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Re: Building an effective Psion on 5+ encounters a day
« Reply #20 on: May 30, 2009, 07:03:46 PM »
I have used the minor creation method of power conservation in my game. It is extremely effective because my DM is very accepting about what I can do with my craft skills. For example in my characters first battle I created two Scorpion siege weapons, which were treated as huge Heavy crossbows and were used to fire poison headed bolts. They basically vaporized the enemy's they hit and usually killed or at least wounded those around them with the poison splash. This cost about 5 PP and basically got rid of half of the enemy forces.

Another trick I found is to get overchannel  and talented and used it not to augment to a higher level but to increase duration with no attentional cost.

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Re: Building an effective Psion on 5+ encounters a day
« Reply #21 on: May 30, 2009, 10:30:31 PM »
If you wish to pwn face 5x per day as a psion you can do no better than the kineticist power Energy Channel coupled with solicit psicrystal.

Doing 2x ML in d6 damage to multiple foes per round, with the possibility of jacking that over you ML with overchannel is, in my mind, the epitome of a successful combat build.  Furthermore, doing so requires a paltry 23 power points at minimum.  By the time you've access to 5th level powers I think that should be sustainable enough over 5 encounters.

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Re: Building an effective Psion on 5+ encounters a day
« Reply #22 on: May 30, 2009, 10:49:46 PM »
If you wish to pwn face 5x per day as a psion you can do no better than the kineticist power Energy Channel coupled with solicit psicrystal.

Doing 2x ML in d6 damage to multiple foes per round, with the possibility of jacking that over you ML with overchannel is, in my mind, the epitome of a successful combat build.  Furthermore, doing so requires a paltry 23 power points at minimum.  By the time you've access to 5th level powers I think that should be sustainable enough over 5 encounters.
I think you mean Energy Conversion, a 7th level power. He's only 7th level. It will be a while before he can use this. It is an extremely efficient way to blast things though, once you can use it.
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Re: Building an effective Psion on 5+ encounters a day
« Reply #23 on: May 31, 2009, 12:31:14 AM »
I...don't think he did mean energy conversion. Then again, I've never heard of energy channel, so...

Maybe he meant energy current...
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Re: Building an effective Psion on 5+ encounters a day
« Reply #24 on: May 31, 2009, 12:46:08 AM »
Am I the only one that isn't impressed with earth power?  You know you need to expend focus to do that right?  That means no metapsionics or anything else you wanted to tweak your powers (like talented) with.  Metapower is much better and it CAN reduce the cost to zero. 
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Re: Building an effective Psion on 5+ encounters a day
« Reply #25 on: May 31, 2009, 01:26:17 AM »
Metapower can reduce the metamagic cost to zero, but not the cost of the power itself. Also, it only applies to one power with one metapsionic feat (Also, Earth Power just prohibits you from expending your psionic focus on the power, rather than expending it. Still potentially annoying, but not mindnumbingly so).

Energy Current is nice, but even with EK it is a way off.

Edit: Being off-topic, since bestow power is banned, but metapower+linked power is a feasible start for a recharge setup. Then just add either SRD Torque of Power Preservation or Psicrystal Containment +midnight augmentation and you can get a bestow power linked bestow power for pp recharge fun.
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Re: Building an effective Psion on 5+ encounters a day
« Reply #26 on: June 03, 2009, 03:17:49 PM »
Am I the only one that isn't impressed with earth power?  You know you need to expend focus to do that right?  That means no metapsionics or anything else you wanted to tweak your powers (like talented) with.  Metapower is much better and it CAN reduce the cost to zero. 

Try reading it again. The first line of the feat description: you have to maintain focus not expend it.  The second paragraph explicitly states you can't expend your focus on the same power as the one you gained the benefits of the feat on.

oh and btw it isn't that godly of a feat anyway.  He just asked for some ways to be able to manifest all day long, 5+ fights that is, and this feat is conducive to that.
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Re: Building an effective Psion on 5+ encounters a day
« Reply #27 on: June 03, 2009, 07:30:29 PM »
Metamorphic Transfer feat, and an Item of Alter Self,
gets you parts of a 9th level spell, 3/day.
That "almost" takes care of 3 encounters.
Then you get to be a slightly above average Psion for the other 2+

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Re: Building an effective Psion on 5+ encounters a day
« Reply #28 on: June 06, 2009, 04:56:00 AM »
Minor creation => Black Lotus => Natural slam attacks.

Dig up the old ardent vs factotum discussion thread on this forum.  I believe there was even a fully statted 5th level ardent that just walked around covered in black lotus poison all day.

Ardents have less int for craft checks AND fewer feats than psions, so if a 5th level ardent can make do on four powers per day (minor creation, vigor, share pain, hustle) you can too.
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