gomipile
2010-07-26, 03:52 PM
At low levels the Wilder's Wild Surge gives a pretty good power point efficiency boost, but at high levels, this efficiency disappears even when using low-level powers.
For example, at level 1, the wilder gets a free power point from each use of wild surge, at a 5% risk of losing 1 power point to psychic enervation. This gives the wilder an average (+1-1*.05), equal to .95, free power points per use of wild surge.
At level 20, the wilder gets (+1-20*.05), equal to 0, free power points per level of wild surge used on a power.
The idea of extra efficiency in exchange for the risk of being stunned is one of the things that excited me about the wilder class when I first read about it, until I realized that the efficiency disappears completely at level 20.
Would it make sense to houserule psychic enervation so that it only costs you as many power points as you actually spent on the power? That way for powerful uses of a power, where you are spending 20 points, the situation would be the same as it is now. However, if you only spend 1 point on a power, you get an average of (+6-1*.30) or 5.7 free power points.
Since the wilder is alreafy considered a tier lower than the psion due to reduced versatility, I was wondering if this adjustment would be considered overpowered or balanced in general.
For example, at level 1, the wilder gets a free power point from each use of wild surge, at a 5% risk of losing 1 power point to psychic enervation. This gives the wilder an average (+1-1*.05), equal to .95, free power points per use of wild surge.
At level 20, the wilder gets (+1-20*.05), equal to 0, free power points per level of wild surge used on a power.
The idea of extra efficiency in exchange for the risk of being stunned is one of the things that excited me about the wilder class when I first read about it, until I realized that the efficiency disappears completely at level 20.
Would it make sense to houserule psychic enervation so that it only costs you as many power points as you actually spent on the power? That way for powerful uses of a power, where you are spending 20 points, the situation would be the same as it is now. However, if you only spend 1 point on a power, you get an average of (+6-1*.30) or 5.7 free power points.
Since the wilder is alreafy considered a tier lower than the psion due to reduced versatility, I was wondering if this adjustment would be considered overpowered or balanced in general.