In Occult realms under the psi-tech abilities we have the "capstone" of them all Artificial Ascension. As written it says that a character must be 20th level to take this Discovery. That's all well and dandy and for the potential power of the ability that's a good point to be able to get it.
The issue I find is in the ability to actually get it. In order to take a Psi-tech Discovery you either sacrifice a feat or a phrenic amplification. The last Phrenic amplification a psychic receives is at 19th level and that's the last point you can get a feat as well.
Pathfinder assumes that Epic levels aren't a thing so there is no level 21 feat to replace for this and the only other way I can think of to get the ability is dip a level of fighter to get a bonus feat and swap out that feat. But that seems sub-optimal to me.
You're not allowed to save feats either...
Interesting.
I can only be obtained with retraining if you can't go epic
There are the retraining rules in Ultimate Campaign, where you can retrain a normal feat.
You'd have to do that anyway, because you can only free retrain fighter bonus feats to another combat feat, which the discovery is not.
Well to quote the book.
A psychic can learn a psi-tech discovery in place of a
phrenic amplification or a feat.
This means that any feat could be sacked for this so a fighter bonus feat at 20th level could suffice.
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To quote the CRB:
Bonus Feats: At 1st level, and at every even level thereafter, a fighter gains a bonus feat in addition to those gained from normal advancement (meaning that the fighter gains a feat at every level). These bonus feats must be selected from those listed as combat feats, sometimes also called "fighter bonus feats."
Upon reaching 4th level, and every four levels thereafter (8th, 12th, and so on), a fighter can choose to learn a new bonus feat in place of a bonus feat he has already learned.
A fighter bonus feat is not a general feat, and must be a combat feat.
Specific class ability overrides general replace a feat.
Well then this makes an interesting predicament because either this whole thing is a Typo in the book (based on the potential power of ability I doubt it is) or the writer of the piece didn't think about it. Seeing as it would require re training or taking a one level dip in something else before so that you last Phrenic amplification would fall on 20th level. This is ineffective as the ability has a save associated with it that is based on your psychic level. I wish we could get some Dev input but who knows if we'll get that lucky
The developer who wrote this has commented in my thread over here, but didn't remark on my note that the only way to get this is through retraining and existing feat or amplifcation.