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Why Psionics is broken and what to do to fix it
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<blockquote data-quote="Someone" data-source="post: 3013175" data-attributes="member: 5656"><p>Allow me to second that thought that if the psion is fully augmenting his direct damage powers and is dealing more damage than the warmage and outlasts him, there´s something quite strange going on.</p><p></p><p>If we´re throwing personal accounts into play, a psion doesn´t usually throw so many high level powers every day. Most of the time it´s a mixture of high level, lower level but augmented because of the not-free-scaling thing, utility, and lower level powers. Even then they have to be careful not to spend too many PPs in one cmbat, unless he´s positive that there´ll be only one combat before resting (for example, a wilderness encounter just before going to sleep). Frankly, the concerns of several posters here (too many high level powers being thrown around, etc) strike me as theoretical, since except some cases the psions performance isn´t that different from other casters.</p><p> </p><p>The exceptions, though, almost always have something to do with Temporal Acceleration.</p><p></p><p>Also, actual psions tend to be rather one sided. Given the nature of disciplines they tend to be themed and do one thing very well, and the rest not so well, unless they spend many feats on Expanded Knowledge and neglecting things like overchannel/talented, psychic meditation, and metapsionic feats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Someone, post: 3013175, member: 5656"] Allow me to second that thought that if the psion is fully augmenting his direct damage powers and is dealing more damage than the warmage and outlasts him, there´s something quite strange going on. If we´re throwing personal accounts into play, a psion doesn´t usually throw so many high level powers every day. Most of the time it´s a mixture of high level, lower level but augmented because of the not-free-scaling thing, utility, and lower level powers. Even then they have to be careful not to spend too many PPs in one cmbat, unless he´s positive that there´ll be only one combat before resting (for example, a wilderness encounter just before going to sleep). Frankly, the concerns of several posters here (too many high level powers being thrown around, etc) strike me as theoretical, since except some cases the psions performance isn´t that different from other casters. The exceptions, though, almost always have something to do with Temporal Acceleration. Also, actual psions tend to be rather one sided. Given the nature of disciplines they tend to be themed and do one thing very well, and the rest not so well, unless they spend many feats on Expanded Knowledge and neglecting things like overchannel/talented, psychic meditation, and metapsionic feats. [/QUOTE]
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