Psychic Distraction Anyone?

I might not be an avid Mesmer; however, is it me or is Psychic Distraction a pretty awesome elite. I'm surprised no one has made a build for such a skill. Its spammable, interrupts and disables skills and not just spells, and the only draw back is causing other skills to be temporarily useless for 8 secs. So can anyone tell me why a Mesmer wouldn't use this skill.

Quote: Originally Posted by Chamber Asgardian

This skill bypasses anti interruption skills such as mantra of resolve due to its shutdown feature. So it's an unpreventable interrupt.

And I know this because I had this tested :P

Eh runned this skill many times in HA builds.

Same... in HA it's just a wonderfull skill.

Ritual Lords will hate you for bringing this skill. Believe me...

If you have a good connection and good reflexes, it's a great skill. Just use it sparingly (as if it gave exhaustion), because of the self-blackout...

Quote: Originally Posted by Avarre

It's 10 energy. You need a blood rit and still not be able to use it as often as you might need.

And that is why it is often combined with things that feed you nrg while you are blacked-out. *hint* (No, I don't mean BiP and BR) And yes, the best way to use the skill is "pulsing" chaining 3-4 of those so that the black-out effect stacks and is therefore less of a concern, and then pausing for awhile to recover nrg and reapply the stuff that is going to feed you nrg while in the dark.

The real effective way to make a PD build is to have your build focused on PD entirely. When that blackout takes effect on yourself, you need to have had the skills that work upon a long duration - stances and enchantments will play a role in this matter.

E/Me's can use it to some extent ( sp? )

long term hexes provide a secure feed into killing your target as well^^

Quote: Originally Posted by Raging Pacifist

Personally I love this skill. You have to use a very long chain of interupts to run out of energy with it. Plus people seem to forget that after interupting with it the interupted skill is disabled for an additional ammount of time (12secs at 16 dom, I think.). It's a fun skill, people tend to swear at you when you use it though...

Yea, I often get main chat bs running PD. It's like: !$!$ %#@^%@$%@ !$!$$!$!$!$!$!$$^@$%$^$^@!&%#@ !!! No, seriously.

Quote: Originally Posted by Evilsod

It's the funniest skill to run in RA, ever.

Quote: Originally Posted by Avarre

My buddy calls using this skill "entering a$$hole mode"