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petertmorgan · 10-08-2003, 09:02 AM

I'm not sure exactly what the rest of your party is, but you mentioned three spell casters.

I recently finished a full-fledged (6+2) party that included fig-rog-ran-bar-bis-psi-vi-rfs.
We finished at levels 18-22 and really, the melee capabilities of this party were so good that my psionic was basically worthless at the end except for providing a fast 1st round level 7 soul shield. Even with powercast in the 70s, her spells did little to the high level/high hitpoint monsters (compared to the 100-300+ points my meleers each did every round). The bishop, on the other hand, was very useful, nicely covering all the spell books except Psionic, even at level 19.

I think that if you are a magic heavy party, then by developing you psionic's powercast up to 100 you might have a useful late game character (more useful than switching), but if you have a few strong meleers, or don't have all the books covered, you might get more out of dual classing to bishop to keep you psionic expertise (plenty of time to up Psionic back to where it was with the bonus) and add spell books. On the other hand, I agree that if this is the case it would have been done to your advantage sooner

10-08-2003, 09:02 AM	#10
petertmorgan Dungeon Master Join Date: August 13, 2003 Location: CT Age: 54 Posts: 69	I'm not sure exactly what the rest of your party is, but you mentioned three spell casters. I recently finished a full-fledged (6+2) party that included fig-rog-ran-bar-bis-psi-vi-rfs. We finished at levels 18-22 and really, the melee capabilities of this party were so good that my psionic was basically worthless at the end except for providing a fast 1st round level 7 soul shield. Even with powercast in the 70s, her spells did little to the high level/high hitpoint monsters (compared to the 100-300+ points my meleers each did every round). The bishop, on the other hand, was very useful, nicely covering all the spell books except Psionic, even at level 19. I think that if you are a magic heavy party, then by developing you psionic's powercast up to 100 you might have a useful late game character (more useful than switching), but if you have a few strong meleers, or don't have all the books covered, you might get more out of dual classing to bishop to keep you psionic expertise (plenty of time to up Psionic back to where it was with the bonus) and add spell books. On the other hand, I agree that if this is the case it would have been done to your advantage sooner