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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teslacoil1138" data-source="post: 1701477" data-attributes="member: 22768">It's a good thing all that about Schism made it into the errata...  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> Really though, even w/o schism I don't see what is wrong with powers that can be manifested as a swift action. I see it as reflecting the fact that you don't need to spend time bothering with components, manifesting is purely mental and happens at the speed of thought. That's one of the strong points about psionics, and I'd be sorely disappointed if it was toned down.I will agree that, to an extent, schism is somewhat broken in its printed state. Of course it can't gain or hold focus, but in the description it says it can independently manifest a power as a standard action (only). So it would be helpful to buff yourself with, but you couldn't manifest swift powers with it, nor full-round powers. In that sense, schism does exactly what it was meant to do: help you buff faster in combat.EDIT: also, it says in the power description "both your minds communicate with each other telepathically." So it sees/hears what you see and hear. Thus, schism can target using your senses. Given that it manifests at 6 effective levels lower than you, using it to manifest offensive powers seems a bit of a waste. So buffs would be your best bet when using schism.</blockquote>

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