Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Shadowdancer vs Assassin

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Pro's and con's? Shadowdancer imo just looks too weak

 

A shadowdancer is pretty powerful, being able to make the most of the hide in shadows skill and thus landing more backstabs, albeit not for as high a multiplier as an assassin or even a regular thief would.
Liberal use of the shadowstep ability to reposition means you'll be able to get off a lot more backstabs then other thieves.
This advantage does drop off significantly as you progress to the second game, where a lot more enemies are either able to see invisibility, or are immune to backstabs altogether.
The shadowdancer does get +1 to saving throws compared to a regular thief, and adds in some fun high level abilities that level the playing field somewhat even when encountering these enemies however, with the Shadow Form, Shadow Maze and Shadow Twin abilities, allowing them to stay relevant throughout the entire saga.

Assassins however, have it a lot tougher once they too start running into enemies that will see through their invisibility, let alone those that are immune to backstabbing - there's little use in having a 7x backstab multiplier if only trash mobs are affected by it at all, and this will mostly be the case once you progress past the halfway point of BG2.
The assassin has his innate +1 to damage and thac0 bonus, but this is really not too much of a big bonus - as well as his poison blade ability being mostly situational, being mostly useful against enemy spell casters.

 

oh ok thank you