Gesture of Pain vs Psi Blades

[gtgiygus]

Is one "stronger" then the other? Saving some points by just leveling Psi Blades, but wondering if I should have went with Pain instead.

[Thundercracker]

you do know you can use both at the same time?

[NeedlesToSay]

While having Psiblades active will not increase Gesture of Pain's damage (outside of the slight mindpower boost), Gesture of Guarding does use the increased damage of Psiblades to amazing effect - 5/5 in both Guarding and Psiblades can allow you to completely negate 300 damage from 2-3 melee attacks every round. I'd definitely recommend getting both if you have the generic points to spare.

If you can only go for Psiblades or Pain, though, I'd go for pain, since the chance to stun on every melee attack is, in my opinion, far better than increased damage.

[Samseng Yik]

I only "melee" when most of my skills in CD or if the enemies are critter.

So I prefer to save the generic points for "Tinker" if you bought the expansion.

[Harr]

Psiblades do way inferior damage. If you have a choice then switch away from psiblades. Damage will atleast double in the endgame. Only advantage is that psiblade (mind) damage type resistance is very rare (if any)..

[gtgiygus]

Originally posted by Harr:

Psiblades do way inferior damage. If you have a choice then switch away from psiblades. Damage will atleast double in the endgame. Only advantage is that psiblade (mind) damage type resistance is very rare (if any)..

That's what it seemed like to me. Trying to do a Doomed character, but I have never been very good at this game. The last guy I got to like level 25 I was leveling both Blades and Pain, and he was hitting like a truck in melee. The current one I am only leveling Blades to save on points, and he hits seem so much weaker. Oh well, after this one dies, ill try again.

[Samseng Yik]

It is really weird that your DOOMED prefer to get up close and personal.
I am playing range nuke with lots of mind debuff to enemy.

[gtgiygus]

Originally posted by Samseng Yik:

It is really weird that your DOOMED prefer to get up close and personal.
I am playing range nuke with lots of mind debuff to enemy.

Originally posted by gtgiygus:

...but I have never been very good at this game... ...Oh well, after this one dies, ill try again.

But yeah, I try to use Agony and Whisper and such from a distance, and the knockbacks to keep things away if they get close. But being able to slice them up after dropping the darkness cloud on them can be very satisfying.