Psi melee

[San Q]

Hi peeps,

I made a psi melee/ice scrapper because these were sets I hadn’t tried out before. Looking over the forums, it seems people are pretty meh on psi. I get that robots resist the dmg a lot. Is that the main thing? Is it more or less procable than other sets? Just curious.

[tidge]

For me... it's all about the factions that end up with strong Psi Resists that make it more painful to play than other primaries. This is *hard* for me, as I generally like all of the Psi animations for all ATs.

[Yomo Kimyata]

19 hours ago, tidge said:

For me... it's all about the factions that end up with strong Psi Resists that make it more painful to play than other primaries. This is *hard* for me, as I generally like all of the Psi animations for all ATs.

 

There certainly is this, but the main issue for me is that once you get Mass Levitate, it is SO good and SO useful that my play tends to be entirely about that, and it becomes very one (well, two) dimensional.

 

[Uun]

I rolled a Psi Melee/SR scrapper 2 years ago for that year's slot machine challenge. While psi resistance is a problem, it's not as bad as it is for Psi Blast. This is because most of the the Psi Melee powers include a smashing or lethal damage component for 25% of the damage and Mass Levitate is 100% smashing damage. I also took Moonbeam (Soul Mastery) for some additional non-psi damage. On the flip side, the psi damage is handy for foes that pop Unstoppable (i.e., Cyclops and Minotaurs). As far as procability, Psi Melee mostly just accepts procs from Melee Damage and Melee AoE sets. There are 2 powers that accept Knockback sets and 1 that accepts Stun sets. 

 

Most of the complaints about Psi Melee focus on the Insight mechanic. It's kind of clunky, in particular the 15s lockout period after it expires.

[arcane]

Psionic Melee is fine compared to steaming turds like Kinetic Melee or Staff Fighting. And it is very proccable.