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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wildstarsreach" data-source="post: 3060447" data-attributes="member: 43141">Hopefully my response will be of help.  I'm an unabashed power gamer and personally look at the advantages as I'm going along.I personall prefer a telepath and Kalashtar if possible but if you are going to play a kineticist, choose the energy powers you can because you get with each power, 4 different energy types.  1st   Entangling Ectoplasm, stops enemies from possibly overwhelming your front line.  Psionic charm if you are a telepath, takes care of all charm spells through 9th level equivalents.  Mind thrust, does d10 damage per level if the will save is failed.  Force Screen, +4 or more Deflection bonus  Inertial Armor, +4 or more Armor Bonus  Vigor, +5 hp/PP temporary that will save your characters life  Energy ray.2nd  Ego whip, dangerous at mid levels as charisma is usually a waste stat for most characters.  Even those whose class is charisma dependant, this can easily reduce their effectiveness.  Concussion blast, does force damage and hits like magic missile.  Stygian Ray, negative levels can be game winning on the right target.  Swarm of Crystals, an additional type of damage.  Tongues, great for communicating.3rd  Body adjustment, your own healing.  Body Purification, restores your ability damage yourself.  Energy Bolt.  Energy Burst.  Psionic Blast, mind flayer staple.  Time Hop, great get away in case they penetrate the front lines.  Empathic Transfer, Hostile if you like getting into melee and like telepaths.   Solicict Psicrystal, concentration powers can maintained by your psicrystal.4th  Dimension door, great escape power or end run manuever.  Energy Adaptation, best defense power in that it gives you 5 different energy types at once and it scales for free unlike many psionic which you pay for to get additional augments.  Freedom of movement, great against grappling or pinning.  Energy Flash if you like being on the front lines.  Psychic Reformation, Great to maximize character potential.Feats:  Psionic Meditation, Gains you psychic focus as a move action instead of full round action.  Psicrystal Affinity, gets you a psicrystal familiar.  Psicrystal Containment, stores an extra focus in case you need it.  Empower, probably one of the best feats in that it costs you 2 PP and your psi focus for 50% more damage.  Split Psionic Ray, the best in that it costs 2 PP and your psi focus, as long as you have another metapsionic feat, you get twice the damage.  Psionic Body if you are going with a lot of psionic feats for extra hit points.  Greater and standard Psionic Shot.  Good if you are going to be missile weapons.  Point Blank and Precise Shots for ranged touch attacks into melee situations to avoid the upto -8 on the attack.  Expanded Knowledge, great to get powers that you don't have access too.Magic Items:  Look for most that are applicable to AC and special defenses.  I treat them as a mage but are not limited to that since there isn't an armor penalty for manifesting powers.Here's a link for a discussion I started a while back about some things that I think might need to be implemented.<a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=170754" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=170754</a></blockquote>

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