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Originally Posted by Ossuary

My first character was a Tank. An Inv/Mace Tank to be precise. Well, my character in beta was a Grav/FF Controller, so maybe that's my first character. Okay then, my first 50 was a Tank. Yes, that'll do.

Anywho, I have played many characters over the years, but it occurs to me that I have only played 2 Tanks, which happen to be the same character. When Willpower was released, I found that it fit my Tank's concept much better, so I rerolled him and got him to 50 once more. Mostly solo, though, so I might have missed it at the time.

"Missed what?", you ask. Taunt. I might have missed the strange, strange change to Taunt.

You see, last night I loaded up my lvl 50 Scrapper to farm Tip missions for some sweet Hero Merits. I was running the "You're a Mean One, Mr. Phelps" mission, and came across a hostage situation that was smack dab in the middle of another spawn. Now, it's been so long since I played this character and he certainly isn't optimized, so I thought I would pull. Twas about to use my Nemesis Staff when I had a sudden memory shoot into my brain from my previous Tank days. "Taunt!" I exclaimed! Looking carefully at my power trays, I found that my Scrapper had indeed taken Taunt. With a wicked grin and an aim to misbehave, I got within range to attract the Arachnos Executioner. Once there, I pressed the Taunt button and...

...threw up, maybe? I'm not sure what happened. I got his attention with my...whatever, so I guess it worked. I was still left confused, however.

I decided to utilize Taunt throughout the next few missions, to see if maybe the smell of Arachnos was causing my character to dry heave. It turns out that all villains, in Paragon and the Rogue Isles, have formed some pact to go commando for months on end, causing a stench to develop that could bring the world to its knees. Is there a tip mission for that? I think that my characters hold their breath as best they can while in missions. It is my own fault that my Scrapper must take a deep breath in order to talk whenever I insist he taunt something. It must be horrible.

Ah, I remember the days when my Tank would let out a frightening, "Huh!?" I suppose this is the new way. No matter how often I used Taunt last night, however, I could never stop laughing and then feeling sad for my poor Scrapper.

Originally Posted by Blue Lava

Quick and painless.. can anyone give me the amount of time Overload lasts when activated?
wasnt able to find that info

Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds

Okay, while I dislike the idea of a melee Psy set ("I can melt your brain with the power of my mind! I... just need to get within 5 feet to do so....") I'll take a stab at this.

The main issue here is that your sacrificing a power attack in your single-target attack chain, for either a short-range AoE, or a non-damaging PBAoE of dubious value. (-Perception does nothing if you already have the enemies agro, as once that happens, they ignore perception. And -to hit isn't likely to be significant on its own, but there's nothing else in the set to stack it with.)

The second issue I see is the lack of alternate damage types. With the roadblock like robots and Carnies in the way of psychic damage, this set should have no more than 2 or 3 pure psychic damage attacks. Everything else should have an alternative component. (Probably Smashing, but I could see arguments for Lethal or Fire, as well.) As it stands, you've only provided 3 such attacks (one of which doesn't make any sense), and I just don't think that will go over well.

Here's a quick redesign...

1. Mind Tap - minor single target damage (smash/psi) -recharge
2. Mind Probe - moderate single target damage (psi) -recharge
3. TK Burst - Melee cone; Moderate Smashing/Psi damage, with a good chance for a Knockup, -Recharge.
4. Pyrokinesis - single target attack, high Psi/Fire damage, with a fire DoT chance rather than a -recharge.
5. TK Smash - Short range cone (or targeted AoE), Moderate Psi/Smashing damage, Knockdown, -Recharge
6. Taunt
7. Mind Spike - Single target, Superior Psi/Lethal damage, and -Recharge
8. Psychic Vortex - "Soul Drain" type power; The more targets it, the stronger the +Damage, +To Hit boost; Instead of doing damage, Vortex applies a -recharge, -damage, -to hit debuff on the targets. (Maybe a low magnitude stun as well/instead?)
9.Psychic Roar-PbAoE high Psi damage, with a long (cooldown), Mag 3 stun and -Recharge.

...looking at it on paper, it's probably a bit overpowered, now. Hmmm... someone with better numbers knowledge would have to go over it, I think.



Okay, I have to ask what your plan is with Psi Armor? Right now, it looks like a resist based set, that has a lot of holes in it. As it stands, no one is going to go for a defense set that does not provide Hold protection. (Remember, Acrobatics is the only other source in the game for reliable hold protection, and it only provides 2 points.) And, once again, -Perception does nothing once you have the enemies' agro!

Okay, as I see it, Psychic armor should provide absolute superior protection from Psychic attacks, high smashing/lethal protection, and moderate protection to Fire/Cold/Energy/Negative Energy. Leaving mez protection has to at least contain Stun, Sleep, and holds; Fear, Confuse, and Placate would be appropriate. If you want to leave a Knockback and/or immobilize hole... well, I'm not sure how well that will go over these days, but sure.

I like Drain Psyche, but I'd throw in a Dull Pain clone. And I have no idea what your God Mode is supposed to be...

I also don't really care much for Click Mez protection. I did like the concept of spreading it out among toggles, though...

Let's See...

1. Mind Over Body - Smash/Lethal/Psi Resistance; Stun, Sleep protection toggle
2. Psi Shards - PbAoE psionic damage toggle
3. Biofeedback - Dull Pain clone
4. Neurofeedback - Smash/Lethal/Psi Resist Auto; Fear Protection
5. Indomitable Will - Fire/Cold/Energy/N. Energy/Psi Resistance, Hold, Knockback and Confuse protection Toggle.
6. Drain Psyche - PBAoE click, increases the character's Regeneration and recovery rate per target hit, while each target has a -Regen, -Recovery debuff placed.
7. Precognition - +Recharge + Run Speed AUTO
8. Psychic Shield - Large Psychic Defense, minor defense to all other types, Immobilize, and Placate protection toggle
9. Mental Juggernaut - Basic resistance-based God Mode, The crash will drain away most of the character's Health and Endurance, drop all toggles, and inflict an 8-10 second stun.

If I could figure out how to make this a more balanced hybrid resistance and defense based set, I would, but I'm not that good. My thoughts here are that a slotted Psychic Armor Brute/Scrapper should have at least 70% Psychic resistance in the end, with maybe 35% Smashing/Lethal, Fire/Cold/Energy/N. Energy will all be in the 20s. They should also have about 20% Psychic defense, with they other damage types being around 5%. Toxic will be an obvious hole, but the overall numbers for a lot of damage types is low.

Still, I wouldn't want to take this set PvE. There just aren't that many psychic dealing enemies to warrant a set designed around protection from psychic damage...

Originally Posted by Leo_G

It's because you've got only 3 single target attacks, one of them being minor damage. Looking at the rest of the set which has a Soul Drain-esque power, a cone and 2 AoE attacks along with an AoE debuff, you're going to be hard-pressed defeating a single tough foe with just 2 good chainable attacks. That or you'll run yourself dry spamming AoEs on 1-2 targets.

You're not selling me the armor either, as it seems very similar to Willpower (it's a mix of resist, defense and regen, even with the same mez shield) not to mention you're putting a PBAoE -ToHit power in both sets which seems quite redundant.

For Psi Armor, we really already have a means to make it: Willpower is an easy sell for psi defense, SR can be precongnition and Energy Aura can be telekinetic repulsion.

That isn't to say a new armor with psionics in mind would never work, but you gotta make it pretty unique in how it plays to make it a worthwhile project, IMO.

I still dream of a set with mostly passive powers like my old psychic armor suggestion. Among other differences, it'd provide some interesting build options.

Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie

your armour set also has both a knockback hole, easily covered. But a Hold hole not so easily patched.

is it an oversight, or an intentional hole? I could see it being both of those.

Originally Posted by Wavicle

Try to take out bosses with just your first three attacks at lvl 50. Have fun whittling away.

Also, we get new powersets all the time. We just got 4 new sets.

Originally Posted by Wavicle

It's ok.

I'd say remove Psychic Wail and replace it with a high end single target attack.

Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

Psi Armor = Willpower