History GameBreaker / AssassinsCreed

* Ballistae, the ancient world's answer to the {{BFG}}. They fire enormous arrows which deal ''massive'' damage and [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank cause comical amounts of blood to spurt from whatever they hit]], and can stagger the Phylakes to the extent that as soon as you manage to lure one within range, [[CurbStombBattle they're toast]].

* In June 2019, they introduced user-created quests. Naturally, the first thing people did was make XP-farming quests that gave you gargantuan chunks of XP for little to no effort, enough for even level 99 players to get a skill point every two 'playthroughs'. The August 2019 patch fixed this by MASSIVELY nerfing the money and XP payouts of story creator quests.[[/folder]]

** Even with the nerf, "Chance to deal 25% assassin damage on hit" is definitely worth investing a few skill points towards if you heavily favor an assassin playstyle, especially when combined with mastery levels/engravings that increase both critical hit chance and damage. This troper managed to defeat Steropes the Lighting Bringer in '''three hits''' thanks to this perk-- it gets the job done.

** Even better, equip the Blade of Yumminess for its "+250% to all damage" perk, slap the "heal for 10% with every successful parry" perk on it and go to town. Sure, you can't use active abilities anymore, but you won't need to - just hack away at everything in range, and on the off chance that something does manage to tickle you, a single parry will heal you back to full. Putting the Dekastes Armor's unique "Isu-enhanced" perk on your ArmorOfInvincibility makes it even more ridiculous because you get complete invulnerability, a massive damage boost, automatic healing and the ability to ignore pretty much any enemy defence for 15 seconds every two minutes. [[BoringButPractical Playing this way is mind-numbingly boring, but even the most aggravating bosses will fall before you like wheat before the scythe regardless of difficulty.]]

* The Templar and Mayan armors. The former goes hand-in-hand with DiscOneNuke, as it is available after doing some easy, if lengthy, mission lines unlocked in the first fourth of the game, and makes Edward a walking tank that takes an extreme amount of damage before dying. The latter makes Edward ImmuneToBullets, albeit without the damage-reducing effects of the Templar Armor, and can let the player do whatever he pleases while enemies take futile potshots at him with pistols and rifles. Even the Guardians' blowguns are rendered useless.

* In June 2019, they introduced user-created quests. Naturally, the first thing people did was make XP-farming quests that gave you gargantuan chunks of XP for little to no effort, enough for even level 99 players to get a skill point every two 'playthroughs'. Since this both broke the game and put sales of the XP booster at risk, a crackdown on them was announced a couple weeks later.[[/folder]]

* The three main 'breakers' are executions/[[KillStreak killstreaks]], the Assassin recruits, and Arrow Storms -- executions/[[Kill Streak killstreaks]] allowing the player to OneHitKill most mooks (and in some cases, even mini-bosses) while going on the offense, the Assassin recruits allowing Ezio to be credited for kills while completely avoiding detection (the recruits also potentially becoming [[OneManArmy one-man/woman-armies in their own right]] upon reaching the highest rank), and Arrow Storms [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] any enemy in Ezio's vicinity.

* The Hunter playstyle was by far the most effective since headshots used to always crit, and it's very easy to get headshots consistently thanks to the UI providing an indicator of extra damage and ease of stacking gear with large amounts of critical damage. A Charged Devastating Shot Headshot could 1-shot Elites of the same level and 2-shot ''everything else''. And since the majority of enemies are melee-only, it was a very safe playstyle. Patch 1.12 nerfed this playstyle by removing the auto-crit property of headshots.
* The [[RainOfArrows Rain Of Destruction]] ability, once fully upgraded and combined with, say, explosive arrows, can one-shot basic mooks and grievously wound EliteMooks, has next to no cooldown and only uses a single adrenaline segment that partially refills on its own if the shot hit something. Combine this with the passive upgrade that completely refills partially drained segments after a short time, and you can spam this ability ad nauseam. Made even better by the AI being unable to pinpoint your position because the arrows are hitting from above, not a specific direction, so they'll search aimlessly with little chance of finding you. The ability's only drawbacks are its rather short range and the inability to use it indoors or hit anything under cover, but neither of these poses much of a problem most of the time.

* [[KillItWithFire Hades' Bow]] is devastating when it comes to the above two skills because of its innate engraving to turn normal arrows into fire arrows and because the arrows are originally normal they keep the endless supply. The only way to get the bow is by defeating a mercenary with the title of the Ashen Wake. And speaking of Legendary Weapons, [[PoisonedWeapons Arachne's Stingers]] and the [[KillItWithFire Mallet Of Everlasting Flame]] both come with engravings that automatically give poison and fire damage respectively. You just need to find and defeat the mercenaries with the titles of The Weaver and The Smoldering, respectively.
* Besides the Ghost Arrows mentioned above, the other two perks at the end of the Warrior and Assassin perk tree is a game changer: a fully upgraded ''Battlecry of Ares'' boosts your damage by 50% and prevents you from dying for 20 seconds. Combined with the right overpower attack, you can one or two-shot pretty much everything in your path. Shadow of Nyx allows you to cross entire zones without being seen, slaughtering everything in your path; combined with the legendary Pilgrim's Set, the ''misthios'' can use Shadow with no duration limits, allowing them to use their increased freedom of movement to set up ambushes or assassinations and escaping after the deed is done.

* The "Restore 10% health on block" weapon perk that came with the ''Legacy of the First Blade'' DLC's second episode is ridiculously powerful. Most enemies invariably attack with plenty of blockable attacks, so coming back from near-death becomes trivial even without the Second Wind heal ability. This perk alone makes the ''misthios'' next to unkillable, as long as you don't completely suck at blocking.

* The combo of Rush Assassination and ''Legacy of the First Blade's'' Death Veil, once you get high enough Assassin damage. Rush Assassination has the ''misthios'' throw the Spear of Leonidas at an enemy and then appear at the target for an assassination, effectively making it a teleport assassination. You can chain it across multiple enemies up to three times (''four'' if you play ''Legacy of the First Blade''), and they'll ''all'' count as assassination kills, even if a target you get has technically entered combat. This pairs ''extremely'' well with the aforementioned Death Veil, which makes assassinations disappear after the kill, meaning you don't have to clean up the bodies anymore. It all results in you warping from tower to tower and across courtyards one-shotting groups of enemies without concern.
* Provided you and the armor are at least level 91, the Greek Heroes set can get you ''near invincibility''. Wear it, max out the ranged and melee resistance masteries, engrave the arms with your best melee resistance engraving and the head with ranged resistance. Congratulations, melee attacks now do absolutely nothing to you and arrows only tickle a little. Elemental damage is now the only thing that can noticeably hurt you, but putting some points into the "damage dealt restored as health" mastery can easily undo that. To take this further, get the Nemean Cestus blunt from the store for its "+30% damage while full health" engraving. Since you're taking almost no damage and easily healing what little you do take, you are literally an unstoppable god of death.
* Once you get access to level 10 engravings, you can kit yourself out to crit 100% of the time while at full health, dealing 650%+ damage on each crit. Almost every enemy can be one-shot with a normal assassination or Predator shot, and when you do end up in melee combat, Hero Strike and Overpower will take out almost anyone in one hit as well. Second Wind makes it a lot easier to get back to full health, and even if you're not at 100%, you'll still have a 50% crit rate and 300%+ crit damage.
* In June 2019, they introduced user-created quests. Naturally, the first thing people did was make XP farming quests that give you gargantuan chunks of XP for little to no effort, enough for even level 99 players to get a skill point every two 'playthroughs'. Since this both breaks the game and puts sales of the XP booster at risk, this is very likely to get fixed in the future. Sure enough, a crackdown on them was announced a couple weeks later.[[/folder]]

* In June 2019, they introduced user-created quests. Naturally, the first thing people did was make XP farming quests that give you gargantuan chunks of XP for little to no effort, enough for even level 99 players to get a skill point every two 'playthroughs'. Since this both breaks the game and puts sales of the XP booster at risk, this is very likely to get fixed in the future.[[/folder]]

*** It gets better. In the final fight [[spoiler: (at least, before you have to fight Al Mualim)]], the easiest way to kill Robert is to just grab and throw him, switch to the Hidden Blade, then stab him while he's floundering on the ground.

*** It gets better. In the final fight, the easiest way to kill Robert is to just grab and throw him, switch to the Hidden Blade, then stab him while he's floundering on the ground.

** Finally, you can avoid naval combat with non-Legendary ships in free-roam altogether if you're not already in naval combat... by releasing the ''Jackdaw'''s wheel, diving over the side, ''swimming to the target ship and wiping out its crew in personal combat single-handedly'', then swimming back to the ''Jackdaw''; your first cannonball impacts against the cleared ship will immediately disable it, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5A__yzi4M&t=390s&hd=1 you'll even get a special slow-motion camera view of the shots]], and upon the boarding prompt, you may even get the success lighting/crew animations/what-to-do-with-the-prize prompt ''with everyone still on the ''Jackdaw'''s decks', even if the disabled ship is a level 60 man o' war! If you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXuhtZNUYqY&hd=1 end up having to complete an objective anyway]], you'll be able to carry it out without having to kill any (more) crew.

* The Hunter playstyle is by far the most effective since headshots always crit before patch 1.12, and it's very easy to get headshots consistently thanks to the UI providing an indicator of extra damage and ease of stacking gear with large amounts of +CRIT damage. A Charged Devastating Shot Headshot can 1-shot Elites of the same level and 2-shot ''everything else''. And since the majority of enemies are melee-only, it's a very safe playstyle. Patch 1.12 nerfed this playstyle by removing the auto-crit property of headshots.

* The counter attack makes combat immensely easier. The problem is that otherwise, the combat is horribly broken and random. What is better: Uncontrollable, luck based combat or butchering every opponent without difficulty?
** Guessing the correct timing to perform a counter is just as good as doing it, and that's if you're able to see every attack through to fit with your timing. Which makes surviving the whole game with ONLY the Hidden Blade possible if you have the ability time EVERY single counter correctly, not to forget that you can use that Hidden Blade to do a high-profile assassination during a fight if an enemy is taunting you or is cowering from fear. Not even the game's BigBad is spared (although he doesn't taunt or cower in fear like how your enemies will usually do)... Let's just say Altaïr and his trademark Hidden Blade near the end of the game is pretty much a GameBreaker himself.

* The pistol upgrade, which gives you a small hidden blade style firearm. While this weapon takes a while to aim, it will one shot kill any enemy in the game, including bosses. Many bosses past the point where you get this weapon are high up (and extremely difficult to reach at all let alone staying hidden), surrounded by armored guards and other boss level enemies, and/or extremely skilled in combat. The pistol takes all these factors completely out of the equation thanks to its extreme range and perfect accuracy after 3 seconds.
* The Hidden Blade's biggest change in ''II'' was a little feature missing from version one: the ability to block (okay, they also added a standard attack for it, but that was rather pointless unless you wanted to see some of the spectacularly gruesome combo kills). This may sound odd, but because you couldn't block with it in ''1'', you pretty much had to be perfect on the timing or lose a lot of health as the guards wailed on you while you were staggered. Before, if you weren't too good at the game, you had to stick with the sword to avoid the previous; now, there really wasn't any excuse ''not'' to use the Blade. (It does less damage than the primary weapons, but who needs a few more points of damage when you're one-shotting every enemy that attacks you?)

* The three main "breakers" are executions/kill streaks, the Assassin recruits, and Arrow Storms -- executions/kill streaks allowing the player to OneHitKill most mooks (and in some cases, even mini-bosses) while going on the offense, the Assassin recruits allowing Ezio to be credited for kills while completely avoiding detection (the recruits also potentially becoming [[OneManArmy one-man/woman-armies in their own right]] upon reaching the highest rank), and Arrow Storms [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] any enemy in Ezio's vicinity.
** The player, with patience and a couple hours, can level several recruits up to max experience (and subsequently complete most of the recruit quests as a result), giving the player an unbeatable advantage very early in the game.
* The Hidden Blade has a slightly wider window of opportunity than in the previous games, although that [[ItMakesSenseInContext is probably a subtle nod to Ezio's experience]], while the Hidden Pistol's much faster aiming time (making it an actually viable combat weapon) is a more overt example.

* The Poison Dart Launcher makes poison so much more useful. You can now poison enemies from afar, with almost no chance of a hostile spotting Ezio, unlike the poison blade where you had to get into melee range. Furthermore, any hostiles around will be distracted as they watch the victim's throes, allowing you to slip by. Contrast with the Hidden Gun, which almost certainly will give Ezio away, and the crossbow which is also likely to be detected. Also, it's always a OneHitKill, even on Brutes/Almogavars and {{Praetorian Guard}}s/Janissaries.
* The game's counter mechanic was greatly buffed from the previous games, reducing difficult fights to spamming the counter button, with no regard to timing. In addition, the game's "kick" option while fighting reducing even the toughest enemies to whimpering babies.

* While ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' expanded ''II'''s economic redevelopment system to the entire city of Rome, it was given some reasonable limitations in the way of requiring you to seize control of an area from the Borgias by destroying designated towers before allowing you to renovate the buildings there. Certain towers were inaccessible until later parts of the game, preventing players from 100% renovation too soon. However, the system was taken to absurd levels in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations Revelations]]'' with the city of Constantinople, which had basically the same setup as Rome and none of the limitations, since all of the Templar Dens are accessible almost right away. There was the very minor addition of increasing notoriety every time you renovate a building, which is very easily sidestepped. It is entirely possible to have the city almost entirely rebuilt as early as Sequence 3, making the economy an even bigger joke than it usually is in AC games. This also allows access to the vast majority of the city and side content very early on in the story, unlike previous installments that utilized gating.
* Piri Reis' store (and, subsequently, the in-game economy) can be exploited to great effect as soon as you meet him. He will sell bombs to Ezio at a 15% discount, but Ezio can sell these same bombs back to him at full price. With a few minutes of grinding, you can easily make enough money to never have to worry about running short for the rest of the game. Sadly, this got patched and he now buys ingredients for the same price as he sells them (and buying discounted ingredients elsewhere won't work, either).
** But you can still exploit Piri. Enter his shop, use the nearby crafting station for some free bomb ingredients, then exit and re-enter for another batch. Keep this up until you can't hold any more, then sell to him for a big chunk of money. And since time passes while you're doing this, you'll also get extra money from the bank and any assassin disciples returning from missions. And there's a convenient guild management table right over there...

* Speaking of the Master Assassin Armor, this unbreakable set can ''also'' be acquired as early as Sequence 3, with time and patience. All you have to do is train seven Assassins to the Master Rank, which means not only liberating all the Dens, but taking on the Master Assassin missions they give. While the first half is unlocked upon taking a Den (and having a lvl 10 Assassin), you can also level up your Assassin to the max rank, and get/beat the second half mission, then repeat for each Den. Once all Master Assassin missions are complete, you are awarded the armor, and as a bonus, every single one of your Dens will now become impossible to attack (so no more Den Defense).

* Rope arrows are cheap, plentiful and can be exploited very quickly early on in the game. Not only can the player get easy silent kills on enemies with them, but they can be used to instantly trip any enemy (up to and including EliteMooks) and can be used to hang soldiers from trees without breaking stealth. Tellingly, they [[EleventhHourSuperpower only show up in the last couple chapters of]] ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag''.
* You can buy the Duck Footed Pistol from the General Store, which is ostensibly a sawed-off shotgun with three barrels. Not only is it extremely deadly at short range (killing multiple enemies in a OneHitKill), but when mixed with the craftable multiple holsters, you can carry several at once and plow through enemy forces like they're tissue paper. It's incredibly easy to get through the final chase mission just by running full tilt and using the DFP's to clear out groups of enemies.
* Hiding well in a ball of hay can you kill enemies easily through the hidden blade, and they won't notice you, allowing you to kill and clean up thousands of mooks who won't even notice when you do it right in front of them.

* The choke hold usually knocks enemies out, while when [[LadyOfWar Aveline]] does it, they die, and rather quickly, so you can sneak around and choke every enemy in your way without many noticing you.

* The Templar and Mayan Armor. Templar armor goes hand in hand with DiscOneNuke, as it is available after doing some easy, if lengthy, mission lines unlocked in the first fourth of the game, and makes Edward a walking tank that takes an extreme amount of damage before dying. Mayan armor makes Edward ImmuneToBullets, albeit without the damage-reducing effects of the Templar armor, and can let the player do whatever he pleases while enemies take futile potshots at him with pistols and rifles. Even the Guardians' blowguns are rendered useless.

** Enemy ships will stop shooting once you come alongside and grapple an enemy ship -- evidently none of their captains decide to sacrifice their disabled ally to ensure the sinking of the ''Jackdaw'' -- and you'll 'leave' the naval combat phase, which effectively makes the ''Jackdaw''[[note]]though ''not'' Edward[[/note]] invincible for the duration of the boarding action.
** You're almost never required to cross over to the enemy ship, only to kill a number of enemy crew and complete certain other objectives (e.g. destroy the enemy ship's powder reserves, kill enemy sharpshooters, kill the enemy captain[[note]]which can be achieved by nailing him with a sleep dart from as far as one of the ''Jackdaw''[='=]s masts, after which he can be [[OneHitKO one-shotted]] by anyone such as your crew[[/note]]), with no special restrictions as to how to achieve these other than destroying an enemy ship's flag[[note]]though if you can get from one of the ''Jackdaw''[='=]s masts onto a remaining mast on the enemy ship, you can avoid the deck altogether[[/note]]. In practice, if you've got enough ammo you can almost always stay on the ''Jackdaw'' and plink away with Edward's personal ranged weapons... or if you've got a high enough Crew, you could very well just let the Jackdaws handle the enemy crew!
** Not only can swivel gun shots kill multiple enemies in one hit[[note]]and upgrading them will increase their area of effect[[/note]], but you're not required to use up all five swivel gun shots in one go, so if Edward took enough damage aboard the enemy ship to risk desync, you can have him flee back to the ''Jackdaw'' to regenerate health[[note]]at the slow "open conflict" rate[[/note]] while manning the gun. Moreover, if the enemy ship is sufficiently small and your shots sufficiently precise, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqpXK8cXQHk&t=8m43s&hd=1 you may carry out the boarding objectives entirely with swivel gun shots]]!
** The post-boarding prompt for what to do with a captured prize will still appear -- in particular, "Repair the ''Jackdaw''" -- ''even if a multi-ship combat is still ongoing''. Combined withe the ''Jackdaw'''s invincibility during boarding, a player can keep the ''Jackdaw'' afloat in a drawn-out battle for as long as they can make it to the next boarding, i.e. "nibbling one's way up the food chain" against a high-level enemy ship by focusing on disabling, then boarding and capturing lower-level allies to "recover health" whenever needed.
** Finally, you can avoid naval combat with non-Legendary ships in free-roam altogether if you're not already in naval combat... by releasing the ''Jackdaw''[='=]s wheel, diving over the side, ''swimming to the target ship and wiping out its crew in personal combat single-handedly'', then swimming back to the ''Jackdaw''; your first cannonball impacts against the cleared ship will immediately disable it, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5A__yzi4M&t=390s&hd=1 you'll even get a special slow-motion camera view of the shots]], and upon the boarding prompt you may even get the success lighting/crew animations/what-to-do-with-the-prize prompt ''with everyone still on the'' Jackdaw''[='=]s decks'... even if the disabled ship is a level 60 man o' war! If you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXuhtZNUYqY&hd=1 end up having to complete an objective anyway]], you'll be able to carry it out without having to kill any (more) crew.
*** Oh, and that part above, about this trick only working on non-Legendary ships? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOp3cOYqOo Not entirely true...]][[note]]The only real exception to this is the DualBoss with ''HMS Fearless'' and ''Royal Sovereign'': you can pull it off with the first one, but the second will set itself on fire and try to charge you down after that, which makes boarding it difficult.[[/note]]

* Qualified in that you have to be able to defeat ''a'' Legendary ship, but in [[DualBoss the HMS ''Fearless'' and HMS ''Royal Sovereign'' boss fight]], both ships drop one half of the normal reward, and if you loot one of them before going down to her sister ship you keep the drop -- ''10000 reales''! After about an hour or two of grinding, you'll never have to worry about running out of money for the rest of the game.

* You can get through the whole game in Arno's original equipment if you purchase one particular skill as soon as you can. The skill in question? [[MasterOfDisguise Disguise]].
** Flick down on the D-Pad, and Arno will instantaneously [[DressingAsTheEnemy transform into the nearest]] {{Mook}} or civilian, none of whom will question who he is.
** This disguise will last until one of three things happens:
*** You get into Assassination range[[note]]which has a slight delay just long enough for you to actually assassinate someone[[/note]]
*** You try to free-run[[note]]slight delay on the GlamourFailure, but the running itself gets everyone's attention[[/note]]
*** You run the timer out[[note]]instantaneous switchback; you'd better hope you've got a hiding place handy[[/note]]

* Much like Revelations all of London can be liberated as soon as the player is allowed to move freely around the city. The different areas have different difficulty levels so the player will have to level up quite a bit to conquer them all. If they do this though and then go after the main sequences they will be pathetically easy.

* While probably historically accurate to some extent, mounted combat is seriously overpowered. Hunting in particular is ridiculously easy while on horseback since Bayek is immune to being staggered (preventing the vicious CycleOfHurting that often accompanies fights with hyenas for instance), can catch up with any fleeing prey, and deals one hell of a lot more damage. The high mobility also makes him predictably hard to hit and thus avoids most incoming attacks without the need for blocking or evading. He can even loot enemies' remains as well as containers and chests without having to dismount. Battling humans is slightly more dangerous because their charged attacks have a higher chance of knocking Bayek off his mount, but it's easy to get on again within a few seconds, and all the advantages mentioned above still apply regardless. If you don't feel like taking a hostile stronghold stealthily, just ride through the front gate and mow down everything inside. Even archers on parapets can usually be reached and hunted down this way. The only thing that doesn't work quite as well on horseback is the [[LimitBreak Overpower]] ability, but the adrenaline bar still fills up as usual, so you can just dismount, overpower whatever you want, then rinse and repeat.

* The Hunter playstyle is by far the most effective since headshots always crit before patch 1.12, and it's both very easy to get headshots consistently thanks to the UI providing an indicator of extra damage and ease of stacking gear with large amounts of +CRIT damage. A Charged Devastating Shot Headshot can 1-shot Elites of the same level and 2-shot ''everything else''. And since the majority of enemies are melee-only, it's a very safe playstyle. Patch 1.12 nerfed this playstyle by removing the auto-crit property of headshots.

* [[KillItWithFire Hades's Bow]] is devastating when it comes to the above two skills because of its innate engraving to turn normal arrows into fire arrows and because the arrows are originally normal they keep the endless supply. The only way to get the bow is by defeating a mercenary with the title "of the Ashen Wake". And speaking of Legendary Weapons, [[PoisonedWeapons Arachne's Stingers]] and the [[KillItWithFire Mallet Of Everlasting Flame]] both come with engravings that automatically give poison and fire damage respectively. You just need to find and defeat the mercenaries with the titles "The Weaver" and "The Smoldering" respectively.
* Besides the Ghost Arrows mentioned above, the other two perks at the end of the Warrior and Assassin perk tree is a game changer:a fully upgraded ''Battlecry of Ares'' boosts your damage by 50% and prevents you from dying for 20 seconds. Combined with the right overpower attack, you can one or two shot pretty much everything in your path. Shadow of Nyx allows you to cross entire zones without being seen, slaughtering everything in your path; combined with the legendary Pilgrim's Set, the ''misthios'' can use Shadow with no duration limits, allowing them to use their increased freedom of movement to set up ambushes or assassinations and escaping after the deed is done.

* The combo of Rush Assassination and ''Legacy of the First Blade's'' Death Veil, once you get high enough Assassin damage. Rush Assassination has the ''misthios'' throw the Spear of Leonidas at an enemy and then appear at the target for an assassination, effectively making it a teleport assassination. You can chain it across multiple enemies up to three times (''four'' if you play ''Legacy of the First Blade''), and they'll ''all'' count as assassination kills, even if a target you get has technically entered combat. This pairs ''extremely'' well with the aforementioned Death Veil, which makes assassinations disappear after the kill, meaning you don't have to clean up the bodies anymore . It all results in you warping from tower to tower and across courtyards one-shotting groups of enemies without concern.

* In June 2019, they introduced user-created quests. Naturally, the first thing people did was make XP farming quests that give you gargantuan chunks of XP for little to no effort, enough for even level 99 players to get a skill point every two "playthroughs". Since this both breaks the game and puts sales of the XP booster at risk, this is very likely to get fixed in the future.[[/folder]]

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* [[KillItWithFire Hades's Bow]] is devastating when it comes to the above two skills because of its innate engraving to turn normal arrows into fire arrows and because the arrows are originally normal they keep the endless supply. The only way to get the bow is by defeating a mercenary with the title "of the Ashen Wake". And speaking of Legendary Weapons, [[PoisonedWeapons Arachne's Stingers]] and the [[KillItWithFire MalletOfEverlastingFlame]] both come with engravings that automatically give poison and fire damage respectively. You just need to find and defeat the mercenaries with the titles "The Weaver" and "The Smoldering" respectively.

* [[KillItWithFire Hades's Bow]] is devastating when it comes to the above two skills because of its innate ability to turn normal arrows into fire arrows and because the arrows are originally normal they keep the endless supply. The only way to get the bow is by defeating a mercenary with the title "of the Ashen Wake".

* [[KillItWithFire Hades's Bow]] is devastating when it comes to the above two skills because of its innate ability to [[AwesomeYetPractical turn normal arrows into fire arrows]] and because the arrows are originally normal they keep the endless supply. The only way to get the bow is by defeating a mercenary with the title Ashen Wake.

* The [[KillItWithFire Hades Bow]] is devastating when it comes to the above two skills because of its innate ability to turn normal arrows into fire arrows and because the arrows are originally normal they still keep the endless supply.

* Piri Reis' store (and, subsequently, the in-game economy) can be exploited to great effect as soon as you meet him. He will sell bombs to Ezio at a 15% discount, but Ezio can sell these same bombs back to him at full price. With a few minutes of grinding, you can easily make enough money to never have to worry about running short for the rest of the game. Sadly, this got patched and he now buys ingredients for the same price as he sells them.

* Piri Reis' store (and, subsequently, the in-game economy) can be exploited to great effect as soon as you meet him. He will sell bombs to Ezio at a 15% discount, but Ezio can sell these same bombs back to him at full price. With a few minutes of grinding, you can easily make enough money to never have to worry about running short for the rest of the game.

** You're almost never required to cross over to the enemy ship, only to kill a number of enemy crew and complete certain other objectives (i.e. destroy the enemy ship's powder reserves, kill enemy sharpshooters, kill the enemy captain[[note]]which can be achieved by nailing him with a sleep dart from as far as one of the ''Jackdaw''[='=]s masts, after which he can be [[OneHitKO one-shotted]] by anyone such as your crew[[/note]]), with no special restrictions as to how to achieve these other than destroying an enemy ship's flag[[note]]though if you can get from one of the ''Jackdaw''[='=]s masts onto a remaining mast on the enemy ship, you can avoid the deck altogether[[/note]]. In practice, if you've got enough ammo you can almost always stay on the ''Jackdaw'' and plink away with Edward's personal ranged weapons... or if you've got a high enough Crew, you could very well just let the Jackdaws handle the enemy crew!

*** Oh, and that part above, about this trick only working on non-Legendary ships? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOp3cOYqOo Not entirely true...]][[note]]The only real exception to this is the DuelBoss with ''HMS Fearless'' and ''Royal Sovereign'': you can pull it off with the first one, but the second will set itself on fire and try to charge you down after that, which makes boarding it difficult.[[/note]]

* The counter attack makes combat ridiculously easy. The problem is that otherwise, the combat is horribly broken and random. What is better: Uncontrollable, luck based combat or butchering every opponent without difficulty?