Diplomatic Immunity OOC: The Third

[Bront]

So, you think all psiwar all the time is better than the 2/2/1 as you mentioned (which was my origional plan)

 

[Rystil Arden]

So, you think all psiwar all the time is better than the 2/2/1 as you mentioned (which was my origional plan)

I would say that the best combos, for different reasons, assuming the first level is Psywar are (not in order of which is best):

5 Psywar:
Pros--3 bonus psionic feats, 2 second level powers and 3 first, 7 PP + the most bonus PP, better class skills than Fighter all the way up (Autohypnosis is awesome), Manifester Level is 5 for augmentation
Cons--Down on a few HP, weaker Fort save, BAB only +3 (still enough for Warmind though, barely)

4 Psywar/1 Fighter:
Pros--2 bonus psionic feats and 1 bonus Fighter feat, gets a second level power and 3 first, 5 PP + decent bonus PP, ML of 4 is pretty good, best base Fort save (+6), best BAB (+4)
Cons--Down on a few HP also, though not as much, lost a 2nd-level power from the other one and 3 or 4 PP.


This one is slightly worse, but still has a perk:

3 Psywar/2 Fighter:
Pros--2 bonus psionic feats and 2 bonus Fighter feats (most feats at 4!), best base Fort save (+6), best BAB (+4)
Cons--HP loss nearly indistinguishable from Fighter, no 2nd-level powers, low PP, low ML

Then there's the other two, Psywar2/Fighter3 of which is utterly pointless and Psywar1/Fighter4 is almost utterly pointless.

Hope that helps!

 

[Bront]

Bront and Unleashed, Thanks. It looks like he will have surgery early next week. (Which is better than over the weekend as a emergency.)

Yes, indeed that is good.

Not the greatest Thanksgiving, but having delt with a grandparent in the hospital with a heart attack over Christmas, I fully understand.

 

[Bront]

Hope that helps!

Yes, much. It's Psywar at L2, in any of the reasonable combos, so that makes it easy. And probably Psi-weapon.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yes, much. It's Psywar at L2, in any of the reasonable combos, so that makes it easy. And probably Psi-weapon.

Yup--basically, the reason why every reasonable combo has at least two levels in Psywar is because you've already "paid" for the next three levels of Psywar with your up-front loss of 1 BAB when you took the first level, so that is why the best choices all seem to be converging around taking 4 in Psywar (since you don't lose anything else until 5 and it is questionable whether the gain at 5 Psywar is worth it versus the Fighter level--I would probably take the Fighter level if I was going Warmind).

 

[unleashed]

See Rystil not so long after all...just over 100 posts until you pass Hypersmurf.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

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I think that's a rather crazy interpretation, but I'll edit the specific wording to disallow it while keeping the general answer the same.

I'm sorry my interpretation isn't up to your standards RA... :\
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[Bront]

Yup--basically, the reason why every reasonable combo has at least two levels in Psywar is because you've already "paid" for the next three levels of Psywar with your up-front loss of 1 BAB when you took the first level, so that is why the best choices all seem to be converging around taking 4 in Psywar (since you don't lose anything else until 5 and it is questionable whether the gain at 5 Psywar is worth it versus the Fighter level--I would probably take the Fighter level if I was going Warmind).

Yeah, the extra BAB and fort going into Warmind is nice, but it's that or extra PP and manifester level on some of the Psi-War powers.

I would have prefered to avoid any Psi-War, would have fit the concept better, but just wasn't possable with the feats available.

 

[Rystil Arden]

BS:
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Well, it simply seems that you would have to read it several times and then consciously attempt to twist the wording to come up with that interpretation.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yeah, the extra BAB and fort going into Warmind is nice, but it's that or extra PP and manifester level on some of the Psi-War powers.

I would have prefered to avoid any Psi-War, would have fit the concept better, but just wasn't possable with the feats available.

Well, you had to take something that lowers your BAB in order to get Kn: Psionics as a class skill, and once you take a level of Psywar, taking a few more until you reach level 4 and your BAB stops increasing again is a good plan.