how to assassin?

Don't target an immpet. That will increase your success rates nicely. Prior to a few months ago Id have added "
Play a gypsie"

edited: In retrospect. Made a pretty useless post.

Everyone is going to know you're an assassin guild. The moment you fail a sneak or hide people are going to suspect you're assassin. When they see you with two knives they're going to suspect you're an assassin and when you fight like shit, ditto.

Assassins can't really pass themselves off as anything except maybe burglars or thieves with a subguild. It's far far easier for a warrior to pretend to be an assassin (would love to see someone do that), or a burglar to pass as an assasssin, etc.

Fight with either a spear or a club, and keep your daggers in your backpack.

Well, frankly, throw is your friend. It will help in that it doesn't automatically engage you in combat, plus as an assassin, once you get poisoning worked up some, throw is awesome. If I recall right, you get the highest throw skill in the game at like 80, and it will also have a cap on piercing and bludgeoning as high as a ranger, the same cap on dual wield, also branch parry. So one good option would be RPing out sneaking up on small game while hidden, then backstabbing them with dual piercing weapons (some spears are good for this, no need to just stick with daggers), that'll branch you sap eventually, Hmm. There's a lot of ways you can train that are more legit with hunter sub because of the skill complements. But throw will help you out a lot no matter which direction you go with it. Then you don't even have to be in the same room as your intended victim.

don't even know where to start.

first off ur ignoring a whole slew of different non-skill ways to throw players off to their ooc knowledge of ur guild. so u want to meta the players into sniffing a diff guild from u?

u can fail all kinds of shit to avoid ppl zeroing in on ur main guild at the start. if u want to pass as something specific, u can play urself off as ur subguild. for the long game, if you fail the skills of ur subguild, ur improvement will throw off the idea that u r actually something else. this is will be much more effective with an extended subguild.

2ndly the other nonskill things u mention are nobrainers. ppl oocly assume assassin because two daggers? then carry around a fucking sword or an axe. u can still pull out ur dagger or club from somewhere else when a real situation comes (yeah cause some stupid fucks will just completely ignore any legit ic reason for wearing a spear and/or club and look just codedly at why u'd wear one all the time, so don't enable those guildsniffing dipshits by reinforcing that idea)

and the above is all assuming that ur playing ur char as a player, and not as ur char who wouldn't be metagaming nearly as hard on that ooc knowledge. ur char may have no way of knowing that there is no way for him to improve axe or learn disarm for example, and if u were playing with that assumption u'd broadcast a lot less stupidly obvious shit than the fucker who runs around with two katars and then wonders wtf they aren't getting hired as a lumberjack.

third, behave and dress the way that anyone in ur subguild (or even noncoded) profession would behave and dress to display their job to the world. all the shit ppl suggest u do to 'hide' ur main guild comes automatically when u treat ur subguild like ur main guild and icly forget the main guild even exists. play through the eyes of ur char who is genuinely convinced they are a tailor and u won't have an opportunity to accidentally 'manifest' in front of a pc. and when u do decide to work on ur main guild, u'll have built up a solid rep in ur main job, and even if u don't u've still got a shitton of ways to train in secret if ur trying to go the whole assassin in plain sight route.

this is twice as easy to do if u don't play like a fucking moron.

so ur going from 'assassins can't really pass themselves off as anything except maybe burglars or thieves with a subguild' to 'it's hard to justify ur char repeat failing rescue/skinning in a heavy fighting clan'?

well no shit, sherlock. if u want to wedge ur char in that scenario where ur lack of progress in certain skills is going to be clear as day, and u can't fathom improving ur main guild skills effectively outside that type of environment, that is all u own limitation.

also, u can 'sit here and pretend' whatever the fuck u want about a perfect player. u don't have to be 'perfect' to employ a bit of common sense to avoid the type of things that unwittingly broadcast what ur char is to other players.

the fact that u think u need to play offpeak to accomplish -any- of this speaks volumes.