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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1595292" data-attributes="member: 478">No, that doesn't work, Scion.You cannot pick only a little part of one system and compare it with the whole of another system. That's not giving any useful results.You have to compare how those powers will be used effectively, and that's - at 11th level - a Scorching Ray scaled to maximum effect versus an Energy Missile augmented to maximum effect.You could also compare both at minimum levels (i.e. 3rd caster/manifester level), or any level in between, but you always have to compare equal levels.Level 2 power versus level 2 spell and augmentation used to full effect, scaling used to full effect. Not level 2 power versus level 6 spell or augmentation used to no effect, but scaling used to full effect.I'm well aware, that the cost of the augmented 2nd level power is the same as for a unaugmented 6th level power, but that is the nature of the psionic augmentation system. You can't simply deny that and compare a 3 PP power with an 11th CL spell, that's like comparing a 3rd level Psion to a 11th level Wizard. Not going to give any useful results.The psionic augmentation system has its advantages and disadvantages, one of the disadvantages (more like a balancing factor, tho) is the high cost involved with augmentation, but there are plenty advantages (especially the huge flexibility with the PP system, the 11th level Psion is not even tapping his 6th level power PP reserve to manifest a fully augmented 2nd level power, he will still be able to manifest many more of those than the Wizard afterwards - because of that flexibility, psionic powers do not scale, because it would be utterly ridiculous with the amount of highly effective low level powers they could manifest then, thanks to the non-linear advancement of the PP reserve).If you do not take all of this into account, which I do, your comparison is completely pointless, really.(...and that's not meant to be snippish, rather objective, even tho it sounds otherwise. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)ByeThanee</blockquote>

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