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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 835710" data-attributes="member: 3051">Re: Re: Some new psychic warrior powersOriginally posted by SteelDraco You're right - under the core psi rules, I'd really only take three of the 3rd level powers for most psychic warrior characters. Improved Biofeedback, Displacement, Claws of the Vampire.  MAYBE Ubiquitous Vision, but unless you're willing to raise WIS to 13 that one will be out of the question.  Yes, it's a flaw in the class more than a flaw in the power, but I've heard the argument that one of the few things that keeps Psychic Warriors from totally overpowering other hybrid classes is their shortage of useful powers.  Silly argument, since the addition of splatbooks or custom spells tends to remove this sort of limitation.The bonuses aren't ones you get from many different things, so they're almost always going to stack with everything you've got going. +1 to your threat range is nothing to sneeze at.They're insight bonuses.  While most classes don't have access to spells that provide this sort of bonus, psionic classes do.  Combat Precognition is a staple of 1st-level powers, and it lasts all day by the time you get to high level.+1 to threat range ISN'T a big deal.  It's important if you've got an effect like Vorpal or Burst weapons, where all that matters is getting a crit.  But, if your weapon crits on a 15-20/x2, then it's doing 130% of listed damage, and adding one to threat range only bumps this up to 135%.  That's an increase of about 4% to your average damage.  It just isn't much; adding 1 to the weapon's base damage would be more effective in average damage/sec.It becomes far more significant for weapons with a x3 or x4 multiplier, but it's not going to double your damage output or anything.EDIT: Forgot to add, there are plenty of creatures out there immune to crits.  Constructs, elementals, undead, oozes... against any of these things, changing the threat range is useless.  So, there are a lot of situations where a +1 to damage would be far better than +1 to threat range.For a while, I was contemplating having this power just give a +2 bonus to your threat range, but I decided that was overpowered. How would you respond to that as a power?I'd name it "Keen Edge".  If you want to make a psionic version of that spell, go for it, but make sure it doesn't stack with the arcane spell.  In general I'd shy away from powers that provide similar bonuses to arcane spells AND stack with them.  You eventually would reach a point where, through a combination of spells, powers, PrC abilities, and weapon enchantments, you have something like a 5-20 threat range with a x4 multiplier.  These sorts of abilities become more powerful as you introduce more of them to the world, since they're multiplicative.Anabstercorian: Not a chance.  Haste blows this power (and every other spell from levels 1-4) out of the water easily.  Even the new 3.5E Haste will be superior to this spell AND will affect multiple targets, while this is self-only.</blockquote>

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