Best strategy against Psychics?

Whitewolfff - Heavens Tear
Whitewolfff - Heavens Tear Posts: 7 Arc User
edited December 2009 in Arigora Colosseum
been discussing PvP with my friends, and wondering about the best way to beat a psychic with a hybrid cleric b:surrender
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  • Morty - Raging Tide
    Morty - Raging Tide Posts: 337 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    Its always hard for cleric to fight other casters.
    Insetad of focusing on all out damage, try keeping a DoT on your target, while you use skills for heal/absorb and keep the DoT(s) running down on them.
    They'll either drop because you outlasted them, or out lasted there mana, and go in for the attacks.
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  • CornHilario - Heavens Tear
    CornHilario - Heavens Tear Posts: 647 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    Morty - Raging Tide wrote: »
    Its always hard for cleric to fight other casters.
    Insetad of focusing on all out damage, try keeping a DoT on your target, while you use skills for heal/absorb and keep the DoT(s) running down on them.
    They'll either drop because you outlasted them, or out lasted there mana, and go in for the attacks.

    llike what morty said, i think its mostly a matter of outlasting ur opponent. plume shell helps u tank almost all their damage, lasting 20 seconds with a 30 second cooldown. during that 10 second window, if u are lvl79, u can switch to guardian light which absorbs little more than half of damage u take. not as much as plume shell, but try to keep something on. or u can use wings of protection(79 skill) which absorbs damage equal to 20% of ur hp.

    it wouldnt hurt to keep an ironheart blessing on you either

    morty, u were wrong about 1 thing; the part about clerics sucking against other casters. if u ask me, clerics kill of casters better. best skill against psychics: plume shot. it casts relatively fast, cools down almost immediately, and deals PHYSICAL damage. thats the important part
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  • Hitumura - Lost City
    Hitumura - Lost City Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    The person above me is correct, just make sure you have plume shot maxed. You will win, 99.9999999 percent of the time...
  • ArchAngel - Dreamweaver
    ArchAngel - Dreamweaver Posts: 172 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    With good equip and skill, any class can beat any other class lol. Clerics have the ability to self heal though and that alone can tilt the odds. :p
  • Nerdanel - Lost City
    Nerdanel - Lost City Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    Whitewolfff - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    been discussing PvP with my friends, and wondering about the best way to beat a psychic with a hybrid cleric b:surrender

    By Hybrid i'm assuming u went LA?

    =/

    well... you won't have much defence against their magic nukes.. but i guess.. if u have your guardian light i'm sure u should have enough time to plume shot him to death.. it would take a while if they have high hp.

    but i guess u can do this.. sleep and stack iron heart while building chi (asuming u have maxed your sleep aka chromatic seal), debuff phy, Guardian light then plume shot.. Should kill them. if the don't use pk pots.

    Hope this helps.b:surrender
  • Seiowan - Harshlands
    Seiowan - Harshlands Posts: 193 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    plume shell helps u tank almost all their damage, lasting 20 seconds with a 30 second cooldown.
    Plume Shell only absorbs PHYSICAL damage, it won't help much against casters who use magical attacks. Also, slight correction to the MP/damage ratio. It's 1.1 mp per point of damage at level 10. It doesn't sound like much, but it helps to clear the confusion as to why you lose more MP than HP. Thats 10% more MP lost per HP absorbed, which adds up greatly over time and with heavier hits.

    Sage and demon versions, however, DO in fact have a 1:1 ratio, but you'll need to be level 89 to get those.
  • XXSayaXx - Lost City
    XXSayaXx - Lost City Posts: 57 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    just do what most clerics ik do. call me or archer to 1 shot that magic person.
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  • Joshcja - Sanctuary
    Joshcja - Sanctuary Posts: 3,502 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    IH yourself till full stack they wolnt be able to kill through that

    chip their hp down to 51%

    sleep>phys debuff>highest level spark available>frenzy>exe poison>razor feathers

    same thig you do to everyone really
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  • Tryagain - Harshlands
    Tryagain - Harshlands Posts: 716 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    I haven't had any experience with psychics yet, but from looking at their skills it looks like the best way to go about them is to just keep yourself purified.
  • RedsRose - Lost City
    RedsRose - Lost City Posts: 12,354 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    Plume Shot...any physical damage skills.

    Psychics at lower levels have **** for P-def since most go full Mag b:surrender

    Keep in mind...Psychics can self purify and that skill gives then immunity to all incoming Physical Damage for 5 seconds (level 1).
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  • Tristel - Sanctuary
    Tristel - Sanctuary Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    I've noticed in my use of my psy that they tend to require low amounts of hp in order to fight for any amount of time (everything else goes to mag). They also have a heal skill that lasts for 15 secs and does not cost much in the way of their mp and can be used quite often. Te best way I can see beating them is using Plume Shot on them since they have extremely high mag def but no real phys def to speak of. Also make sure to heal yourself aften as they have the ability to reflect your attacks.

    One other point is that their attacks have great range so notice that if they can attack you doesn't necessarily mean that you can attack then at that moment. As for needing to purify, the continuos damage that psy's have is not that strong and the only other real aspect they have is slowing but that is easy to deal with.

    Finally, psys use only water and earth type attacks so if you increase your resistance to these types (by either using armor that slates out some mag res to increase others or some buff) you can basically make the battle end with relative easiness.

    Also stuns are a good way to go ^^.
  • DrkLordZ - Sanctuary
    DrkLordZ - Sanctuary Posts: 297 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    stack your ironheart, they cant stun you untill you attack. once it stacks enough, plume shot all the way.
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  • DemonHowl - Heavens Tear
    DemonHowl - Heavens Tear Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited December 2009
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    Nerdanel - Lost City wrote: »
    By Hybrid i'm assuming u went LA?

    =/

    well... you won't have much defence against their magic nukes.. but i guess.. if u have your guardian light i'm sure u should have enough time to plume shot him to death.. it would take a while if they have high hp.

    but i guess u can do this.. sleep and stack iron heart while building chi (asuming u have maxed your sleep aka chromatic seal), debuff phy, Guardian light then plume shot.. Should kill them. if the don't use pk pots.

    Hope this helps.b:surrender

    no by hybrid i meant a vit cleric b:chuckle

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