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Trekkin
2010-04-13, 06:22 PM
When using Midnight Augmentation, is the reduction in cost of augmentation per rank of augmentation or in total? For instance, if I'm manifesting Astral Construct and load one essentia into MA for Astral Construct, does it now cost 1 pp to increase it by a level or 5 pp rather than 6 pp to increase its level by three?

The Glyphstone
2010-04-13, 06:40 PM
Pretty sure it's total...MA would be literally mandatory for any optimized psion if it was that good.

Jack_Simth
2010-04-13, 06:46 PM
When using Midnight Augmentation, is the reduction in cost of augmentation per rank of augmentation or in total? For instance, if I'm manifesting Astral Construct and load one essentia into MA for Astral Construct, does it now cost 1 pp to increase it by a level or 5 pp rather than 6 pp to increase its level by three?
Oh, that's interesting - regardless of the answer, that's a method for a recharge Ardent/Psion/Wilder/Erudite build: Bestow Power + Midnight Augmentation + a few feats to increase your essential pool/cap. If it's "per iteration", then it's pretty easy and can be done at quite low levels; if it's "per manifesting", then it takes a bit longer, but can be gamed a bit more (to get a recharge build, you need to be able to gain more PP than you spend - as MA only helps with the augmentation cost, you need to cut things back considerably; base power cost is 3 points, and grants 2 PP. You'd need two more augmentations at a cost of no more then 2 more power points to beat break-even - so you'd need to get four essentia in the feat, which can't be done - at least not without magic items - until 12th with a pure Psion/Wilder/Ardent/Erudite). With the "per iteration" interpretation, you could be doing it as early as about 5th, if there's another useful interpertation: The max power points spent is based on what's actually spent, not the effective amount (aka, if you've reduced the cost of augmentation, you can augment it more times with the same manifester level - so manifester level 5 can get you two augments of Bestow Power if you've got two Essentia into Midnight Augmentation to cut the iteration cost to 1).

Hmm. Oh, that's nifty - and as it's all feats, no wealth, you can take Vow of Poverty, too. Are there any Exalted Incarnum feats?

Ah, bonus: If one manifester in the party has a recharge mechanic set up, and Bestow Power (which features in most recharge builds...) then the entire party can benefit from it (recharge, bestow, recharge, bestow...). Interesting... a single recharging Elan in a party of Elan Psions... interesting. Quite the endurance-capable group, there. Hmm.