LA psychics- The dmg lowered by how much?

By Ecatomb calc:
Naked without equipment except weapons

Lvl 100
Pure :

Vit 5
Str 52
Dex 5
Mag 453+19(from TT 99 Sphere) non refined

MAtk: 5634-7219

LA:

Vit 5
Str 97(103)
Dex 97(103)
Mag 335(323)+19(TT 99 Sphere) non refined

MAtk:4285-5490(4167-5338)

Enjoy b:victory

Keep in mind that with LA you'd only get like 5% crit.

You'd crit a bit more than pure mag, but I personally don't believe it makes up for the lack in m.atk, which is a continious dmg output.

ryukage wrote: »

Point #1: LA armor is crappy and it won't save you or keep you alive much longer. You are going to always be squishy in any armor type. Why be weaker at the same time?

Also don't forget, LA armor is considered the worst endgame armor type for a good reason: Its better to have one great defense, than have two mediocre ones that barely protect you. In robes you're well protected against magic, even if physical really hurts. In LA, both sides hurt pretty bad in the endgame.

Point #2: Try to remember something. Psychic is the DPS casting class, we're not spec'd for spike damage. We don't have super 500% weapon damage spells like Wizards do. We hit for less damage per hit (except for the basic nukes), but we channel quickly on all of our direct attack skills. This means our class benefits more in the grand scheme from a consistent output, not an erratic "hope I crit" one.

Point #3: Most good crit gear is usable by either armor build. Anyone with any math skill will realize that the crit rate adds from rings and etc will better benefit the one who's base damage is higher, once again from the DPS perspective.

Now then. LA build will make you weaker, less resilient to magic damage, and the physical damage you take will still be pretty high at later levels. Why would a Psychic wear LA again? Remember, we don't get Stone Barrier. We're not Wizards.

I mentioned this in another thread, and I'll say it again: Archers are practically forced to wear LA. Most archers complain about how LA isn't all its cracked up to be, because you're not very resilient to damage from either side. You're just mediocre at both. So ask yourself: If a class that's built around light armor doesn't even like it, why would Psychics like it more?

Ow ryu, I so agree with everything you said.

1-I would never trust a %critik thing... coz i'm unlucky, coz it's unstable and you can't control aggro, coz it's ugly to have low damage...

2-With the LA you'll get pretty squishy...more squishy I think.. When you are AA, the mob won't reach you because of your higher damage, so you don't care to have high/low res (or he'll make magic damage from afar, so we don't care). While on LA, uh, the mob will reach you & you are still squishy : good for you to use life potions + ordinary mana potion.

3-Why would you want to wear a LA at first O.O there are barbs, bm, sin, veno to tank, guh, it's enough like this. A AA psy will tank more efficiently boss at bh59 than barb imo (because of the aggro thing, of course). I already tanked Pyro, kinda easy too... Psy can be pretty useful for those kind of boss (and magic mobs), if you wear LA, then you are no DD plus you won't be able tank the mobs/boss you might be naturally asked to tank.

4-Why, again, wearing a LA who gives fwew more physical resistance. Get 1 physical res belt/necklace in your inventory for the mob killing part, it'll give you like 1500 more physical res with cleric & bm buff. Add then your base physical res, I hit ~2500 physical res at lvl79 with this. Pretty enough to tank if the mob ever comes to you.

5-And why, oOo why a LA to resist better or whatever : if the mob ever reaches you (it can happen), use Psychic will... When I have the feeling i'll pull aggro, i always cast Soul of retaliation in case the mob reached me. If there is a group of mob, I cast fast Emp Vigor on me, 1 Soul of retaliation, 1 bubble of life, and let's go have fun mate! When 3 or more mobs come on you, then cast Psychic Will, and finish them easy. In the woooorst situation ever (cleric and tank are dead) then hmm.. cast white voodoo and finish calmly with DoT x) There might be a clever/survivor psy next to you to cast a bubble and help too. (It already happened to me in a bh59, everyone dead but us 2 psy finishing the mobs in White Voodoo..)(we finished on Drake without a cleric, with just us healing each other every 15seconds alternatively.. it went pretty smoothly ).

6-And to conclude... I believe a good player isn't a player with a good gear, but one who knows how to use it and his skill..We psy are pretty lucky to have all those buffs, we are not just DD, we can support cleric and kinda tank. I really like my psy coz I always have the feeling of being useful in a squad. Of course a LA psy wont be that bad, and it's a really good thing there are some in the nature, every psy is different btw, but myself I wont enjoy my char as much as in AA. Then it's you who decide what's your favorite way of playing, there isn't just one, and I believe a LA psy can work out.

7-Final thing why no LA ... and the most important one hohoho >< You won't see big numbers on your screen ! =^o^=

8-Oh well, I think I told most of what I though about the subject xD

With the LA you'll get pretty squishy...more squishy I think.. When you are AA, the mob won't reach you because of your higher damage, so you don't care to have high/low res

No doubt that pure mag are better at grinding, but in TW, everyone reaches you. It makes all the difference if you have enough pdef to survive through one stun to get away.
Then again, I think LA is only worth it for wizzes cause of the shields.

ryukage wrote: »

No, its not an understatement, its 100% accurate. Why? Because the robe psychic is wearing the same rings you are.

If a robe psy and a LA/Crit psy are wearing the same rings, one of the two are doing it wrong.

One goes for overall damage and the other goes for crit spikes - why would they be wearing the same rings?

Hold on, let me hit 100, then I'll make another to wear LA because I don't wanna restat... psh, like that's ever gonna happen. Arcane=yaay. If you can't have the survivability you want in AA as a caster (other than veno perhaps) re-roll.

FatherTed - Dreamweaver wrote: »

If a robe psy and a LA/Crit psy are wearing the same rings, one of the two are doing it wrong.

One goes for overall damage and the other goes for crit spikes - why would they be wearing the same rings?

In case you didn't actually look at the Attendance Rings, they also add a good amount of matk. Free matk + free crit, why would a robe psychic not use it? (Unless he could afford better)

use Arcane will be good :}