Mesmerize is a positionless psionic attack - it only checks against typed Psionic defense, which makes it a bother for many characters. (A basic guideline is - if the power can be found in the Mind Control powerset, it's likely positionless.)
Psychic Scream, on the other hand, checks Area-of-Effect defense as well as typed Psionic defense - to avoid it, you'll want to work on the AoE numbers. (Looking at the above guideline, you'll note that it's not in Mind Control.)
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Illusion control attacks also ignore positional defence.|
Originally Posted by Calhou
Mesmerize is a positionless psionic attack - it only checks against typed Psionic defense, which makes it a bother for many characters. (A basic guideline is - if the power can be found in the Mind Control powerset, it's likely positionless.)
Psychic Scream, on the other hand, checks Area-of-Effect defense as well as typed Psionic defense - to avoid it, you'll want to work on the AoE numbers. (Looking at the above guideline, you'll note that it's not in Mind Control.) |
You could always step out of granite and use the lower armors plus minerals which will make you bombproof to psionics, but more vulnerable to the other stuff.
It's true. This game is NOT rocket surgery. - BillZBubba
Thank you for the info. Back to the drawing board.
Playing on Freedom
I'm on my Stone tank and have 45% melee def and 45% ranged def and Im fighting lvl 50 Possessed CoT Lts. They almost never hit me in melee but hit me 10 out of 20 times w/Mesmerize and 12 out of 20 times w/Psychic Scream. All ranged attacks. Why isn't the range def. working against these attacks?
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