Psychic Guide

[DragonDeadMe]

Here's my little skill guide for the psychic class. Here I will give my opinion on which skills are worth levelling and which are practically useless (not counting in demon/sage versions, as these are unknown as of now.). Most of these advices are based on my impression of these skills, my psychic isn't that high level yet so I haven't used or seen most of these skills myself. I didn't include some skills simply because I don't have enough information about them.

Index:
1.Attack skills
2.Buff skills
3.Debuff skills
4.Misc. skills

With each skill I put my own advice of how you should level this skill, but to make it a bit easier to see I also put stars next to the skill names:
no star = don't get it at all

▲ = only get level 1 for the purpose of moving on in the skill tree
★= only get level 1 of this skill because levelling it doesn't do anything.
★★ = worth levelling if you have SP to spare.
★★★= very important, always keep this up to your level

☆ = Important for duel/PK/TW purposes (can be in combination with the above)

I will update it as I get more info ofcourse
1.Attack skills

Lvl. 1:

★★★aqua impact & spirit blast
these 2 skills are the main skills used in grinding by a psychic. Spirit blast has better damage and aqua impact has (a relatively low) chance of slowing an opponent.
-Always keep these up to your level.

Lvl. 19:

▲torrent
You could compare this with ''crown of flames'' for wizards. A damage over time skill really doesn't benefit psychics much because most mobs don't last those 15 seconds during which this skill deals damage.
-Keep it at lvl.1

★★★Landslide
An important nuke right next to aqua impact & spirit blast. The knockback on this skill really works well on physical mobs, aswell as cancelling the channeling on magical mobs.
-Keep it up to your level.

Lvl. 29:

★★Aqua cannon
To be blunt, this skill is pretty bad at lower levels. It's a close range AoE with a high equipment bonus (110% a lv1). It might have it's uses in group AoE.
-Leave it at lv.1 until at least lv70.

▲Sand trap
See torrent.

Lvl. 39:

★★★Glacial shards
A great AoE due to the fact that it has a chance to immobilize enemies. It also has quite nice damage.
-Worth levelling, should take priority after you've maxed both aqua impact and spirit blast.

★★★ ☆Sandburst blast
A nice AoE with slightly better damage than glacial shards. It has a chance to reduce enemy accuracy which won't benefit you much since you want to stay as far away from mobs as possible.
It would be very useful in group AoE where a BM or barb is taking the hits. It's short casting time and high damage would probably make this an important nuke in PvP
-Same as glacial shards, or keep it up to your level if you like to PvP.

Lvl. 49:

[?]Soulburn.
-

Lvl. 59:

[?]Red tide
-

[?]Earth vector
-

2.buff skills

Lvl. 9:

★★★ ☆Black voodoo
Your main buff used in grinding. Increases your damage by 22% but also increases the damage you take by 11% (assuming your base attack and defense levels are 0). In PvE you shouldn't get hit too much so the loss of defense shouldnt be too bad.
-Keep it up to your level.

★★White voodoo
Not a very practical buff, useful if youre in a tight situation though. Reduces the damage you deal by 99% and also reduces damage you take by 66% at max level.
-It might be wise not to level this skill all the way to lv10, since your damage will be absolutely horrible. It's quite useful for soloing certain bosses if you keep it at about lv3 to 5.

★Soul of vengeance
A great buff.. for a tanker. A psychic doesn't (or at least.. shouldn't) take that many hits in grinding. Always cast this buff on the tanker in your squad.
-It's certainly worth getting, but leveling does absolutely NOTHING except increase the casting range. Keep it at lv1.

Lvl. 29:

★ ☆Soul of stunning
Aside from the fact that it's a very pretty buff, it's usefulness depends on your soulpower.
Like Soul of vengeance, leveling this skill does nothing. (it's a self buff so you dont get any extra range either..)
-Keep it at lvl. 1

Lvl. 39:

★Soul of silence
Has a low chance to cast a pretty long silence effect on the attacker. Shares a cooldown with Soul of vengeance. I'd use Soul of vengeance over this, since it doesn't rely on luck to activate.
-Levelling doesnt do anything so keep it at lv1.

Lvl. 44

★★★ ☆Empowered vigor
Great in all aspects: Cast it on the tank so clerics heal more, cast it on yourself while grinding so pots heal more (it would be rather MP-inefficient, though.), cast it on yourself in PK so your charm has a lower cooldown.
-Keep it maxed.

Lvl. 59:

☆?Tide spirit
A rather short buff and costs 2 sparks, don't know much about this one yet.
Really depends on if a double spark eruption is better than this.

★★★ ☆Psychic will
Despite the skill description this is a self-cast buff.
Purifies and immunizes you against physical damage for 5 seconds at lv1, and 8 seconds at lv10.
This would make grinding on poison mobs much easier, and it could just save you if you managed to pull aggro.
-At least get lv. 1 on this, if maxing it is worth those 3 extra seconds is up to you.


3.Debuff skills
Lvl. 34:

★★ ☆Diminished vigor
Very useful in PK, the only downside is that it shares a cooldown with empowered vigor.
So you have to choose: Reduce the healing ability of your enemy, or increase those of your own (or an ally).
-In PvE this skill is pretty useless, leave it at lv. 1
-In PvP it has it's uses, max it if you like to PK.

Lvl. 49:

★★ ☆Disturb soul
Increases channeling time by 53% at lv1, and 80% at lv10.
Say a wizard casts Gush, which has a channeling time of 1.0 seconds. After this skill it would take 1.8 seconds, pretty deadly in PvP.
Also very useful against magic bosses.
-Max it.



4.Misc. Skills

Lvl. 9:

Tide form
Utter crap. You can only use normal attack in this form.
Maybe in an underwater dungeon this skill would give you:
+10 def level from tideform
+66 def level from white voodoo
+10 def level from dominance blessing
= defense level 86
Pretty nice, but I wouldn't level it. And I'd rather fly for transportation.
-Get level 1 for the fun of it, or don't get it at all.

Lvl. 24:

★★Life bubble
An AoE version of the cleric's main heal, ''ironheart blessing''. It only has a much longer cooldown and it's range is very short.
-Worth levelling, but only if you have SP to spare.

Lvl. 29:

★★★ ☆Passives
Increase your damage.
-I'd advise to wait until the late 40's with levelling these since theyre quite costly in both money and spirit. Since earth skills deal more damage than water skills, you would get the most extra damage from levelling earthen spirit. So if you don't have enough money/spirit to upgrade both at some point, upgrade earthen spirit.


Credits to
pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=6038522



This is not complete guide yet.

[loxius]

the build that worked well for me was-
even lvl- 3 mag 1 str 1 vit
odd lvl - 3 mag 2 str

[Nero]

This goes to thanks to beastisboy

If you are not prepared to get to at least 60+, the Psychic is not for you. Save the hassle, play something else like a BM or WB.

The Psychic is a class of many debuffs and high hitting spells sort of like a Wizard.

Acronyms:
In this guide I use several Acronyms that may not be known to new characters, here they are

PvE- Player versus Environment (Monsters)
PvP- Player versus Player
EA- Elf Archer
BM- Blade Master
WB- Were Beast otherwise known as Barbarian.

Pros & Cons:

Pros: High damage Nukes can easily take out most monsters without them reaching you. Not much of a need of HP potions or charms due to having not being hit most of the time. Great for early PvE. From my experience I have been wanted in parties for Vengeance and Silence. (other people tell me Psychics are not wanted in party,although I do not believe this is true) Also I have been wanted by some of my friends in PvP parties for my AoE debuffs and bleeds.

Cons: Very low survivability and HP at low and mid levels. But can be fixed with stones. Low HP regeneration. Consumes MP Potions at a fast and large amount. Will run out of MP after a couple of monsters.

Builds:

Pure INT: This the most common build which goes like 1 STR and 9 MAG every 2 levels. 5 MAG every odd level and 4MAG 1 STR every even level. You would use arcane robes for this build. You will hit high damage but have low survivability. This can be fixed with HP stones. This build also uses a physical belt and/ or necklace to make up for lost defense.

Light Armour: A lot more survivability then the Pure INT build but at a cost of reduced magic attack. another plus of this build is there is extra Critical Rate from the DEX required to wear light armour. Will give more survivability at early levels. This build also helps with TW and PvP from the added physical defense.

VIT Build: This build will give your Psychic a little extra HP and physical defense, but I don't recommend it because the lack of HP can be made up with stones. You would use arcane robes for this build and socket them with HP stones.

Heavy Build: This build has high survivability but I don't recommend it to anyone because I have seen no one become successful with this build.

Melee Build: Who suggested this to me?

PvE Guide:

1-30: Most of these levels will fly by with quests.

30-39: More quests and the repeatable quest Crazy Stone, a quest that gives good exp, some spirit, this you should do every day.

40-59: Lots and lots of grinding, you will have to get used to it. Try flying monsters and water monsters because they give 1.5 X exp.

60-90+: I have not gotten to this point so I don't have anything on this.

PvP Guide:

1-30: You can't PvP at this level, only duel.

31-59: I don't recommend it but you can try, I suggest you stick to leveling up.

60-90+:

This implied that you always have Soul of Stunning, Soul of Retaliation, and Soulburn on your enemy to make the kill faster.

Physical Classes:

Blade Master: This class has low magic defense so all you need is to get Diminished Vigor to stop their charm and potions and nuke away. They might activate Magic Marrow which increases M. Def but it won't be a big problem.

Barbarian: Generally the same as a BM but with a big chunk more of HP just Diminished Vigor and nuke away.

Archer: This is the ranged psychical class, which will be a little more problematic because they can be farther than your spell range with Winged Blessing. Just Diminshed Vigor again and nuke away. The Soul of Stunning will stop them from releasing all of there instant cast skills.

Assassin: I have not found a way to fight these. Though their tactics is to hide make you bleed and hide again. You could try your luck and right away do an AoE, which does bring out an Assassin from the hiding status.

Magical Classes:

Wizard: The question of eternity. This is a hard hitting class with medium channel time. You should Diminished Vigor like you do on all classes, Disturbed Soul to slow their casts even more and hope they don't critical hit you.

Cleric: Easy. Just Diminshed Vigor, Disturb Soul for their instant heals and nuke away.

Psychics: It will be pretty evenly matched. Both of you will be stunned back and forth, so I suggest Diminished Vigor, Disturb Soul to slow them down at nuke away. this is probably the tactic another Psychic would have.

Venomancer: This is a hard topic because of the amazing versatility of Venomancers. Going to edit this later.







Skills:

The larger part of this guide.
In this part of the guide you will find the skills information like cooldown, mana cost etc. and how useful the skills are.

For new players, Channel time is the time when the bar with the name of the skill is being filled which is the preparation time, the Cast time is the time where your character preforms the action and the skill takes place and cooldown is the time you have to wait before using it again.

In total a Psychic has 27 skills.

This info was found on www.ecatomb.net/skillpwi.php

There is also a rating scale included in this. This goes as:



* First Priority, good for both PvE and PvP
* Second Priority, also as good, but not as urgent to level up
* If you have the spirit
* Not really necessary for PvE, but for PvP in later levels and TW




Water:

1) Aqua Impact *
Channel 0.5 seconds
Cast 1.5 seconds
Cooldown 3.0 seconds

Nice starting water nuke with a chance to slow down the enemy. Usually the starting combo.
skill Good for keeping away physical mobs.

2) Black Voodoo *
Channel 1.0 seconds
Cast 1.4 seconds
Cooldown 8.0 seconds

Buff that lasts for 60 seconds and increase attack level by a certain amount but decreases
defense level by a smaller amount. Good for increased damage but makes you take harder
hits.

3) Torrent *
Mana 45
Channel 0.9 seconds
Cast 1.3 seconds
Cooldown 15.0 seconds

A skill that does DPS based on M. ATK. Don't really recommend it because you would usually
take out something in a few hit with your nukes unless on a boss.

4) Bubble of Life *
Channel 1.5 seconds
Cast 2.0 seconds
Cooldown 30.0 seconds

The only Psychic healing skill also AoE, I recommend it in case your squads needing some
extra healing or you are being attacked by multiple mobs.

5) Aqua Cannon *
Channel 1.5 seconds
Cast 1.5 seconds
Cooldown 8.0 seconds

High damage water AoE. Slows down everyone within 8 meters. Unless you have a squad or can
one hit the mobs you are going to fight this skill isn't really use full. Can be annoying
in TW.

6) Glacial Shards *
Channel 1.0 seconds
Cast 2.0 seconds

This is another water AoE, which is really good in TW because of its chance to immobilize
enemies within a large range. Also has nice damage.

7) Empowered Vigor *
Channel 0.8 seconds
Cast 2.2 seconds

This is the opposite of Diminished vigor which increases healing from skills, potions and
decreases charm cooldown. Also good in PvP and TW.

8) Disturb Soul *
Channel 1.6 seconds
Cast 1.2 seconds
Cooldown 30.0 seconds

Destructive PvP skill that will slow down channeling time, up to 80% maxed. Will annoy
most classes but especially Wizards and give you an edge over them.

9) Tide Spirit *
Channel 0.6 seconds
Cast 1.6 seconds
Cooldown 60.0 seconds

Increases magic damage by a great amount and increases channeling speed. Awesome skill for
PvP to take out people fast.

10) Red Tide *
Channel 1.8 seconds
Cast 1.2 seconds
Cooldown 30.0 seconds

A water AoE that causes enemies to bleed which is taking damage equal to your soulforce.
Ok for TW to finish of enemies with low HP.

11) Aqua Spirit *

Mastery that increases water damage by 20% maxed. Get it.

Earth:

1) Spirit Blast *
Channel 0.6 seconds
Cast 1.4 seconds
Cooldown 3.0 seconds

Starting earth nuke that is nothing but pure damage, no effects.

2) White Voodoo *
Channel 1.0 seconds
Cast 1.4 seconds
Cooldown 8.0 second

Buff that lasts for 60 seconds and increases defense level by a certain amount but
decreases attack level by a larger amount. Good only if you are being swarmed by mobs and
took aggro from a boss.

3) Landslide *
Channel 0.8 seconds
Cast 1.2 seconds
Cooldown 8.0 seconds

Nice knock back skill with high damage, I recommend it.

4) Sand Trap *
Channel 1.6 seconds
Cast 1.4 seconds
Cooldown 15.0 seconds

This is an earth DPS, you don't really need it till later levels for PvP, its up to you
if you want to level it.

5) Diminished Vigor *
Channel 1.5 seconds
Cast 2.4 seconds

The skill you will destroy people with in PvP. This skill lowers healing effects from
heals, potions and increases the cooldown of charms. Will stop your enemy from recovering
too much.

6) Sandburst Blast *
Channel 0.8 seconds
Cast 2.2 seconds
Cooldown 6.0 seconds

A earth AoE, which decreases targets accuracy which can also be annoying and useful in TW.
Also has nice damage.

7) Soulburn *
Channel 2.1 seconds
Cast 1.0 seconds
Cooldown 30.0 seconds

OK skill that costs 1 spark. every tame the target attacks it takes damage equal to your
soulforce. Lasts for 8 seconds maxed. Pretty good in PvP.

8) Earth Vector *
Channel 1.0 seconds
Cast 1.0 seconds
Cooldown 20.0 seconds

Another great earth AoE that deals nice damage and has a chance to stun targets around
you. Great in TW and PvP.

9) Psychic Will *
Channel 0.7 seconds
Cast 1.2 seconds
Cooldown 30.0 seconds

This skill removes any negative statuses from the target and makes it immune to physical
damage for 8 seconds maxed. Another great PvP skill. Great if your being attacked by a BM,
WB or EA.

10) Earthen Spirit *

Mastery that increases earth damage by 20% maxed. Get it.

Soul:

Note on this skills. So far what i know on them is that when you level them up the only thing that changes is an increased mana cost (just to cast the skill not for it to activate) and an increased range. I have not gotten to the Sage/Demon point so I don't know what bonuses Sage'Demon will give. Do not level them up above 1, otherwise its a waste of Spirit.

1) Soul of Vengeance *
Channel 1.4 seconds
Cast 1.0 seconds

A nice buff that deals 8% of your soul force to your target every time it attacks you, and also reduce the attacker will lose 0.8% of your soulforce. If the target has no mana the target will not receive the reflected damage. Nice PvP skill because it works for both Physical and Magical attacks.

2) Soul of Stunning *
Channel 0.5 seconds
Cast 0.8 seconds

Excellent PvP skill that stuns attacker for 1 second + 1/5000Soulforce. This is your stun lock. Costs 100 mana per successful stun.

3) Soul of Silence *
Channel 0.9 seconds
Cast 2.2 seconds

Another nice PvP skill that silences your attacker, the target also loses mana. The silencing and mana loss is determined by your soulforce. This will stop the physical classes from stun locking you.

4) Soul of Retaliation *
Channel 0.3 seconds
Cast 1.0 seconds

Great PvP skill that gives your attacker the same negative status inflicted on you. Reduces damage you take by your soulforce and reflect damage to your attacker. This effect reduces your mana by 100. last for 30 seconds.

5) Tide Form: *

Turns you into a mermaid. Only usable in water.

Increases your defense level by a nice amount which reduces damage taken. And increases swim speed by ALOT great for getting around in water otherwise not much of a use. Looks cool too.






Combos:

There are many combos that make game play easier, here are some of them.

PvE:

-Black Voodoo
-Alternate between Aqua Impact and Spirit Blast, in case the monster is a faster moving one.
-Landslide
-Continue alternating with nukes until the monster dies.


-Black Voodoo
-Alternate between Aqua Impact and Spirit Blast
-Landslide if monster gets close they.


-Black voodoo
-Glacial shards with good chance to paralyze
-Landslide
-Finish with Aqua Impact and Spirit Blast if still alive.


PvP:

-Soul of Stun
-Torrent
-Sandblast
-Landslide
-Bubble of Life if low on health
-Alternate between Aqua Impact and Spirit Blast
-Repeat

-Soul of Stun
-Soul Burn
-Alternate between Aqua Impact and Spirit Blast
-If too close Torrent and Sandblast
-If low on HP and your potion/charm is on cooldown, Bubble of Life