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<blockquote data-quote="Someone" data-source="post: 3401532" data-attributes="member: 5656">Actually, it can effectively double your power points per day from the very start, provided you never manifest a 2nd level power, always augment your 1st level powers to 2 power points, and you don't worry about manifesting one power every three rounds at the very least. If you are a 3rd level psion, have around 15 power points and manifest only 2nd level powers then, then your math is correct: you can manifest up to 7 powers instead of 5 and still have 1 to spare, provided again you don't mind manifesting one power every 3 rounds if you're lucky (this includes sacrificing the first round of combat powering up). It belongs to the same king of overpoweredness than, say, the warlock's eldritch blast. I don't deny the feat is good: it can save you a valuable handful of power points if you need to manifest a whole lot of low level powers (read: rarely). But it's nearly useless in combat, where most of the psion's juice is spent.Sorry, but I totally fail to see the comparison between this feat and spell mastery (which by the way it's so lame that I've never seen anyone taking). Similar feats would be perhaps Overchannel or Body fuel, which build into the psion's strenght: spending a lot of power points very quickly. Power build partially negates some of the psion's weaknesses: it allows you to save power points at the expense of time.(I'll clarify the &quot;ominous sound&quot; comment too. The purpose of the feat isn't the special effect: if I wanted just the sound, I'd manifest Create sound. The feat's idea came from wondering what kind of effect could create it: I designed the feat as a result and believed it had merits on it's own)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Someone, post: 3401532, member: 5656"] Actually, it can effectively double your power points per day from the very start, provided you never manifest a 2nd level power, always augment your 1st level powers to 2 power points, and you don't worry about manifesting one power every three rounds at the very least. If you are a 3rd level psion, have around 15 power points and manifest only 2nd level powers then, then your math is correct: you can manifest up to 7 powers instead of 5 and still have 1 to spare, provided again you don't mind manifesting one power every 3 rounds if you're lucky (this includes sacrificing the first round of combat powering up). It belongs to the same king of overpoweredness than, say, the warlock's [i]eldritch blast[/i]. I don't deny the feat is good: it can save you a valuable handful of power points if you need to manifest a whole lot of low level powers (read: rarely). But it's nearly useless in combat, where most of the psion's juice is spent. Sorry, but I totally fail to see the comparison between this feat and spell mastery (which by the way it's so lame that I've never seen anyone taking). Similar feats would be perhaps Overchannel or Body fuel, which build into the psion's strenght: spending a lot of power points very quickly. Power build partially negates some of the psion's weaknesses: it allows you to save power points at the expense of time. (I'll clarify the "ominous sound" comment too. The purpose of the feat isn't the special effect: if I wanted just the sound, I'd manifest Create sound. The feat's idea came from wondering what kind of effect could create it: I designed the feat as a result and believed it had merits on it's own) [/QUOTE]

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