danielxcutter
2019-03-31, 10:15 AM
Okay, a while back, I had a thread called Mind-Shards-of-Pandorym (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?541081-Mind-Shards-of-Pandorym), talking about, yes, the boss fight against a released Mind Shard of Pandorym(and the flunkies, obviously).
There are one or two things we didn't manage to talk about though, and I'm curious what results the forum will come up with this time.
The new points:
Mind Shards have both Inertial Armor as a ML 20 PLA, and Force Screen as a known power. I'm not sure, but the math for the AC doesn't exactly match up - wouldn't an augumented ML 20 Inertial Armor grant a +12 to AC, for AC 37? Still, with a fully augumented Force Screen that's a quite respectable 45 AC - at least, you'll at least have to try to hit it, not just "check for nat 20s and 1s" like I've heard some people say of high-level combat.
Also, several powers on a Mind Shard's list use XP - but that's covered by Psionics(Ex), which gives a Shard 20k free XP to burn for them. Said powers include Bend Reality(yipes), Psychic Chirurgery(could have it's uses maybe?), Apopsi(oof), and Reality Revision(oh gods). This increases manifesting flexibility considerably, but also lets the Shard practically spam some of those, or at least use them more than once. Reality Revision in particular can bring the Shard(and any other surviving allies, if any) back to full health, among the other varied usages of the power, so... yeah.
Might be other points I missed, but well... these seem at least considerable, on top of the points brought up in the last thread. Thoughts?
There are one or two things we didn't manage to talk about though, and I'm curious what results the forum will come up with this time.
The new points:
Mind Shards have both Inertial Armor as a ML 20 PLA, and Force Screen as a known power. I'm not sure, but the math for the AC doesn't exactly match up - wouldn't an augumented ML 20 Inertial Armor grant a +12 to AC, for AC 37? Still, with a fully augumented Force Screen that's a quite respectable 45 AC - at least, you'll at least have to try to hit it, not just "check for nat 20s and 1s" like I've heard some people say of high-level combat.
Also, several powers on a Mind Shard's list use XP - but that's covered by Psionics(Ex), which gives a Shard 20k free XP to burn for them. Said powers include Bend Reality(yipes), Psychic Chirurgery(could have it's uses maybe?), Apopsi(oof), and Reality Revision(oh gods). This increases manifesting flexibility considerably, but also lets the Shard practically spam some of those, or at least use them more than once. Reality Revision in particular can bring the Shard(and any other surviving allies, if any) back to full health, among the other varied usages of the power, so... yeah.
Might be other points I missed, but well... these seem at least considerable, on top of the points brought up in the last thread. Thoughts?