Psychics in Pvp or PvE?

PvE server gettin bored at later level...so I'd say PvP...
Lost City is a fun server, because there is a rodent there b:avoid

Born_Free - Harshlands wrote: »

PvP isn't too much better, because I'm personally pressing the 'T' button out of constant paranoia every time I accidentally kill someone. b:surrender

This is so true lol, and yes pvp is kinda the only thing to do at endgame so better choose pvp server imo, even if i get a lot of fun still pvping on a pve server. b:pleased

Hypnos - Raging Tide wrote: »

side note: it's easy to defend yourself in PVP server when you are red name, because you don't get killed by a blue name barb stand next to you and suddenly drop you an armageddon b:cry

LOL (guess you meant PVE?)

Something I never understood (maybe it's because I'm on a PvE server)...but for the people scared someone's gonna pop out of nowhere, why don't you just make sure if you're in a PKing mood that you keep Retaliation up? I understand it won't kill them (though I've seen some sin's lose a good chunk of their life when they try to stealth attack me) but it'll at least help curb the damage from things like Armageddon and...yet again those sins that like to stealth attack.

And if all else fails (or you don't want to PK) SoS works "okay" sometimes. Personally I think needing 15k Soulforce for a 4 second stun is a bit much, as I'm only at 12k at my level, but it's at least something to offset our squishiness.

Born_Free - Harshlands wrote: »

In PvP, if I just happened to like....Glacial Shard in the middle of like, 15 poorly geared noobs, they would all die, and I would be a dark red name. In PvP, when you're a blue name, that means you can't be attacked, and you can't attack, because in PvP when you're a blue name, it means you're below level 30, and can't participate at all.

Well you guys are talking about specific cases. For instance, the problem mentioned on PVE servers where a blue name can go white name on you just like that still exists if you don't plan on going red. People are very capable of using their white name status to get close to you BEFORE attacking you. So unless you plan on going dark red and attacking everything that moves, you can still get jumped on a PVP server. Trust me I know, because I dunno how many white named clerics I've run into who just love sleeping me, using every debuff and sparking, then attacking. I always try to find a way to turn them red so I can get the first hit in without going red myself.
As for the 15 nabs dying, just filter so that you don't attack white names. All the reds in the AOE will die, the whites will survive. Problem solved.

Though admittedly, not a day goes by without someone saying "WTF LAWNG U KILLED ME Y!!?" and I have to give the same old speech about how all a Psys PVP skills are AOE, so I'm gonna hit anything red in a three mile radius whether I want to or not.

Mictain - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Something I never understood (maybe it's because I'm on a PvE server)...but for the people scared someone's gonna pop out of nowhere, why don't you just make sure if you're in a PKing mood that you keep Retaliation up? I understand it won't kill them (though I've seen some sin's lose a good chunk of their life when they try to stealth attack me) but it'll at least help curb the damage from things like Armageddon and...yet again those sins that like to stealth attack.

And if all else fails (or you don't want to PK) SoS works "okay" sometimes. Personally I think needing 15k Soulforce for a 4 second stun is a bit much, as I'm only at 12k at my level, but it's at least something to offset our squishiness.

This is why I prefer Soul of Retaliation over Soul of Stunning. In the long run, soul of stunning just isn't practical, both because it's easier to combat stun and we're so squishy that we need that resisted hit. Every sin and BM is gonna put on stun resistance before attacking you, and show me a Psy who isn't naturally squishy as hell and I'll make a Bowbarian and get it to level 100.
Today I heard a call for more people to Silver Pool in guild chat. I like silver pool and it's rare that someone calls for help there/there's a good fight there, so I went. Things were kinda chaotic but me and four guildies just went after everyone. After a while I had a lot of ticked off sins on me and I dunno HOW many times one of them would stun or sleep themselves in the midst of battle. Was a real lifesaver that bought me time to kill/resist my target and take the sin/initial target out.

Born_Free - Harshlands wrote: »

Well, let me just say how few Psychics there are in PvP servers.

That I know of, the only 10x Psychics in Harshlands are UrDian, Longknife, Hvati, Anamionie, and Jafkeyks

Who in the hell are they??

Honestly there's two new 90+ Psys every month. They just all quit after a month of playing. Guess Psys are "boring."

Psy's are a good class for pvp and are fun as hell also. Just make sure to compensate for the squishyness with genie skills and apothecary pots and u'll be fine. Hell I've have 3 lvl 100 sin's attacking at same time and psy will helped me tanked them then I did what psy do best, aoe and they died shortly after. But it still has to do a lot that everyone made a sin, so psy's are still really unknown and players dont know how to pvp againts the class.

Go fight an equally geared / leveled AA psy and see who kills who first. b:avoid[/QUOTE]

+1 b:thanks

Derressh - Dreamweaver wrote: »

You also neglected to mention that you're a LA build.

You also simply stated that "they can almost never get through my charm" while saying nothing about you getting through theirs. Any psy can throw on Empowered Vigor and White Voodoo and do pretty much the same thing.

Go fight an equally geared / leveled AA psy and see who kills who first. b:avoid

Yeah my point was more...

I see all sorts of Psys in PVP. HA, LA, Vitality built, etc.
No matter what their damn build and gear though, they all still die in 2-3 shots to a certain opponent. It's Black voodoo that makes Psys squishy as heck. Sure anyone can wear white voodoo and tank, but then your damage is garbage. Count how many opponents you fight with BV and count how many you fight with White. I think it's clear BV is the preferred Voodoo.
For that reason, I'd rely more on skills than gear for a Psy. Gear helps of course, but you have White Voodoo, Psy Will, Glacial Shards, Soulburn and Earth Vector for a reason; use them.