Best approach on psys?

XxRagzxx - Sanctuary wrote: »

I was wondering what the best approach was against a psy in pvp. Ive always used stunning, deadly shot, and aim low, all demon, to try and amp my damage as best as i can to avoid the seal. Is there any other approaches that are good? I know there is a genie skill that removes seal, is it worth getting and the chances of it failing are? Ive got a genie that focuses more on quick regen, so I'm wondering if it would be worth getting and trying the bread and butter stunning, qs combo. Any feed back would be great

Just get Will Surge and they're as squishy as the next caster. You have to watch their buffs carefully for stunning / reflect / phys immunity.

Argh! I need to get to 103 to get Will Surge on my genie...

Great, now for 60 more FF runs...

I just do bh and pick spirit reward and do cube. Then I fed spirit to my genie to lvl it. I think spirit has a nice ratio and is generally useless once you have your skills.

On topic, I don't have a purge bow or will surge, but WoG+IG+frenzy seems to work well against psys. Preferably if you catch them in Black.

AD can sometimes help, but the seal overall is problematic. I just usually kite it off and try again. It can't always proc.

Get a purge off and most of us pop like a pimple.

Uh usually I use (sage) stunning arrow (badge of courage genie skill if reflected or soul of stunning is on) quickshot to get my crit to 65% (I have r9rr armour) and then sta which if it crits usually means the psy has to have about 15k hp to survive. If it doesn't crit I use stunning arrow or aim low and then hold my take aim hot key down to fire a fast shot while my crit buff is still on.

Will surge is definitely a great skill to have on a genie though. Depending on where the psy is on the field in relation to other team mates it might be useful to boa if they are a particularly tanky psy (of which there are several on my server) because boa can keep going even when silenced. I used to do this a lot before I became r9. It's quite an unexpected thing to do, so most psys run around like headless chickens popping sins around them and killing their other team mates.

Your combos should change depending on the situation however. Don't always rely on a few skills and go experiment in duels and things with some of your psy friends, and work out what works best for you

Bhavyy - Raging Tide wrote: »

Uh usually I use (sage) stunning arrow (badge of courage genie skill if reflected or soul of stunning is on) quickshot to get my crit to 65% (I have r9rr armour) and then sta which if it crits usually means the psy has to have about 15k hp to survive. If it doesn't crit I use stunning arrow or aim low

stilll on cd <_<

for offense archers are an opportunistic class for defense we are a reactive class, making it very strange to try and plan out the specifics for a fight. will surge n all is fine but it will be more important to make good calls in the moment; i just got sealed, my opponents hp is low, my genie cant use faith, but i can use sutra, should i or should i not? etc

Ruvil - Sanctuary wrote: »

stilll on cd <_<

Surely that depends on whether there is any movement involved with killing the target or using wings of grace or something?

Pointless comment is pointless

Pretty sure I said after a charm tick. Like I said it really depends how tanky the psy is. Sorry if I didn't explain myself very well. All I know is what works for me. I never use sta unless its on a barb or as an aoe or if the target has max hp... Ie after a charm tick. Usually I find that I don't need an anti seal. I will be looking into it though as a result of what's been mentioned on this thread

LuciferV - Raging Tide wrote: »

pffffffffffff

if the psy is this dude ^ , stealth, call a seeker and let him sacrificial slash qpq on him, then surge stun arrow quickshot

Yup! Oxygen Bubble might save your life sometimes against Psys.

Yea apart from the obvious stuff, use channel pot + combo ( STA > QS > Deadly > Lightning )+ faith / AD, If the psy is in black, he ll die in the 3rd hit incase he reacts are uses psy will u got a magic follow up, make sure his AD and IG are in cooldown or unusable, till then use 4 magic ornis and tank easy ****, if u are talkin bout pve **** psys use single spark forti IG and QS + stun shud be enough. With a 5 min cd on awaken u can tank em all day with no issues. cheers.

PS: if a psy keeps camping white, like 99% of em spam ur debuff / dots/ burn their chi and dont waste urs, if they got SoS on, hit it and pretend to be a noob, they ll switch to black soon enough, then use faith and do w/e is needed, and if ur problem is psy will, dont be afraid to magic nuke it hurts them a lot, BV > shock > blast > strike on a insta cast pot with a single spark shud drop em in black, and dont spam stunning arrow, save it for when u purge, cuz the next reaction of a psy will be to go back to white or use psy will force em to use there genie.