-/psi able to skip Stamina?


BindW

 

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So my thinking was this...

Normally I would take Stamina but with my Mind/Psi Dom I can get Drain Psyche, which I am expecting would go a fair way to helping with any endurance trouble.

This along with Domination which gives you a nice full bar of endurance leads me to believe I could get away with not taking Stamina and using that power slot on something else, perhaps Stealth to try and combat my being so squishy? I dunno.

I guess what I'm asking is do you think that Drain Psyche is enough to skip Stamina? Remembering that Domination also exists.

Also having Mind as my primary means I eat up endurance quite fast I guess.

Anyhow, thoughts?


 

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no idea what the power descrip is, but if its anything like power sink then it should see you through no probs. power sink is 60 sec base recharge and with 3 endmod SOs will see you good for almost 50% end per hit.

hope this helps, but bear in mind some end transfer powers have recharges of like 180 s so this may not be ideal for you.

on the other hand, my dom doesnt really need stamina just slotting yellow DOs and TOs for endred.

Plight


 

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Also having Mind as my primary means I eat up endurance quite fast I guess.

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Interesting, I would have thought that mind is one of the end-cheapest sets, but I havent got anything high-lvl yet. At least the single-targets are pretty cheap in my opinion.

All ive got so far is lvl 12 mind/en dominator and a mind troller on coh.


 

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Sorry, to make it more clear...

PBAoE

"You Drain the Psyche of your nearby foes, thus weakening their Hit Point regeneration and Endurance recovery and boosting your own."

I think the recharge time is 180 as you said. I'm sure I read on the US boards that it's not too accurate either but I'm thinking if I can use it in a decent sized group it should be ok.


 

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Also having Mind as my primary means I eat up endurance quite fast I guess.

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Interesting, I would have thought that mind is one of the end-cheapest sets, but I havent got anything high-lvl yet.

[/ QUOTE ]One word, telekinesis.


 

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Also having Mind as my primary means I eat up endurance quite fast I guess.

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Interesting, I would have thought that mind is one of the end-cheapest sets, but I havent got anything high-lvl yet.

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I play Mind/Psi dominator (and loving it btw). I originally planned to put Stamina in before I realised how good Drain Psyche is. Its a great power but you can't slot it for accuracy and it does tend to miss alot.

I find that when teaming my endurance doesn't drop too much, mainly because I can pause just a little between mobs to grab endurance back. But when soloing I was finding without Stamina (even using Drain Psyche) that I was getting worn out in the middle of boss battles, so I've taken Stamina now just for a little insurance, but so far its unslotted.

I imagine by the time I'm hitting the higher levels and using more of my secondary blasts (some End heavy things there), that I will really appreciate having stamina.


 

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Good things and bad things have been said about Drain Psyche, and I was advised not to take it - but what the hell, I took it anyway to see how it was for myself - and I would suggest you do the same if anything, as you can always respec it out later.

I use it when I have held a group of foes, as it is bound to hit one of them, even if doesn't, at least they can't attack - recharge takes a fair while, so I assume it's 180 seconds as mentioned previously.

I will keep hold of Drain Psyche and soon will respec out of the fitness pool to take different pools for concept reasons.


@Under Control

 

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I picked up Drain Psyche myself just the other night.

OOOOO do I love that power.

It took me a while to figure out that I needed to be up close to the mob to pull it off, but I got there eventually.

I already have stamina slotted 2 So's so end isnt' really much of a problem for me currently, but with Drain Psyche, it's NO PROBLEM AT ALL!

And of course there's TK to consider and although I have a slotted 3 end reductions (although only trainings) and can keep it running while spamming holds, I do eventually run out of endurance, usually right at the time when you can't afford it.

But with Drain Psyche added! It's FANTASTIC!

It's definately a good power to pick if you ask me!