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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tglassy" data-source="post: 7436099" data-attributes="member: 6855204">About the psychic focus, every discipline has one. The Mystic is able to use the focus of any discipline, and switch between them using a bonus Action. These focuses don’t take up concentration, and don’t end when hit. It’s just something they can do. The abilities given can be resistance, like with Mastery of Fire giving Fire resistance, or advantage on certain rolls that pertain to that focus, like Strength checks for Brute Force or Charisma (Deception) checks for Psionic Disruption. But it can also be superior Darkvision from Mastery of Light and Darkness or regular Darkvision from Third Eye, and the ability to go without needing to eat, breath or Sleep with Adaptive Body. Being able to switch at will is pretty powerful. I’m not sure if it needs to be nerfed, but perhaps limiting it to being switched once or twice per rest would make things a little more balanced. There is another use for the focus. Every type of Mystic can, at lvl 6, expend their focus to produce an effect. Immortal Mystics can use it to half all damage they take as a reaction, limited to whatever triggered the reaction. Awakened can impose disadvantage on an attack roll. However, if the Mystic uses this ability, not only is it once per short rest, but they can’t use their Focus at all until they rest. It’s a little unlcear, but I believe that they can’t switch to a new focus until they rest, so they have to go without that ability for a while. I don’t know if that’s enough of a drawback, though. I’d much rather, usually, have my focus giving me constant passive advantages than use the focus on a one and done skill. Fitz, you can decide if this needs to be nerfed or not.</blockquote>

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