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Psychic Warrior... Easy to make super powerful?
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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 2139859" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>You seem to be misunderstanding how psionic fist works. Basically, you say "I'm going to use my Psionic Fist on <strong>this</strong> attack," and expend your psionic focus. If you hit on *that* attack, you do +2d6 damage (and if you miss, you wasted your psionic focus). The only way to get psionic fist bonus damage on two attacks in one round is to have a psicrystal and the feat that lets your psicrystal hold an additional focus.</p><p></p><p>So you only get the +2d6 damage on *one* claw attack.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Non-lethal damage, which is useless against a decent proportion of opponents. Also note that this is considered "bonus dice" (as is the Psionic Fist damage), and thus won't get multiplied on a crit.</p><p></p><p></p><p>No, you can't. You expended your psionic focus on doing extra damage with your first claw attack. Unless you took a full-round action to regain focus when things started going bad, you do not have your faster movement.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and I'd definitely recommend Psionic Meditation and Skill Focus: Concentration over Combat Manifestation and Narrow Mind. OK, you do lose out on 2 hp in the bargain, but you get +3 to <strong>all</strong> Concentration checks (instead of +4 to some), and you can regain your psionic focus as a move action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 2139859, member: 907"] You seem to be misunderstanding how psionic fist works. Basically, you say "I'm going to use my Psionic Fist on [b]this[/b] attack," and expend your psionic focus. If you hit on *that* attack, you do +2d6 damage (and if you miss, you wasted your psionic focus). The only way to get psionic fist bonus damage on two attacks in one round is to have a psicrystal and the feat that lets your psicrystal hold an additional focus. So you only get the +2d6 damage on *one* claw attack. Non-lethal damage, which is useless against a decent proportion of opponents. Also note that this is considered "bonus dice" (as is the Psionic Fist damage), and thus won't get multiplied on a crit. No, you can't. You expended your psionic focus on doing extra damage with your first claw attack. Unless you took a full-round action to regain focus when things started going bad, you do not have your faster movement. Oh, and I'd definitely recommend Psionic Meditation and Skill Focus: Concentration over Combat Manifestation and Narrow Mind. OK, you do lose out on 2 hp in the bargain, but you get +3 to [b]all[/b] Concentration checks (instead of +4 to some), and you can regain your psionic focus as a move action. [/QUOTE]
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