Favorite Mystic Skill?

CapnK - Sanctuary wrote: »

Two Absorb Souls are not going to bypass the majority of r999s. ijs.

I'm R9rr. I bypass other R9rr's. JS.

ChevaIier - Harshlands wrote: »

I'm R9rr. I bypass other R9rr's. JS.

i can't tell you the amount of times i've dropped r9rr Psy's/Cleric's/Mystic's with absoul

CapnK - Sanctuary wrote: »

I am not. Don't get me wrong, it is a strong attack. It's just not strong enough relative to its casting time. I can do more damage with a combo of other skills than by working absorb soul in.

And you can only get 2 Absorb Souls off during a Zooming Thunder Powder as it still has a 2 second cooldown. Tried it out after someone suggested it for wrecking sleeping people a few weeks ago. Was not impressed, would rather use apoth slot for something else.

generally speaking i rarely need more than 2 to kill someone.

S/D absoul does take into consideration defense levels, but it also takes our attack levels. Im an average r9rr mystic with like 116 attack levels in an O'malley's blessing. Take into consideration that the cool thing to do now-a-days for casters (on my server anyway) is to shard full citrines or to shard full Jades / Deity. So what you end up having is someone with a lot of defense levels or attack levels, or even hp, but **** all pdef unless they have some op as hell ornaments and some vit / str in their build above and beyond the tired pure magic set.

So, consider this, Catch a psy in black voodoo with full jades and average for the class pdef. assuming sage, which is the most popular on DW, thats at least 25 from r9rr set bonus, 48 from jades, and -11 from sage black voodoo, and lets assume an O'malley's with +15. thats 77 defense levels with voodoo on. back to what i said a minute ago, my attack levels at 116.

so 116-77 =39, so my absoul is already hitting at 39% increased damage from its base. Now, unless the psy has some pretty gnarly pdef ornaments, and from my experience not many on this server do as yet, their pdef is gonna be anywhere between 10-15k depending on buffs they're wearing at the given time.

Most people assume that because level 11 absoul ignores defense levels that it loses its effectiveness, but to be honest that can't be any farther from the truth. 39% increased damage, nv proc addition, and low pdef on the psy = one big hurt.

now consider what happens if that poor fool gets purged and their pdef gets dropped to 7-9k base. Sure they gain back 11 defense levels from being thrown out of voodoo, but they just lost a chunk of defense from the base improvement on pdef.


I know my numbers aren't exactly spot on in every case, but in actual combat with debuffs and purges flying its not unusual for my sage absoul to nail some of the best geared psy's on the server for 20k+ when everything lines up right.

Alot of the utility of Absoul comes back to the most important thing to remember about the mystic class in general: Situation is everything for us.

Falling petals b:thanks

It used to be my Healing and Vital Herb. They look awesome together, and make accomplishing so much more than just spot healing possible...they were priceless.

2nd would be Rapid Growth,

3rd is my Cragglord. He's awesome at nuke time.

I guess 4th would be my Salvation. If you lysing her and then meditiate, it used to look like something spiritual was happening to your Mystic, lol. This one is also good for somewhat short-term defence, but I mainly am rating it for aesthetic value only. b:chuckle

Its a low down dirty shame about AS. I feel your pain... b:surrender

*ghost drifts off again* .... *drifting* ... *off* .. .

I'm not sure to have understood what "potionned" meant but AS can be now faster by combining with Storm Dance (not 100% chance though)
If you manage to get the "buff" from Storm plus rapid growth, then AS is really extremely fast.

Kitty haz rather exotic favourite skill at playing a mystic. lol

Storm Mistress.

'Cause it's so fun to do double damage. On bosses Kitty usually tends to Vital Herb -> NV/Storm Mistress-spam.

Too many to choose from.

Nature's Barrier, Energy Leech, and Lucky Break are my bread and butter aside from heals (for obvious reasons)