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Not looking to necro the thread but I think the max refocus out of combat is 2.
First i think the language is sloppy. "Up to your maximum of 2" when the class defaults to three at a higher level seems like poor foresight. I think changing "your" to "a" would make the interpretation much clearer.
I also think that the use of a non-psychic focus spell locking you into 1 spell is poor writing and evidence of trying to distinguish psychic amps from focus spells for other classes without actually deviating from core mechanics.
First there are two components to refocusing. The first is your "source" IE upur god, bloodline, curse or mind the second is your "manner" such as what's shown below.
"you can regain Focus Points by spending 10 minutes using the Refocus activity to explore your mind, whether via meditation, practicing a craft or activity that gives you the mental space to self-reflect, or talking through your thoughts and feelings with yourself or another."
Different classes have different manners in which they can refocus and the psychic is fairly stringent.
Ultimately mechanically this indicates some measure of centering yourself or regaining your composure in between encounters. Different classes do it in different ways, but ultimately you cant get more focused than what you are after you refocus and hence you can regain a maximum of 2 points to your focus pool assuming you spent all your focus points on psi cantrips.
So this plays out as follows
Scenarios:
A. You start with 3 focus points. You burn 2 doing psychic things. You refocus in a psychic manner and you regain 2 points returning to 3.
B. You start with 3 focus points. You burn 3 doing psychic things you refocus in a psychic way you regain 2 up to 2.
C. You start with 3 focus points you burn 2 one doing psychic things the other in service to your God. You can refocus and get 1 point back but that can be in a non psychic manner. When you later use that 1 point in a psychic manner you can refocus in a psychic manner to regain 2 points.
Realistically all the jankiness comes from using focus spells between encounters. Limiting refocus to one time between encounters is most likely RAI and seems more applicable to multiclass characters.
Also the refocus 2 for a psychic is not a class ability instead being under the heading cameos and amps which suggests psychic
Archetype characters also get refocus 2.
My suggestion to the Paizo team would be to change "your" to "a" and more explicitly highlight refocus as a technique that varies between classes, and can only be performed 1/encounter.