Psionic Powers

[NoAdvantageBP]

As a Psion you can feats called Discipline Adept and Diverse Focus. These two put together are confusing me.

Diverse Focus [ELAN BLOODLINE]
Prerequisite: Elan Heritage, psion, Discipline
Focus class feature
Benefit: Choose and gain a Discipline Focus other
than one you already possess. You can use any powers
associated with that Discipline Focus as DAILY powers.

Discipline Adept
Prerequisite: Psion, Discipline Focus class
feature
Benefit: You can use each power granted by your
Discipline Focus twice per ENCOUNTER.

So are the new powers from Diverse Focus DAILY or ENCOUNTER??

[Surrealistik]

By the RAW I'd say 2/Encounter (those powers are granted by your Psionic Focus after all), and that's just fine given the # of feats you have to invest, and the fact that those powers aren't at all gamebreaking, even at 2/encounter.

[Bagelz]

discipline adept was obviously written assuming you had 1/encounter powers. It was not written to handle all of the possible feats/paragonpath features you could have come across.

RAW you get each one (from your class and from your diverse focus) 2/encounter, but I'd get it approved by your dm.

If I was your dm I'd give you the ones from your class 2/encounter and the ones from feat 2/day but your dm may be different.

[Kurald Galain]

So are the new powers from Diverse Focus DAILY or ENCOUNTER??

There is no unambiguous RAW answer to that, so it's really up to your DM. That said, it would not be overpowered to use those powers twice per encounter (and, frankly, it would be a waste of feats if the answer was "per day" only).

[Ogremindes]

There is no unambiguous RAW answer to that, so it's really up to your DM. That said, it would not be overpowered to use those powers twice per encounter (and, frankly, it would be a waste of feats if the answer was "per day" only).

I haven't access to the 4e books, but I remember there was a point of clarity in 3.5 where feats were always applied in the order that's most beneficial to the user.

[NoAdvantageBP]

RAW you get each one (from your class and from your diverse focus) 2/encounter, but I'd get it approved by your dm.

If I was your dm I'd give you the ones from your class 2/encounter and the ones from feat 2/day but your dm may be different.


There is no unambiguous RAW answer to that, so it's really up to your DM. That said, it would not be overpowered to use those powers twice per encounter (and, frankly, it would be a waste of feats if the answer was "per day" only).

I guess I should have stated the fact that I am the DM and it's a player that wants to do this. I was just asking to find out what everybody thought I should do with it. Sounds like everybody is in the 2/encounter side which sounds good to me.

[tcrudisi]

I guess I should have stated the fact that I am the DM and it's a player that wants to do this. I was just asking to find out what everybody thought I should do with it. Sounds like everybody is in the 2/encounter side which sounds good to me.

By RAW we are. However, as a DM it's up to you to make the decision about this. If you feel the player is being a bit too optimized, you can always knock it down a notch. If you go the route of 1/day (or the compromise of 2/day), I would let him know that you've learned 2/enc is RAW, but you feel that it's a bit overpowered.

I can't really say whether I think it's overpowered since I don't know what Discipline Focus is. I'd have to go look at Psionics, and honestly, I haven't looked at half of the psionic classes. However, that is a pretty heavy feat investment, so take that into consideration.