Don't multi-class a soul knife. That would be my suggestion.
Oh...well gestalt is a completely different story. You'll have a sword that can't be easily gotten rid of with enchantments you won't have to pay for, with all of the weapon skills and feats from a fighter. What suggestions were you looking for?
Soulknife really doesn't get any psionics, but I do believe they can use their Psionic Focus to increase their damage, and I think there's at least one feat for pouring Power Points into your focus to increase your damage (though I can't remember the name at this time - DMed for a handful of Soulknives but never played one past first level). So recommended feats on that regard would be that, plus the one that lets you get your focus back quickly (Psionic Meditation, I believe), then Psionic Weapon and Permanent Focus [Psionic Weapon] when you're high enough level to qualify.
For your Fighter bonus feats, Weapon Focus/Specialization [Psiblade] should be your starting points, obviously, then work your way up the Critical tree. Weapon Finesse if you're going Dexy, if not then perhaps Power Attack?
Soulknife really doesn't get any psionics, but I do believe they can use their Psionic Focus to increase their damage, and I think there's at least one feat for pouring Power Points into your focus to increase your damage (though I can't remember the name at this time - DMed for a handful of Soulknives but never played one past first level). So recommended feats on that regard would be that, plus the one that lets you get your focus back quickly (Psionic Meditation, I believe), then Psionic Weapon and Permanent Focus [Psionic Weapon] when you're high enough level to qualify.
For your Fighter bonus feats, Weapon Focus/Specialization [Psiblade] should be your starting points, obviously, then work your way up the Critical tree. Weapon Finesse if you're going Dexy, if not then perhaps Power Attack?
Just want to point out that Permanent Focus is from Hyperconscious, so you'll need to make sure your GM is okay with 3.5 feats upgraded.
Questions: are you going to go 2hd, sword & board, or dual-wield soulknife?
What books do you have available to choose from?
What race do you plan on being?
Just want to point out that Permanent Focus is from Hyperconscious, so you'll need to make sure your GM is okay with 3.5 feats upgraded.Soulknife really doesn't get any psionics, but I do believe they can use their Psionic Focus to increase their damage, and I think there's at least one feat for pouring Power Points into your focus to increase your damage (though I can't remember the name at this time - DMed for a handful of Soulknives but never played one past first level). So recommended feats on that regard would be that, plus the one that lets you get your focus back quickly (Psionic Meditation, I believe), then Psionic Weapon and Permanent Focus [Psionic Weapon] when you're high enough level to qualify.
For your Fighter bonus feats, Weapon Focus/Specialization [Psiblade] should be your starting points, obviously, then work your way up the Critical tree. Weapon Finesse if you're going Dexy, if not then perhaps Power Attack?
I keep forgetting that the new Dreamscarred stuff had a PF version of Soulknife and thus assumed this was a 3.5 or hybrid game.
One of the things I really like about the DSP psionics products is that Jeremy et all have really gotten the feel of 'pathfinderizing' the old 3.5 rules, and it works very well.
HammerBrother, Psionics Expanded is an expansion by the same company that does Psionics Unleashed. I'd guess if your GM allows one, he'd probably allow the other.
If going dual-wield, then I recommend:
Blade Skills:
Alter Blade - get a long sword + short sword combination instead of dual short sword. Take at 2nd level.
Full Enhancement (counter the enhancement loss for going dual-wield). Take at 4th level.
Powerful Strikes: Improve your psychic strike attacks for burst damage. Take at 6th level.
Twin Strike. Take at 8th level.
Reaching Blade: Gain extra reach for one turn. Take at 10th level.
Improved Enhancement. Take at 12th level.
Well, keep in mind how DR works in Pathfinder. A high weapon enhancement (not cumulative, like a +3 flaming sword counts as +3 for this purpose) bypasses some damage reduction.
+3 gets you cold iron / silver
+4 gets you adamantine
+5 gets you good / evil / lawful / chaotic
Psionic Weapon is a solid feat option.
Speed of Thought is good if you want to be mobile.
Weapon Finesse is a good choice since Dex is going to be an important stat for you, but not so much if you go 1hd + light form from Alter Blade. There's the Mind Blade Finesse blade skill, but that's in Psionics Expanded, and that's a fair bit of investment for essentially a +1 damage in your main hand.
And yes, anything two-weapon incurs the -2 attack penalty.
I really recommend Psionic Meditation, if you're okay with sinking a few points into Wisdom (the bonus to Will saves may not be all that noticeable, since gestalting Fighter and Soulknife makes all your saves good). Psionic Focus can be spent to recharge your Psychic Strike as a Swift Action, and Psionic Meditation will let you regain your Psionic Focus as a Move Action instead of a Full-Round Action (I'm not sure if it provokes an Attack of Opportunity or not, but a Move Action for anything is better than a Full-Round Action).
I also recommend Weapon Focus and Greater Weapon Focus (since I'm assuming your first level Bonus Feat from Soulknife is going to be spent on Two-Weapon Fighting). Jeremy Smith is free to correct me on this if it's something different, but regardless of the shape in which it takes, your Mind Blade is still your Mind Blade, so Weapon Focus should apply to both weapons if you form it into two, and anything that offsets the To-Hit penalty imposed by Dual Wielding is great in my book.
Don't multi-class a soul knife. That would be my suggestion.
For the record, a multi-classed Soulknife can actually be pretty good if you know what to pair it with, though the only thing I've really found good to pair it with is the Aegis alongside the Metaforge prestige class. Maybe the Pyrokineticist, if you enjoy fire and are a Chaotic-Aligned character.
Jeremy Smith is free to correct me on this if it's something different, but regardless of the shape in which it takes, your Mind Blade is still your Mind Blade, so Weapon Focus should apply to both weapons if you form it into two
Nothing to correct, you got it right. :)
No. It's either light or one-handed. I'm pretty sure there's no option available to do two one-handed weapons. Two light or a one-handed and a light.
For the record, a multi-classed Soulknife can actually be pretty good if you know what to pair it with, though the only thing I've really found good to pair it with is the Aegis alongside the Metaforge prestige class. Maybe the Pyrokineticist, if you enjoy fire and are a Chaotic-Aligned character.
The metaforge would be a good exception.
No. It's either light or one-handed. I'm pretty sure there's no option available to do two one-handed weapons. Two light or a one-handed and a light.
Pretty much. I've been trying to keep up on top of as much of the Soulknife archetypes and options as I can and I've yet to see an option that lets you wield two Mind Blades as one-handed weapons. It's either two Light weapons or a One-Handed weapon and a Light weapon.