Assassin Hit Recovery rate:
20% for 4 frame faster hit recovery
63% for 3 frame faster hit recovery
200% for 2 frame faster hit recovery

A lv 9 character won't more than 9 pts in a lv 1 skill or more than 4 pts in a lv 6 skill.

You will have 20 Skill Points and 55 Stat Points, if you finish all the skill/stat quests in the game.

There aren't a lot of skill to choose from.
Tiger Strike (TS), Burst of Speed (BoS), Claw Mastery (CM), and maybe Fist of Fire (FoF, uninterruptable)

Most would most TS (9), BoS (4) and rest in CM. (7) or 6 in CM and 1 in FoF? I'm not too sure about that. You will be using Claw/Shield, since you need the blocking.

Stat points placement depends on what equipments you're using. Enough to use all the gear, and rest in Vita.

Equipment:
Helm: Biggin's Bonnet, or a 3 socket Mask. Things to socket it with...20/9max jewel, flawed ruby (17 life), or 14 max jewels (5 from prefix, 9 from suffix)

Armor: 3 socket or 4 socket armor with similar jewels as the 3 socket mask.

Shield: Pelta Lunata. It needs 45 dex to max block at lv 9.

Brb...baking.