Perfect World, Psychics, and you!

The psychic is an interesting class, combining elements from every other class into a sort of jack-of-all trades, master-of-none package. They can deal massive damage, rivaling that of a wizard. They can heal all those within a fifteen-meter radius with Life Bubble. They can DeBuff, Buff, and Crowd Control like no others.

But what does that mean for you? It means, you are a support class for any role in a party. As such, your an extremely valuable member. You can help out the Cleric, Damage, or Tank with your spells. But this also means you do not excel at any of these. You cannot replace a Cleric, Tank, or Veno. However, you can usually replace any other DD classes.

As for Solo-ing, you have amazing potential, and probably one of the fastest and cheapest leveling classes. Your skills are fast to cast, and deal large amounts of damage. You also get a knockback and healing skill early on. Couple that with crowd-control skills like slow,stun,immobilize and your self-buffs like Soul of Vengeance or Soul of Stunning and you can easily get out of a stick-situation as long as you remain calm!

I can not stress this enough. REMAIN CALM. If you aggro to many mobs, and you don't think you can take them, you have to decide IMMEDIATELY if your going to fight or flee. If you fight, try to kite the monster. Soulburn is an amazing skill for knocking one enemy out of commision. While you knockback the other. Also remember that your heal is 15 seconds. Assuming the average psychic battle lasts ten seconds, you can cast your bubble before a battle as a pre-emptive measure.


Stats? Oh man, the noobs bane. It can cost a pretty penny to reset your stats later on, and can mess up your whole survival rate, so think carefully.

Pure-Magic: This is the build that does an insane amount of damage, and is probably the preferred build for most Psychic users. Pure-Magic has the least amount of HP and Physical Defense, often dieing in three to four hits from a physical attack mob. But it also has the best magical defense, which most end-game monster uses.

The Pure-Magic build is also the best in Player vs. Player combat and Territory Wars.

STATS: 9 MAG 1 STR every TWO levels. (Your Strength should never exceed half your level +5) I do mine like this: Even levels: 4 MAG 1 STR Odd levels: 5 MAG

Dex-Build: This build relies on Light Armor to increase survivability. This increases your Physical Defense, while decreasing your Magical Defense. It also lowers your damage out-put yet increases your Critical Hit Rate.

Dex-Build: 3 MAG 1 DEX 1 STR every level

VIT-Build: I'm not too familiar with this build, but this involves putting points on Vitality to increase the characters maximum HP, without reducing the Mana pool and damage quite as much as the Dex-Build does.

Stats: 1 VIT 8 MAG 1 STR every two levels


The most successful character knows which skills he or she uses the most, and how to effectively upgrade them without completely killing off their spirit/coins. This is a list of skills and reccommendations on leveling them.



Aqua Impact: This skills is a staple of a good psychic. While doing less damage than Spirit Blast, it also has a good chance to slow the target. MAX THIS ASAP

Spirit Blast: This is a pure damage skill, and is great for chaining from Aqua Impact. Throw this into a repeated macro right after Impact and just watch as the enemy falls. MAX THIS ASAP

Black Voodoo: This skill is quite amazing at increasing the over-all damage out-put of Psychics and what really puts us on the level of the other classes. It increases the amount of damage both done and taken. As Psychics, we die so fast that the defense loss isn't always that noticeable. However the damage increase is. MAX THIS

White Voodoo: This skill is the opposite of Black Voodoo, decreasing the damage done and taken. While, in text it sounds good. The loss of damage is IMMENSE. The few defense levels this awards is not worth the loss, as you'll take that much more damage when you can't kill the foe your attacking. The damage loss gets even worse if you level this. YOUR CHOICE
-Thanks to multiple people I've been informed that this skill is actually quite life-saving when maxed. While some say to leave it in the middle (Level 5) I'll leave this skill up to the disgression of the user.

Soul of Vengeance: This skill is quite nice, returning a fraction of the caster's soulforce into damage each time the foe strikes with any attack. (Magic, or physical.) It also lasts fifteen minutes and persists through death. HOWEVER, this skill serves NO practical use when upgrading, only increasing the range and mana cost is not a priority. As such, until further notice. LEAVE AT LEVEL 1

Torrent: This skill does water damage to the target over-time. As a psychic, I've never found much use for DoTs, and as such this skill is still level one. However, some people like it, it just depends on your play style. I'd recommend only putting extra points in this however. LEAVE AT LEVEL 1/PACE IT'S LEVELING
-I've been told that this does actually quite a bit of damage that is unaffected by the user's attack level. It should be maxed, but again it relies on your play style. I still reccomend pacing it. It also pulls less aggro by far.

Landslide: This skill deals a moderate amount of damage and knocks the opponent back x amount of meters. This is another must-have psychic skill, With a well-timed knockback, there should be no reason mobs will hit you more than once. It even does a moderate amount of damage and the knockback amount increases as it's leveled. MAX THIS SKILL

Bubble of Life: This skill heals all friendly (Party members) targets within fifteen meters over fifteen seconds. This skill is a very party-friendly skill, allowing the psychic to take some of the pressure off of a healer. It's healing is fairly good, however it has a thirty second cool-down which prevents it from out-performing a cleric. If you party a lot, I'd max this skill, however if you Solo more, i'd pace it so long as it heals you well. PACE THIS SKILL

Aqua Cannon: The psychic's first AoE skill, it deals damage and slows the target by a 80%. The only downside to this skill is that it's self-centered. So you have to be within 8 meters of the targets. It's a handy skill to fire off if your getting mobbed by multiple opponents and need to escape, but since it's slow chance or effect doesn't increase it's effective at level one. PACE
-Thanks to Fap for informing this that this skill is our second most powerful skill other than red-tide and should be maxed.

Sand Trap: This is your Earth DoT, it does more damage but that's about it. I'll say the same thing I said about Torrent. You can either leave it or max it depending on your preferences. LEAVE/PACE
-I've been told that this does actually quite a bit of damage that is unaffected by the user's attack level. It should be maxed, but again it relies on your play style. I still reccomend pacing it. It also pulls less aggro by far.

Diminished Vigor: This skill debuffs the target's healing prowess' decreasing the healing recieved from potions, skills, and increases the cooldown of charms.
This skill is really only useful for PvP. If your planning on PvP'ing often, it's worth throwing some points into it. Regardless, It's more of an end-game skill. Either leave it at one or max it later on. LEAVE AT 1/MAX EVENTUALLY

Soul Of Stunning: This is an extremely handy tool in the psychic's arsenal. For thirty seconds if the psychic is attack it will stun the opponent for 1 second + 1/5000 Soulforce. It's usefulness for gaining precious seconds on the enemy is only outlived by it's usefulness for casting stronger skills in PvP. However, like Soul of Vengeance, leveling this skill only increases it's range and mana cost. LEAVE AT LEVEL 1

Glacial Shards: One of four ranged AoE attacks. It does a moderate amount of ice damage and has a chance to immobilize the target. If you're planning on using a lot of AoE skills, or PvPing I'd reccommend maxing this skill eventually. The immobilize is invaluable for hitting the target's with other skills, and makes AoE grinding much easier. The only downside is that the chance is fairly low, and it doesn't always work on all targets, splitting up the group and reducing the effectiveness of further AoE skills. MAX THIS SKILL/PACE

Sandburst Blast: Your second of four AoE skills, it does slightly more damage than Glacial shards and has a chance to reduce the accuracy of the target. While the accuracy is more of a bonus, as monsters/players arn't really effected since your evasion rate is low. It more than makes up for that in damage, a great skill to combine after Glacial Shards in an AoE combo. Finish up with a Aqua Cannon to finish off any stragglers. PACE

Empowered Vigor: This is the opposite of Diminished Vigor. This skill increases the amount of healing the target receives by potions, skills, and decreases the charm cool-down. It's an extremely handy skill if the cleric is a slightly lower level and cannot quite keep the tank healed. The only downside is the duraiton is only 90 seconds. If you party a lot, and use this skill you can max it, otherwise pace. MAX/PACE

Soul of Silence: Easily the WORST of the 'soul' buffs. This skill creates an extremely minor chance to silence the target on hit. Unless you have UNGODLY amounts of soulforce, this skill is almost pointless. When leveled this skill also increases the duration of the effect, but it's low proc chance only makes it effective at higher levels. LEAVE AT LEVEL 1/MAX AT HIGHER LEVELS
-Thanks to various reports that this skill is actually quite handy at higher levels, and for informing me that leveling does in fact increase the duration of the silence.

Disturb Soul: This is a great PvP skill for other casters. This decreases the channeling speed by quite a lot. Allowing you a great deal more attacks than the enemy. If you're planning on PvP'ing I'd recommend maxing this skill, otherwise leave it at level one. LEAVE AT LEVEL ONE/MAX

Soulburn: One of my favorite skills, it serves to punish those that don't know how a psychic works. Each time the target attacks they take damage equal to your soulforce. This is the bane of most classes, the only downside is it's extremely short duration. It also deals a great deal of damage to bosses, and I prefer it to standard spark. Leveling can be paced however, as it only increases the duration. PACE

Tide Spirit: This skill is like a second spark. It increases your damage done as well as your channeling speed later. However, spark increases your damage by more. I've not had much experience with this skill, however it almost seems like a waste, since the psychic's channeling speed is minimal. You can either leave it or pace it. LEAVE AT LEVEL 1/PACE

Red Tide: Your third out of four AoE skills, this skill does more damage than it's earth counterpart. It also makes the target bleed for damage equal to your soulforce. I have not had much experience with this skill, but the damage seems worth it to max it. MAX THIS SKILL!

Earth Vector: Your final AoE skill, this skill contradicts other earth skills as it does LESS damage than it's water counterpart. However, it also STUNS all targets in the area with a fairly high percentage for a fairly long time. I've only just acquired this skill, but I see no reason not to max it when you have the chance. MAX THIS SKILL!

Psychic Will: I have not acquired this skill yet, but it seems like a great skill to use in a dire circumstance, whether for PvP or dungeons. This skill purges the target of all negative status effects and makes him/her immune to physical damage for a short time. Depending on the duration increase, I imagine you should pace it's leveling. PACE
Soul of Retaliation: I've heard great things about this skill. It not only reflects negative status effects, but absorbs and reflects a chunk of damage as well. However like Soul of Stunning this skill only works ONCE. However, it's worth it. This should be the only 'soul' buff worth maxing, as the damage absorbed and reflected increases. MAX THIS SKILL!

Aqua Spirit: A passive skill that increases the amount of damage done by water skills. This skill is a great boost to damage, and since it's passive it should be a no-brainer to max. MAX THIS SKILL

Earthen Spirit: The same as Aqua spirit, except for Earth skills. Obviously you should max it. MAX THIS SKILL

Tide Form: This skill increases the defense level and swim speed of psychics, and it's only usable in water. The downside to this skill is that all other skills are unusable in this form. If you really want to swim fast, max it. Otherwise, leave it. LEAVE AT LEVEL ONE!



I made this equation for soulforce a while back, and with the help of other's refined it. The equation for soulforce is like so:

Level*50 + Level^2 + (Celestone needed for +x) / 4


(I'm confused about the weapon/armor soulforce part, if someone could throw that my way I'd be much obliged)

This equation shows your approximate soulforce at any given level. It effects damge done by Vengeance, soulburn, Retaliation, and Red Tide's Bleed. It also increases Soul of Stun's duration, and soul of silence's proc chance.

Equipment

Equipment for a psychic is not as important early on as it is for some classes. It also heavily depends on your luck. As a Tideborn race, Psychics receive a quest starting at 20, and continuing every ten levels thereafter, to kill the boss mob of a higher-level dungeon. This quest has one of two rewards. The far more common st of Mirage Stones. Or an extremely valuable mold.

Ideally, you get and make the mold every ten levels. This weapon will completely blow any other weapon out of the water. Usually within twenty levels. Should you not recieve the mold. Your choices are extremely limited. Tideborn are probably the rarest weapons to be found, and are not apparent in any quest rewards after the starting quests excluding Weapon Token. (As far as I know) Your best bet is to either buy a weapon from the auction house, or make your own using materials.

Luckily, if you DO get the mold, you can use it for a LONG time before it becomes obsolete. My level 20 mold weapon is probably still slightly stronger than the normal weapons of my level. (Okay, that's a bit of an over-exaggeration.)

Armor is different. Psychics share Arcane Armor with every other magic based class. It's also probably least important to upgrade for pure magic psychics. A psychic should only be hit a minimal number of times, or not at all. As such, you shouldn't need armor to protect you. Just massive amounts of damage and good playing skills. My Psychic literally ran around in his level thirty rank armor (Robe of Condemner) for thirty levels.

However, should you have spare cash, auction house is the way to go, and you can often find good deals. I found a level 60 *** +1 +50 HP pare of leggings for 50k.

At fifty, if you have the cash you can use your supply stash weapon. However, I wouldn't worry about it to much, as at sixty you get to get TT weapons, which a far better.

As stated, at sixty and above, you can acquire weapons from Twilight Temple. You'll need ten bones and five broken drums for your TT60 weapon. Unlike other classes, we have no choice in what path we take. There's only one TT weapon every ten levels.

But Croceus, what stats should look for one an item?
Well, that's easy Timmy. As a Psychic you want the most magic attack you can get. Sharding a weapon with Turquoise shards to get the most oomph. +MAG is also good, as it adds damage, MP, and Magic Defense as well. Also look out for -Chan% items. As a psychic, these have less effectiveness than other magic classes, as our channeling speed is miniscule to begin with. However, every little bit helps.

Next should be +VIT, or +HP. In this Perfect World, defense has diminishing returns. Meaning that if you cut damage by 10% at 100 defense, at 200 you may only cut it by 15% instead of 20%. HP also allows you to increase your resiliency against both types of attacks. A magical mob doesn't have to get past your physical defense. But they both have to knock your HP to zero. It's best to shard your armor with Citrines for HP, they're also cheaper than Garnets.

+HP/MP regen can also be handy if you like to sit down and wait for your points to come back up. However, with life bubble +HP regen is fairly obsolete. MP regen is handy, however, you'll be regening around 50 MP/S at higher levels. There are other, more worthy stats.

+DEX/+STR/+EVADE/+ACCURACY These are all pretty much useless to a psychic. The stat points might add a few points in defense, but no where near enough to make a difference. Evasion is uselss, as your base evasion will probably be so poor that you will never realy dodge an attack unless your extremely lucky. Magic never misses unless special circumstances cause the enemy to resist it. So Accuracy has absolutely no effect on a Psychic.

Weapon Path:
1-19: Quest weapons
20-30: FB19 Reward or Weapon Token Mold
30-50: Weapon Token Mold(s)/AH/made weapons
50-60: Weapon Token Mold/Supply Stash orb
60+:Weapon Token/Twilight Temple orb

Armor Path:
1-30: Quest/bought armor
30-xx: Rank armor (Robe of condemner)/AH/made armor
70+: TT armor?

(I don't really know anything about LA builds. So someone could help me out with that. ^_^)


SECTIONS TO COME:

Leveling
Parties
'pretty-fying' the guide.


I'm still kinda new at guide writing. So please leave comments, I'll do my best to fix anything. If you have comments about skills please tell me, as everyone has a different playstyle and I'd like to get as much information into this guide as possible.