Favoured Melee Psychic Warrior?


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I'm building a psychic warrior for an upcoming game I will be a PC in and have been debating what kind of path I want to go down. I'm not really interested in going with two-handed fighting, since I feel that is somewhat boring for a psionic.

That being said, 2 different options have caught by eye. One is the feral warrior path, which would obviously focus on natural attacks and buffing them up.

The other is the meditant archetype, probably using the infiltrator path to gain the minor metamorphosis power. This path would focus on unarmed strikes and buffing up the characters power in general.

I'm not sure which choice is more efficient. I feel like the Claws of the Beast and bite attack are much better in the early levels, especially since you can augment them to start with, making their base damage high. The downside I can see is that this build would be more power point intensive, since manifesting the natural weapons would take a decent amount of points to make them powerful, which takes away from the other powers you could use.

On the other hand, the base damage of the unarmed strikes of the meditant are steady. They may not be able to burst up as high, but you do not need to use any points to use them. This would leave more points free to buff up in other ways such as animal aspect or expansion. It also benefits from iterative attacks later on with flurry of strikes, which grants far more attacks than its natural attack counterpart.

So all that being said...halp! :P


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The claws are hour per level, so its usually a one and done deal. I prefer to combine the Feral Warrior Path with the Meditant Archetype, since Meditant will get you Feral Combat Training for free. Really it's the best of both worlds. Add on Horn of the Criosphinx and Pummeling Style/Pummeling Charge the King of SMACK is BACK! Unless you are willing to dip Master of Many Styles you will have to wait until 12th level to get Pummeling Charge, but you can pick up Pummeling Style immediately since Dreamscarred writes rules well and your flurry counts as Flurry of Blows.


So today I learned Pummeling Style is a thing, and it is the best thing ever :D Am I also correct in thinking you are able to flurry with Claws of the Beast then as well? Because that would be just silly and obnoxious...and amazing!


Addition: After looking back over flurry of strikes, I noticed you can normally expend your psionic focus to flurry with natural weapons. My question before was concerning feral combat training allowing you to do so without expending such.


Bumping this when people may actually be on :P

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