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Heavy Artillery: Psion vs. Wizard
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<blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1745015" data-attributes="member: 478"><p>Nope, I'm afraid not. It's the designers of the XPH, that have missed something, or rather quite a few things... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> If there is one, I havn't seen it yet. The disadvantages of psionics are very few and mostly minor. Focus is one thing (but compensated by better metapsionics and power focus/penetration), also mostly compensated by Psionic Meditation. No scaling (in most cases), but that is compensated by the lack of caps and augmentation, the cost of the latter is compensated by the flexibility (no fixed levels for slots just PP). Being able to blow out huge amounts of PP and thereby outperforming any other class is, contrary to popular belief, <em>not</em> a disadvantage, you are not forced to do so. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p> </p><p> There are two things worth mentioning, that is, psionics are worse as party buffs and there are a lot more spells to choose from, when learning new ones, compared to powers. However, learning a single power for a psion is like learning two to half a dozen spells for a wizard. Effectively, a 20th level psion will have about as many "spells" available as a 20th level wizard who spent <em>a lot of resources</em> on those spells! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p> </p><p> All in all, there is no real contest.</p><p> </p><p> Bye</p><p> Thanee</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thanee, post: 1745015, member: 478"] Nope, I'm afraid not. It's the designers of the XPH, that have missed something, or rather quite a few things... :p If there is one, I havn't seen it yet. The disadvantages of psionics are very few and mostly minor. Focus is one thing (but compensated by better metapsionics and power focus/penetration), also mostly compensated by Psionic Meditation. No scaling (in most cases), but that is compensated by the lack of caps and augmentation, the cost of the latter is compensated by the flexibility (no fixed levels for slots just PP). Being able to blow out huge amounts of PP and thereby outperforming any other class is, contrary to popular belief, [i]not[/i] a disadvantage, you are not forced to do so. ;) There are two things worth mentioning, that is, psionics are worse as party buffs and there are a lot more spells to choose from, when learning new ones, compared to powers. However, learning a single power for a psion is like learning two to half a dozen spells for a wizard. Effectively, a 20th level psion will have about as many "spells" available as a 20th level wizard who spent [i]a lot of resources[/i] on those spells! ;) All in all, there is no real contest. Bye Thanee [/QUOTE]
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