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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 5124830" data-attributes="member: 60886">My impression that the limited power selection of the psionics classes isn't as big a deal as it first appears.  For one thing, you do get to swap to new powers every few levels, so there's room for variety.  But in practice, I've noticed that once non-psionic characters get past level 7, they're using encounters and a sprinkling of dailies for the "important" bits of each fight anyway, with the occasional at-will as backup.  And the psionic characters will wind up doing the same thing, except their "encounters" are augmented at-wills.Anyway, toss me in with the "doesn't get the Ardent" group.  I'll have to keep looking.I think I'm starting to grok the Battlemind, though.  At first, comparing the class features to fighter features, it seemed like a rather poor defender.  But I'm realizing that there's an awful lot of neat stuff packed into those at-will and daily powers that fighters don't get.  Plus, Speed of Thought is HUGE.My only very minor complaint about the monk is that in the end they wind up not really doing much with the unarmed attack proficiency.  And I really want a monk multiclass feat that grants Unarmed Combatant.The psion class feels like it lends itself to controller builds with narrow but powerful focus, rather than "batman" builds.  I wholly approve.Runepriest I'm warming up to.  I actually really like that there's a divine class (a leader, no less!) with a build that has absolutely no need for Wisdom.  I disagree that these guys are anything like Str clerics... their healing is terrible, but their buffing is crazy good, and the Str/Con build is a much better tank than any cleric.Seeker is the class I was probably most interested in before seeing PHB3, and the least interested in after.  It's not even anything I can quite put my finger on... I think they mostly just feel like alternate Ranger builds.</blockquote>

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