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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 4455529" data-attributes="member: 29252">The spell does not specify if the sphere is opaque or not.&nbsp; It's just called &quot;Shimmering&quot;.&nbsp; If it's transparent, you could use a Gaze attack through it (such as from the Eyes of Doom, Eyes of Charming, or Eyes of Petrification items; alternately, Shapeshift into something with a Gaze attack).But yes - it blocks line of effect, so the majority of spells won't get past the sphere (but they can hit the sphere, so Disintegrate or Dispel Magic works just fine for getting rid of the Sphere).&nbsp; Bursts spells continue if they destroy the intervening barrier - so you could, in theory, hit the sphere from the inside with a Disjunction and have the Disjunction spell affect those outside the (now-nonexistent) sphere.&nbsp; There's a feat in the Expanded Psionic Handbook that permits powers to pass through barriers (with some caveats).&nbsp; Makes a crazy combo with Telekinetic Sphere.&nbsp; A Psion-Keneticist 15 with Telekinetic Sphere, Burrowing Power, and Psionic Meditation (to regain focus quickly) can manifest Telekinetic Sphere on himself at the start of combat, then just blast away through it (requires a DC 31 Psicraft check - which shouldn't be that hard to do at that level - with 18 ranks, a +8 Intelligence modifier (that's an Int score of 26&nbsp; - a 17 base, +6 Headband, +3 from leveling up, perhaps), and Skill Focus (Psicraft) give a modifier of 29 - you need a 2.&nbsp; If you've got a +2 Tome into Int by that point, you don't fail on a 1).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Simth, post: 4455529, member: 29252"] The spell does not specify if the sphere is opaque or not. It's just called "Shimmering". If it's transparent, you could use a Gaze attack through it (such as from the Eyes of Doom, Eyes of Charming, or Eyes of Petrification items; alternately, Shapeshift into something with a Gaze attack). But yes - it blocks line of effect, so the majority of spells won't get past the sphere (but they can hit the sphere, so Disintegrate or Dispel Magic works just fine for getting rid of the Sphere). Bursts spells continue if they destroy the intervening barrier - so you could, in theory, hit the sphere from the inside with a Disjunction and have the Disjunction spell affect those outside the (now-nonexistent) sphere. There's a feat in the Expanded Psionic Handbook that permits powers to pass through barriers (with some caveats). Makes a crazy combo with Telekinetic Sphere. A Psion-Keneticist 15 with Telekinetic Sphere, Burrowing Power, and Psionic Meditation (to regain focus quickly) can manifest Telekinetic Sphere on himself at the start of combat, then just blast away through it (requires a DC 31 Psicraft check - which shouldn't be that hard to do at that level - with 18 ranks, a +8 Intelligence modifier (that's an Int score of 26 - a 17 base, +6 Headband, +3 from leveling up, perhaps), and Skill Focus (Psicraft) give a modifier of 29 - you need a 2. If you've got a +2 Tome into Int by that point, you don't fail on a 1). [/QUOTE]

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