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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taraxia" data-source="post: 3009362" data-attributes="member: 42426">Er, no. Unless you take feats, regaining focus is a *full-round action* in and of itself. That means that using a metapsionic feat turns a standard action into a standard action + a full round action. This is clearly a higher cost than turning a standard action into a full round action.The sorcerer can spontaneously decide to metamagic a spell, and then metamagic it again and again as long as he has slots, never having to take any feat other than the metamagic feat itself. The Psion who only has the metapsionic feat must take *two rounds* every time he manifests a metapsionic'd power, using up a full round and drawing AoO's to regain focus. If he takes an *extra feat*, he can refocus as a move action -- which means that to keep on manifesting metapsionic'd powers he must refocus as a move action and manifest as a standard action, effectively increasing manifesting time to a full-round action. If he takes *two more feats* to get a psicrystal with a focus, then he gets two "free" metapsionic manifestations -- *assuming he starts out psionically focused and with a focused crystal* -- before he has to start refocusing.This is not a "paltry" cost, and the fact that you refer to it as such is, again, a reason you are not arguing in good faith. If you've actually played a psion you should *know* that regaining focus is a pain in the arse and that whether or not you've expended focus is a very big deal. The sorcerer's unavoidable extended casting time is annoying, yes, but it predominantly nerfs the sorcerer next to the *wizard* (or, in some cases, next to the artificer who's got money to blow on spontaneously metamagic'd wands and scrolls), not the psion, who has to pay a very similar cost to use metapsionics.And if it bothers you that much, just use the PHB2 variant rules for the sorcerer, giving up the familiar for the use of free metamagic. Now he's better than the psion, but the psion is in turn more flavorful, using his "familiar", the psicrystal, for what the sorcerer now does as a lone wolf.</blockquote>

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