Wrong. You get 9 special points that you use. You can activate all powers with these 9 points at once. There's no limit on how you use the powers, just you can't use your normal psi points. Any powers that you had activated via your normal points are immediately cancelled, and if you start using your normal points, then your psychic mastery is cancelled.You can activate a single concentration power in one round and then a second the round after.
Actually, rereading it, I've finally found out where the rest of the mystic's psi points are, they're tied up in multiple uses of this power. I always thought the progression in the chart looked odd at higher levels.
Wrong. You get 9 special points that you use. You can activate all powers with these 9 points at once. There's no limit on how you use the powers, just you can't use your normal psi points. Any powers that you had activated via your normal points are immediately cancelled, and if you start using your normal points, then your psychic mastery is cancelled.
That being said, while I do with the idea of having more powerful abilities, I think the Mystic is about versatility thst spell casters don't get. Since the restriction of magic is 6th+ level spell slots can't be recovered without a long rest, they should give each discipline a capstone ability that can only be used with the psychic mastery ability. That way they can keep the theme that no matter which order you are, you can use any discipline.
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Basically, depending on which powers you use, and which disciplines you have, you may not be able to use them all. But you can spend them all at once or in other rounds, the power last as long as you're using the special points and not your regular points.If I'm wrong, no worries but then I think that the power needs some serious rewording because it is incredibly unclear. Maybe it's been clarified on twitter, but the way I read it is that you use your action to generate the points and then can spend those points in subsequent rounds (or the same round using a bonus action). Since you can lose unspent points when you complete a long rest it looks like you don't have to spend them all at once.
Basically, depending on which powers you use, and which disciplines you have, you may not be able to use them all. But you can spend them all at once or in other rounds, the power last as long as you're using the special points and not your regular points.
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Allowing a mystic to, instead of having higher level "spells", being able to maintain more than one concentration at once, is pretty potent no?
I looked for Crawford's clatification, but the only reference to Psionic Mastery I could find is that it costs an action to activate these special points. Is there another out there that I've missed?
If it wasn't meant to allow you to activate two powers at once, why would there even be a discussion about mutiple concentrations in the ability itself? I mean, I can see how that would be if you looked at it one way, but I'm interpreting it differently, You're still limited to 7 psi per power, you're just adding a little flavor from another power.
Otherwise, what's the point about activating at all? Just activate them after a long rest and tool around with them all day. How are they even bonus points at all? Just raise the psi points.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/843204145767100416
As was mentioned, you would activate additional powers with additional actions while previous ones were ongoing, and you could add them to your concentration.
Yes! This is one of the problems. Even worse, you eventually get 3 uses of this ability that does nothing but give you special points that last all day. There is nothing preventing you from just spending your first few minutes in the morning using that power 3 times to get all your points ready for the day. There is literally no reason I can think of not to do that.
However, there is a reason they didn't just grant you more points. They want you to have a limited ability to break the concentration rules, so you only get a certain fraction of your points that are able to be used for it.