I wonder how far they will nerf telepaths now? Im sure it will be another useless skillset, If anything there is nothing wrong with telepathy, I always thought mages should be doing this kind of thing, Im thinking druids need a little boost thats all.


leave telepathy alone!

I think a nerf in telepathy which is obviosly going to happen is the wrong way to go.
When it comes
Ill switch to telekenisis for barrier

We could use a bit of a boost I guess, were pretty useless without our cudgel Ive noticed (Not that my usual spar partner was around when I got cudgel for a bit). Still the best I guess with three trans.

I'd like to add that this thread inspired me to make my current signature. This is all.

Dude... show your sig to warriors

I am a warrior. Well, used to be. Character exists no longer.

Mindblast does more than 1100 damage across all three stats. It does 1100 alone to health PLUS damage to mana and ego. Doh.

Besides, you're ignoring the fact that health, sparkleberry, and scroll balances are not instantaneous. You can't heal with all of them every time someone mindblasts you. My scroll balance is just about 10 seconds, which is 4 seconds more than Narsrim's mindblast. My ego will quickly fall down to the point where a mindburst just kills me outright, especially being a warrior race with lower charisma than constitution.

And, performance? I'm a warrior without any care for Dramatics, so that's not a good argument. Why would I keep my performance going during a damage fight? It's a mana draining defense, and I would rather keep my mana.

I thought that this was more of a buff to the USELESS healing scrolls rather than a nerf to Healing Scrolls

and seriously, be a f***ing warrior and then you can come here crying

They really do suck for hunting.

Warriors or healing scrolls?

Warriors. Arent too great without good weapons or good armour and lotsa skill. Missing doesnt help.

You just need fast weapons and a fullplate (not even a helm) and all your hunting problems are solved. Unless you're a furrikin or something like that - but I easily hunted Shallach ur'dead as a faeling.

One of the reasons I left Warriors. You can't hunt for s***.

Also some of the Serenguard. Yay for silly me that thought the possibility on the Serenguard to become more Warrior-like.

One word: surge.

Cuber, youre really just repeating what I said. Good weapons, good armour, lotsa skill.

Good? I may operate on different brainwaves, and tiredness adds up to it too. But for me, good weapons are for example 200+ precision hammers.

Any fieldplate (I meant that, not fullplate. Honest mistake) and 220+ speed weapons make you enough of a hunter to stand up a comparison to others. Adding up Surge makes you THE hunter.

Surge helps a lot, but if you know what you are doing, you shouldn't pass the 25% vitality barrier. Which, strangely, I tended to do as a warrior on some mobs and now don't as a Moondancer

Also, I think I was more tanky as a telekinetic Imperial Merian with staff at level 55 than I was as a warrior at level 66

How about you be a telepath and I'll be a warrior? Fair trade? You'll be crying for your swords back. Anyway, why have performance up? because.... you want your ego to regenerate... we don't have any half-mana kills... I dunno man... keeping your ego up against a telepath seems pretty stupid. You should totally focus on mana... after all, it's of the most danger to you! Secondly, I'm aware that there are different timers on sip, munch and read. The fact remains that you can pretty much negate 80-90% of the damage I give you very very effectively. The fact that you cannot heal against Narsrim means that you suck at healing well... not that Narsrim can damage you. I can tank for a goodly amount of time against IXION for christ sakes, and I'm a mugwump! (note: pre-seren Ixion, which was still insane). Spare me the semantics, I know what I'm talking about.

I've been a telepath, and I loved it. I really don't think it is as bad as some make out. I don't know if some people realize that the majority of masked afflictions require power, and cannot be delivered simultaneously.

I'd also like to reiterate that it is in comparison to other equivalent skills where mindblast becomes far and away superior. If you wish to argue that mindblast alone can be easily handled, fine... but realize that the same argument is even more true for every other non-warrior damage skill.

Do I think mindblast is in need of major nerfage and immediate revision? No, I don't. It's more manageable now than it used to be, however I think it is rather silly to dispute that it remains an amazingly powerful skill, as my previous tests show. With further hindering for psionics generally, and perhaps a slight change to mindblast's overall damage output, I think it will be fine. Personally, I'd like it to be completely detached from your maximum ego value as I believe this is an extremely aberrant policy in tying offensive might to level, allowing ridiculous possibilities.

Ecology still desperately needs something to make it equally useful, but that is a separate issue.

Ecology decimates groups, where as Telekinetics/Telepaths are largely single-target ponies. They both grant bashing utility.

I'd call that making them balanced yet different.

eh... decimates groups? How? Smudges? You can just climb up, go to an adjacent location, or shield up before it strikes. It gives you warning messages so its manageable. Plus the fact that if you smudge in group fights, they will most likely to target you first. Poor druids. I'd rather bellow whore in group fights to give my allies an advantage