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need 2 feat choices for Psionic Fist
« on: May 14, 2011, 10:01:27 PM »
Hi all!  I could use some advice, if I may borrow your ear.  (eyes?)

TL;DR below.
I have a character in a campaign that is wrapping down in the next few sessions.  I am having some trouble with deciding what bonus psionic feat,  lvl 12 feat, and power(s) I am going to take next.  Most non-campagin setting books are allowed, though my DM does not tend to allow things that involved other non-standard systems (for example, Tome of Battle is banned).  He has also disallowed Improved Natural Attack (unarmed strike).  We are currently in a dungeon crawl, and I just gained my fifth level of Psionic Fist.  Our party is rather large, 7 members, not very optimized in most cases (paladin, barbarian, ultimate magus, druid healer, rogue, and sorc/fighter/spellsword/elemental savant ??? build).  This has been a very low treasure campaign (my total career treasure is 70 gold and a pair of Boots of Jumping, along with mundane equipment.  I have never so much as seen a wand of anything, let alone a potion of cure light wounds...)

Edit:  Leadership is banned, too.

Build:
Human Monk 6 / Psionic fist 5
STR 17, DEX 16, CON 14, INT 13, WIS 18, CHA 12
powers known:
Inertial Armor, Expansion, Animal Affinity, Body Adjustment, ???
feats:
Wild Talent (lvl 1)
Overchannel (human bonus)
Improved Grapple (monk bonus)
Combat Reflexes (monk bonus)
Battle Jump (lvl 3)
Up the Walls (lvl 6)
Improved Trip (monk bonus)
Practiced Manifester (lvl 9)
??? (bonus psionic)
??? (lvl 12)

My main tactics are to tumble behind foes and flurry, expansion and place myself in range to AoO trip lower strength enemies.  When possible, I run up the walls and battle jump down on people (I managed to trip a Cryohydra XD).

TL;DR: Anyhow, here is what I need help from your collective wisdom:  I am now gaining a bonus psionic feat, and will level to 12 before the end of the campaign and gain that feat as well.  Advice on powers would be useful as well, if you have nuggets to share.

Powers:  Ones I am considering are Hostile Empathetic Transfer, Hustle, Psionic Lion's Charge, and Dimension Slide.

Feats:  I am heavily considering Psicrystal Affinity, which would depend heavily on my DM's interpretation of it's capabilities and HD advancement.  If I were to take it, and give it feats, which ones would I want to give it?  Do I want to give it wild talent, psionic feats, and learn Feat Leech?  do I want it to have mindsight, healing devotion, and spell hand?  If you have advice on other feats to give the crystal, I am all ears!
Other psionic feats I might take I am unsure about.. What would be good for my character?  What level 12 feat might I want?

I implore you, o great swarm of anonymous forum lurkers, aid my plight, and i will show my gratitude by sending you a cookie!  A mental cookie, but a fresh-from-the-oven cookie nontheless!

Thanks y'all!
« Last Edit: May 15, 2011, 06:02:27 PM by dasbif »

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Re: need 2 feat choices for Psionic Fist
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2011, 05:28:00 PM »
 :( ... let's say this is a Tier 5 or lower campaign,
but don't tell the DM or the other PCs.


11b feat --- should be Linked Power metapsi.
Pick the Lions Charge power.
You can open each (most?) combat with
X link Lions Charge, to go off the next round.
So on round 2 you close the gap, and attack twice.
After that, go back to your routine.
Make sure your DM knows you have less than 1/4th the "spell" points as the Sorc,
and the linked power routine is something a PsyWar can do at level 4.

12 feat --- should be Leadership and pick a "weak" whimpy Wizard.
Gandy The Lame ... should buff you first, and the party next,
and "accidentally" suck at everything else, except
that little Battlefield control thingy nobody knows about.
Make sure your DM knows the Wizard is 2 or 3 levels behind everyone else,
and is cranky, because the two of you don't know how to cooperate just yet (roleplay).

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Re: need 2 feat choices for Psionic Fist
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2011, 06:01:22 PM »
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sadly, no leadership.  (will add that restriction to the OP)

As for Linked Power, I'm not clear on how that sequence would be any different than simply.. manifesting psionic lion's charge on the second turn.  it's a swift action, after all.  Wouldn't it make more sense to just double buff with the linked second buff going off on the second round, and then charge?  I feel like I'm missing something here.

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Re: need 2 feat choices for Psionic Fist
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2011, 07:20:36 PM »
hmm ... well lets say the DM was informed that Monks
don't pass the Same Game Test at levels 5 or 10 or 15.

So a Monk build that's basically a Monk 11 with slightly different
class abilities, is kinda weak sauce. I don't mean that meanly.

11) Psicrystal Affinity
12) Expanded Knowledge: Bestow Power
and buy a 1 powerpoint Cognizance Crystal.

You and the psicrystal get to use the cheapest and easiest
powerpoint recharge set-up. Before your DM blanches,
explain you would do anything other than buffs on you and the psicrystal.

The recharge gives you no more goodies,
than what the Sorc gets to walk around with normally.
And you are major Spell Levels behind said Sorc.

Other than helping the recharge, the Psicrystal
has a few different skills, and can sneak around corners
to tell you a little something.