Mental Scramble Power - is it autohit?

For the first time in a long while my bane is back to fighting arachnos at L45 as he finishes up some of Westin Phipps arc's and every single tarantula mistress he fights is hitting with mental scramble despite having softcapped ranged def. Unfortunately since that attack doesn't show up on the combat monitor I can't tell if I have just been incredibly unlucky or if it is not being affected by my ranged def.

Unfortunately since that attack shreds my def AND blinds me (I haven't been able to fit TT: Leadership into the build yet - it comes at 47) its a real pain. According to the wiki page this attack is ranged, psionic, which would mean it should almost never hit but so far I have been hit by 3 in a row (well, 3 mistresses in a row, not 3 attacks in a row).

i think its just getting unlucky because i know ive avoided the mental scramble attack before on various toons (none of which have soft capped defense)

Don't forget, higher level tarantula mistresses get an ToHit bonus through Mind Link.

I've been missed by that power many a time. It's not auto-hit. Believe me, I watch carefully to see if it hits me when I see it ripping along in the air. It's fairly visually distinctive, and it bites when it lands on you.

I died to psi clockwork king the other day on my softcapped scrapper. Checked combat log. 3 psi hits in a row - the nuke, 10% chance to hit, succeeded the hit roll, and 2 more attacks that hit for 500, with no hit roll at all.

Huh, so I guess the 25' is completely wrong then.

Bumping this because I've been under the same misguided notion for years and just thought I was being unlucky / there was enough tarentulas spamming it fast enough that it just hit me: as of today, Mental Scramble ignores defenses, despite all the info about it listing it as ranged and psy. If it doesn't always hit (something I'm not convinced of), I'm willing to bet it does 95% of the time.

Does it ignore psi defense? I know there's several psi powers that are only classified as psi and not ranged and only psi defense will protect you from them.

It is indeed typed ranged and psionic, but that doesn't make any difference because the relevant bit is the "Entities autohit: Foe" line near the bottom. (ZM's original link was pointing to the Fortuantas' Scramble Thoughts, which is a different kettle of fish entirely.)

At first I read the title as "Mental Scrabble Power."

/end threadjack

Yeah, I've known that it was (currently) auto-hit for a while now, having found it in CoD and seeing the "Entities AutoHit" section. I don't know if it changed. I was very confident in days long gone that I had seen it miss. However, in more recent times it never missed, even on characters like my Night Widow, who has strong Psi defense as well as positional. That got me to go re-investigate, probably around a year ago now, and I saw the auto-hit entry.