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Message: <blockquote data-quote="two" data-source="post: 2264777" data-attributes="member: 9002">old haste parallelAnother link to the old 3.0 "haste" debate.There were those that thought 3.0 haste perfectly balanced because if a spellcaster did the Haste+Spell_of_your_choice on the first round of battle, and cast 2 spells per round after that, the spellcaster is "using up their spells twice as quickly as if they had not cast haste."  Which people then claimed made it balanced (somehow).My standard reply to this is:  killing the enemy 2x as fast by using 2x as many spells in the same amount of time is far more advantageous than not.  When you kill the 3 giants quickly via haste+spells, they don't have a chance to do as many full attacks; don't get to damage your fighters as much; don't drain away Clerical healing spells as fast; etc.  Not to mention, the battle is over more quickly, conserving all the other party resources:  bard spells, cleric spells, druid spells, etc. etc.   Meaning, if the battle is over in 4 instead of 6 rounds, that's 2 rounds of spellcasting the cleric didn't have to do; 1-2 precious spells the bard didn't cast.  Etc.  Pretty obvious, and pretty obvious to the 3.5 revision team as well.So, the question is, if a Psion DOES use up all their power points in, for example, 1 battle:  what does that mean, exactly?a)  The Psion was incredibly wasteful and wanton in their use of power points.b)  The encounter was very, very difficult, and the power points had to be expended to save the Psion, kill the enemies, rescue party members, etc.As long as you are not incredibly inefficient, using up all your power points in one single battle isn't a bad thing.  The ABILITY to do so isn't a disadvantage, to be sure.  After all, if it was a Wizard instead of a Psion in the battle, perhaps the party suffers a TPK (it was the Psions' ability to max everything out that saved everyone's rears).My point:  if a Psion isn't being wasteful and does manage to use all their power points in one battle, the party better thank their lucky stars they had a Psion around.  Else they might very well all be dead (the encouter was very, very, very tough).</blockquote>

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