Psylocke Hybrid Build dps psylocke pve
Guide by johnny1691 Last update at Sep 22nd 2014, 22:58

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Psionic Maelstrom 1
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This is my general build for Psylocke.

I hope that it will help folks figure her out, since there are many people who don't know how to play her. She is one of the most complicated hybrid characters in my hero list (Aside from Rogue).

KEY

CHR= Crit. hit rating

CDR= Crit. Damage Rating

BSR= Brut. Strike Rating

BDR= Brut. Damage Rating

DPS= Damage per second

DoTs= Damage over Time



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1: Build

The first major idea behind this build is that, its purpose is to maximize the up-time of Psi-Strike.
Psi-Strike’s damage increases with each successive hit, so doing everything in your power to keep it going adds to her overall single target dps.
Her Psi regenerates whenever you or your DoTs hit an enemy – this includes when you are spending psi. This means refreshing your DoTs or using your Signature immediately before holding on Psi-Strike is a must.

(Skill tree with gear)



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Skills Used

A. Kirisute Gomen – MAX

I use this instead of a basic. It does solid damage at 10-15k per hit. It also gets an increase of 50% on damage for 6s when you use a stealth power. This is awesome, for those of you wanting to be the stealthy ninja Psylocke is.




B. Deadly Assassin – MAX

This is one of the three passives. It cranks her dodge, giving you more survivability. It provides +Crit and +Crit Damage and since you will be consistently using her melee powers in combination with her mental powers her defense rating is usually active/increased.




C. Ethereal Butterflies – MAX

Her signature power. The mental damage does 8-12k per butterfly and releases 25 butterflies, giving a nice 250k damage output spike.
Note: Hitting with this power will force you out of stealth




D. Shadow step – 1 Point

This is her CC break. It also counts as a stealth power. If need be, use this and Kirisute Gomen.

Only one point is needed here.

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E. Falling Lotus Strike – MAX

One of her DoTs and despite being a ‘sword’ power, it has a decent area of effect. This skill does physical damage and physical DoT damage.



F. Tsunami Slash – 1 Point

An area power that stuns, but more importantly it qualifies as a Psionic Construct and will benefit from Telekinetic Prowess (applying a DoT to all enemies damaged). One of the drawbacks to this power is that it costs two bars of her Psi Energy. Typically this will be only used clearing trash enemies but may be useful to keep the DoT up on a boss you can’t get near (e.g. if you’re healing).



G. Telekinetic Prowess – MAX

Another passive. This is one of her DoTs for her Psionic Construct powers. This includes Psi Strike and Tsunami Slash. It increases Psionic Energy generation effects by 40% and gives a melee damage buff when you’re using Psi Strike.



H. Psionic Vortex – 1 Point

This skill gathers the enemies in an area and applies vulnerability. You usually lead with this skill against mobs, and then apply any and all DoTs to that group.



I: Psionic Resilience – MAX

Her third and final passive. It has a high defense and dodge rating, and gives the Constitution buff to you and your party.



J. Psionic Assault – MAX

The first DoT you get. It causes slow and weaken, and when maxed it has a high duration for 7.9s. Definitely worth layering in to your damage rotation.



K. Psi-Strike – MAX

This is her boss and elite killer (even though it’s not directly labeled so) and is the bread and butter of her single target damage rotation. As the tool tip says, the skill does 40% more damage per consecutive hit. This means each following hit does more damage with the final hit being the most damaging one. It’s obvious then that hitting more times in a row means doing more damage. (More below.)




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2: Playstyle"

Trash/Elites

1. Open with Psionic Vortex, pulling the mobs together.
2. Drop Psionic Assault into the mass
3. Use Tsunami Strike to apply the Telekinetic Prowess DoT
4. Jump into the mass of enemies with Falling Lotus Strike, applying the third DoT
5. Cut down stragglers with PsiStrike or Kirisute Gomen
*Layer in the Signature whenever you feel like here*

Boss

1. Drop Psionic Assault
2. Jump in with Falling Lotus Strike
3. Release the butterflies with your Signature if it’s available
4. Hold down PsiStrike until your psi is totally exhausted
5. Reapply DoTs and use Kirisute Gomen until your Psi Energy is refilled
6. Repeat
7. (NOTE: When you use your Ultimate power, your Psi Energy is never depleted, so constantly hit with Psi-Strike when your Ultimate is going off. With your DoTs going it usually stays at Max)


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3: Gear

Artifacts

NOTE: I have “Blessing of Hela (BoH), you can switch to fit what you like.

1: “Ziggurat of Kargul (ZoK)”.

I plan on replacing this with a nice “Gem of Kursed (GoK)”.



2: "Advanced Metasensory Array"

In the process of looking for a better one, but as of now I just use it for the Base damage, and the attack speed, also you can't pass up the +1 to all powers.



3: "Kung Fu Training Sequence"

I actually replaced this with a low roll of (HoD) "Hand of Doom".
But it was good for the health, dodge, and melee attributes. Since she is semi squishy.



4: "Advanced Wicked Wand of Watoomb"

I like this for the invulnerable chance and the damage on mental damage, because all her powers deal mental damage, except the few physical attacks you use. (This I plan on switching with the "Zola box" ...maybe.)




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Medallion"

In her medallion slot, I use a Cosmic "The Hood Medallion". It has great physical and Mental damage, +2 to all powers. It helps out her hybrid powers really well.

If you want to use something different, go ahead.




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Relic"

I have the Lemuria Relics on her. Which if you don't know what they do they grant health when you hit an enemy and give you health. It's only a small percentage of health but it helps with her squishyness.




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Uru

For her Uru I use "Storm Giant Magi". It has a chance to increase her size and gain +4 to all powers for 10s. It does +600 damage rating on mental attacks, +40 spirit, and +4.0% power duration. Which is great for her, especially with all her DoTs up and charging her Psi Energy.

(Maybe you can change it to something that fits your liking)




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Legendary"

I chose the Gungnir, which was suggusted by "arkaide". It helps with constantly criting a majority of the time.

(again you can choose something that best suits you)




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Cosmic Ring"

I'm on the hunt for something better than what I have, but as of right now, this seems to be the best option for her.




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Unique Gear"

Note: you can replace any of these with higher rolls or something better.

Slot 1- Soulsword, someone in social/raid, chat had told me that this was her "Best in Slot 1(BiS)", but I personally don't think so, unless I have a bad roll which is very likely. So far it only does a second or so better for her time to kill. (I know I don't have it enchanted in the picture but I did just find it recently.)



Slot 2 - Betsy's X-Force Gear. If rolled right, it gives +2 to all powers. This unique gives dodge, health, a bunch of defense, + 1 durability, and +58 spirit, and another increase to power duration. It does a major increase to damage rating to targets that aren't attacking you, which is really helpful if your stealthed and/or have your psionic construct "Copy" out who is getting attacked.



Slot 3- Australian Outback Cloak- Another one for a bunch of health and defense, it has a percentage of projectile deflection which is great. It adds ranks to her Telekinetic Prowess(her passive) and ranks into her Telepathy tree.



Slot 4-Lady Mandarin's Suneate- This ones kind of important, do to its Percentage in base damage vs bosses, +1 in fighting, health and defense, also it does a gain of damage rating vs bleed targets which is great considering you will almost always have bleed on the targets.



Slot 5 - Death's Guise- it has a CHR and BSR on it, so far I found one that does +6 to her psionic constructs maybe this goes higher, so far this is the highest I've rolled, but it adds a ton of extra additional damage to psi-strike and tsunami slash which is what we want.




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Costume

If you have any X-Cores that are better than what I have, be sure to use it or switch. (Currently switching from CHR to CDR) Since she already has a high CHR, for me shes in diminishing returns for all her crit stats.




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Insignia

(looking for a better Insignia, but no luck)



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Synergies



This is just what I use, I know a lot of people already have a ton of characters. So just make sure you balance between Mental and physical(Melee Included) damage, also DoT and If any crit... either works.


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Omega points

So far this is what I have on her. If you know something better, disregard this or comment and make a few suggestions.





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Stats

CHR= Crit. hit rating

CDR= Crit. Damage Rating

BSR= Brut. Strike Rating

BDR= Brut. Damage Rating

(Her stats before omega points)

Mental-CHR



Physical-CHR



CDR



BSR



BDR




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This ends my build for Psylocke. If anyone has any other ideas to better my build, questions, comments, pointers. Feel free to leave a comment below.

(Updated pictures are also on the way)

-Special thanks to Arkaide for helping me out with this and doing a lot of the calculations for me. She was a great present from you!-