Assassin and Finesse questions

[moe]

I was looking over the Death Master Ninja Assassin Build and I came up with 2 questions

1. WHAAAT? Assassins can use ANY weapon now and still get Mortal Strike? The build uses dual katanas. (No longer limited to Assassins Daggers?)

2. Katanas? You can Finesse Katanas now too?

I am confused.

It's ALL in the Wiki - smh. I need to quit using Standard NwN Info Resources. Although HG appears to be NWN - it is much different in actuality.

Plz excuse the interruption.

[chainlink]

MS was never limited to sin daggers just to whatever melee weapon you had 'honed', the ability to 'Finesse' a weapon as is per the article here wiki.hgweb.org/wiki/Weapon_Finesse, personally my favourite assassin build is this highergroundpoa.proboards.com/thread/24144 but I am biased

[simpetar]

Katanas can be finessed by medium characters (much like Rapiers), it is a HG specialty. Dual wielding katanas is possible, but problematic (although it can "feel" edgy).
1. Only one of your equipped weapons can be honed and deliver MS.
2. You will end up with -4 AB on both weapons; the build you linked ends up with around 90 AB at lvl 60. That is borderline low in hells and it doesn't get much better as you progress further.
3. You will need to collect (and craft) twice as many weapons as normal. Among other drawbacks, casters will hate you, if not outright refuse to buff you.

[chirality]

!delete weaponbuffs