Assassinate Creed

One cannot simply FLY into Gilneas city.

The stealth part is pretty simple and easy, just take your time and don't rush it. Some tips on sneaking around: Once you break stealth or are noticed, you'll eventually get ported back to the mage. Don't fly, you'll get ported back to the mage. You can be in melee range of someone as long as you are behind them, so Sap and Distract should be freely used. It is easier as sub, can [spell=36554] to a mob and hold back peddle and won't be detected. For patrols, you can just [spell=36554] to the pat and he'll just walk away from ya. Any NPC who's sleeping is safe to walk over. When a mob spots you, you'll loose your [spell=109157] debuff.

This part has gotten very hard since it went out on live. They added alot more extra mobs, and you get seen outside of the red zone with some of them. It is possible to cheat by running out until [spell=109156] is gone, then get on a flying mount starting around here, fly up to be the same height of the highest towers and fly straight at [npc=57802]. When you gain the [spell=109156] debuff, hit stealth and let your momentum take you just to the entrance of the courtyard he is in. Best to have [item=43378]. Dunno when or if this will be fixed, so your mileage may vary.

It is possible to skip the first inner city by jumping into the water and [spell=36554] to the pat who walks up and down the ramp. Can also distract the very last [npc=57810], wait for the pat to be 20+ yards away and then jump from the water and spam sap on him. All the mobs have about 20 yards aggro radius. You will get unstealthed if you get within 10 yards of the [npc=57810]s. But will be fine as soon as you stealth back up. You won't be popped out of stealth from the debris on fire, but the dark wooden clutter like the stocks in the boss arena has gotten in my way in more than one occasion during the fight.

From mccall a few posts bellow:

This map shows the approximate path I took. The quad dots show start, single dots are the approximate locations of the mobs I sapped, and the double dots are shadowsteps.

[npc=57802] has 3 abilities, 1.8 mill hp and is lvl 85 with a 2 minute enrage timer which means you have to do at least 15k dps while kiting, keeping up [spell=73651] and kicking his casts. If you stop ANY of his casts with anything except a Kick (Kidney Shot/[spell=1776]/Blind), he'll start casting the ability again seconds after he's recovered. Creed will reset if Vanish is used. Your stuns should be saved for times where you are getting low and need to heal up, which is rare.

- [spell=109196] is a 1 second cast that spawns an AOE underneath the player that does about 9k per tick. This move is uninterruptible and you need to run out of it and kite the boss out of the aoe. This is a good time to let [spell=73651] heal you up.

- [spell=109664] is a 1.5 second cast that hits you for 18-20k shadow damage and drains all your energy down to 0. You need to kick this, I don't believe that [spell=26679] is much help because of the travel time of the throw. If you have trouble kicking the cast, you can use Numbing Poison on to slow the cast to 3 seconds. If you do this, I would suggest to pickup the talent [spell=79008] and glyph for [spell=56804] instead of [spell=108211] since you can only have 1 utility poison/buff active at a time.

- After he transforms, he gains the ability [spell=109673] which has a 1 second cast warm up followed with a 3 second channeled duration that deals shadow damage in front of him. This move is uninterruptible so just don't stand in front of him, very easy to get out of this and able to keep dps on him from behind/on the side while he's channeling. Only problem is if you've boxed yourself in a corner with [spell=109196].

He goes [spell=110055] at exactly 2 minutes into the fight where he grows big and red, use Blind paired with [item=64493] on him to heal up a with bandages and pot up if needed. He deals double melee and spell damage (40k Blackhowl's Will hits) and seems to casting more frequently during berserk. Shiv doesn't work on him here. Use stuns, gouge etc... to stop him for a tick and grab more energy if you need to. Save Evasion and Cloak of Shadows+[item=45769] for this phase if you need to.

His opener is usually Consuming Darkness followed by a Blackhowl's Will, so don't stand too far from him when getting out of the 1st void zone.

Once Creed is down, you will automatically be teleported back to your mage friend. If for some reason you cannot finish this by yourself, you can group up with other rogues to get him down. I'm pretty sure that the other rogues need to be on the quest to help you else, everything will be phased. If you are in the proximity of someone who downs him (ie: you just got within range of the boss and never hit him with any abilities), you'll also get credit for the quest.

I first downed him in about 1 min 50 seconds as a 385 ilvl combat rogue, and was able to coach others with less gear and non-optimal enchants/gems with combat daggers to get this boss down.

Updated for Rogues who want to attempt this at level 85 in MOP, can someone check if [spell=108215] is effective against this boss?

All these people trying to skip to Creed... you play a Rogue and you don't want to do a stealth mission?

Hmm actually I guess cheating the game is perfectly in character for a Rogue :P