Mental Blast 03/08/2011 03:09 PM CST
>>Some big barbs can be MBed if your WvW stats are good enough, and some can't.

I wish I could survive Moon Mage Mental Blasts. Asrion and Nilassa scramble my brains every time and I'm losing places to point stat points into :(

Intelligence: 83
Discipline: 99
Charisma: 99

Is there some WvW aspect I'm not considering? Just having a tough time figuring out how to not get owned by Mental Blast :P

Or, maybe they just have 99 in all three stats.

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Re: Mental Blast 03/08/2011 03:25 PM CST
>Is there some WvW aspect I'm not considering?

MB seems to have skewed contests.

It can pierce both BMR, and beat people that other WvW spells fail on.



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Re: Mental Blast 03/08/2011 05:18 PM CST
>I wish I could survive Moon Mage Mental Blasts. Asrion and Nilassa scramble my brains every time and I'm losing places to point stat points into

Int would have been a better choice for WvW defense.

Having said that, given equal WvW scores defender is always at a disadvantage anyway, because you can't put more mana into resisting the spell (without a barrier). Keep in mind this same fact works to your great advantage with enchantes, and two people with capped stats should always be able to affect each other. The alternative would be to require a capped spell to affect someone "at level" and this would make WvW nearly worthless.

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Re: Mental Blast 03/08/2011 07:53 PM CST
Intelligence, I will get on that. Thank you Kougen!

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Re: Mental Blast 03/08/2011 09:01 PM CST
>>Leilond

Even with 99 int you're probably not going to be winning the MB contest against a MM roughly your size.

Perhaps ironically, the key to you beating MB is the same ability that MMs use to become immune to most of your Bard stuff.
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Re: Mental Blast 03/08/2011 09:12 PM CST
>>Perhaps ironically, the key to you beating MB is the same ability that MMs use to become immune to most of your Bard stuff.

I invested in some of those a couple weekends back. I tested and the moment I perform an enchante with Psychic Shield up, the shield dissipates. So, yea I could use it to become immune to the Moon Mage's Mental Blasts and Hypnotize's but then I wouldn't be able to use any of my abilities. Well, save for screams :P

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Re: Mental Blast 03/08/2011 10:37 PM CST
Actually, you've given me an idea Latathi. Thank you :)

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