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[PMB] Yamifamily's "Broken Chains" Psionicist Guide

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Hello, everybody. We are the Yami Family, of the League guild, AdVictoriam. We are your nice gibberlings next door during the day, but during the night we transform into the dangerous, nightmarish seers. It is a well-known fact that we, psionicists, get our powers from the moonlight!

What?! Are you asking me what a psionicist is? You mean you don't know that? You seriously never heard of the greatest class in Allods Online ?
Ok then. I'll try to stay calm and I will explain it slowly. But pay attention, 'cause I'm not going to repeat myself!

The PSIONICIST is one of the five mana classes in Sarnut. They are often described as the "masters of mind and manipulation". The "Broken Chains" patch brought us a lot of exciting changes, thus making our role in parties and raids more important and notable. We can both work as heavy supports, buffing our allies and crowd controlling out enemies or as huge damage dealers, on par with the mages, paladins or scouts.

Well then, I guess that was it. Aren't you satisfied with the answer, my friend? What? You're not? You want to hear more about this amazing dreamcatchers that we scantly refer to as psis? Well then, I'm glad I have made you so curios! Here we go!

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Reincarnation Spells


By reaching level 65, you will gain the ability to create your Reincarnation. Not just will you be able to share your mounts, money, Botique items etc. with it, but you can also share a set of skills!

As a progenitor, you will be able to pass your Telekinetic Pull and Temporal Acceleration. But what exactly would you want to get back from your Reincarnation? Well, a lot of stuff actually. I'll go on and list a couple of Reincarnation abilities that are the most popular among psis:

• Holy Shield is a healer spell. It absorbs damage and makes you immune to all crowd control effects for 5 seconds. It is a very useful skill, especially if your Willpower stat isn't very hight, however it's 5 minutes cooldown is definetly a downside.
  

• Divine Foresight is another healer skill. It is a buff that you can cast on yourself or on an ally and it restores health when it drops under 35%. The 3 minutes cooldown isn't much of a problem so this one can proove very useful in lots of scenarios.
  
  

• Flash is a mage reicarnation skill. It teleports you a couple of meters in front. You can get away from dangerous enemies or from a place that was previously AoE-ed by an enemy.
  

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Rubies



I, for sure, know I was quite confused about these 'Ruby Grids' when I first started. So, what exactly are they? Well, most of 'em work as strong boosts for you stats or skills, but 'stand alone' rubies do exist.

Some of them are super effective for everybody, some of them might work for a certain category of psis, some of them are totally useless and some of them can actually destroy your build. So, yeah, we have to be careful with these; they bite!

Rubies are stored in 3 grids. Unlike Talents, where it's quite easy to get what you want, as long as you have spend enough points for your level, you'll have to make your way through the grinds in order to get to a certain ruby. Sometimes, we'll beforced to take bad rubies or even blank spaces just for the sake of an ability we really desire. That being said, let's have a look at the first grid, dedicated to the Psychich Shock!

Isn't it beautiful? I can count at least 50 shades of purple! Going back to our topic...

• Mind Fire is a pure PvP ruby. After being applied, it increases the cooldwon of the next 3 abilities a player will use by 20 seconds.
  

• Insight reduces the cast time of Pyrolysis for 5 seconds after you have used Concentration. It is also supposed to reduce the cooldown of Astral Venom, but, for some reason, it won't work. That's a pity, it could have worked wonders for some 'Astral' builds.
  

• Sharp Incursion will stun your opponen for 2 seconds, after you have used Will Suppression on them.
  

• Master of Illusions will make your Twin share damage with you, but it also doubles the damage it'll recive itself. Killer in mass PvP, suicide in 1 vs 1 PvP
  

• Egoism increases the durability of your Astral Form and the healing done by your Mental Cleansing.
  

• Mental Crysis increases the damage done by your [img]http://en.allods.com/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=7497[/img]Erase Memory and Mental Explosion skills.
  

• Step Over Madness increases all your Astral damage.
  

• Tenacious Mind increases the damage of Choke.
  

• Rejection increases you armor.
  

• Unending Knowledge increases your Vigor stat and also guarantees Hypnosis won't be broken by any attacks until the traget's health drops under 90%.
  

• Aura of Astral Power is buff that boosts your damage by 15%. It would be really nice, but the downside is we can't use it at the same time with Seal of Health. If I had to choose, I'd always go for the later.
  

• Gravikinesis increases the range of Mental Pulse, as well as the duration of the control effect.
  

• Irrational Fear doubles the damage recived by your enemy for 15 seconds or until 10% of it's health was taken.
  

• Shattered Nerves stack on the enemy whenever you use Astral Venom. It stacks up to 5 times and each stack will boost the damage of your next Destabilization.
  

• Increases the range of Telekinetic Pull and also does damage to all the enemies.
  

• Shocking Strike increases the damage deal by Astral Venom.

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Next comes the Mental Link Ruby Grid. It looks like this:



Purple, green, red and yellow. Yep, this one is definetly hot n' cold. Now, for the rubies:

• Easy Reach decreases the mana cost of some of your abilities and also increases the range of Mental Link, Erase Memory, Will Supression, Mental Explosion and Telekinetic Pull. Great, especially in skirmishes.
  

• Pyromania increases damage of Pyrolysis by 21% at rank 3. A must have if you're using Pyro as your main damage dealing spell.
  

• Pyrophenia stacks up to 6 times whenever you use Pyrolysis. Every stack will reduce the cast time for the next Pyrolysis. This one works wonders with Temporal Acceleration and Insight.
  

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  Tricky Mind assures you all your control abilities will ignore the traget's Willpower, as long as you have estamblished Will Supression. However, your damage will be reduced by 30%. Keep in mind this is another make-it-or-break-it spell, so if you want to take it, you need to be sure you can reach all 3 rubies.
  

• Experiencend Manipulator decreasing cooldown of Telekinetic Pull and Mental Pulse by 30%. Obviously useful in PvP.
  

• Mental Fortress increasing Willpower by 12% and Stamina by 3%.
  

• Chronokinesis decreases cooldown of Temporal Acceleration by 45%. Super useful if you're a fan of that skill!
  

• Extrasensory Gift decreasing cast time of Mental Link by 50%.
  

• Cruel Master increasing duration of Mental Link control effects by 20% and increasing damage of Will Suppression by 20%. Honestly, I can't think of any scenarios in which this one isn't very useful. It's such a pity it's hard to reach, but I think it's worth it.
  

• Tranquillity decreasing cooldown of Concentration by 33%. Not particularly useful, but it's fine if you really feel you don't get enough Concentration.
  

• Master Augur increases Luck by 9. Again, a must have in any build, since there aren't many ways you can increase this stat.
  

• Lord of Fear increases damage done by Phantasma Killer by 10%/20%/30%.
  

• Triumph of Reason increases Fire and Physical damage by 21%. You'll mostly take this for Pyrolysis and Wall of Blades, since most other psionicist skills deal Astral damage.
  

• Anger Management increases damage dealt by Mental Explosion, Erase Memory, [u]Mental Pulse and Choke by 5%/10%.
  
  

• Superficial Trance restores all your mana in 5 seconds, with a 5 minute cooldown. I always take it on my PvE builds.
  
  

• Outsmarted will make Choke apply an Outsmarted effect which boosts the damage dealt by your next Astral Venom.
  

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Finally, the Shock grid looks like this:



I really don't know what kind of joke I can make this time. I promise I'll come up with something when the ruby presentation is over.

• Moral Trauma will apply an effect that deal damage every time you use Destabilization.
  
  

• Stinging Blades decreases cast time and mana cost of Wall of Blades by 30%.
  

• Solid Grasp decreaseas cooldown of Choke spell to 22 seconds and increasing Choke slowdown effect to 80%.
  

• Astral Curse applies an effect that will increase the damage of your next Astral attack every time you use Mental Pulse or Telekinetic Pull.
  

• Enthusiasm increases Brutality by 9.
  

• Exodus teleports you and your group in a safe zone. 10 seconds cast time and 10 minutes cooldown. Very useful in higher layers of the Astral or in Raids.
  

• Analyst increaseas Proficiency by 9.
  

• Mind Bender increases Vitality by 12 and Faith by 3%.
  

• Fighting Foresight decreases damage from critical strikes taken by us by 15%.
  

• Optimization makes all abilities used under Temporal Acceleration consume 50% less mana.
  
  

• Clarity of Thought increases critical stike chance of Wall of Blades, Astral Venom and Pyrolysis by 12%.
  

• Telephatic Gift restores 50% mana to a group member.
  

• Calculating Mind increases critical strike chance of Destabilization by 15%.
  

• Mental Reign increases damage dealt by Destabilization by 15%.
  
  

• Depression reduces the amount of healing an enemy will get by 50% for 17 seconds (rank 3).
  

• Finally, Time Loop is one of our main deffensive spells. It sends us 'back in time', meaning that it restores our health, position and helps us get rid of debuffs. However, be careful, as it's a two edged sword!

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Now, the moment that you were all waiting for:

We can say that "Mental Reign" and "Depression" have a rocky relationship!! HAHAHAHAhah ha..ha..

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STATS

I decided to leave this chapter at the very end of the guide, just before the builds. I have my reasons for that, the main one being that new players won't have to bother with them, as the equipament you'll get from quests is always the best. Starting from level 65, however, you'll have to craft your own glyphs in order to get certain secondary stats.

• Vigor is one of our 2 "primary" stats. In order to get it higher, you just need to upgrade youe equipament.
  

• Stamina is the second "primary" stat. It increases our health points.
  

• Proficiency Increases our damage done by % value. This stat can be boosted with glyphs. It's one of the most important.
  
  

• Vitality Increases our health by % value.
  

• Determination will increase your damage if you are getting damage yourself. We can make good use of this in PvP.
  
  

• Willpower may grant you immunity to control or slowing spells. Good for PvP, as all our defensive skills need to be activated manually.
  

• Brutality boosts our damage by lost percentage of our targets life points. Good for PvE.
  

• Bloodlust heals us for the % of the damage we deal. Good for PvE.
  

• Luck increases chance to deal critical hits.
  

• Faith increases our mana points.
  

My advice is to focus on Proficiency and Vitality, then balance Determination, Willpower, Brutality and Bloodlust depending whether you're more PvP-oriented or PvE-oriented.

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CONCLUSIONS



I really hoped everybody found this guide helpful: from veterans that are used to the psionicist, to veterans that have just created a psi reincarnation, to newcomers.
I, for one, know how hard it can be to master this class and I can say previuos PmB entries helped me a lot. That's why I decided to create this thread and try to give as much advice to anyone.

Good luck with the game and just remember to always have fun with it!

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