Mental Mirror

Mental Mirror

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Infobox data from game version 2.0.201.71

Mental Mirror

You reflect mental attacks back at your attackers.

When you suffer a mental attack while Mental Mirror is off cooldown, you gain (level based) mental armor (MA).
If the attack then fails to penerate your MA, it's reflected back at your attacker.
Cooldown: 50

Mental Mirror is a mental mutation that allows the player to reflect mental attacks back at their source.

This mutation grants the "Mental Mirror" ability, which is not activated but is rather a passive ability. If a creature makes a mental attack against a target with Mental Mirror, the target's effective MA against that attack is increased by a mutation level-based amount, allowing them to better resist its effects. The damage as well as effects will also be reflected back at the attacker if the attack fails to penetrate the target's MA. Successfully reflecting a damage instance of Sunder Mind will reflect that damage instance back at the attacker and will immediately end an ongoing psychic battle.

If Mental Mirror's effects are applied to an incoming attack, it will be placed on cooldown for 50 rounds. It will not apply its bonus MA or reflect attacks while on cooldown.

Things affected

The following mutations can be reflected by Mental Mirror:

• Confusion
• Sunder Mind
• Teleport Other
• All other types of mental damage, such as psionic weapons

Formulas

The following formula is used to determine MA bonus based on mutation level.

MA Bonus	3 + Level

Advancement Table

Mutation Level	MA Bonus
1	+4
2	+5
3	+6
4	+7
5	+8
6	+9
7	+10
8	+11
9	+12
10	+13

Mutation Level	MA Bonus
11	+14
12	+15
13	+16
14	+17
15	+18
16	+19
17	+20
18	+21
19	+22
20	+23

Mutation Level	MA Bonus
21	+24
22	+25
23	+26
24	+27
25	+28
26	+29
27	+30
28	+31
29	+32
30	+33

Ability Cooldown

Mental Mirror's cooldown (CD) in rounds depends on the user's willpower (WI) attribute:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	68	15	53	21	38	27	23
10	65	16	50	22	35	28	20
11	63	17	48	23	33	29	18
12	60	18	45	24	30	30	15
13	58	19	43	25	28	31	13
14	55	20	40	26	25	32	10

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Low cost at character creation
• Increases MA against mental attacks, potentially allowing one to resist their effects
• Reflects certain mental attacks if they fail to penetrate

Disadvantages

• Very few reflect-able attacks
• MA bonus scales slowly
• Only protects against one attack before being placed on cooldown

References

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.201.71.