Flight time for Psi attacks

Why are Psi based attacks so slow to fly to the target its like having longer animation times than their listed stats. Why give it great range but make it so you need to fight close in to get the animation flight time down.

Many times playing PSI I end up over killing the target due to slow flight times. In the attack that will kill it has not arrived at the target and another attack fires.
Worse still is being on teams where targets die long before Psi gets to them.

Psi Lance and Super Speed even with suppression firing the lance at its normal long range and racing to the target I can run to the target and get another attack to hit before the lance.

I thought at one point BaBs was looking into this any word or links I have missed?

From Von Krieger's transcript of today's talk about Issue 22 changes:

Most people consider the ability of psychic blast to stack multiple attacks in a single moment, due to some attacks flying faster than others, to be a good thing. Will be a shame if devs change it.

Lol @ the thought of a damage stacking tactic making a powerset weak. Did you even think that comment through?

It's mostly valuable in PvP. I don't really see a meaningful benefit for it in PvE.

Dark Blast has the same problem, without the burst stacking potential.

The PVP crowd is gonna cry because Psi blasters are hot there due to the 'double' attacks.

Anyway I got good use of psi lance on the LRSF with my ice/psi dom. Turned Super speed on, fired it and when it hit one of the freedom phalanx AVs I was back with the team. And usually I managed to pull one at a time, two tops.

Situational I know, but it was nice. In pre-i13 pvp when I used her I loled hard when a blaster was running from me, he supersped past the drones in RV and still typed 'I'll get you next time asdfafggewq' (that's when he died because my psi lance finally hit him lol)

Your saying this is desirable really? Solo Yes I can stack lance with Will Dom and TK if I super speed to the target even through suppression and they all hit about the same time. I can see the possible PVP desire but I thought two things one PVP combat was faster paced than that and two that PVP went away in issue 13 with the PVP2 goofyness.

I thought they had fixed the incredibly slow flight time for one of the Fort Psi powers but its been so long since I have played my Fort I cannot remember if that was actually fixed.

Its for stacking slow you must be pulling my leg.

As a relatively noob member of what was a pretty active Team PvP 'teaching' group, (Post I13) I can verify that in PvP, as slow as it may seem, Psi is 'top shelf.' (I consider myself a VERY casual PvPer, but I listened to my teachers pretty good-like.)

It involves 'spiking' damage so that healers are unable to react quickly enough to heal it - I've seen good healers heal other types of damage so fast, kills are nearly impossible, but 3-4 coordinated Psi attacks are nearly impossible to defend against. It's not 'a' playstyle, it is 'THE' winning tactic for team PvP.

Removing the Psi damage 'travel times' would significantly change the team PvP dynamics, and I'm not sure that would be a good thing.

NOTE: I'm specifically referring to TEAM PvP; this stuff may not apply to 'zone' pvp or 1v1 arena fight-club type duels.

So the best reasoning for the incredibly slow flight time is to keep a PVP spike tool. Ouch.

PVE its lame to watch team mates sweep the kill before your power hits. Reminds me a lot of Energy Melee. Secondly you have already done enough damage to a target but it does not know its dead yet due to slow flight times and you launch another attack on a corpse. Apparently the air in the game has Psi resistance which slows it down.

is this a big enough gap to qualify as necro thread? Kinda sketchy IMO, on the borderline.....

but, now that it is back on page one, I do wonder if there has been any official word on the "porting" described from gravity control above.

So Necroing is ok in this case Mod 13 and 19?