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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 3804829" data-attributes="member: 29252">If you're doing one encounter per day?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; If you're keeping to the recommended four encounters per day?&nbsp; Not so much.&nbsp; Try mapping out the Sorcerer vs. Psion in Spell vs. Power damage output at, say, 10th - keeping in mind that the Sorcerer gets, for the most part, free spell scaling, while the Psion must augment to get what the Sorcerer gets for free.The War Mind is minus Rage and it's variants.&nbsp; As he must be nonchaotic, he's got a fine line to walk in order to keep Rage from previous levels.&nbsp; Rage is a fairly strong ability to have - and it scales with Barbarian level.&nbsp; Whether or not they are entirely balanced with each other is iffy... but then, compare a Barbarian to a Wizard.&nbsp; At the level a Warmind is getting DR 3/- (character level 14) the Wizard is trapping the Barbarian in a Forcecage, then sticking him with some continuing effect that'll kill him.&nbsp; The Warmind gets low-level powers - much like the Bard, really.&nbsp; The Warmind just gets an out from the Forcecage.Psionic powers scale manually; Sorcerer/Wizard spells scale for free (to a limit).&nbsp; The Sorcerer-10's Fireball eats up a 3rd level spell slot (effectively 5 power points) while the Psion, forcing his Energy Ball up to 10d6, needs 10 power points (effectively a 5th level spell slot).Psions have endurance issues.&nbsp; Keep to the DMG recommended 4 encounters per day, and there isn't a problem.Well... kinda, yeah.&nbsp; The utility of the Mind Blade drops fairly quickly.&nbsp; But then, so does the Fighter's.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Simth, post: 3804829, member: 29252"] If you're doing one encounter per day? Yes. If you're keeping to the recommended four encounters per day? Not so much. Try mapping out the Sorcerer vs. Psion in Spell vs. Power damage output at, say, 10th - keeping in mind that the Sorcerer gets, for the most part, free spell scaling, while the Psion must augment to get what the Sorcerer gets for free. The War Mind is minus Rage and it's variants. As he must be nonchaotic, he's got a fine line to walk in order to keep Rage from previous levels. Rage is a fairly strong ability to have - and it scales with Barbarian level. Whether or not they are entirely balanced with each other is iffy... but then, compare a Barbarian to a Wizard. At the level a Warmind is getting DR 3/- (character level 14) the Wizard is trapping the Barbarian in a Forcecage, then sticking him with some continuing effect that'll kill him. The Warmind gets low-level powers - much like the Bard, really. The Warmind just gets an out from the Forcecage. Psionic powers scale manually; Sorcerer/Wizard spells scale for free (to a limit). The Sorcerer-10's Fireball eats up a 3rd level spell slot (effectively 5 power points) while the Psion, forcing his Energy Ball up to 10d6, needs 10 power points (effectively a 5th level spell slot). Psions have endurance issues. Keep to the DMG recommended 4 encounters per day, and there isn't a problem. Well... kinda, yeah. The utility of the Mind Blade drops fairly quickly. But then, so does the Fighter's. [/QUOTE]

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