Mental attacks?

Which attacks are considered "mental"?
I'd like to know exactly what Mental Shield and the passive skill Wisdom protects against, since "silence" was replaced with "mental attacks" in the buff description in c4. I figure there's a reason for this...
I assume it still covers silence. Anything else?

root, sleep, silence, poison and necro debuffs

Poison? O_o
Then how come the passive skill, Health gives resistance to poison too?
And the buff Arcane Protection gives resistance to debuffs.

Does anyone agree with Spudnik? Disagree? Have educated guesses? Uneducated guesses? I could use it all.
Even *gasp* an official response. :eek:

I really dont think poison is included....
Mental sheild or whatever its called (that skill clerics get and maby other classes) covers root/sleep (says it when you put your mouse over buff) and "mental attacks"

I really dont know whats covered by that extra "mental attack" but it sure as hell aint poison... cause there is a "resist poison" buff for that

Anyone else know ? cause Ive been asking myself that for quite a while now

youre a buffer, you should know by now theres more than one buff for everything and sometimes they stack.


mental shield/aegis are two ALLPURPOSE buffs , whereas ResistPoison, resistParalysis etc are other buffs dedicated for single types of attacks.

metnal attacks are covered under the Wit Definitions (and some under the Con) and a couple under Men.

read them and youll see they are mental attacks.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's in the dark about this... but I do wish there were a few more who knew.

I'm having trouble believing that it also protects against all necro debuffs. Because then why am I gettin Arcane Protection, which protects against the same thing + cancel? Why not just make that one just for cancel, and just give me higher levels of Mental Shield?

I didn't read past your note about different buffs overlapping. I just have a hard time understanding that I, as an SE would get overlapping buffs. Prophet okay, because they are classified as the master buffer. But I'm a hybrid..

So, in your opinion, Mental Shield works like Magic Barrier, only it doesn't boost your m.def in your character status window? Kinda.

Protects against fear also. From what i noticed so far its primary root and sleep and secondary fear (and silence if it still is the same). Maybe it will protect against other stuff aswell, but with some kind of low rate.

youre a buffer, you should know by now theres more than one buff for everything and sometimes they stack.

Of course I know some buffs stack...
but explain to me how the hell is poison a mental attack? Cause logically it aint.

And call me dumb, but Ive only played buffers/helears... so how the heck am I supposed to know all the debuffs/attacks other classes do and what they are classified under? If someone would be nice enough to give me concrete examples other than sleep, root and fear?

its supposed to protect against Paralysis, gloom, weakness, shackle, and slow.

those are not the whole list either.