Editing Assassin's Roost Quest (section)

=== Fighting Selaina ===
# Debuff Selaina's Dagger before starting the fight. The debuffs on her dagger will not cause her to attack you yet.
# * When your first blow lands she will teleport you to the top of the tower so there is no point to trying to hide on the lower levels.
# Selaina uses a multi-strike dagger and can hit for a lot of damage if your melee defense is not very high.  However, for characters over level 180 it is unlikely she poses a significant threat.  If you are with more than one person, consider having a healer on standby.
# When she dies she drops the [[Assassin's Cowl]] (100% of the time) and can drop the [[Assassin's Edge]] (not 100% drop rate) as well as some generic armor.
# * Note: The value of items dropped would be 520 MMDs if you were going to buy them from [[Creed]]. So if you want the Cowl and Dagger then killing Selaina may be the best option economically speaking presuming she drops the Dagger for you. 520 MMDs > 50 MMDs for the Writ of Forgiveness.

Alternatively, a [[Duelist's Jewel]], the slashing protection rare, will reduce all slashing melee damage significantly. When used in combination with a shield with 1000 buffed protection from slashing, all of Selaina's slashing hits were reduced to 0 damage, even with imperil 7. Piercing hits were rare and very weak, hitting for around 25 damage.

'''Update:''' As of 2013, due to the introduction of higher level loot (tiers 7 and 8), a higher level character (level 250+) that is reasonably well equipped has little to fear from Selaina.  Having melee defense of 500 or higher will result in virtually no attacks hitting you.  Needing a slashing rare or healer is probably only necessary for lower level characters.

Notes
* The quest is not split up by race. As long as you find each respective letter, you can get the clues that correspond.