Creating a good caster/manifester

[Aurio]

Hiya people,

My party's about to start a new campaign and i'm considering creating a character centered on spellcasting or manifesting (or both if possible). I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions about the classes and PrC that have the best spellcasting/manifesting potential (I can see this campaign going on for a while so consider high level play too). The character's stats are: 18,17,6,14,10,7 (not asigned to abilities yet).

P.S presently i only have access to the PHB, DMG, expanded psionics handbook and draconomicon, maybe i should get some extra material for the purposes of creating souch a character? If that's the case i'd appreciate any suggestions on what that material should be.

 

[Dakkareth]

There's a class around (Mind's Eye web supplement iirc) that works like a Mystic Theurge but for arcane and psionic classes. If you really want both arcane magic and psionics, Cerebremancer would be the way to go. Other than that, is there a specific concept you're shooting for (blasting, mobility, mind control, summoning, etc)?

 

[Aurio]

i'm mostly interested in blasting though i'd like some mind control too psionics+magic ain't a must, it'd just be cooler to have both, however it seems to me that the cerebremancer is kinda left back considering caster/manifester levels. When the party's wizard's able to cast delayed blast fireball the cerebremancer has just made it to fireball... right?