Time for a build poll!

For PvP or for PvE
Pure magic is the build for me.

Hey, it rhymed.

Anyways, I've been pure since my psychic's creation (1 STR, 9 MAG), and I have no intention of switching. The potential damage loss from adding vit isn't worth the small hp benefit imo. For some classes it's helpful. But Psychic is a class designed for spell DPS. So I'd like to keep that aspect optimized personally.

That being said, not everyone has the skill and patience to learn how to survive pure. No, that wasn't an attempt at insulting anyone, it was just a bluntly realistic statement. Having less HP ultimately means you will have to know how to handle yourself better than others will (especially in PvP). If you can't keep up, you pretty much will die. But I enjoy this fact. It keeps me on my toes. And I do believe pure is the most effective in PvP if played correctly. As for PvE... well. We can make a drinking game. If my monster dies before it hits me, take a drink. How long before you get hammered?

I went with the pure arcane build, and I like the damage I'm doing,

but what I don't like is getting oneshotted so often b:chuckle

thing is if someone sneaks up on you, you can see it....unless it's a sin ofc...if you have holy path just holy path away and nuke the hell outa em. it's worked for me so far lol and also if you worry about being one-shot....just cast psychic will then earth vector and you've got em b:chuckle

Pure mag since I have enough HP for PvP without added vit now

yeh, my gear is not too bad actually :P and i was referring to one instance that i'd explained in another thread...got my threads crossed nevermind.

anyways. nice to meet ya

XKi - Lost City wrote: »

thing is if someone sneaks up on you, you can see it....unless it's a sin ofc...if you have holy path just holy path away and nuke the hell outa em. it's worked for me so far lol and also if you worry about being one-shot....just cast psychic will then earth vector and you've got em b:chuckle

I don't react fast enough when the pker is an archer ... so *oneshotted* b:chuckle

XKi - Lost City wrote: »

can still get outa sz quick enough to hunt em and kill em if they sneak up on you b:laugh i mean you can get snuck up on once, but after you know someone's out there and can kill them when you know lol they may lul when they sneak you but they wont when you know they're there and kill em easily b:laugh really the only classes you can mindlessly quest on without worrying too much about being 1 shot by others are barbs, bm's, and archers....if you're afraid of being 1 shot by another player i suggest not choosing a psy :P ever heard of revenge? lol

lol too late b:chuckle

I never know where they are once I release corpse, and too lazy to search for them -- esp. since I don't know what level they are ._."

thats true, but if they can oneshot me like that and I'm unsure if I can do the same to them... I don't really want revenge b:surrender .... or at least until I'm a higher level b:avoid

well im not a high lv psychic yet but im just about lv 70, and i do some massive amounts of damage on some people who really werent expecting it.

ive 1 shotted equal lv bms with landslide, i 2 hitted a lv 84 cleric in tt80 mage robes, and ive downed light armor users so quick its not even funny, and i have never taken more than 2 hits to kill a barbarian

sometimes if theyre good/decent they might get lucky and pull of a win but meh more often than not i win duels. open pvp is a complete different matter though because there is charms and whatnot but basically if we sneek up on someone theyre going to die, if we get snuck up on, we will die.. i see no problem with that

i ditched my 40 psychic in harshlands because of annoying "pkers" in their lv 70+ who camp low lv areas cough zulu but anyway psychic is probably most op class in single combat in my opinion, atleast from what im experiencing now.

against clerics, pretty simple: they will probably either spark/plume shot/sleep... try and spark it off, if you didnt well ur gonna take some damage and maybe go to sleep, but you should have retaliation on so it should block the sleep though it sometimes fails ive noticed. if theyre stupid they will try something fancy like weild thunder or tempest, and it wouldnt do much but why risk it so ur first skill used againsta robe user should be landslide, i use it in almost every duel and it 1 shots clerics mages archers bms and whatever else people put in there, barbarians will survive it but no joke it usually takes off 60-70% of their hp, and then just spirit blast and it will be over. and always have extreme poison ready and to be used before a nuke skill aka non spirit blast/aqua impact. always cast it right as you start channeling ur nuke.

but what it really ends up being is you just gotta try some weird stuff, dont just stand there taking punishment.

if a barbarian is good they will be in whatever thing that resists alot of damage for 20 seconds, what i do is i soul of retaliation and slow them, while in maxed white voodoo the entire time. hopefully you can get some distance or they will stun themselves by your soul of retaliation, if you got some distance switch to black voodoo, earth vector, slow again, back to black voodoo freeze them with ice, distance yourself, spark if you can extreme poison, landslide/sandstorm blast, if they arent dead dot them and go back to white voodoo, freeze/stun/reflectstun and rinse and repeat

there is always a way to win, you just need to practice
alot of times youll mess up or retaliation wont take effect or the timing will be wrong or whatever and you might end up getting 1 shotted... so? it happens move on.. i 1 shot alot more than i get 1 shotted so thats all i care about

atleast 50% of my duels end in me 1 shotting someone, another 10% of them end slowly and techinically through white voodoo skill timing and all kinds of fun stuff as a win or a loss. 20% of the time i get downed real quick from timing/activation failures and the other 20% of the time it ends quick in 2 shots from either side ending in a win or a loss

and also i donno if this is a glitch or not but soul of retaliation almost never works against assassin stuns, and my 59 purify doesnt work on other players, ive tried to save tanks/clerics from poison/physical damage so many times and it just doesnt work. the skill must be worded wrong

so in conclusion = psychic is op up to 7x, and im sticking to it

yea same for me...except with clerics i like to use earth vector first, then use the immune sleep genie skill, psy will. then the rest is strong nukes.

for barbs...i cant really kill a charmed barb yet.....waiting on getting better gear to do that b:cry but if they do use that bless skill you can always holy path away, then use glacial shards to stun, then earth vector for another stun, then when it wears off start killin em.

and no those aren't glitches, retaliation only works when you get damaged...meaning the sin stun wont get deflected, for that i like to use a debuff pot b:laugh; and psy will is self cast only lol

i started my psych the night they came out, and i had no real notion of how i should build her. so i kind of spread her points around, and now she is more fun than my cleric! she isnt as high, only in her 30s, but shes never gotten killed by mobs, and most of the time can take them down in 2-3 hits. so its been interesting to play her...i dont know what her build is called, but its a fun and so far pretty solid one.

Pure mag cause I got decent gear and im pro................did I mention I was pro???

b:chuckle

I choose the second option, but I'm not sure if that's what it's called.
Every other level, I level up str, but on every level, I level up 1 Vit, and 1 mag.

I personal go with the pure mage build.
btw your missing a build: 8 mag, 1 vit, 1 str