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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 2985482" data-attributes="member: 7859">As a point of comparison....Magisters from AE can pull off actions similiar to a Psion by using Spell Weaving and the Modify Spell feat.  The Magister's Sorcerous Blast is also 4 element friendly.  Frankly the ability to trade in low level spell slots to feed higher level powers is something all class should have.  The Druid in my campaign almost always has 1st level slots left over.  The Magister never felt over powered to me, and a Magister is an awesome Buffer and Healer.I agree with Thanee and other posters that many of the powers of a Psion are funkily balanced, which is to say quite probably out of wack.  The focused nature of Psions tends to mitagate alot of the problems, however clever players using Expanded Knowledge can game the system quite well.  Kineticists are very good nukers, but w/o resorting to liberal use of the Expanded Knowledge feat, I think they have less battefield control applications than a Warmage.Seers are cool in theory,(to me at least), and have more intresting Divinations powers than Diviners have spells, but again they miss out on alot of the cool things other Psions get, let alone things like Wish etc.  The Telepathy school, which I think is the classic Psion suffers the same problems that all Mind Affecting powers have, namely Undead and Mind Blank.  I have not seen alot of Egoists as people that find those powers appealing often play Psy Warriors, which most people agree are pretty balanced, on par with Self buffing Clerics in combat terms.Do Not Even Get Me Started on Astral Constructs...those are not really balanced, and every Psion can use them with Expanded Knowledge.As an Aside, does anyone else feel like their is no reason not to take a PrC class after 10th level for the Ardent of Complete Psionic.  I like the class, but after awhile, the class features are a bit sparse, how many Mantles does one need?</blockquote>

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