Anyone have some Telepathy Advice

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I don't know....something must have changed since open beta.

I am not controlling crows or able to get any type of consistent damage...sometimes I take down stuff quick and sometimes I'm in afight to the finish with a villain a level below me. Just seems like some numbers changed.

I'm only level 12 at this point...went telepathy with empathic healing, ego sprites, psy blast, ego blast and mind lock....this is a little different from my Open beta build as I had a summon....

I have not seen any Telepathy guides so any help would be appreciated.....

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just a little bump? this thread never stood a chance :(

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The only thing I can suggest is to make sure the class (henchmen, villain, etc) of your enemy isn't throwing you off. A villain two levels lower is harder than a henchmen your same level.

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The only thing I can suggest is to make sure the class (henchmen, villain, etc) of your enemy isn't throwing you off. A villain two levels lower is harder than a henchmen your same level.

yeah...I just need to plan my fights better.....I'm just very disappointed in the holds...definitely need to spec some stuff out and probably should have ranked up some other stuff as opposed to ego sprites....I'll keep tinkering....

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I found telepathy to be a little weak. Dont know what else to say.

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Is Ego one of your super stats? It determines the strength of your holds. Atleast it should.

Of course, Mind Lock is perhaps considered a debuff, in which case Presence is supposedly the stat that effects its strength/duration/whatever.

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Is Ego one of your super stats? It determines the strength of your holds. Atleast it should.

Of course, Mind Lock is perhaps considered a debuff, in which case Presence is supposedly the stat that effects its strength/duration/whatever.

yep...I've been building up ego and presence....something may have been tweeked from OB...I think I should have buffed up ego blast more...it seemed to be far stronger in OB....I just need to rank 3 my ego blast and see how much more it hits for...

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I found telepathy to be a little weak. Dont know what else to say.


Im going in a group of mobs 2 levels above, drop my ae, drop a ward, drop a heal, refresh my ae, get healed by my first ae, rince/repeat.

not difficult.

<also, im rolling on sentinel stance, so dps is low but both ae's manage to keep me up and take the villains down...

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Im going in a group of mobs 2 levels above, drop my ae, drop a ward, drop a heal, refresh my ae, get healed by my first ae, rince/repeat.

not difficult.

<also, im rolling on sentinel stance, so dps is low but both ae's manage to keep me up and take the villains down...

Interesting. I may try it again.

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What really takes mobs down for me and can burn villains with the first aoe, is ego-storm. IF you pair this with shadow form it pretty much melts villains before ego-storm ends.
Although you need lvl 14 for it, so 17 for shadow form, i'd pretty much recommend it since it's the bread and butter of PvE (and PvP)

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weak? err, ok, I've been mowing through foes like a scythe through wheat but if you say it is weak...

I'm using Psi Lash, Ego Blast, Ego Sprites, Blade Frenzy, Telekinetic Shield, and regen. With STR + INT and I'm not seeing any problems with taking down foes higher than me.

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jacked!

have they made is to TK knife attacks are ego based now instead of str? that just is silly

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so it's looking like a blend of telepathy and TK...ok...looks like I got a respec coming up....

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One bit of advice: skip Ego Sleep. Power is currently bugged. Claims to be a hold. It isn't. Breaks on damage, which makes it a Sleep. And with the amount of AoEs tossed around, that makes it pretty much garbage.

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Is Ego one of your super stats? It determines the strength of your holds. Atleast it should.

No, it shouldn't. Ego helps you resist intangible holds. Doesn't help yours.

If the stat doesn't say it it effects something and the power doesn't say it is impacted by some stat, the odds are on the stat having no impact on the power.

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weak? err, ok, I've been mowing through foes like a scythe through wheat but if you say it is weak...

I'm using Psi Lash, Ego Blast, Ego Sprites, Blade Frenzy, Telekinetic Shield, and regen. With STR + INT and I'm not seeing any problems with taking down foes higher than me.

I just gave telepathy a second chance. The key is the healing advantage on the ego sprites, my telepath is just unfair to the enemy now.

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I just gave telepathy a second chance. The key is the healing advantage on the ego sprites, my telepath is just unfair to the enemy now.

that and ego storm...oh and realizing that ego blast is a charge power my dps went exponentially up...lol...oh well....but ego storm is a crowd pleaser you can just melt +2 henchman with a full blast leaving the villain with half health....nothing like hitting level 14

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Ego storm is that strong? When I tested it on the targets in the power house it was doing like 15 dmg a tick.

Currently I've got:

Tele Builder
Tele Main Nuke
Ego Sprites
Emphatic Healing
Psionic Healing
Block
The damage resist aura from sorc that I can't remember the name of

Even if I'd gone shadow form that would only boost damage from the ego storm to like....30

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I'm currently going with this build, 26 atm and once I got Ego Blade Breach everything dies pretty quickly, maybe better to keep PFF on and switch shadow form with Ego Choke, it's not the most fun ability but its a guaranteed kill every time.

I couldn't see what was so great about Ego Storm either, but with the buff to turn it into an uncontrollable entity it should be more worthwhile.

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: Level 40 Champion

Superstats:
Level 5: Super Ego
Level 13: Super Endurance

Powers:
Level 1: Kinetic Dart -- Incisive Wit
Level 1: Ego Weaponry
Level 5: Ego Blade Frenzy -- Rank 2, Unnerving Rage
Level 5: Flight
Level 8: Personal Force Field -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 11: Force Shield -- Rank 2, Force Sheath
Level 14: Ego Surge -- Nimble Mind
Level 17: Shadow Form -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 20: Field Drones
Level 23: Ego Choke -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 26: Ego Blade Breach -- Rank 2, Domineering Will
Level 29: Ego Annihilation -- Rank 2, Mindful Inversion
Level 32: Field Surge -- Power Swell
Level 35: Ego Storm -- Malevolent Manifestation
Level 35: Teleport
Level 38: Rebirth

Talents:
Level 1: The Hero
Level 6: Agile
Level 9: Indomitable
Level 12: Tireless
Level 15: Energetic
Level 18: Shooter
Level 21: Impresario

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Ego stat is a big ? for me. I found a post official saying it isn't increasing the strenght of your holds, but he was like 95% sure :p

I have a mix of telepathy and sorcery, and I am still wondering what I am going to take with Presence : Ego or Int... Knowing, I am aiming for a support build at the end with Heals/Res/CC and some damage to solo of course ;)

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Telepathy started working for me when I figured out how Ego Sprites worked.

The DoT stacks, so you can spam it like crazy and see entire groups fall over. The key to this is to put points into "Slave Mentality" which after ten seconds (if the mob is still alive) starts healing you. Since the DoT and Healing stacks, when you get it up to about 10-15 stacks on the mob it is almost impossible for you to die unless you miss a block on a charged attack.

Pair this up with Ego Storm, which is one of the strongest channeled AEs I've yet seen. At the back end of this, you will be blocking a lot, so pick up a Block Passive or PFF.

Here is the build I'm using, some of this is for flavor, but most of it is practical.

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Telepathy Build: Level 40 Champion

Superstats:
Level 5: Super Constitution
Level 13: Super Endurance

Powers:
Level 1: Psi Lash -- Psychic Reverberations
Level 1: Ego Blast
Level 5: Ego Sprites -- Rank 2, Slave Mentality, Accelerated Metabolism
Level 5: Fire Flight -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 8: Telepathic Reverberation
Level 11: Summon Nightmare -- Rank 2, Night Terror
Level 14: Ego Storm -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 17: Mindful Reinforcement
Level 20: Telekinetic Shield -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 23: Shadow Form -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 26: Ego Choke -- Accelerated Metabolism, Garroting Grip
Level 29: Mini Mines -- Rank 2, Wall Of Fire
Level 32: Orbital Cannon -- Rank 2, Anvil of Dawn
Level 35: Field Drones
Level 35: Teleport
Level 38: Psionic Healing

Talents:
Level 1: Abyssal
Level 6: Boundless Reserves
Level 9: Acrobat
Level 12: Accurate
Level 15: Enduring
Level 18: Energetic
Level 21: Agile

I go Con/End for practical reasons, they allow you to really shine in the set. I pick up Dex as the third one so that the occasional crit happens. You can just as easily go Presence for buffs and pet health, or Recovery to increase your Endurance regen.

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anyone know if the heal from ego sprites goes up when you increase the rank of the ability?

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I went against my better judgement from playing around in OB and went Telepathy because I've always liked CC in concept.

I found the class to be very difficult in early levels. Seems like I felt constantly gimped as compared to my darkness build I had in OB. So much so that I had to take the AE ranged from darkness (and added knockback to it) to just be able to survive.

That was earlier levels. I'm now level 26. While I find that playing a Telepathy sorta... relies on (benefits from) planned attacks, I've also found that once you have your planning all set you can demolish lots of foes. Ego sprites rock. I also spam the nightmare pets... If you have time to get them up, you can pull out one pair of pets per mob you're fighting, and with the lovely pet AI in this game they will all gang up on one enemy at a time. I basically hang back, throw up nightmares left and right (when I need to) then follow up with ego sprite stacks, then usually block and heal myself.

I find the build a bit more difficult to use when you're jumped by 5 mobs out of the blue (as with nemesis minions). Makes it difficult to bust out with pets, etc. Not that it's not doable, I just find it more of a challenge because many of the Telepathy builds rely on casting 2-4 spells in succession for synergy.

BTW, I really find the CC for Telepathy lacking. The first attack we get (does nice damage, can't remember the name but it's the one you start with) already gives a hold... as do the pets... as does Psychic Vortex (upgraded)... So to invest in a hold (at least for PvE) means you're sitting on an ability that is useless because the mobs always have hold immunity up. Confuse is ok though I suppose.

I'm taking this toon to 40, then will be trying a new toon with a bit more... fast action (as was the case imo with a darkness build). Oh, keep in mind, my build only has the Telepathy side ... er the one without the blades. I prefer to go ranged... maybe that's part of my problem with this build :D Though Shadow Embrace(from darkness) definitely helped make up for what I found lacking with the damage output for Telepathy build....

/shrug Just my thoughts. Your mileage may vary.

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anyone know if the heal from ego sprites goes up when you increase the rank of the ability?
The heal does scale, but I think it actually scales based upon the damage. So I would recommend keeping focus on your Super Stats.

When I first got it, it was healing about 10-11 and at level 19 it is healing 19-20.

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well technically raising the rank would make the damage higher, mine also heals for 20ish at lvl 19. The heal apparently does not scale with presence, as I've chosen that for a superstat so mine should be substantially higher than yours.

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I found telepathy to be a little weak. Dont know what else to say.

Why? I found it got some of the best powers, and also, some great combos with other frameworks!

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I play with Telepathy aswell but I have a quick question. I incorporated Darkness into my build and it works out really nice but since my focus is on Ego and Presence for super stats I wasn't sure if I want to buy Shadow Form. I know it helps out with my damage but it scales on Endurance and Constituion which I have little of. I am not having any problems at the moment and been pretty much soloing quite well. Knowing that i'll probably get my stats up with Avatar training (atleast my thinking) then it is worth it getting Shadow Form correct?

Only gripes right now is I had to get Ego Sleep and Mind Lock. I mean they work decent for henchman and villains as I see a result but it would be cool if it worked on master and super villains a bit better. Although those guys are usualy the ones I take out last then Mind Lock doesn't really do much as they need to aggro on something else.

1st timer to this particular mmo type but I am enjoying Telepathy, although its probably bad for pvp. But anyway Shadow Form is definately worth it even if you have lower End/Conc at the moment yes?

Thanks

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I got ego storm and my opinion on this build totally changed..wow...oh and finding out that ego blast could charge and how ego sprites work...lol...I do not like mind lock....I thought it was like the controller power confuse from COH but it kinda doesn't work that way and doesn't last very long.

I am now trying to decide if I should go with mindful reinforcement or psionic healing