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<blockquote data-quote="charlesatan" data-source="post: 3191023" data-attributes="member: 20870"><p>Uh, you're contradicting yourself. First you want to compare martial adepts with psychic warriors, but not with spellcasters because "they don't have the resource management... there is little reason to not use your best stuff in every combat" mainly because psychic warriors follow the same philosophy (it still costs power points to manifest powers).</p><p></p><p>Second, the problem with psionic focus, unlike maneuvers, is that you really can't execute them consecutively round per round unless you manage to "recharge" them quickly enough. There are two psionic-synergistic feats in ToB:BoNS, Psychic Renewal and Instant Clarity.</p><p></p><p>And as for maneuvers = powers, like spells, powers are usually more powerful compared to maneuvers at equal levels (although of course a Psychic Warrior only manifests up to 6th level powers).</p><p></p><p>A super-optimized high-level Psychic Warrior (i.e. broken builds) can probably outdamage a martial adept, but can probably only go for two encounters at most.</p><p></p><p>As for spellcasters and resource management, 1) see my first paragraph, 2) depends on which spellcaster (I mean a Druid can go on and on and a Sorcerer has a lot of slots), 3) depends on the kinds of encounters your GM throws at you... I mean do GMs really throw 4 encounters in a day? (I mean some yes, but some less than that, and some just make do with 1 encounter a day.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="charlesatan, post: 3191023, member: 20870"] Uh, you're contradicting yourself. First you want to compare martial adepts with psychic warriors, but not with spellcasters because "they don't have the resource management... there is little reason to not use your best stuff in every combat" mainly because psychic warriors follow the same philosophy (it still costs power points to manifest powers). Second, the problem with psionic focus, unlike maneuvers, is that you really can't execute them consecutively round per round unless you manage to "recharge" them quickly enough. There are two psionic-synergistic feats in ToB:BoNS, Psychic Renewal and Instant Clarity. And as for maneuvers = powers, like spells, powers are usually more powerful compared to maneuvers at equal levels (although of course a Psychic Warrior only manifests up to 6th level powers). A super-optimized high-level Psychic Warrior (i.e. broken builds) can probably outdamage a martial adept, but can probably only go for two encounters at most. As for spellcasters and resource management, 1) see my first paragraph, 2) depends on which spellcaster (I mean a Druid can go on and on and a Sorcerer has a lot of slots), 3) depends on the kinds of encounters your GM throws at you... I mean do GMs really throw 4 encounters in a day? (I mean some yes, but some less than that, and some just make do with 1 encounter a day.) [/QUOTE]
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