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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1746768" data-attributes="member: 172">For one fight, maybe. It's been my experience that in a tough dungeon crawl, a sorcerer going at full bore will tap out fairly quickly, but a psion will go through far more points.But this totally neglects that for those more powerful powers, the psion is paying a much higher percentage of their total power. If a psion uses a 3rd level power for 10d6, they are paying a 5th level premium for it. Comparing it to a 3rd level power is no longer a fair comparison anymore.Not, it does not. Unless you consider "2 or 3" = "Ungodly".Far? Oy. I really beg to differ.How long do your high level combats last?IME, most of mine average out at about 3 rounds.If you are counting, that is the MINIMUM amount of slots a sorcerer will have for a given level. The sorcerer in my high level game, when the going got tough, could drop 3 horrid wilting and wither away any living competition and still have room for DBF's. That's more than one fight.Only if you discount that fact that you are paying 9th+ level premiums to use that ability.Of course since they can forget the topped out spells (in the case of a sorcerer) or learn any amount of spells (in the case of a wizard), this is a non-detriment.And considering the premium the psion has to pay to scale that power -- a perk arcane casters get for free -- that's fair.IME from actual play, a psion does not dominate in ways that some of you are suggesting that they would. Theoretical estimations of their dominance seem to rely on any or all of assigning too much significance to the flexibility of the energy powers, too little significance to the fact that psions pay the equivalent cost of higher level powers to scale them without gaining the full benefits of a higher level power (such as energy missile not gaining multiple targets when you scale it or any of the energy powers ever attaining the selective targeting of horrid wilting), or a rather generous challenge frequency.</blockquote>

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