Alert terrorism is an ongoing sport: Jinx - My latest telepathy build.

gradii · November 2014

Well, Cyrone might be taking a break from the game but the Alert terrorism must go on.
Jinx is built to teleport into a group of mobs, stun them with tk maelstrom tap, maintain ego storm to keep em locked down while doing high damage, and if any are still alive, drop on a few DoT's while they wobble there helpless till they drop or ego storm is ready again.

This build requires some skill to play, but is not hard to get the hang of once the basic strategy is understood.

AoE stun, AoE hold, DoT. Repeat if necessary.

Unbreakable and Palliate should be rotated with each other as needed if you are taking damage.

Conviction is there for a self spike heal on demand, and sentinel mastery keeps more Heal over time HP coming. As does shadow form. As does mental leech.

Oh, one warning about palliate, make sure "Assist Target on Attack" in the Controls menu is OFF. I've accidentally failed a gravitar pug by forgetting to do that and making the tank lose aggro. and imagine in fire and ice, god no.

so long as that option is switched off this wont happen accidentally.

PowerHouse (Link to this build)

Name: Jinx

Archetype: Freeform

Super Stats:
Level 6: Intelligence (Primary)
Level 10: Presence (Secondary)
Level 15: Ego (Secondary)

Talents:
Level 1: The Grimoire
Level 6: Academics
Level 9: Negotiator
Level 12: Wordly
Level 15: Lasting Impression
Level 18: Showmanship
Level 21: Command Training

Powers:
Level 1: Psi Lash
Level 1: Mind Break (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 6: Shadow of Doubt (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 8: Shadow Form (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 11: Mental Leech (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 14: Molecular Self-Assembly
Level 17: Manipulator
Level 20: Ego Storm (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 23: Mental Storm
Level 26: Telekinetic Maelstrom (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 29: Ego Sleep (Nailed to the Ground)
Level 32: Unbreakable
Level 35: Conviction (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 38: Palliate (Absolve)

Travel Powers:
Level 6: Flight (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 35: Teleportation (Rank 2, Rank 3)

Specializations:
Intelligence: Tactician (2/2)
Intelligence: Battle of Wits (3/3)
Intelligence: Detect Vulnerability (3/3)
Intelligence: Expertise (2/2)
Sentinel: Torment (2/2)
Sentinel: Sentinel Aura (3/3)
Sentinel: Moment of Need (3/3)
Sentinel: Wither (2/2)
Overseer: Ruthless (2/2)
Overseer: Overseer Aura (3/3)
Overseer: Trapped (3/3)
Overseer: Conservation (2/2)
Mastery: Sentinel Mastery (1/1)

chalupaoffury · November 2014

Point: Hold down block and it'll fix that targeting issue. Your EB is what breaks it, right? Well, the heal will fire off through the block, and then your eb should bring you back to your offensive target. It's a bit of a work around to a dumb targeting ui, I actually just posted about that in my AT thread.

You using shadow form to get around that stupid Congress of Selves bug? I bet you get a lot of qq over maelstrom.

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spinnytop · November 2014

Reminds me of my telepathy build... except for Shadow Form ( I use the telepathy passive ). And also no Palliate, ADs, Conviction, Telekenetic Maelstrom (my defense consists entire of stunning enemies and using Empathic Healing on myself). And instead of Manipulator I use Mental Discipline. Also I use Ego Sprites because it out damages all the new Telepathy dots. And Telekinetic assault is in there too.

flowcyto · November 2014

Looks nice for a Manip/TP build. I'd prob change the SS setup, most of all. INT/Con/Dex or Pres/Int/Con have worked well for my Manip FFs thus far (Int and Con focus for both of them). Ya aren't using Compassion, Support role + auras, or TP Reverb, so there's no great reason to have Pres as a SSS (PSS is a diff matter, though).

Would also prob rank-up Mental Storm before ranking the other TP DoTs- even knowing normal rank ups of the other 2 lower their cds (you'll have plenty of cds rolling for MSA regardless).

As far as the issue of using support powers on urself: powers like Palliate and this game's quirky targeting system are the main reasons I hotkeyed 'deselect target' to a side mouse key. Support spells that can target you will by default be used on you if there's no target selected (unless ya change that in Options). I tend to keep the hostile target assist options on cause they can come in handy when ya do want to heal others. Just a diff approach, I guess.

chalupaoffury · November 2014

flowcyto wrote: »

As far as the issue of using support powers on urself: powers like Palliate and this game's quirky targeting system are the main reasons I hotkeyed 'deselect target' to a side mouse key. Support spells that can target you will by default be used on you if there's no target selected (unless ya change that in Options). I tend to keep the hostile target assist options on cause they can come in handy when ya do want to heal others. Just a diff approach, I guess.

Block really does help in this instance. You can't retarget anyone while blocking, a quick block -> click -> power works a treat. Shame about the UI though, for rampages.

That's probably personal style though, I'd rather change my play style when I'm trying to heal myself rather than changing a hotkey. End result is the same.

I *think* I've seen some form of this build in action. It seems really familiar, pretty sure we did a few runs with a variant. It's definitely good at what it does. From what I've seen of Dazee's telepaths, con doesn't matter too much because they either outheal or lock down the damage that's coming in.

jimhsua · November 2014

I have a version of this, but running TK maelstrom/epidemic instead of ego storm. And rez in place of the targetable heals. Essentially unkillable in alerts with the amount of healing running, and usually melee tanks in gravitar .. with Pestilence as passive.

cyrone · November 2014

Old Kr'anri style.

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Alert terrorism is an ongoing sport: Jinx - My latest telepathy build.

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