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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hardhead" data-source="post: 1413729" data-attributes="member: 2844">I think in a lot of ways, it's a give-and-take between players and DMs.  For instance, my current psion has had two powers toned down.  One was Mindwipe, which is basically a fourth level power that bestowed one negative for every two manifester levels I had (fort negates).  Upon getting it, it hits for 4 levels.My opinion was that it was good, but not broken.  My DM felt it was *too* good.  We talked about it, and finally settled on reducing it by one (one negative level for every two manifestor levels, minus one), so Mindwipe only deals 3 negative levels at my current level.  This brings it's combat use down a good bit, though.  Enervation requires a touch attack instead of a save (generally much easier), and hits for an average of 2.5.  And it's a level lower.In exchange, though, he let's me erase short memories with it, so I can make someone forget what I just said or that he just caught the party rogue stealing form him, or whatever.  In the end, we both got what we want.  I don't masacre casters with it anymore (what he wanted), and I got a new nifty trick.On the other hand, we both agreed that the Ego Whip power (the modified one from Mindscapes, which is a first level power that dazes the target for 1d2 rounds) was *way* too powerful as a touch attack with no save.  So now it doesn't have a touch attack, but the target gets a save.  I had no problem with that nerf.  It was way too good against BBEGs.</blockquote>

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