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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gromm" data-source="post: 186412" data-attributes="member: 2245">Ummmm.... Mind Blast basically kills whoever it hits. There is no cure for stunning in the Core rules (or any offical rules that I know of). Once your stunned, your done for a while. Might as well get something to drink and have someone page you when you get to play again. Now imagine your hitting a cone of guys and taking them out of the game for 3d4 rnds.Sure its not cheap, but it works. Psions also can use any armor with no penalties. Low level Psions aren't the greatest, but some of their powers are insane (mostly the higher levels admittedly).  Psions can cast more power than either Wizards or Sorcerors. Sure a sorceror can drop his higher level spells for say magic missles (which happens quite often in my experience- dropping a high end spell for a lower level spell because the higher level one isn't as useful in a given situation). Psions pay only for what they use, alternatively they can cast all high level spells (effectively trading say 2-2nd level spells and a 1st level spell for a 5th level spell- what wizard wouldn't like that ability?).As with all spell casters mulitclassing will dilute the power of the class. This is even moreso with psions, who advance slower than any other spell casting class. Psions have powers beyond the scope of many spells (time hop, most of the mental powers, etc). The only class that seems broken in my experience is the Ranger, but even Rangers aren't all bad- mostly due to skills, not any class abilities.The awful truth is that psions are probably the worst class at low levels, the new mages of 3e if you will. They do become powerful at higher levels (if you use the d20 rule for DCs they can be a threat to anything even at lower levels). Multiclassing as a psionis probably a bad idea, slow progression coupled with weak low level powers (especially 1st level), means you wont be doing much in the power dept until you start getting 2nd and 3rd level powers. But then again the PP system at least allows you to use more of your higher level powers more often.Psions aren't for everyone, or every situation, but I don't think they are broken.</blockquote>

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