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Interested2 04-24-05, 08:21 PM	All 3.0 and 3.5, Dragon and Dungeon allowed. What are the best Psionic powers? Normally I'd search, as I'm sure it's been done before, but search is down (suprise). My top picks are Vigor, Hostile Empathic Transfer, Energy Ray, and Disintegrate. Please, ideas?
catharz 04-24-05, 08:41 PM	Define "best"... As far as pure usefulness, I think Telepathy by far gets the most. Psychic reformation, Schism, Psychic chiurgury, Psionic dominate... As far as pure 'psionicness,' here are a few: Kinesis 1: Far hand, Inertial armor, Psionic levitate. 2: Dimension swap, Hustle, Prowess, Psionic lion's charge. 3: Mental barrier. 4: Immovability, Psionic dimensional anchor, Psionic freedom of movement, Psionic fly. 5: Psionic teleport. 7: Fate of one. 8: Mass time hop. 9: Psionic teleportation circle, Time regression. Metabolism 1: Biofeedback, Bite of the wolf, Chameleon, Claws of the beast. 2: Body adjustment, Body purification. 5: Oak body, Psychofeedback. 6: Form of doom. Telepathy 1: Detect psionics, Mindlink, Synesthete. 4: Psychic reformation, Schism. 9: Psychic chiurgery.
RadicalTaoist 04-24-05, 08:54 PM	The Races books (Stone, Destiny, Eberron, etc.) have some amazing powers.
lokkesmadr 04-24-05, 10:21 PM	Crystal Shard is an amazingly useful power in a world with magic/psionics transparency. Notice that it's an instantaneous creation effect? That means you can casually throw them through antimagic fields at the bad people on the other side/in the middle. Defensively this is very handy when you're standing 25 feet behind your Eldritch Knight friend and using his AMF as a shield, offensively it's rather handy when you want to do something pointy to the BBEG in the middle of his own hollow AMF
Lina_Inverse 04-25-05, 02:27 AM	3.0 mind switch,thrall. 3.0 schism(+2psps,ignoreing augmentation cap) all the ones you mentioned arent so great. energy ray deals damage=pft vigor gives temp hp=strictly worse heal disentagrate is a non-scaleing version of a arcane spell,and its DC doesnt scale either=absolutely worthless empathic transfer hostile=.....mind....affecting.....attac k....spell.
Sir Ringe 04-25-05, 02:35 AM	Mindlink is such a good power especially at such a low level. Especially augmented, so you can keep your entire party connected psychically.
Ashianyl 04-25-05, 02:53 AM	My top pick would be Anticipatory Strike (Races of Destiny) This is the ultimate low level contingency power. DM: The mage casts MDJ at your party. PC: Wait! I use Anticipatory Strike now. I charge the mage before the spell appears. DM: The cleric casts a quickened Harm and gets ready to pummel you with a full attack. PC: Wait! I use Anticipatory Strike now... etc.
Tempest Stormwind 04-25-05, 10:22 AM	My top pick would be Anticipatory Strike (Races of Destiny) This is the ultimate low level contingency power. DM: The mage casts MDJ at your party. PC: Wait! I use Anticipatory Strike now. I charge the mage before the spell appears. DM: The cleric casts a quickened Harm and gets ready to pummel you with a full attack. PC: Wait! I use Anticipatory Strike now... etc. Not QUITE how it works... If either of those happened while you were flat-footed, you can't use it. Furthermore, the best you could do without some form of future sense is to pull it off on the same initiative count you see the spell appear on (see spellcasting, manifest power). This means you need a higher dexterity than the mage to go before he does.
Timespike 04-25-05, 11:26 AM	I've always been a fan of psychic crush, myself.