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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1745618" data-attributes="member: 172">Gah! Dang server. Try this one more time...It may be a single example. But when every caster takes it, it obtains a certain pervasiveness.Oy. Hyperbole. They obviously don't (but I would hasten to point out you can use higher level slots for lower level spells). But psions don't get an unlimited number of PP's, either. The point here is that arcane casters have, at their service, a high reliability attack power for a very minimal percentage of their total magic resources; the much lauded energy attack powers, though nearing the flexibilty of magic missile, requires a much larger proportional expendiature of their total daily power/spell allotment.Oh, I do. I think that would be made clear by my first response. It's just I dismiss your analysis of the relative "value" of those various qualities as faulty. In my high level game, I've seen the blast happy sorcerer PC run through all of his spell slots. I could see an equivalent level psion depleting his powers much more quickly.The case we were discussing was damaging attack powers. And my point was that the flexibility of energy powers is not quitte total compensation given the cost to scale them, especially when you consider that arcane casters get comparable compensation in some of their cheaper spells that do scale.</blockquote>