Perhaps it will make a proper gish out of War Mind? 9th level powers, potentially all good saves, DR/-, Sweeping Strike, and power points right out of the box. Oh...and are bonus pp based on ML or manifester levels? If the former, that's twice Wis to pp
Bullseye.
Meaning Abjurant Champion will set my ML to my BAB for both classes (as Ardent and Warmind are two separate manifesting entities with their own independent powers known and such), and I receive bonus pp for high Wisdom from each. Paydirt!
EDIT : And actually, Prime's limit break might be even better. Going the Warblade route with a level of War Mind or some class with it's own mechanic, and a level of Bard gives access to Song of the White Raven and all the borkedness of Inspire Courage shenanigans, along with 9th level powers and the ability to actually use them, and the tankiness of ardent+psicrystal+share pain if you want it. Not to mention a ton of d12's if you have a lot of Warblade levels. I'll see what I can do with it
EDIT #2 : Ok, preliminary builds are showing some impressive numbers, but I still want more out of them, particularly if I can bruteforce in Control Body to get Int+Wis to hit and damage using Shiba Protector (lost my copy of OA, so not sure how evil the prereq's are either).
The first is
Ardent 4/Warblade 10/Abjurant Champion 5/War Mind 1 mixed up to taste and maximum power/maneuver selection, as it scores 18 BAB/ML, 15 IL, and saves of 11/8/12. Also nabs 326 pp assuming a 38 Wisdom (easy enough to do), and can get an Int of 30 as a secondary stat fairly easily.
The second one is more caster-focused IMO, at
Ardent 10/Abjurant Champion 5/War Mind 2/Warblade 3, again mixing to taste and such for maximum usage of ML and IL (which are 17 along with BAB, and 11.5 respectively), with base saves of 10/11 functionally/12 and 438 pp (again assuming 38 Wis).
Once I get a Shiba build up and running, I'll post it up, though it's a distinct possibility it will NOT have Dominant Ideal, as the second build does, because anything less than 17 BAB/ML really will lose out on the exploit of high pp with relatively few manifesting class. Also of note, both these builds require all of one feat (Combat Manifesting) and are assumed human, meaning they have tons of room for custom work, including race if you don't have XP penalties for multiclassing outside favored classes.
EDIT #3 : Last one in this post, I promise!
Psychic Warrior 2/Ardent 4/War Mind 2/Shiba Protector 1/Abjurant Champion 5/Warblade 6 nabs stats of ML/BAB 17, saves of 15/7/12, IL 13, and 408 pp assuming a 36 Wis at 20th level. It will also have 10 Ardent powers known, 2 PsyWar powers known, and 2 War Mind powers known, so not that far behind a usual Ardent gish, and leavng most of the Ardent ones free, as you can snag a good portion of the gishing powers from PsyWar and War Mind selections. You also get Wis to Hit and Damage, regardless of whatever other stat you use, burn 3 feats to get in, but get two back from PsyWar levels, so you're only down one feat on the above two builds, while gaining quite a bit on all but the Warblade heavy ones (and you have access to the two most important ones, IHS and WRT). Also, the Ref save is technically higher due to the first level Warblade level. What do you think?