Quote Originally Posted by Dimitrii View Post
I can understand actually why they didn't add it in frontlines. Seems kinda pointless to me. Just by being a smn you could probably average upwards of double digit assists because of ur dots being on players when they are finally killed by someone else. I hate assists myself cause it only serves to remind me of ppl I attacked but let them get away from me alive lol.
In this case, though, "assists" does not mean what we would traditionally think it means. It sounds like SE is taking "assists" to mean actually assisting your party, rather than just a concession for not scoring the final hit.

They mentioned that there would be a lot of ways to earn assists besides helping to kill a player. In fact, dealing damage was the only thing the did not mention. They only specified "healing, buffs, and other actions." "Other actions," to me, sounds like objectives. In FEAST, for example, you might score an assist by picking up the medals of a player someone else on your team killed (thereby sparing them the "heavy medal" debuff).