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Is the Psion class balanced?
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<blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 2724374" data-attributes="member: 5777"><p>Low levels are pretty deadly for most everyone..especially the low hd classes.</p><p></p><p>But during those low levels the sorc has other advantages anyway.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You mean he'll cast those higher level ones while in combat and throw his lower level ones around freely outside of combat whenever they are needed.</p><p></p><p>Buffs and utility spells and whatever else fall to the lower levels but then there are also lower level combat spells which work even though they are lower level.. like waves of fatigue and enervation (both are very, very mean.. an empowered enervation in a 6th level slot can single handidly spell the end an encounter if you roll well)</p><p></p><p>Sure, if you ignore the existance of lower level stuff the sorc might look a little bad in that light, but then you are ignoring a large part of the system again and so any conclusions drawn will be too narrow in focus to be worthwhile.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The wizard has ultimate flexability in spell knowledge. You seem to be ignoring this. Any situation that comes up he should have an answer for. He can literally have hundreds of choices with ease, and up into thousands with some work.</p><p></p><p>Psions are specialists by nature anyway.. comparing to a specialist wizard is more appropriate in some ways..and the specialist wizard has more total spellcasting power in a day than the psion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scion, post: 2724374, member: 5777"] Low levels are pretty deadly for most everyone..especially the low hd classes. But during those low levels the sorc has other advantages anyway. You mean he'll cast those higher level ones while in combat and throw his lower level ones around freely outside of combat whenever they are needed. Buffs and utility spells and whatever else fall to the lower levels but then there are also lower level combat spells which work even though they are lower level.. like waves of fatigue and enervation (both are very, very mean.. an empowered enervation in a 6th level slot can single handidly spell the end an encounter if you roll well) Sure, if you ignore the existance of lower level stuff the sorc might look a little bad in that light, but then you are ignoring a large part of the system again and so any conclusions drawn will be too narrow in focus to be worthwhile. The wizard has ultimate flexability in spell knowledge. You seem to be ignoring this. Any situation that comes up he should have an answer for. He can literally have hundreds of choices with ease, and up into thousands with some work. Psions are specialists by nature anyway.. comparing to a specialist wizard is more appropriate in some ways..and the specialist wizard has more total spellcasting power in a day than the psion. [/QUOTE]
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