Effect: Damage, Will Save
Action: Standard (active)
Range: Perception
Duration: Instant
Saving Throw: Will
Cost: 4 points per rank
You can strike any target you can accurately perceive with a blast of mental force. The target makes a Will saving throw against a DC of 15 + Mental Blast rank and suffers damage on a failed save. Mental blasts have no effect on inanimate objects or mindless creatures (those lacking one or more mental ability scores).
EXTRAS
• Mental Feedback (+1): Your Mental Blast only activates as a reaction whenever anyone makes hostile contact with your mind, which means using any mental sensory effect on you or any power with a mental descriptor that allows a Will saving throw. The attacker must make a Will save against the Mental Feedback damage.
FLAWS
• Mental Grapple Required (–1): You must first pin a target in a mental grapple in order to inflict your Mental Blast damage on him.
• Mental Weapon (–2): You can manifest a “weapon” of mental force. Striking with it requires a melee attack roll. The target makes a Will saving throw against
a damage bonus equal to your power rank. Like Mental Blast, a Mental Weapon has no effect on inanimate or mindless targets.