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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2043836" data-attributes="member: 2011">You forget that Psions get Detect Psionics as a first level spell. Sorcerers get Detect Magic as a 0th level spell. Psions lost their 0th level powers and those that survived are now 1st level powers. If you want any of those, you have to give up slots.Sorcerers can also replace lower level spells that were useful at low level, but not useful at high, with other spells (e.g. Sleep is great at low level, but would be quickly replaced later on). Psions can do that as well, but they have to take the Psychic Reformation power and burn through XP to do it.Here is a comparison including Sorcerer 0th, not including Sorcerer 0th, and Psions: 01 06 02 0302 07 02 0503 08 03 0704 10 04 0905 12 06 1106 14 07 1307 17 10 1508 19 11 1709 22 14 1910 24 15 2111 28 19 2212 29 20 2413 32 23 2514 33 24 2715 36 27 2816 37 28 3017 39 30 3118 40 31 3319 42 33 3420 43 34 36I think the utitlity of spells like Detect Magic, Read Magic, Light, Mage Hand, and Message easily make up for the extra powers, especially starting at 11th level. 4th through 10th levels are the biggest delta, but after that, Sorcerers catch up pretty quickly (they are only 1 lower at levels 15, 17, and 19). And Sorcerers always have more actual spells, just some of them have significantly less utitilty.Sorcerers can also cast more spells per day (assuming that the Psion is using powers above first level or augmenting first level powers most of the time).The main advantage Psions have is that they tend to have either 2 or 4 of their highest level powers available at any given time whereas Sorcerers have 1 or 2 of their highest level spell available.All in all, both classes have few powers/spells to choose from.</blockquote>

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