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Leave a review. Get the caster out of trouble, or sneak your psicrystal up behind somebody and suddenly take its place. This only adds to your already impressive mobility.. Transporter: As the standard Elocater ability; bonus powers are always nice, especially when they are discounted down to 3rd-level i. Since you can enter the class earlier now 5 for Nomads , this ability just got even better. Capricious Step: Unchanged and still awesome; another signature Elocater ability.
This also allows you to escape foes with the Step Up feat - they can follow your first but not your second. Dimension Spring Attack: Unchanged, but improved nonetheless since you get more than one Dimension Step. Note that you still need Spring Attack for this, even if you used Nomad's Step to qualify for the class earlier so get it before this if you want to use it.
Accelerated Action: Unchanged. Effectively, 5 free rounds of haste per day, parceled out as you choose. I would skip them both, dropping out at 8 and saving a valuable ML in the process. Overview: One of my favorite PrCs also got the most massive overhaul. Learn your own rules! Manifesting: This class brings back a bit of nostalgia from 3. This is excellent news, however - it means that even on the "dead levels" where the class gains no ML or Powers Known, it still gains PP as though advancing in Psion.
This fits the image of the class as becoming the ultimate psionic battery. I bet Psiforged would love this one. Note: it's not a perfect PP stack - after all, your bonus PP are based on ML, of which you lose 3 - but porting Practiced Manifester in from CPsi should cover that and give you the maximum possible for your level and ability score.
Cognizance Psicrystal: You can store extra PP in your psicrystal. Remember that the cardinal rule for Cognizance Crystals i. Sequestration: If you have Hyperconscious, this should look familiar. By "switching off" a number of powers you know in your mind, you get to increase your PP pool by those powers' cost. Unlike the Hyperconscious version, sequestering is not permanent - you can reactivate "switched off" powers every morning, and deactivate new ones throughout the day as needed or leave them all turned on, and have "just" the normal PP of a psion of your level.
You don't have to choose which ones to switch off until you determine that you need the extra juice. Eat your heart out, Body Fuel. More Dakka indeed. Did I mention how much I love this class? Font of Power: The Metamind's signature ability; one minute of unlimited power points.
More on this ability: - You've got 10 rounds of this - use them wisely! Bestow Power. Research your strategy carefully before trying anything tricky with this. Sure you're going to be a target for everything in the room, but with uninterruptable manifesting, what can stop you? Well, maybe getting your head chopped off Not only is this class playable now, it's strong and flavorful as well.
This may as well be the Archpsion if you ask me. It gets positively lethal if you bring in 3. All those extra powers you're never going to use? Sequester them, and end up with more ammunition than a sorcerer could ever dream of, without ever sacrificing anything in your core complement.
The best part is you can do this on the fly, just like you do with your UPD. These classes were made for each other. Naturally, it's good for Psions and Ardents too. Kudos to DSP for finally fixing this great class. In practical terms, you're likely to have much less - even an Erudite will probably end up having to dip into low-level stuff. Features: d6 HD: Up from d4. Skill changes: No Knowledge Psionics - but pretty much any class you would enter this with has it anyway.
Manifesting: Unchanged. This still loses 4 ML dead levels in the same spots , which means non-Ardents may find it tough to swallow. It does have several buffs to try and compensate for the low ML however. Shed Body: You now get this iconic ability as soon as you enter the class. Furthermore, shedding is now a move action instead of a standard, allowing you to manifest on the same round that you drop your shell and benefit from the DC boost.
In terms of total time this is a nerf e. Since, outside of combat, you're only likely to want to "wink out" briefly e. Matter-Bound New : This is a much needed corollary ability. Now, Uncarnates have the option to absorb their equipment into their ghostly forms - this switches it off, but allows them to take everything with them from level 1. No more stripping naked and throwing all your stuff into your bag of holding assuming you even had one ; now you just take your stuff with you, return to corporeality and it all pops back into existence when you do.
You can also choose to leave your gear material while you fade out - this gives you the combat benefits of being incorporeal minus the deflection to AC but without the ability to walk through walls. Thus, if all you wanted was to be immune to mundane damage for instance and still have access to your items, you can opt for that too. A much-needed buff.
Incorporeal Touch: Mostly unchanged, except that it has been compressed a bit instead of getting damage boosts at 1, 5, and 9, you get them at 2,5,8. It's not the most damaging ability in the world, but a special attack that works on both worlds could be useful.
Uncarnate Armor: You can now keep your armor active while absorbed, including magic effects like Fortification. Since you don't get Cha to AC like other incorporeal creatures, this is handy. Best of all, this doesn't count for Assume Equipment see below which has its own tracker.
Assume Equipment: Unchanged from the XPH ability, though now you don't have to count armor it stays active even when subsumed, including any special abilities on it, so there's no reason to. Fool people, but make sure you don't float through walls or accept items from them, or the jig's up. This can be used on an ally's equipment as well. Hide Mind New : An odd ability; nothing can identify you as being psionic. Everything about this class seems to be designed to freak people out; not sure what else you'd use this for.
The ultimate idea seems to be making you into an Unbodied. Psionic Talent: Free feats are always nice. Note that the power this duplicates has been greatly buffed from the XPH version, as Telekinetic Thrust has been rolled into it, so having this at-will at least, while ghostly gives you some potent attack options. You can force incorporeal creatures to be corporeal by expending focus or vice-versa by expending an IT use.
All of their equipment is similarly affected. You can use this offensively force that pesky wraith to manifest so the party can wail on him or defensively touch the party and take them all with you through the wall. Both uses last up to a minute, and you can end either as a swift action whenever you like. Uncarnate Bridge: As the XPH ability, except it's now a move action , but you lose the "damage" option. Instead, you can nauseate both the entry and exit creatures.
This is a Fort rather than a Will save. It is unclear whether you have to be adjacent to or in the same square as either party before or after transit. Uncarnate: The famous capstone - you drop your body forever. You also keep the armor bonus from Uncarnate Armor! With Shed Body being much stronger, you can now actually forgo the capstone in this class until Epic, allowing you to grab 9th-level powers before then without being an Ardent, and retain most of the iconic benefits.
While I still question the worth of staying in the class for a full manifester particularly given how much the base classes have been buffed , it does have its flavor niche, and very unique abilities that should stand out in any campaign. If you want a durable manifester that is very hard to constrain or kill, Uncarnate may be for you.
Telepaths and Seers do well with this class, since it has strong benefits for manifesters that are able to get into their foes' heads. This version is significantly improved over the 3.
Features: d8 HD: Up from d6. Requirements: Changed from Concentration 9 ranks to Acrobatics 6 ranks. If you're a monk with a nonpsionic race, for example. For non-psionic races this is a nerf, for the psionic ones it's a wash. Skill changes: Acrobatics gives them Balance.
Luckily, you likely have these from Monk. Manifesting: As I mentioned above, you have two options here: Upon entering the class, you can go with a the standard Psionic Fist progression, i.
Dead levels are PF 1 and 6. In addition, you get Ki Power, which lets half your PF levels count towards your ki pool and ki strike. Psychic Fist means you get most of the meat of monk without the crappy bits. But more importantly, you'll be wanting to keep your focus up for other abilities too, so this is a fair bonus. Mesmerizing Glow: AoE daze is nice - at least one monster is bound to fail their save if your Wis is high enough, and the beauty about this is that it isn't mind-affecting.
What's nice is that it only needs LoS, so you can fire it off from inside a sphere or something, but the short range could put you in danger. All in all - it's better than most ki abilities, but nothing too astounding. Bonus Feat: The sole class feature of the Psionic Fist returns, and it's as good as ever.
If you entered as a non-psionic race, consider this a refund. Concentrated Will: This is great if you optimize your check - ignore all damage from one hit by making an Autohypnosis check. If you have no better use for your ki, you may as well put it here.
Unfortunately, it requires an immediate action, so you can only do this once per round. Psionic Acrobatics: F Wis to Acrobatics checks as long as you stay focused. Psychic Fusion: The capstone is nice but not mind-blowing. Confirm a crit, and you can manifest any standard-action-or-less power that includes whoever you hit as a target or in its area as a swift action.
Sounds nice in theory, but most of the psychic warrior list consists of self-buffs rather than offensive powers, so you won't be able to use them with this; ergo, you'll likely get more mileage out of this ability if you used PsyFist to progress a more directly offensive manifester, than if you'd used it's innate progression. Still, it's nice to have.
This PrC was actually two classes in 3. Features: d10 hd: Up from d8. New Skill: Know Psionics is likely to be more relevant in most campaigns than Dungeoneering, so I consider this a buff. Besides, you get dungeoneering from Ranger anyway.
You DID enter with Ranger, right?? If you entered with Ranger, nothing changed - you still got your entry feat for free. If you didn't though, you need SF: Survival there is no "Track" feat in PF or the Iron Will feat; non-rangers will likely prefer the latter as will saves tend to come up reliably.
In addition, as above, Psionics is generally a more likely to be rolled knowledge - particularly in a psionic campaign - than Dungeoneering is. Story Prereq: A clear nerf over the SRD Slayer, this roleplay requirement demands you to have had a hostile encounter with your favored enemy type see below before entering. However, this one at least doesn't demand that you win and win alone at that!
Since all that is needed is an encounter, you can much more easily justify writing it into your backstory too. How many adventurers have had their village destroyed by a dragon, or escaped mindflayer slavery with nothing but the clothes on their back? Proficiencies: Unchanged.
Favored Enemy: You now get the bonus to attack rolls as well. This is in line with the same buff PF rangers got over their 3. Enemy Sense: Unchanged. Brain Nausea: F As expected, this one was changed a lot. Overall I think it came out ahead though. This encompasses both targeted and area effects.
This is generally more useful than keeping your brain from getting eaten because, let's face it, if your brain was about to get eaten you were probably losing the fight anyway. Similarly, a 1st-level 3.
However, it does mean that yours isn't capped now either. Instead of inexplicably finding your brain distasteful, your enemy is afflicted with status effects that actually have a chance to turn the tide of battle - sickened, then nauseated, then stunned as you gain levels in the class.
Those last two prevent them from using psionics on you at all or, just as importantly, your allies , so I would definitely prefer those to a mere aversion. I never really saw the appeal of this class - if I want to set something on fire, I can guarantee that having manifesting will make it a lot easier than not having manifesting would. Fluff incongruencies aside, I can understand a melee class simply wanting to jazz things up a bit - so here we are. Features: d8 hd: Unchanged.
They lose Craft though and still need it for entry. But the kicker is that you get Autohypnosis now too! Autohypnosis replaces Concentration as your entry req. Whip Proficiency: Yet another WotC hole that DSP was forced to plug - you no longer eat nonproficiency penalties for using your own weapon. DSP took it a step further and gave you proficiency with all whips, not just your fire lash - enjoy. This is the equivalent of a free feat, just for entering the class.
Fire Lash: The standard benefits are still here, but now, the Soulknife gets some additional love - if you have the Altered Blade bladeskill, you can use the whip with all your Soulknife class features - adding an enhancement bonus and abilities with Enhanced Blade, add Psychic Strike damage, even add the trip and disarm properties of a regular whip if you took Weapon Special.
Needless to say, this is a staggering buff, and makes it pretty clear which class this PrC was meant for. But there is a catch isn't there always? Even Psychic Strike becomes fire damage, as do other sources of bonus damage like sneak attack. But the good news is that you can still form your regular mind blade if you're up against something that's immune to fire.
Note however that the class still doesn't ADVANCE Soulknife, so if you want as much power out of your "mind whip" as possible, don't take too many levels after getting this. The healing is a nice way to use your PP, as most Soulknives have no use for it; sadly, it is self-only. Carry a torch with you and you can produce minor utility on command. Fire Adaptation: As before, except both bonuses double at Pyro 7.
Hand Afire: As before, except the damage doubles at 8th level consistent with Weapon Afire from the 3.
Bolt of Fire: Unchanged. Sadly, you can still only do one projectile at a time with this rather than enchanting a stack. Nimbus: Unchanged. The visual is cool hot? Disappointing that this wasn't buffed even that much. Beware, because it's dispellable and will also provoke. Firewalk: Unchanged.
Leech Heat: A fantastic new ability - unlimited healing! As if that weren't enough, this gives you a way to damage fire-based creatures. If you did want to stay in Pyro, this is a compelling reason. Note that by RAW, this will heal you even if used on something that is resistant or immune to cold, letting you spam your way back to full health. Penetrating Fire: A new and much-needed ability - your attacks can pierce fire resistance.
This applies to Hand and Weapon afire as well. It also applies to Nimbus the touch attack, not the aura. Heat Death : This no longer kills , but instead does fire damage every round you concentrate. Not only that, but a successful save causes half-damage and forces you to restart the ability. That's right, half-damage - so it actually does even less on a successful save than it used to.
Otherwise unchanged. Fire Soul: A new capstone , very nice. Fire immunity is something I would expect a Pyro to have; the additional uses of Nimbus are very welcome as well. In my opinion, the best ability of this class is given to you at level 1 particularly if you're a soulknife. A good strategy is to dip this, then form your mind blade with a different set of abilities and no fire damage.
Then you can use this on fire-vulnerable enemies, while using your regular blade on fire-resistant ones. You can also dual-wield - creating your regular blade in Light form while wielding the fire lash one-handed. You can even apply your full enhancement bonus to both of them by RAW. Alternatively, progress to Weapon Afire and add 2dd6 to your mind blade for free i. Many of the changes were subtle; holes were plugged through which optimizers might have otherwise escaped; other powers were given augmentation options that did not previously exist, allowing them to scale better; and some were simply renamed to get away from "X, Psionic: as X, except as noted here.
While I'll review all the powers here, I'll spend more time of course on the ones that changed - those that didn't, I'll simply flag as being identical to their XPH version and move on. General Changes This is not an exhaustive list - as more occur to me I may update it. As stated earlier, elemental powers no longer let you choose the damage type on the fly unless you are a kineticist. You must instead choose your "default" energy type, and can change it only when you gain psionic focus or temporarily when you surge, if you're a wilder.
I have warmed to this change, as in 3. These are represented in the default fluff by needing specially treated or cut crystals that focus your psionic power, and are burned out once you manifest.
An adaptation exists that lets you dispense with crystals even psicrystals entirely if your campaign wishes - replacing them with other materials, like special thought-focusing incense, or phials of refined ectoplasm etc. Psicrystals can be replaced with things like dolls of the character, ectoplasmic homunculi etc.
Though DSP did their best to keep the system totally component-free and did a fantastic job imo , balancing every single effect without gp costs no doubt proved difficult - particularly for such an open-ended effect as Reality Revision.
It does make a certain amount of sense that such a powerful ability would require outside help. However, it has been clarified that powers that require you to subsequently touch the target, point your finger etc. This is not a full-on somatic component, merely a clarification that you still can't, say, Feat Leech someone requires a touch attack if they have your arms manacled behind you. Similarly, powers that involve speaking e.
Though maybe your allies can gather something from you appearing in their heads saying "Mmmrph mmrph!!! This is in keeping with Pathfinder's rule that negative levels don't affect spellcasters' casting abilities either.
The other penalties reduced attack rolls and saves, etc. Your effective ML is also decreased - this affects variables such as ability to overcome PR, power durations etc.
To manifest them this way you must typically expend psionic focus. Here is a nice trick though - unlike the "Discipline Talents" from the Psion section, which work much the same way, manifesting these powers with the cantrip option does allow you to apply Metapsionic feats to them.
Buffs are blue. Nerfs are red. The color of a power's name gives its overall ranking relative to its XPH version. This may be due to changes specific to the power itself, or general differences between PF and 3.
Adapt Body - Unchanged. Affinity Field - A small clarifying clause added to the "immunity" section prevents your own sudden immunity to a particular effect from prematurely terminating that effect on creatures within the field unless they gain the immunity effect as well. That's a mouthful, so here's an example: Spoiler. Say an area fear effect e. Fear hits the folks within your field, and you make your will save, becoming shaken, while everyone else panics.
On your next turn you quickly Mind Blank - however, while this will make you immune to Cause Fear, MB is too high to be transmitted through the field, and so everyone else will still be scared. If you are hit with Remove Fear instead, however, that will be transmitted through the field it is low level and de-fear everyone. The power has been weakened to compensate for this; the target now gets an additional fort save 24 hours later to get the powers back, only requiring chirurgery or revision if that save fails.
It has also been clarified that the deleted powers no longer count as "powers known" when the subject gains a level - which is good news if this power was used on you, since it means you can pick new powers to replace the deleted ones as well as your normal powers when you gain a level, catching you up to the table. You can thus relearn the deleted powers when you level. It also means that psychic reformation will let you reselect the lost powers, since they no longer count as powers known, giving you empty slots to fill.
Which means this level 9 power can be undone by a level 4 power, so try and delete that one. Apopsi is quite a bit weaker now due to these changes, but I doubt anyone except DMs was using this thing anyway, so it doesn't really matter in my book.
Clarification: The temp HP gained from multiple partial assimilation do not stack. This is RAW, but was not clearly stated before. The power you learn from assimilation is now chosen randomly. The disguise bonus is unchanged. The bonus to your ability scores is now a function of your strength relative to the target. No more slurping anthills or more practically, Bag of Tricks to buff up before a fight. Baleful Teleport: Unchanged.
Banish R : This is the renamed form of Psionic Banishment. Banishment, Psionic R : See Banish. Barred Mind R : Spoiler. This is the renamed form of Psionic Mind Blank. You retain immunity to scrying and other information-gathering effects. An augment has been added, however, letting you boost the saving throw bonus by spending PP ratio.
Ironically, this nerf does plug a paradox in the power - Psionic Mind Blank protects against mind-affecting powers, but is itself mind-affecting. Now that all it does is boost your save, this does not come into play as the power is harmless. Has been lowered to 7! Discipline powers it can access are now dropped to 5th-level and lower unless they are from your own discipline.
The save DC has of course been lowered accordingly as well. As there are no XP costs in Pathfinder, manifesting this now requires gp instead for a specially-constructed crystal array. This brings it in line with Pathfinder Limited Wish. However, no additional costs are needed for emulating costly powers or spells.
Yeah, you saw this nerf coming. So you can make it a donation, but no better than that no matter what you do. Oh, actually that's not quite all: You cannot use any "free" sources of points, like Wild Surge or Font of Power. One more nerf: "This power is not subject to the effects of Affinity Field. So now when your friend asks for PP, yell "get your own! This one's tricky. For Psywars its a definite nerf, for everyone else a buff. Basically, the automatic scaling has been removed, and replaced by an augment option This means that other classes can benefit from having a boosted bite.
Them's the breaks. On the other hand, you can now PrC out with your Psywar and still get a full bite - or be a gish e.
So, jury's out on this one; I'll let you guys judge. This is the renamed form of, naturally, Psionic Iron Body. Psywars get it now too level 6 for them so definite yay there especially since it means your psion can cheat and nab it at 13 instead of
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