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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5704836" data-attributes="member: 2011">I ran a Human hybrid Ardent|Bard for about 8 paragon levels.He was ok and in fact, his personal survivability was through the roof (and the other PCs could face much greater numbers of and higher level foes with the tons of THPs he handed out), but combat was very repetitive.After playing him, I have come to the conclusion that psionics was WotC's first cut at Essentials. In other words, creating very simple PCs with simple powers. In the case of psionic PCs, having a single At Will power with two augmentations is like having 3 powers, but on the character sheet as 1 power. And since most of the augmentations are often not useful for the current round, it doesn't take much to select an At Will power.This means that the character sheet is smaller and the PC is a bit easier to play.However, between this and a Psion PC in our group, none of us could ever find a better higher level At Will power. The first level At Will powers are about as good as it gets. There might be one or two exceptions to this, but that's the general rule. The design of psionic PCs are screwed up a little in this respect.</blockquote>