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Heres the question from my OP again seeing as you seem to have missed it.
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I don't have first hand experience with psi blast. However it is good when coupled with rad primary, rad/psi are pretty good in PvP and probably one of the best offensive defenders in duals. One of the main problems of psi blast however are the painfully long animation times. You should really note that defender damage is painfully low, but with psi's lessly resisted damage and rad debuffs it "could" be viable, just don't expect 3shotting squishies.
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I don't have first hand experience with psi blast. However it is good when coupled with rad primary, rad/psi are pretty good in PvP and probably one of the best offensive defenders in duals. One of the main problems of psi blast however are the painfully long animation times. You should really note that defender damage is painfully low, but with psi's lessly resisted damage and rad debuffs it "could" be viable, just don't expect 3shotting squishies.
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Yeah, played defenders before, just wondered if psi being less resisted would make up for the pants damage.
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I'd have to say no 
I think Dominators will do fairly well from the Psionic Assault set, some of its powers are better suited to PvP, especially the level 38 power which is an AoE power and a de-toggler, Domination will also give a significant damage boost. So if you wanted to try a Psionic PvP attacker, a Dominator would be the one to try I think.
Can't say about defenders but its great watching an opponent taking his time putting up his PFF before you fire straight through it as if it wasn't there. Haven't taken my Mind/Psi dom on the US servers into PVP yet but on Defiant 2 Mind Controllers vs FF MM and a couple of stalkers was fun - not sure who was most surprised the stalkers lying held at our feet or the MM thinking he was safe behind his PFF
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Deadly Doc 50 Dark/Dark Corr
and lots more on Pinnacle,Union and Defiant
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there was a question? I just see a new thread with your post at the top. What the hell?
The most annoying thing about the psionic damage I've found in PvP is far from the damage itself, but the -recharge component the attacks have instead.
Can't say about defenders, but certainly psi dmg is quite pants for controllers having psi epics. It's best the -rech than the dmg itself imo
Lets start psy damage is highly overrated, but its quite fun against someone who just went MoG.
The best psy damage you get from being either mind or illusion.
Dont get me started about dark its simply the [censored] in PvP anyone with half a brain can allmost ignore your set. Rad on the otherhand is superb for duals and a rad / psy defender can be a decent dual build. It will take you alot of time grinding people down because of the low damage defenders have but its doable with rad. But then again there are so many much more viable build for PvP why bother making this one?
50s
controllers: Ill rad , grav rad, fire kin, ice kin
blaster: ice em
scrapper: spines sr
Or you could create a Regen killer and go kin/psi. Transfusion has a -regen component and in I7 Power build up from the epics coupled with transferance can drain a regen in 1-2 hits. 100% chance to drop all toggles is nice 
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Power actuvation times have been mentioned as a downside but imo it's only the 1st attack from the set that has a long animation (I never use it). Attacks suck as TK blast and Will domination are very fast. With stacked Siphon speed and hasten you can pretty much have an unbroken attack chain with just those 2 powers .
Um rad/psi is more of a regen killer than kin/psi I'd say. The -regen component of transfusion has a really short duration, whereas lingering rad halts instant healing for a good while.
Oh yeah lucks wtfpwnz kinetics hehe! 
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I fail to see the point in this reply!
Things that are annoying #1206:- People posting pointless and sarcastic replies to forum posts.
Despite the lack of a question mark the question was blindingly obvious in the OP! Maybe the Scottish accent threw you?
Please excuse me forum members, I'm busting chops today... Carry on. 
And yes, I'm aware of the irony of making a pointless post about a pointless post. 
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Funnily enough, this is a forum. You'll find a lot of that sort of thing on here.
If you're only scanning it, or expect people to use those funny squiggles called question marks, then it was easy to miss as a question 
Psionics have low damage, a good recharge rate (my dom can pretty much keep the lvl 1 power blasting all the time its recycle time is so low).
I've put the psionic power sets in my box of things I think need some loving from the Devs
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I admit it was easy to miss the question, not sure it gives anyone a licence to make other people feel bad though. There are lots of posts I can hardly make sense out of and could easily rip them apart if I wanted to act like a muppet.
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Which is actually what happened. To me, that post looked like he'd just made a post saying "I think rad or dark would go well with psi blast", which doesn't really warrant making a whole new topic. The dyslexia makes it even easier to miss questions, which is actually what I did.
Also, it's funny, but you're having a go at me for doing exactly what you're doing right now.
thank god that drain psyche now an be slotted with acc
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No. He was stating a case at you for making a pointless and nasty reply.
His post was not nasty and it did have a point.
@Sweet Chilli
None of the psi power sets seem to have particularly intimidating numbers for damage - it's like you do less than other sets, but may end up doing a bit more because it's so hard to defend against. Some of the associated effects look great though, I bet all that recharge reduction could add up pretty quickly.
I definitely think the dominator sounds like the more frightening choice. Status effects couple with attacks that are hard to resist...it's got a certain appealing inevitability to it.
Going the defender route I think you'd be in more of a position to support someone else's assault. You've got the whole heal / buff / debuff thing going on for your primary, and then you could force damage through in the face of many protective measures people could take to try and turtle up when assaulted with conventional force.
well my 50 is emp/psi and i love it specially now sinc ei respcc'd on test tohave psi mastery and that lovely 6 slotted hold XD
the problems i have with the psi set is that the recharge of all thepowers is pathetic :/ the dmg aint great but its useable.....barely; and even tho some sets say they are +res to every EXCEPT psi, well, its gotta be bugged, becuase even with 3 acc +tactics 3 slotted with tohits, u can rarely hit stone brutes/tanks, can forget hitting a forcefield user... etc
overal tho, its nice to look at lol
hope that clears some lil stoof up marq
pm IG if ya wanna know dmg output/more info on particular powers etc
As far as i know PFF is +defense to all, except mez but dispersion bubble covers that
Its also plus defence against mez - but if one gets through, then yes, it is usally dropped like any other toggle if it goes on or above your mez number at that time.
@Sweet Chilli
Seeing as psionic damage is the least resisted and defenders are the only ones who can get psychic blast, anyone got any experience of psychic defenders in pvp. I dont plan on making one, least not for a long time anyway, but i can imagine it going well with rad or dark.
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