I can't agree more.
I have been Psi for 4 years, and even now that I'm pally, I can say that I had more fun with my psio. But day after day, it was just less and less unique, less fun.
In PvE it's boring, you do a lot of CC but nobody cares anymore (before, it was very useful) you have double mezz but Mage do it better than you, you have aoe DPS but Mage do it better than you, you can single target but Mage do it better than you, you can seal and TP party but guess what ? Mage do it better than you ! (ok, they do it the same but I wanted to stay consistent :p)
You will never see a world message "need psio for this or that". But that's ok ok, we can still manage.
I'm not saying we are not useful, but we don't have something that makes us better than other (in PVE). So we are the good guys, we can be useful sometimes, but not a game changer. (I'm not talking about individual cases, but in general. Don't tell me the best psio is better than an random mage, ofc he is.)
There comes the PvP. Damn I loved my psio in PvP, I adored him even! Honestly no class will provide me what psi provided me, but this time is gone... Psio is still fun tho, but it's just annoying. We are this dude in your way, that make you rage, but not a real threat. You can be the best psio in the game, when people see your name while entering a BG or a Dominion or whatever, nobody will fear you.
It's true that we are really hard to kill (damn I still say we, old habit) but look at all the things that nerf us with time...
- First CD that immune players to Tkpull for 20sec, so you don't pull everybody. I never understood why this was not for everything and just psis.
- Then the bard arrived, so even if nobody is immune yet to tk pull, you cant pull everybody.
- Wait, there is the reborn tk pull too, more chance for you not to be able to pull and what made you unique...well everybody can get it.
- But just in case you didn't have enough, if there would still be ONE GUY standing there, that you could pull...now there is the CC immune, just in case
So yeah, I used to love psio to beats, full Def and full conviction, but even conviction doesn't exist anymore, you can't improve your CC, which was supposed to be your thing...great. So now you can DPS, but that's the things, I don't think somebody choose psio if he wants to DPS.
Anyway, here I am, a pally, I can tank, and still DPS better than Psi... I'm usefully everywhere, I can make a difference. And yet I'm not following the wind, I have been hoping for the psi to get to what he used to be, to follow his purpose, but it did not happen
. Maybe it will someday !
(Damn, that was not really the topic was it?
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