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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2169205" data-attributes="member: 2011">Thought about that.At level 8, it could bump 2 levels (i.e. 2 hours), but the only long duration powers I have are Inertial Armor and Darkvision. So, 10 hours instead of 8 hours (abet at +1 AC) isn't buying me much. It works good at 10th level though (just because you could get the 24 hours in two 12 hour shots).Extend Power, on the other hand, increases the duration a lot (abet at -1 AC). I'm trying to find a way to sneak Extend Power into my repetoire, but it looks doubtful at this point. At level 8, that would be AC 17 during the day for 8 hours and AC 16 the rest of the time for 16 hours, for a total of 14 PP. That would cover me 24/7 as opposed to my real situation when I gain 8th level of AC 17 for 24 PP a day. I'm willing to drop AC by one 2/3rds of the time in order to save 10 PP a day, I just do not happen to have the feat.But, the real advantage of Extend Power is for Thicken Skin, especially at levels divisible by 3. For example, 9th level +3 AC for 3 hours, instead of an hour and a half, for 2 more PP. At high level, this adds up (+6 AC for 6 hours at 18th level for 18 PP). At level 18, my AC just for 18 hours of Inertial Armor and 6 hours of Thicken Skin would be AC 30 with no magical items or anything. If I get into a fight, throw up Force Screen for +8 more AC and many 18th level Fighter-types would only have about a 60/40 chance of hitting AC 38 (and again, this assumes no other magical AC items for my psion). If the opponent is tough and hits me a lot, throw up Precognition Defense for another +6 AC.Course, you have to watch out for Dispel Magic and Dispel Psionics, so sometimes it is not best to boost the duration as much as possible. I learned that lesson a few years back when my Dwarven Wizard had his Mage Armor, Shield, Mirror Image, and Expeditious Retreat spells all zapped at once by an Orc Shaman while he was surrounded by other Orcs.However, the short duration AC buffs should be OverChanneled in a big fight to increase their AC even more. Course, I don't have Overchannel yet either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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