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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7731096" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>They started working on psionics almost two years ago. They wouldn't have done that if they knew they weren't going to release it until 2019, there's no way they'd have people spend 3 years playtesting something for no reason. Notice how they never did a revamp of the very early Eberron UA-- its because they realized they weren't going to release any of that stuff in the next two years, so there was no reason to work on it.</p><p></p><p>They're working on the Mystic now, because they have a planned release of planar material in Autumn 2018 and they need it ready by then. If their intention wasn't to release it until 2019, they would have put it on hold to really delve into the stuff that will be appearing in that Autumn book.</p><p></p><p>Also... let's not forget that we the general public are not really here for the game mechanic testing-- that's what they have the alpha testers for. We're here mainly to give our opinions on what <em>feels</em> right about the stuff they make. So they could very well have their Mystic, Artificer, and Ranger re-workings already out in the alpha testing wild, and once they get their formats in a better place they'll then give it to us for our opinions on which disciplines and talents feel good and which don't in probably February or March. Which gives them plenty of time to take our responses and do some small tweaks or remove ones that don't get high marks.</p><p></p><p>Don't forget... the subclass UAs we received during the playtests heading into Xanathar's had very little that was changed when the book was released. Maybe a tweak here and there. But for the most part, the subclass UAs were in their final forms when we got them and we just told them "I like that one, don't like that one" and they then used that to decide which ones to include. But the work to already get them to those places had already been done prior to their release as UAs. Thus I think the Mystic is in the same place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7731096, member: 7006"] They started working on psionics almost two years ago. They wouldn't have done that if they knew they weren't going to release it until 2019, there's no way they'd have people spend 3 years playtesting something for no reason. Notice how they never did a revamp of the very early Eberron UA-- its because they realized they weren't going to release any of that stuff in the next two years, so there was no reason to work on it. They're working on the Mystic now, because they have a planned release of planar material in Autumn 2018 and they need it ready by then. If their intention wasn't to release it until 2019, they would have put it on hold to really delve into the stuff that will be appearing in that Autumn book. Also... let's not forget that we the general public are not really here for the game mechanic testing-- that's what they have the alpha testers for. We're here mainly to give our opinions on what [I]feels[/I] right about the stuff they make. So they could very well have their Mystic, Artificer, and Ranger re-workings already out in the alpha testing wild, and once they get their formats in a better place they'll then give it to us for our opinions on which disciplines and talents feel good and which don't in probably February or March. Which gives them plenty of time to take our responses and do some small tweaks or remove ones that don't get high marks. Don't forget... the subclass UAs we received during the playtests heading into Xanathar's had very little that was changed when the book was released. Maybe a tweak here and there. But for the most part, the subclass UAs were in their final forms when we got them and we just told them "I like that one, don't like that one" and they then used that to decide which ones to include. But the work to already get them to those places had already been done prior to their release as UAs. Thus I think the Mystic is in the same place. [/QUOTE]
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