Thanee said:
One thing to consider is to errata Dispel Psionics. This power is completely nuts the way it is written (dunno if there is an errata to it already).
nuts? it seems pretty tame to me. You get a slight boost early on, and a minor nerf later. What is the problem? Sure if you are a wilder or have overchannel you can get a bigger boost, but then that is the point of the wilder and spending of the feat and taking the damage.
Thanee said:
Also ban Metamorphic Transfer (it's impossible to put into words how broken this feat is).
Depending on the way you read it, it isnt so bad. Sure there are some powerful ones out there, but with interpretting it properly almost none of these actually matter. It is merely a decent way to go for someone with metamorphisis (which might cost yet another feat to get in the first place)
Thanee said:
Other than that, I'd take a close look at Quicken Psionics (plus Psionic Meditation) and Schism. They essentially allow spontaneous quickened powers, something that was deliberately removed from 3.5 (haste, etc).
focus is a very strange mechanic, nice idea, fairly bad in implementation though. As for schism it has some major limitations, so it shouldnt be that bad. Quicken is just as bad, if not worse, than it is for other casters. if you are giving up forcus for it, then you dont have focus for something else.
Thanee said:
Energy Missile definitely needs some rework as well (2nd level power with multiple selectable targets, full level damage, and a save DC beyond normal restraints?). I'd probably simply drop that one completely, or put it at 4th level or something.
There are a few threads about this already, but as I mentioned above comparing it across the board energy missile is actually pretty well made. Strong in some ways, weak in others. It is very nice. Again, it is a kineticist only power, so that is already a pretty big limitation.
Thanee said:
About psionic items, the torc of power preservation is pretty much unacceptable and the psionatrix is also not really something I'd want in 3.5 - the game where you can't easily raise your save DCs.
The overall nerfing of dc's in 3.5 is already a dumb idea. They fixed the problem and then continued 'fixing' over and over again until everything was nerfed inappropriately.
Spending some cash to get a minor boost is probably ok, especially with the horrible feat that psionics get (again, giving up focus. you cant use that quickened power 'and' get that +1 dc without some major efforts).
The torc is an odd one though, it is very nice indeed, but too strong? hard to say. It doesnt do an incredible amount, but it does do interesting things. Other casters can use pearls of power, but psioncs cannot. If a psion is burning powers at their highest level possible then they will gain hardly anything from it. If they burn a bunch of lower level ones then they will gain more, but are also doing less at a time. how much such an item should cost who knows, but 30k for a slotted item probably works as well as anything. That is the equivalent of 60k of pearls of power, which could be 60 different first level powers, which do scale with level. 60 magic missiles vs whatever the psion would get to do.. interesting choice