Looking for some help picking out psychic feats

[thecrimsondawn]

Currently making a PoW Zealot with the concept "hero with demon blood in his veins" (Discordant Crusader archetype)

Ive never really played a psychic class in pathfinder as 3.5 kinda ruined them for me, so naturally when I saw the large amount of feats for them, it was a bit overwhelming. As a Zealot, I dont really have powers, only a power point pool to augment my moves with, so that limits a lot of the options for sure.

Are there any feats that boost the max number of points I can spend during a turn, or anything else of note? This build is focused around powerful, high damage single attacks (currently looking at STR+CHA build, can opt for CHA+DEX)

Any feedback is welcome :)

[digiman619]

Not to be a Richard (avoiding auto-censor), but you mean psionic. Paizo published their own "psychic magic" that has nothing to do with psionics. I know.

Anyway, looking through both the Ultimate Psionics (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/psionics-unleashed/feats) and Path of War Expanded (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/path-of-war/pow-e-feats) feats, I didn't see any that required spending PP. They're all expending psionic focus, so the Psionic Meditation (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/psionics-unleashed/feats/psionic-meditation-psionic) and/or Sleeping Goddess Style (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/path-of-war/pow-e-feats/sleeping-goddess-style) feats might be worth looking into.

If you're willing to take a 1 level dip in Psychic Warrior, Feral Goddess/Forge of the Goddess might be worthwhile as they make summoning weapons easier, and if you're willing to make a 1 level dip into Soulknife, Zealous Blade will let it stack with your Zealot levels, so as a Soulknife 1/Zealot 14, your mind blade will have a +7 total enhancement bonus. (Quick notice about the Soulknife dip: While there are a ton of archetypes that change what form your mind blade takes, only the Deadly Fist (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/psionics-unleashed/classes/soulknife/archetypes/dreamscarred-press/deadly-fist) archetype (the one that empowers you unarmed strikes) give you a blade skill at level 1, so if you want to take Extra Blade Skill to nab some of the neat blade skills (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/psionics-unleashed/classes/soulknife/blade-skills) soulknives get, you either need to take this archetype or take a second level when everyone else gets a blade skill to qualify.)

[thecrimsondawn]

Not to be a Richard (avoiding auto-censor), but you mean psionic. Paizo published their own "psychic magic" that has nothing to do with psionics. I know.

Anyway, looking through both the Ultimate Psionics (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/psionics-unleashed/feats) and Path of War Expanded (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/path-of-war/pow-e-feats) feats, I didn't see any that required spending PP. They're all expending psionic focus, so the Psionic Meditation (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/psionics-unleashed/feats/psionic-meditation-psionic) and/or Sleeping Goddess Style (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/path-of-war/pow-e-feats/sleeping-goddess-style) feats might be worth looking into.

If you're willing to take a 1 level dip in Psychic Warrior, Feral Goddess/Forge of the Goddess might be worthwhile as they make summoning weapons easier, and if you're willing to make a 1 level dip into Soulknife, Zealous Blade will let it stack with your Zealot levels, so as a Soulknife 1/Zealot 14, your mind blade will have a +7 total enhancement bonus. (Quick notice about the Soulknife dip: While there are a ton of archetypes that change what form your mind blade takes, only the Deadly Fist (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/psionics-unleashed/classes/soulknife/archetypes/dreamscarred-press/deadly-fist) archetype (the one that empowers you unarmed strikes) give you a blade skill at level 1, so if you want to take Extra Blade Skill to nab some of the neat blade skills (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/psionics-unleashed/classes/soulknife/blade-skills) soulknives get, you either need to take this archetype or take a second level when everyone else gets a blade skill to qualify.)


Thanks for the advice. Sadly, thanks to a former build I made and a debate I had with our DM, multi classing is no longer allowed. Prestige classes are still allowed however, but that does not really apply here it seems.

So I should hunt down feats that involve spending my focus eh? That helps as it seems ive been going about this the wrong way. I do indeed have my eye on Sleeping Goddess Style, or at least the very first feat of the chain, but also Black Seraph Style as well (as I can convert all damage from sacred to profane almost at will, forcing my target to be good aligned, no longer immune to fear effects, AND stacking with my augmented strikes, its a nasty combo)

The feat Persistent Focus seems really good, and by its wording, it sounds like it should work with the Zealot class features and not just powers too. Going to glance over the class to see if I can abuse this or not. Oh, would I be able to take that feat to upgrade a strike that has the option of expanding the focus?