Planning to make a SIMPLE psy guide

Just having started a Psy:

A quick, listed comparison of Demon vs Sage (took me a while to understand the differences)

Gear guide. GEAR GUIDE. Talk plainly and specifically about -chan and where it helps you, and does not help you. Matchless Wings vs 2nd/3rd Stage Nirvana. Ideal HP levels. That kinda stuff. Also talk about crits + crit build.

Quick gear guide for the lowbies. Hell I dont even see a concrete "gear build" full of PWI calcs for 100+.

Do NOT do a full skill guide. Do a necessary skill guide and the combos. I wish it was clearer what not to level, I would not have wasted so much spirit. IE - What are the necessary skills I need to level along the way.

In the two stat builds, how much vit someone should stop at. As far as I understand it's mag build with enough str for gear (which I either read wrong or its explained wrong in the guides), or with some vit mixed in. How much vit should one stop at? (I assume 53/58.)

Avoiding aggro while grouping advice. Something past different voodoo.

DONT include PK advice. Make a different guide for that. 75% of the players don't PK/TW.

(Also, get a readable font and readable color)

You should talk about things you absolutely positively know about, there's nothing worse than a bad guide misguiding new players. So stick to the perimeters of your knowledge and you'll be fine, every time something comes down to personal choice or you are uncertain about it, clarify that to avoid any misconceptions.

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Far as to the above on vitality - pure build is the "only" choice. I'm saying that because the other choice for psy is a HA build if you want to go in the complete opposite direction. Any hybrid builds are not good at all. People have this illusion that vitality will make them less squishy, but in reality you will actually die more or the same amount of times a pure build does and you'll deal a lot less damage.

Our weapon and base stats are the primary source of our damage output, meaning that you can get hp from all the armor shards and refines without cutting down your damage output. If for whatever reason you have a fetish for vitality, need to have it to sleep at night no matter how useless it may be, don't invest more than 50 points into vitality because even that much is borderline crazy - and I'll try to forget there are psys with over 200 base vitality points which yeah sure has an impact on how many hits you can take, but also makes you deal 35% of the damage you should be dealing.

Since theres some attention to this thread....

Is veil of shadow worth a damn?

Is Crystal Light worth a damn?

Reason I ask is I don't have much for spirit...

Maelael - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Since theres some attention to this thread....

Is veil of shadow worth a damn?

Is Crystal Light worth a damn?

Reason I ask is I don't have much for spirit...

get crystal light and essential sutra, both are pro

the veil morai skill is ****

Regarding the guide - You'll rarely need white voodoo while levelling up. Only time you'll really need it is from lvls80-90 on exp room boss in FC if you are a pure build so that you don't die to his aoe. Empowered vigor is one of the last skills you'll lvl up because it plays no real relevance. Red Tide is way too expensive and it starts to shine when your soulforce rises, so it's the last aoe skill on the list to lvl up. Earth Vector is the expensive aoe you want to get up fast. You also don't want to max out soul of vengeance until you get sage/demon version because it only increases the range at which you can cast it on a target.

Anyway, thought it from your first sentence and keep re-confirming that you're still too green to write a guide for psys, rushing it is worse than not doing it - doing things for the sake of doing them is not enough. If you don't have something new to bring or have a sound knowledge of what's already been told then there is no point in writing a guide for other than personal satisfaction - and shouldn't guides be for the benefit of others...There are other ways to contribute and for now you might as well learn before teaching others, if teaching is what you want to do.

I remember talking to someone who called me an idiot for leaving white voodoo at level 5 until about 70-ish and maxing black voodoo as soon as I was able to. This guy also made his psychic light armor which...well yeah. I never had to use it until I got into places with nasty aoes or if the tank was ****astic and I managed to take aggro even unvoodoo'd (this has happened to me more times than I care to count). A friend of mine dubbed it "white doodoo" because you wouldn't use it unless you were in deep ****. And like it was said--you're usually not in deep **** till FC range and beyond. And even at 100+, I use white voodoo only when I'm doing snakefist bh and all the sharks that think they can tank (a.k.a. sins) die.

Crystal Light is awesome. I felt sorry for this one low level veno who I one-shot while in room 45. She was standing right in front of me (linear aoe). But then she proceeded to say that my faction (Calamity at the time) "thinks we can rule cube" and was like "well **** you too, I did say sorry!"

Veil...I still haven't found a use for. Its usefulness is right up there with the mermaid transformation skill that escapes me. Coulda saved that spirit for a 100 skill.

Essential Sutra (now called Tradewinds) has its uses as well. Would I get it before Crystal Light? Hell no, but to fly faster? I'll take it.

I kinda regret leveling red tide. While the bleed is nice and all, in most situations, I find myself using earth vector, psy will, and soulburn a lot more. Mine is sage and has a chance to not cost 2 sparks, but either way, it's meh. The only thing I truly love about Red Tide is its name--oh the jokes I (and others) made. (For those who are wondering "Red Tide" is slang for the woman's "time of the month")

Umm...everyone seemed to have covered it all.