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As a Psion, you don't need to worry about AC/Saves that much. You have Powers that buff these right into the clouds, so don't worry about getting gear to do this, your Powers are more than adequate (and better, tbh). So make sure you pick up Inertial Armor, Fortify, Force Screen, and Defensive Precognition, and then augment them as necessary. You don't need to augment them to your full ML every time you manifest them, but you would want to do full augments on them for BBEG fights. Anywho, these 4 powers are your bread n butter powers for boosting AC and Saves.
As far as Psion Discipline, you definitely want to choose Telepath so that you can choose your powers known from this list: Telepath Discipline Powers, and you want to get Mind Control. It's basically the same as Dominate Person. If you want to be a mind controller, Telepath is the way to do it.
Psions end up with 36 powers known at level 20, but you can pick up additional powers known with Mind Stones and Greater Mind Stones. There's a rule that says you can't have a number of Mind Stones that is more than half of your powers known, so if you know 36 powers, you can only know 18 powers via Mind Stones. Greater Mind Stones don't have this limitation, and that's why they cost more. You can have as many Greater MS's as you want. But, any power you gain in this way must be from your Psion/Wilder list, or your primary Psion Discipline, which for you would be Telepath. You can't use MS and GMS to get powers that you don't have access to, so they have to appear on the Psion/Wilder list or the Telepath list.
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Gear:
You want to get a Greater Psicrystal Staff as soon as humanly possible, and then start putting Setting Stones and Companion Stones all over your Staff. You also want to be spending a decent amount of your coin on Mind Stones, +2/4/6 Int Headband, a Flying Carpet (because Psions do not get access to Flight (unless you're a Nomad Discipline). Rings of Psionics and Torc of Power Preservation are also nice to have. Also, collect Cognizance Crystals! You can never have enough Cognizance Crystals.
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Pro-Tips:
Get Vigor as a level 1 power and then get Share Pain as a level 2 power. Get a Psicrystal at level 1, and once you have Share Pain/Vigor combo, you can use "Share Powers" to give both you and your Psicrystal a whole crapton of Temporary HP and then share any damage 50/50 between you and your Psicrystal. When your Temp HP is gone, manifest a new Vigor. <--- this nifty combo is craptons of survivability, just don't get AoE'ed together or it doesn't work very well :P
Once you reach level 5, use your normal feat to get Psionic Meditation so you can regain your Psi Focus as a Move Action, and then use your Bonus Feat to get Expanded Knowledge: Energy Missile. You don't have access to this power unless you're a Kineticist Discipline, but with Expanded Knowledge you can buy this power the hard way. And it's worth it. It's one of the best damaging powers in the game because it hits 5 targets and you can fire it into melee without hitting allies, as well as change the damage types between fire, sonic, cold, and electricity; whatever element you need.
Get Solicit Psicrystal and Telekinetic Manuever and let your Psicrystal maintain concentration of your Telekinetic Maneuver via Solicit Psicrystal, and now you can manifest powers while your Psicrystal Bull Rushes, Grapple/Pins, and Disarms enemies for you every round.
Use Expanded Knowledge to grab the 4th level power Remote Viewing and at level 11 you can get the 6th level power Retrieve. Remote View anyone you want, and then manifest Retrieve through the Remote Viewing power. You're now an interdimensional Carmen San Diego.