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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chzbro" data-source="post: 5151024" data-attributes="member: 83964">They do, Jester. They do indeed.I think it might have been a very long time before I noticed that.Thanks for pointing it out. Perhaps now I'll be able to sleep through the night.However, even with that cleared up there remain a couple of odd inconsistencies. For example, if a non-psionic half-elf takes...say...Energizing Strike with his Dilettante ability (and for our purposes makes it an at-will with Versatile Master), he has no way to boost that at-will damage since he lacks power points.Now I'm not saying that this is necessarily a problem. Not every feat is equally valuable with every power. But it is a bit odd that some few at-wills simply don't scale the way every other one does.And while it's true that PPs regen after a short rest (and I was originally thinking extended), it's not unthinkable that a psionic character might engage in a combat more than 7 rounds long. And at that point (barring dailies), he just stops doing as much damage as his companions.Worse, if he uses power points to turn an attack into an "encounter quality" attack, he also ensures that he has fewer chances to boost the damage of his at-wills. It takes 6 of his 15 power points to boost one of his level 23 or 27 at-wills...which equals 3 of his 7 total chances to boost the at-will from 1[W] damage to 2[W] damage.And while the non-damaging effects do scale as MortQ correctly points out, there aren't always higher level replacements for the effects you might want. A Battlemind, for example, might like the DR gained from the Level 1 at-will Iron Fist. If so, there are no higher level at-wills that replace this effect, so he's either stuck with a non-scaling, lousy version of what used to be a staple attack or he has to give up the effect entirely. Are Might of the Ogre or Mind of Mirrors better attacks than Iron Fist? Absolutely yes...unless you want DR in which case they don't help at all.Please understand that I'm not necessarily saying that this is a horrible thing; I'm just trying to wrap my head around the decision to not have the powers scale into epic. While the issue is not nearly as large as I thought, to me it still seems like there's a bit of an issue.</blockquote>

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