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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #20 on: December 03, 2010, 06:42:08 PM »
noone mentions the KING OF SMACK?!?
Kalastar Tashalatora (Monk)/Ardent with Customize Mantle and Linked Power/Dominant Ideal is hard to beat.

Stacking size increases you get absurd base unarmed damage, which if you can get Weapon of the Vampire turns into amazing self-healing. Throw in Robilar's Gambit and you instantly heal from your counterattack when you take melee damage.

I listed a very similar build. No Rapidstrike, but Greater Flurry goodness.


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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #21 on: December 03, 2010, 06:48:46 PM »
noone mentions the KING OF SMACK?!?
Kalastar Tashalatora (Monk)/Ardent with Customize Mantle and Linked Power/Dominant Ideal is hard to beat.

Stacking size increases you get absurd base unarmed damage, which if you can get Weapon of the Vampire turns into amazing self-healing. Throw in Robilar's Gambit and you instantly heal from your counterattack when you take melee damage.

I listed a very similar build. No Rapidstrike, but Greater Flurry goodness.
you can even combine these two concepts...

for example:
dragonwrought kobold monk2/psywar11/slayer7

lvl/bab/feat
1/0/1: dragonwrought, monk: improved unarmed strike, monastic training (psywar)
2/1
3/1/3: tashalatora, psywar: practiced manifester
4/2/4: psywar: mantled warrior (freedom mantle)
5/3
6/4/6: multiattack
7/4/7: psywar: psicrystal affinity
8/5
9/6/9: improved multiattack
10/7/10: psywar: expanded knowledge (share pain)
11/8
12/9/12: track
13/9/13: psywar: expanded knowledge (metamorphosis)
14/10
15/11/15: rapidstrike (claws)
16/12
17/13
18/14/18: improved rapidstrike (claws)
19/15
20/16

needed: monk's belt, fanged ring, expansion, claws of the beast, bite of the wolf and dragon tail, vampiric claws, vigor

==> unarmed strikes 6d8 (16/16/16/11/6/1) + claws 12d6 (16/16/11/11/6/6/1/1) + bite (+16) + tail (+16)

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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #22 on: December 04, 2010, 12:49:15 AM »
I was always partial to a mounted The Big Guy is With Me build. Imagine: Mounted on a flying 12-headed hydracrystal, metamorphosis'd into a girallon, with Multiweapon Fighting, dual-wielding two 2-handed lances, with Spirited Charge and Ride-By Attack (as well as an animated lance) and psionic lion's charge.
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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #23 on: December 04, 2010, 02:44:53 AM »
noone mentions the KING OF SMACK?!?
I was well on my way to doing so after about the second post. Though... I'm curious to know what kind of gish he's looking for.
Big differnce between king o smack builds being
Psywar 20 vs Rgr/Psion/Slayer.
Just way more stuff you can do with the second one.
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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #24 on: December 04, 2010, 03:40:25 AM »
I was always partial to a mounted The Big Guy is With Me build. Imagine: Mounted on a flying 12-headed hydracrystal, metamorphosis'd into a girallon, with Multiweapon Fighting, dual-wielding two 2-handed lances, with Spirited Charge and Ride-By Attack (as well as an animated lance) and psionic lion's charge.
And wearing sunglasses.
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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #25 on: December 04, 2010, 04:20:47 PM »
I was always partial to a mounted The Big Guy is With Me build. Imagine: Mounted on a flying 12-headed hydracrystal, metamorphosis'd into a girallon, with Multiweapon Fighting, dual-wielding two 2-handed lances, with Spirited Charge and Ride-By Attack (as well as an animated lance) and psionic lion's charge.
And wearing sunglasses.
Imagine...
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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #26 on: December 04, 2010, 04:44:08 PM »
noone mentions the KING OF SMACK?!?
I was well on my way to doing so after about the second post. Though... I'm curious to know what kind of gish he's looking for.
Big differnce between king o smack builds being
Psywar 20 vs Rgr/Psion/Slayer.
Just way more stuff you can do with the second one.

Ranger/ Psion/ Slayer will always beat Psywar 20 .... and you can still do a "King of Smack" with the Psion Build, only better

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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #27 on: December 04, 2010, 05:01:06 PM »
Storm Disciple 3 in isolation, is rather crazy.

Fitting it into a psi gish build, geared toward where you have to go,
and what you have to do = good stuff.

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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #28 on: December 04, 2010, 07:27:13 PM »
noone mentions the KING OF SMACK?!?
I was well on my way to doing so after about the second post. Though... I'm curious to know what kind of gish he's looking for.
Big differnce between king o smack builds being
Psywar 20 vs Rgr/Psion/Slayer.
Just way more stuff you can do with the second one.

Ranger/ Psion/ Slayer will always beat Psywar 20 .... and you can still do a "King of Smack" with the Psion Build, only better

 :D
Avoid ranger. Total waste of MLs.

There are better ways to do this.
« Last Edit: December 04, 2010, 07:28:46 PM by Lycanthromancer »
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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #29 on: December 04, 2010, 07:48:23 PM »
Avoid ranger. Total waste of MLs.

There are better ways to do this.
Psion 6/ Anarchic Initiate 4/ Slayer 10 ... is Ideal(+16 BAB,19th lvl ML) .... but Ranger is also nice and is very easy to do and very Survivable and Fun at the same time, also does not rely on Buffs all of the time, but can function without using Any powers at all and do just fine ....

there are different ways than Ranger/Psion/Slayer ..... but there are not Better ways using PW

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Re: What is the best psionic gish build?
« Reply #30 on: December 04, 2010, 08:16:47 PM »
Avoid ranger. Total waste of MLs.

There are better ways to do this.
Psion 6/ Anarchic Initiate 4/ Slayer 10 ... is Ideal(+16 BAB,19th lvl ML) .... but Ranger is also nice and is very easy to do and very Survivable and Fun at the same time, also does not rely on Buffs all of the time, but can function without using Any powers at all and do just fine ....

there are different ways than Ranger/Psion/Slayer ..... but there are not Better ways using PW

 :D


Yes, slayer is awesome for psychic warriors. However, they can use those bonus feats well enough that certain builds are better as 'straight' psychic warriors (and I use that word loosely ^_^).
[spoiler]Masculine men like masculine things. Masculine men are masculine. Therefore, liking masculine men is masculine.

I dare anyone to find a hole in that logic.
______________________________________
[/spoiler]I'm a writer. These are my stories. Some are even SFW! (Warning: Mostly Gay.)
My awesome poster collection. (Warning, some are NSFW.)
Agita's awesome poster collection.
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+1 Lycanthromancer
Which book is Lycanthromancer in?
Lyca ... is in the book. Yes he is.
 :D
shit.. concerning psionics optimization, lycan IS the book
[/spoiler]