throw
Core Skills
Core skills are a way of upgrading 1 skill from your awakening skill kit.
Core skills are usually down to preference but most players choose between Sin Splitter for 1v1 PVP or Dune Slash for PVE and 1vX. Both skills have super armor on the skill whilst being used.
- Core: Inquisition: Forward Guard while using skill.
- Core: Dune Slash: Super Armor while using skill.
- Core: Sin Splitter: Bound on good hits.
- Core: Collapse: Forward Guard while using skill
- Core: Ensnaring Sands: Bound on good 2nd hits
- Core: Serpant’s Coil: Knockdown on good 1st hit
Skill Enhancement (Rabam) Skills
Skill Enhancement skills can be obtained in the Skill Window (K) under the “Skill Enhancement” tab at the top. At level 56, 57, and 58, you will have 2 different options to choose between. These skills have no skill points cost, but you have to have other skills leveled up to be able to take them.
Level 56 – [SHIFT + X]
- Dominion Slash – Requires [Rupture III] and [Aal’s Dominion IV]
- (Preferred Choice for Awakening)
- Prophesy Blade – Requires [Rupture III] and [Chosen Blade V]
- (Preferred Choice for Succession)
Prophesy Blade has Super Armor protection and a +20 DP buff for 10 seconds when used. It also has MP recovery on each good hit which is very useful. Dominion Slash is an unprotected skill but the Evasion Rate debuff is useful on Succession.
Level 57 – [SHIFT + Z]
- Mirage Assault – Requires [Mirage] and [Descent V]
- (Preferred Choice)
- Aal’s Mirage – Requires [Mirage] and [Aal’s Protection]
I would recommend Mirage Assault. The skill has super armor protection whilst attacking and then forward guard for the rest of the skill with a knockdown CC, while Aal’s Mirage has a stun with Forward Guard protection.
Level 58 – [Quickslot Only]
- Shadow Slicer – Requires [Sand Slicer III] and [Shadow Splitter IV]
- (Preferred Choice)
- Sand Tornado – Requires [Sand Slicer III] and [Piercing Tornado V]
I would recommend Shadow Slicer. The skill has super armor on the first hit and inflicts stiffness. Sand Tornado is a small I-frame ability but doesn’t offer much else.
Skill Add-ons
Below are some examples of PVE skill add-ons you can take.
If you would like example skill add-ons for other scenarios, please refer to the Class Discord and its resources.
I recommend experimenting with your add-ons and figuring out what is best for you because it really depends on your personal preference and how you play your class. If you’re simply not sure what to take then you can blindly follow the examples below and they will still be effective.
You can also check our Skill Add-on guide for a complete list of Skill Add-ons.
Awakening PVE Add-ons |
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All DP -15 for 10 sec for target | |
Succession PVE Add-ons: | |
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Extra AP Against Monsters +30 for 7 sec
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Weapons
Armor
For your armor, you will make a choice between Damage Reduction or Evasion gear. I recommend reading our guide about the two different DP stats if you want to learn what the two different stats do.
Generally, you are recommended to build Damage Reduction on Hashashin at first, then you have the option to swap to Evasion later on, this is because Evasion performs better on Hashashin at high gearscore.
Because of the way the Evasion stat works, you may find that you are squishy for a long time and that your Evasion isn’t really doing much for you. This is why players only recommend swapping to Evasion armors once you reach full PEN gear with Caphras Level 9 or higher. It is also worth noting that Damage Reduction is still viable on Hashashin, and is also viable on all classes, while Evasion is not viable on all classes. I highly recommend doing some research before committing to Evasion.
Accessories
There are various different accessories in the game. At first, just focus on using the accessories that give you the highest AP in each slot.
There are also “free” accessories that all new players should get:
Common Starter PVE accessories:
- TET Black Distortion Earrings
- TET Basilisk’s Belt (or PEN Capotia Belt)
- TET Ring of Crescent Guardian
- TET Ogre Ring/Laytenn’s Necklace (or PEN Capotia Necklace).
Crystals
Below is an example starter Crystal build for PVE. Some of the crystals are expensive. You can obtain the Rebellious Crystal by completing the main story questline. For more example crystal builds, including an end-game PVE crystal build, and PVP Crystal builds, check our Crystal Preset Guide.
- Ah’krad Crystal x2
- Rebellious Spirit Crystal x2
- Red Battlefield Crystal: Adamantine x2
- Ancient Magic Crystal of Crimson Flame – Power x2
- Dark Red Fang Crystal – Valor x2
- Corrupted Magic Crystal x2
- Max HP +350
- All AP +34
- All Accuracy +6
- Extra Damage to Monsters +20
- Hidden Damage Reduction -4
- Knockdown/Bound Resistance +50%
- Stun/Stiffness/Freezing Resistance +10%
- Critical Hit Level +4
- Critical Hit Damage +22%
- Skill EXP +10%
This is an example PVP Build for Hashashins using Evasion Armors. For more example crystal builds, check our Crystal Preset Guide or the Class Discord.
- Glorious Crystal of Gallantry – Olucas x2
- Rebellious Spirit Crystal x2
- Crystal of Elkarr x2
- JIN Glorious Crystal of Honor – Special Evasion x2
- Corrupted Magic Crystal x2
- JIN: Magic Crystal – Viper x2
- JIN: Magic Crystal – Harphia x2
- Ancient Spirit’s Crystal – Swiftness x1
- All accuracy +70
- Ignore All Resistance +20%
- Max HP +650
- All AP +14
- Extra AP Against Monsters +10
- Extra Damage to Humans +14
- All Damage Reduction -4
- Evasion +40
- Special Attack Evasion Rate +20%
- HP Recovery +10
- Skill EXP +10%
- Critical Hit Damage +22%
- Attack, Casting Speed +2%
- Attack Speed +2
- Casting Speed +2
- Critical Hit +2
- Movement Speed +2
This is an example PVP Build for Hashashins using Damage Reduction Armors and going full Human Damage (glass cannon). For more example crystal builds, check our Crystal Preset Guide or the Class Discord.
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- Glorious Crystal of Gallantry – Olucas x2
- Red Spirit Crystal x2
- Crystal of Elkarr x2
- Corrupted Magic Crystal x2
- JIN: Magic Crystal – Viper x2
- Red Battlefield Crystal: Viper x2
- Red Battlefield Crystal: Carmae x2
- Ancient Spirit’s Crystal – Swiftness x1
- All accuracy +70
- Ignore All Resistance +20%
- Max HP +200
- All AP +14
- Extra Damage to Humans +56
- All Damage Reduction -4
- Critical Hit Damage +22%
- Attack, Casting Speed +2%
- Attack Speed +6
- Casting Speed +4
- Critical Hit +2
- Movement Speed +2
Artifacts and Lightstones
There are a few different viable choices for both Artifacts and Lightstone combos. Hashashin is the “Magic Damage” type so you want to go for Magic Accuracy and Magic Damage for offensive artifacts.
For PVE Lighstones there are a few different options to min-max. For certain spots, you may want to use Species damage combos (eg. The Wild: Demihumans, The Wild: Kamaslyvia, The Wild: Humans). Species damage combos perform better if you are reaching the monster AP caps at a certain zone.
A more generic PVE combo is listed below that is recommended for your class and will work at any spot.
You can also find more information about Artifacts and Lightstones, and how to obtain them, in our guide. We also have a list of Best in slot Artifacts and Lightstones.
Artifacts for PVE:
Marsh’s Artifact – Extra AP Against Monsters
- (Extra Damage to Monsters +6)
Lesha’s Artifact – Monster Damage Reduction
- (Monster Damage Reduction +9)
Artifacts for PVP:
Marsh’s Artifact – Magic AP
- (Magic AP +4)
Marsh’s Artifact – Magic Accuracy
- (Magic Accuracy +8)
Lesha’s Artifact – All Evasion
- (All Evasion +6)
PVE Lightstone Combo | |
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[Deathblow] Fire: Predation Fire: Predation Fire: Blade Fire: Blade |
Total Combo Effects: Monster AP +16 Critical Hit Chance +14% |
PVP – Offensive (Damage Reduction Armors) Lightstone Combo | |
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[Target Openings] Fire: Rage Fire: Marked Wind: Lungs Fire: Strike |
Total Combo Effects: All AP +10 All Accuracy +16 Maximum Stamina +100 Critical Damage +6% |
PVP – Defensive (Evasion Armors) Lightstone Combo | |
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[Untouchable] Earth: Iron Wall Earth: Waves Wind: Heart Earth: Disrupt |
Total Combo Effects: All DR +18 All Evasion +33 Max HP +200 Special Attack Evasion +3% |
Useful Links/Credits
I highly recommend checking out the Hashashin Class Discord for resources about your class. The class discords always have the most up-to-date information and tons of experienced players that can help with questions or gearing advice. I would like to give a shoutout to the Staff and Experienced players in the Hashashin discord for all their hard work gathering resources. You can find some of their own guides below. I honestly cannot recommend enough to join the discord.
Useful links to check out:
- Official Hashashin Forums
- Awakening Hashashin PVE Guide by 7ORANI
- Awakening Hashashin PVP Tricks by Tomatsu
- Awakening Hashashin Mobility Guide by 7ORANI
- Succession Hashashin PVE Guide by Vert
- Succession Hashashin PVP Combos by Sr Vill
- Succession Hashashin PVP Guide by Vert
- Succession Text Guide by Zaby
PVP Montage Videos:
Credits Disclaimer: Since there are now 26 BDO classes, it is impossible for me to keep class guides fully maintained. My main class is Ranger and I don’t claim to be the best in any class. Therefore, I use resources and recommendations from the Class discords since (as all other players would agree) this is the best source. I also ask for advice from friends who are more experienced in the class. Where possible, I credit specific players for information such as Add-ons, and combos. However, sometimes there is no player mentioned as the original sharer. If there are any issues with credit or you would like certain information removed/changed, please reach out to me!