What are the best 2nd level psionic powers?

[Evilhalfling]

Okay - here is the level 2 poll.
still just running with general powers.
Vote for four, five if you think it is worth using a higher level slot or feat to get.
I took out what I thought was the most useless power - The hideous feat leech - although I can just see someone stealing Psionic Body, and killing the psion.

 

[The Lost Muse]

The trouble with a poll such as this one is that unless many, many people vote in it, you won't get a big enough sample to get any useful data, aside from the general concensus about which power is best.

I voted for them all to help correct any skewing or outliers.

 

[Evilhalfling]

*bump*
Edit : Hmmm - what powers outside the XPH are getting all the votes?

 

[Ariel23]

I took out what I thought was the most useless power - The hideous feat leech

If you want to make others decisions for them, why have a poll? If you're so convinced its horrid, it should get zero votes, anyway...

Feat leech uses:
1) Build a Pyschic Warrior with Psionic Body and a lot of psionic feats (preferably Psionic Talent). With a good WIS, you can steal multiple feats at once, btw. Two Psionic Bodies and 5 psionic feats (total)= +20 HP, but it could be much worse than that, given a Psychic Warrior's bonus feats.
Who says that if you have two instances of Psionic Body that you don't gain HP for both of them?

While the power lasts, you are treated as if you possessed the stolen feats, despite the fact that you have more feats than normally allowed.

2) Build a Thrallherd. Even a fairly modest one:
Wilder 5/Thrallherd 3 [Manifester Level 7 + Overchannel]
12 WIS, 18 CHA [Raised at 4 and 8 or added Cloak of Charisma]
Expanded Knowledge (Mindlink); Psionic Body and Psionic Talent [Not really even necessary]
Any race

Only accept thralls that have Psionic Talent as a feat, preferably they have it twice or three times (Psionic Body may be okay, too: see above).
If they don't, you can just kill them, and get a new thrall the next day. This has no adverse effect on your "Leadership" score relative to Thralls.
With a 10-12 WIS and a Periapt of WIS +2 or +4 for a total WIS of 14, you should be able to steal 2 feats per Thrall. Some of them may only have 1 Feat (2 if Human), but that's okay.

Assuming that each of your followers has one and only one instance of Psionic Talent (even though you should have been culling a much better herd than that by now ):
Feat Leech only costs 3 PP. This means that each time you steal Psionic Talent you are getting at least 4 PP for a net of 1--minimum--per Feat Leech.
Thrallherd "score" = 8 (Char Lvl) + 4 (Cha) + 3 (PrC Lvl) = 15

Thrall followers by level
1st  2nd  3rd
20   2    1
Thrall (cohort) of 7th Level

Stealing 23~ish Psionic Talents costs 23 x 3 PP = 69 PP
You gain +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 = 322 PP
Net gain = 253 Power Points

When your PP run out 7 minutes later*, you just do it again! (Assuming you saved yourself 3 PP). Steal/use Extend Power while you're at it, it only costs +2 PP. You would still net 207 PP, but would have all your bonus PP for 14 minutes.

* It will take you 23 rounds to do this, leaving you 47 rounds of full PP (117 rounds with Extend).