Psychic pvp

Psychics deal relatively good magic damage on other players, I haven't gotten one to lategame levels of pvp yet, but playing on my psy as well as fighting other psys on my other characters they seem to deal damage fairly similar to that of a wizard.

Psychic vs assassin - sin wins.

I wouldn't be afraid of attacking a psychic my level with my venomancer anyday. It's really the sins that you need to watch out for most of the time. With stealth, shadow escape, and their gigantic arsenal of deadly pvp specialized skills, you have a lot to worry about with them.

The thing with having a psychic and an assassin fighting is that the moment a psychic hits at the assassin, just about any "smart" assassin is going to shadow escape and sneak up on the psy. One he's got you stunned you're down.

assassin is the best pvp class the only weakness i see is when they fight barbs .they do physical damage but unlike archers they have no magic damage skills at all which make them naturally weak against heavy armor .as for psychics we get psychic will and earth vector at 59 both are good at both pvp and pve .psychic will gives physical immunity for 5.3 sec at level 1 and 8 sec at level 10 .earth vector is an aoe stun that last for 3.3 sec at level 1 and 6 sec at level 10 this skill has a really low channeling time and really good to use when fighting other magic classes it also inflicts damage.

You know what wastes a sin's tele stun skill? Soul of stunning. Try using it sometimes when fighting against a sin. It throws their combo off. Then counter stun them with maxed earth vector, which gives you the time to thrown in 3 free hits. If they survive after that, you have a choice of using maxed psychic will or glacial shards for a chance to stun again. I personally use psychic will and start a chain again before they get a chance to escape.

Because Sins start the battle 95% of the time, you'll get stun/sleep/seal locked of some sort. If you psychic will they must have shadow escape or some way to be immune/survive for 8 seconds otherwise they are dead xD... But I can counter psychics soul of _____ relatively well.

soulburn indeed nasty, but with a 2 second cast, kind of hard to nit get Interupted. Max interval sin would get 10 attacks in xD (or use sleep or stun as they are the fastest interupting skills)

soul of stunning against melee class
soul of retaliation for range class


the rest of the fight are the same
soulburn is really strong if your target is attacking other people

pardon my ignorance, but what skill are you referring to when you say "DoT"?
b:surrender

I maybe am one of the few Psy choose to max out my Torrent and Sand Trap as soon as I start doing PvP to make good use of white voodoo and soul of vengence ( other than me and Luc using them in actual combat in my server, havent saw any) the reason being Torrent and Sandtrap deal full damage regardless of your atk level or their def level.

It is good, it's around 700damage/sec over ~12sec and I see barb charm tick, nix die during that DoT. People fail to see in long run since in short run the damage is low but after 10 sec, you see overally it's not bad while you won't get killed with white voodoo on. Ofc there is no need for you to use DoT if you opponent can get killed quickly in 3~4hit like fist/axe bm, sin or archers, but against barb with crazy gear and roughly 15khp +, it's unlikely that you can kill them with black voodoo on without getting killed first. So another tactic would be stall them and kill the charm instead. To fully use this tactic, you need a decent hp and def so that with white voodoo on, they wont be able to kill you even with zerk axe while you eating hp food heh.

Indestructible is overstatement, but you can stall all class in pwi with decent hp and def. I say I use all Garnet Shards on my all my gears.

i think psy dot are the strongest i use them on boss in fb/hh

they dont look like to make lot agro and do near same dmg as your single target spell

I dunno, I eat them raw

well it's easier at level 59+ with earth vector and psychic will but still you can somehow manage to beat them before then

Soul of stunning should be put on as soon as cooldown finished
use soulburn as soon as you can and spam DD, there are 2 possible reaction:
1. They keep stacking heal on themself which lead to death
2. They stop doing anything and eat food trying to live through your damage.
if they choose 2nd, and still survive after your soulburn wear out, it now depends on situation,
1. if they have less than 50% hp, spam DD while they stack healing and pray for crit. If you fail to kill them while the HoT start stackin, switch to white voodoo and stall, waiting for next soulburn
2. if they have more than 50% hp, switch to white voodoo and stall waiting for next soulburn

repeat the process until you bored.
Having good genie skill can help you kill them quicker.

GalenNn - Lost City wrote: »

How would this work out? They are extremely strong against mobs but how good are thy against other classes? I'm wondering what classes thy prolly couldnt handle

also psy vs sin? how would that work out?
b:pleased

My experience with sins at the same lvl, is if my stun works i win, if it misses i loose by a small amount of hp.

First let me say, I'm a pure magic Psychic. These thoughts are based on my own experiences and research.

Psy vs. Sin is a battle of foresight. In a duel it's going to come down to who foresees what, because that will lead into who gets a solid stun off sooner. Soul of Stunning alone won't do it. If they Headhunt you, you'll be stunned for much longer than the reaction-stun from SoSt which means they're back on the offensive before you. Not to mention Headhunt HURTS squishy magic classes. Your best bet honestly might be Soul of Retaliation. This way you protect yourself from a lot of the damage, and return an equal stun duration.

Now, here's the problem. In PK, an assassin is rather hard to deal with. You can see an attack coming in a duel, but a sudden PK is a different story. Assassins are the kings of this, and while I really hate to say it... if they fight you the way they're supposed to, they'll win at least 95% of the time at this. On the other hand, if we're the PKer, we can drop them in only a few hits. A sneaky Earth Vector followed by a few nukes, and they'll fall. Their magic defense isn't great, and neither is their HP. That being said, even if they were the attacker, they may drop if they **** up. But like I said, a good Assassin who lands the first hit will usually beat a Psychic.

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As for Veno's...

If they're a HA Veno, they lost. Veno's HP isn't like a Barb's, so the lack of magic defense kinda makes it hard for them to win unless they got the drop on you... Against a HA veno I can 99% of the time drop them before their pet even becomes a factor. Except for the Nix I don't see coming in a PK...

If they're a LA Veno, I've still had no problems here. The last time I fought a LA Veno she was like 4 levels below me and I 2-shot her. She ranted at me about all the things that might have happened if I didn't kill her so fast, but... So yeah, I can't imagine a LA Veno beating my Psy in a straight fight unless she's notably higher level than me. Now, if she puts a Nix on me when I'm off-guard, then I'm a dead fish.

Robe Veno's will actually have good mdef, so its a little harder. Still though, I usually take them out rather quickly. Robe Veno's with strong pets are one of the few opponents who make me want to use Tide Spirit, just to speed up the assault before I get pet-pwned.

For duels, I don't recall ever losing to a Veno, but I also never dueled any Veno with a Nix, so I'll have to get back to you on that.

As for PK's, it's gonna depend on who attacked who. A Nix is a nightmare when you don't see it coming, a lesson I've learned the hard way. But, if I'm the one dishing out a surprise attack, that Veno is gonna drop. I keep mentioning Nix because that's the only pet that really scares me...

oh great...is necro again