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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 2729853" data-attributes="member: 114">One of the interesting quirks of psionics is that when Overchanneling is combined with the Talented feat, you don't faces any penalty for overchannelling any of your 1st-3rd level powers.And frankly, some of the best powers are 1st level - a psion is often better off taking a 1st level power rather than a higher level power because when augmented it is just as good as a higher level power in every respect except ability to penetrate globes of invulnerability, and you can overchannel even augmented 1st-3rd level powers without penalty if you are Talented. Astral Construct is the prime example.S4 I would actually call a wash rather than a Sorcerer advantage - psions almost never need to swap out a lower level power because augmentation keeps them all valuable all the time. Mind Thrust can just keep on getting augmented, while sleep or burning hands just runs out of gas.S7, S8 also evens out - psion powers scale by manifester level too.P12, 13 are much better than still and silent feats, since they are automatically present with no increase in spell level. A sorcerer would have to use a slot 2 levels higher for every spell he wanted to cast still & silent, psions get it for free.Another potential advantage for Psions - P20 They have powers to directly heal themselves (sorcerers have to rely upon indirect effects like polymorph or summoning creatures that can heal at very high level)</blockquote>

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