Psychic Warrior: Worth it?
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Arkhandus
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Eh, you could, but there's not much reason to, except maybe at upper levels. If you're planning to use only light armor, then it might be good to take 2 levels of swordsage after your 2nd or 6th level of psychic warrior, for the Wis bonus to AC in light or no armor. And of course for Weapon Focus from the swordsage's Discipline Focus. If you take swordsage after 6th-level psychic warrior, you'll get a 3rd-level stance and a 3rd-level maneuver from your 2nd level of swordsage (you just don't want to interrupt your acquisition of bonus feats and base attack bonus too much).
Then you might take another 2-4 levels in swordsage a bit later, after you've gotten one or two more bonus feats, since Insightful Strikes at swordsage 4 would be handy if your Wisdom is good by the time you gain it. At swordsage 5 you can learn Giant's Stance if you've got two other Stone Dragon maneuvers, which would boost your greatsword damage pretty well in combinaton with the Expansion power. Expansion for two size increases, plus use of Giant's Stance, would mean your greatsword dealing damage as per a gargantuan greatsword, which is something like 6d6 or 8d6 base damage as I recall. You would need to be at least a psychic warrior 8/swordsage 5 in order to have access to Giant's Stance at swordsage 5, since it's a 5th-level maneuver (ya need an initiator level of 9 to learn it, which you would have at pw8/ss5).
In any case, a pure psychic warrior is entirely viable. It just means getting more powers, more bonus feats, and more power points to manifest Expansion, Force Screen, Psionic Lion's Charge, Vigor, Offensive Precognition, Offensive Prescience, Body Adjustment, Form of Doom, and such at a quicker pace and with more augmentation.
Then you might take another 2-4 levels in swordsage a bit later, after you've gotten one or two more bonus feats, since Insightful Strikes at swordsage 4 would be handy if your Wisdom is good by the time you gain it. At swordsage 5 you can learn Giant's Stance if you've got two other Stone Dragon maneuvers, which would boost your greatsword damage pretty well in combinaton with the Expansion power. Expansion for two size increases, plus use of Giant's Stance, would mean your greatsword dealing damage as per a gargantuan greatsword, which is something like 6d6 or 8d6 base damage as I recall. You would need to be at least a psychic warrior 8/swordsage 5 in order to have access to Giant's Stance at swordsage 5, since it's a 5th-level maneuver (ya need an initiator level of 9 to learn it, which you would have at pw8/ss5).
In any case, a pure psychic warrior is entirely viable. It just means getting more powers, more bonus feats, and more power points to manifest Expansion, Force Screen, Psionic Lion's Charge, Vigor, Offensive Precognition, Offensive Prescience, Body Adjustment, Form of Doom, and such at a quicker pace and with more augmentation.
