People tend to forgot how heavily they rely on trance. Untranced an assassin is one rounded by a flurry. They also cannot hide nor trance will in violence timer. Shapaa smoked me several times with his rbw flail/hand to hand even with trance.

Also they typically don't have much carry weight so equipment options dwindle a bit as far as stat coverage. People seem to forgot assassins can be maladicted also. Glik killed me once with bash spam wielding axes. Maces are brutal too.

You also cannot be thrown two sizes bigger so Giants are basically immune. Axe kick, kot, and kans seem to have a size check as well. Not sure about GC

Also there is like a 15 minute cool down on trance, which makes retreiving 1v1 pretty simple since it's so obvious when it's up. Assassin vs assassin is usually dictated by who makes who burn hours off their trance for no reason.

Also, a useful tidbit:. Assassins are useless under water.