Custom class. Psion/Wilder mix.

[Kadajko]

Hello. Need advice on whether the class is balanced enough or not. Here's how the class looks:

Hit die: d4.
Proficiencies: Weapons ( simple ), armor none.
Skill points: 2+Int mod
Class skills: Autohypnosis, Concentration, Knowledge (psionics), Psicraft, Gather Information, Sense Motive, Craft.
BAB: low.
Saving throws: High will, low reflex and fortitude.

Basically a psion, but has some different features:

1) Has wilder power progression ( in numbers ), but can pick powers from any discipline, as well as the shared wilder/psion power list.
2) Has ''Wild surge'', but since this Psion is educated and it isn't wild, but rather extra effort I will just call the feat Overpower. Overpower works exactly like wild surge and is a subject to Psychic Enervation.
3) This Psion does not however have an equivalent to Surging euphoria, as well as doesn't have Volatile Mind and Elude Touch feats, though get's psion bonus feats. And yes this class has access to all feats that come along with Psychic Enervation, like: Enervation Endurance for example.

That's basically it. Thoughts?

 

[M.Handy]

A Wilder is already very much like a Psion. I'm afraid that mixing the two like you did produces nothing specifically unique, and only gives you the best of both classes without their weaknesses.

 

[Kadajko]

A Wilder is already very much like a Psion. I'm afraid that mixing the two like you did produces nothing specifically unique, and only gives you the best of both classes without their weaknesses.

Well the reasons I made this class are:

1) I wanted an intelligence based psionic. ( not a little crazy. )
2) I wanted the class to be psionics focused, and for that I needed more feats, that psion has. That is the reason this class has psions and not wilders bab, hit die and no armor, it seemed like a fair trade.
3) And I wanted the class to be able to nuke good, which is why I made the overpower feat without giving other wilder specific beneficial feats, but that was at the cost of making it a wilder power progression instead of psions power progression.

So the mixed weaknesses of both psion and wilder are kind of there.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Could you pull this off with a single dip into Wilder, then going Psion, then using the Overchannel feat?

 

[Kadajko]

Could you pull this off with a single dip into Wilder, then going Psion, then using the Overchannel feat?

Not really. Overchannels max ML boost is +3 and that's at level 15. I want to go into +6 or higher, and wild surge does a +3 at level 8. Not to mention that Overchannel smacks you with PP bills, which would make a very fast short lasting blaster. Wild surge on the other hand pays for the PP for you if Psychic Enervation doesn't happen.

 

[PureGoldx58]

Make it an erudite it will probably make more sense, otherwise the ML boosts plus the psion's "domains" would be a bit much...

 

[Kadajko]

Make it an erudite it will probably make more sense, otherwise the ML boosts plus the psion's "domains" would be a bit much...

But an erudite doesn't have the ML boost. Erudite is specialized in knowing a lot of powers, even more than psion, and I am actually sacrificing my total powers known from 36 ( psion level 20 ) to 9 ( wilder level 20 ), FOR the ML boost.

I don't think disciplines would brake the class but maybe I will find a way around it.