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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 1596953" data-attributes="member: 5777">So what? So, if I have 100 pp are you going to compare it with 100 1st level?33 2nd level? 5 9th level? Some random amounts in between? Anything you stick with will wind up giving you slightly different results. In the end you would have to compare every variation, and then take the average of the results, and then 'still' not having something that was all that useful.Yep, but caster types have a lot of slots, this is also flexibility, just not to the same extent all of the time. Although, sometimes more.Especially since, if you use a lot of the higher up ones to get the bigger advantages you just cant compete with the sheer number of spells that are being cast. If you use the lower ones then you cant compete with the power output. Effectively you have to choose which part of the road to be in. You can burn out quickly and be, maybe, slightly better than the arcane types. You can last much, much longer but be no where near as powerful for any particular part.The option is great, and it makes up for the fact that generally the overall effect will be slightly behind the other caster.Sounds like balance.Psions have augmentation and greater versitility, arcane tend to have many more total 'effective' pp and they get free scaling.Both have their own strengths and weaknesses. Saying one is unilaterly better without taking into account 'everything' just cant be done usefully. Taking in 'everything' is a bit beyond what we have done here. Well beyond in fact.Plus, even then, you have to then say that even if they are unilaterly better overall, is that a bad thing? or is it something that should be changed in other casters to make them better in order to make the whole system more balanced overall. (which is not my saying that either one is so horribly overpowered compared to the other that this is the case, merely that it is the next logical step if the orignial premise of that arguement is shown)</blockquote>

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