Anybody know the mechanics of Blade Shield?

[Occhidiangela]

Neither Psychic Hammer nor Mind Blast were Blade Shield...

Where exactly in my post did I say mind Blast = Blade Shield ??  Unless you somehow forgot a word in your sentence, it makes no sense.

Yep, I screwed up the edit, I had meant to say that neither PH nor MB were interrupted by Blade Shield . . . sloppy me!

The ubercheese is gone, the "one hit kill after wearing off conversion,"

Again, where did I refer to that bug??  I said Mindblast is the ultimate crowd control skill for an assy. Not the ultimate crowd slaughter skill.

Right. That is exactly what it is. A crowd control skill. The original antipathy for Mind Blast by a great many folks was tied to the 'feature' however, to describe a skill as "cookie cutter" implies a certain sneer. I find that approach to be as myopic as the reliance on cookie cutters by much of the bnet population. Mind Blast was a skill designed for a particular reason, crowd control for the Assassin. Each char has a crowd control skill, or a few crowd control skills I suppose, depending on the class.

  so why not take your cookie cutter remark elsewhere?

And how about you stay civil ?  That remark was totally unwarranted for.  I said that in my book, Mindblast is part of the cookie-cutter assy arsenal.  You may differ.  No need to do so in an offensive manner.

Three points:

"Uncalled for" or "unwarranted" are what you are looking for. I get your drift, though.
"Assy?" Nice bnet speak. :P
"No need to do so in an offensive manner." Now that I look at it with fresh eyes, you are correct, I was being snippy -- or even assy -- for no good reason. Apologies are in order. Mi dispiace Arutha. :o