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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5741317" data-attributes="member: 19675">Not really- many defensive spells- and some of the offensive ones- shift the odds greatly in the favor of the casters...and they tend to be on the short lists of most well-played casters.  By the time the caster killer gets there, the caster will be prepared to take him on.For Monks (and Soulknives) to truly be caster killers over the course of their entire progressions, they'd need magic-like ways to buff themselves (for speed, damage output or the like)* or a way to shrug off/dispel magical effects.  And even that may not be enough if the caster buffs himself with something like a Polymorph spell.The problem isn't that the Monk & SK aren't balanced- they are exquisetely so- it's that they are balanced at a level no other classes are, and that their "prey" is on the other side of the power scale.To put it differently, caster killers are like crocs and casters are like hippos: the killers can get 'em while they're young and inexperienced, but after they come fully into their maturity, the fight is generally one-sided.* such as can be found for the Soulknife in a PrCl in Hyperconscious which combines their mind blade progression with some PsyWar powers.</blockquote>