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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1745080" data-attributes="member: 172">In a word, no. You suppose that each such compensation is a one-to-one exchange in power, when in fact the free scaling of arcane casters is a significant boon in terms of endurance, and the supposed advantage of the psion's flexibilty with blast powers is not near the boon that you suppose.Wizards and sorcerers have magic missile. It's a throw-away low level power that ALSO does not care what energy resistance it target has, and has the additional benefit of affecting an incorporeal target normally, AND has the additional benefit of not allowing a saving throw. And it scales with level. A 9th level sorcerer or wizard will be doing 5d4 per shot with these babies for the effective cost that a psion is paying for a 1st level power. If a psion wants to add 4 dice to a power, it would be costing them the equivalent of a third level power each. So in this one spell, arcane casters HAVE flexibility in terms of what they can affect with their powers, in addition to being able to use low level throw away slots to power it and leave room for the big guns at higher level.So you claim that somehow this compensation is excessive, yet you fail to consider that arcane casters have a few tricks of their own up their sleeve that, in such light, make the supposed advantage of psions not so great a boon as you make it out to be.</blockquote>