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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2269530" data-attributes="member: 707">This line of reasoning is evasive because you are still ignoring the balance issue in question (psion vs. other arcane casters) and muddying the waters with another balance issue (the viability of direct damage blasting at high levels.)  The point is that psions can do direct damage blasting much better than the other arcane casters, and the imbalance that fact creates between the psion and the arcanists, not the general viability of direct damage blasting in the high level game.I don't disagree with you regarding your points on direct damage blasting, but saying that psions make that option viable is completely irrelevant to the question of the thread, namely the balance between the psion and the arcanists.  Address that issue, instead of flipping to an entirely different one.Again, you're throwing out unrelated issues that distort the issue.  The fact that the traditional magic system may have "sacred cows and faults" is irrelevant when discussing the balance between the psion and the arcanist.Nail's subjective comment bears directly on the balance between psion and arcanist.  Sure, you could argue the subjectivity of the statement as well as counter-claim that it's not true in practice.  But the fact that psions can manifest more high-level powers than arcanists can cast their highest-level spells is a truth worthy of consideration.  Your comment is true too, but it doesn't bear on the discussion at hand.  The general viability of blasting is a side-issue to the central issue that---regardless of its general efficacy, psions are much better blasters than arcanists.Now this would be relevant.  Instead of discussing the sacred cows in the magic system or the viability of blasting at high levels, why not go through those areas you see the psion as weak, which would go a long way toward showing how the strengths of the class are balanced.</blockquote>

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