[3.5] Best psionic powers not available as spells

[Myou]

What are the best psionic powers that aren't also available in the form of a spell? Stuff like Time Regression, which looks very useful.
And of course, what makes them great?

[Eurus]

You can have so much fun with Quintessence. I'd post examples, but anyone who can't come up with some themselves is beyond hope.

[NEO|Phyte]

Form of Doom, because tentacles.
Decerebrate, because of all the save or dies to protect yourself from, who thinks of the [teleportation] one?
Brain Lock, because when you're a warforged, being able to stand around while someone that pissed you off slowly dies of dehydration is fun.

[Snake-Aes]

Deja Vu is a good way to keep enemies who rely on setups away from combat.
Death Urge is just hilarious.

[Snake-Aes]

Form of Doom, because tentacles.
Decerebrate, because of all the save or dies to protect yourself from, who thinks of the [teleportation] one?
Brain Lock, because when you're a warforged, being able to stand around while someone that pissed you off slowly dies of dehydration is fun.

Does that mean Dimensional Anchor makes the victim immune?

[NEO|Phyte]

Does that mean Dimensional Anchor makes the victim immune?

Yep. Now ask yourself how many BBEGs will cut off their only escape route to keep from getting their brainstem removed.

[Optimystik]

Time Hop
Forced Dream
Synchronicity
Anticipatory Strike
Perfect Riposte
Metamorphosis (unlike Polymorph, you can turn into objects.)

EDIT: Decerebrate is extremely useful for being one of the very small list of Will SoDs that isn't [Mind-Affecting].

[Snake-Aes]

:D It's remotion by Jean Grey or by Wolverine Claw anyway.

Oh, Personality Parasite is pretty nice to hammer on a caster. It's counterpart, Schism is also excellent.

[EvilJoe15]

True Mind Switch and Mind Seed are awesome.

[Optimystik]

Also Astral Seed, aka Phylactery sans LA.

[Myou]

You can have so much fun with Quintessence. I'd post examples, but anyone who can't come up with some themselves is beyond hope.

I'm... beyond hope.
I don't see why it's very useful.

Form of Doom, because tentacles.
Decerebrate, because of all the save or dies to protect yourself from, who thinks of the [teleportation] one?
Brain Lock, because when you're a warforged, being able to stand around while someone that pissed you off slowly dies of dehydration is fun.

Ewww, psionics are gross. Dx

But isn't Brain Lock replicating a cantrip?

[tyckspoon]

EDIT: Decerebrate is extremely useful for being one of the very small list of Will SoDs that isn't [Mind-Affecting].

Indeed! It's a shame it's a Fort save, really.

But isn't Brain Lock replicating a cantrip?

Daze: Lasts 1 round, affects Humanoids only, with 4 HD or less.
Brain Lock: Lasts for (concentration)+1 round, not HD restricted, augmentable to affect pretty much everything except monster types that are typically Mindless anyway.

So.. no.

[Snake-Aes]

But isn't Brain Lock replicating a cantrip?

Do you know a cantrip that completely disables an enemy for as long as you can stay awake and well fed?

[Myou]

Time Hop
Forced Dream
Synchronicity
Anticipatory Strike
Perfect Riposte
Metamorphosis (unlike Polymorph, you can turn into objects.)

EDIT: Decerebrate is extremely useful for being one of the very small list of Will SoDs that isn't [Mind-Affecting].

Other than time hope and metamorphosis, I can't find any of those in the srd.

Daze: Lasts 1 round, affects Humanoids only, with 4 HD or less.
Brain Lock: Lasts for (concentration)+1 round, not HD restricted, augmentable to affect pretty much everything except monster types that are typically Mindless anyway.

So.. no.

Good point. :3

[Optimystik]

Indeed! It's a shame it's a Fort save, really.

Whoops, I was thinking of the other offensive [Teleportation] move, the one from CPsi. Though that one isn't exactly an SoD.

But isn't Brain Lock replicating a cantrip?

Do you mean Daze? Because they get that one too, and can break the HD limit.

EDIT:

Other than time hope and metamorphosis, I can't find any of those in the srd.

That's because they're not in the SRD. They are in CPsi except Forced Dream, which is MoE.

[Tar Palantir]

Do you know a cantrip that completely disables an enemy for as long as you can stay awake and well fed?

Prestidigitation?

[Snake-Aes]

Is there an equivalent to Psychokinetic Weapon? That little gem is a hilarious way to put more oomph on your disarm maneuvers. Gives a whole new meaning to "rip off your arm and beat you with it"

[zakkain]

Prestidigitation?

"Once cast, a prestidigitation spell enables you to perform simple magical effects for 1 hour."

[Optimystik]

Prestidigitation?

"...prestidigitation lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects."

In any case, Psions get it too (Secrets of Sarlona.)

[Myou]

Forced Dream
Synchronicity
Anticipatory Strike
Perfect Riposte

That's because they're not in the SRD. They are in CPsi except Forced Dream, which is MoE.

Ah, I don't have those books. Any chance you could briefly tell me what they do? I'm curious. ^^;

[Snake-Aes]

Ah, I don't have those books. Any chance you could briefly tell me what they do? I'm curious. ^^;

anticipatory strike lets you act earlier in a round. perfect riposte makes enemies that miss you generate AoOs.

[gallagher]

the best part of psionics isnt really having something that arcanists dont have. its that you can take things they already have, and augment them at higher levels to perform more to your liking.

psionic expand can get you two sizes higher with enough power points, while the arcane version only gives you one. i would think up or research more, but i need to sleep (stupid projects)

[Doodleface]

Vigor - share it with your psicrystal and manifest share pain with your psicrystal.. you are now a tank.

Astral Construct - Like summon monster, but better. And only takes up one powers known slot.

Hustle - Another move action? Yes please!

Skate - Always seemed cool to me.

Time Hop - Possibilities are endless.

[Optimystik]

Forced Dream allows you to reset one of your turns during the duration, undoing disaster, misfortune etc. This is pretty good in itself, but gets better with the Saved Game trick.

Synchronicity lets you ready a standard action without specifying a condition for it, and take it any time during the round.

[aivanther]

the best part of psionics isnt really having something that arcanists dont have. its that you can take things they already have, and augment them at higher levels to perform more to your liking.

If you need a really fun example of this: Psionic Dominate a vrock and a beholder for 15 days...with one use of the power.

...

Man that thrallherd was fun, I wonder why the DM hated me.

[Snake-Aes]

What is the saved game trick?

[Optimystik]

What is the saved game trick?

Forced Dream works by allowing you to restart one of your turns sometime during the power's duration. Because of this, someone outside of the time stream who activates it will restart their turn - even if their turn began several days ago.

Simply Time Hop the subject (generally, your psicrystal), and its turn will be put on hold until it returns to the time stream, at which point it can activate FD and return everyone to the state they were in at the beginning of the turn when you manifested Forced Dream on him. This will return your party - badly mangled or otherwise - back to that state, with full knowledge of what occurred since then.

Their are other specifics to the trick but that's the overall gist of it. To make it work properly you need a cleric, or an StP Erudite can pull it off solo.

[balistafreak]

Their are other specifics to the trick but that's the overall gist of it. To make it work properly you need a cleric, or an StP Erudite can pull it off solo.

Freakin' Spell-to-Power Erudites.

I'm not aware of any real analogue to good ol' humble Energy Stun other than Wings of Flurry, which is a higher level spell but covers more area. Seriously, augmented Energy Stuns are ridiculous and toeing the line of DMG slapping, and might have something to do with the "psionics are broken" myth, because obviously the Psion blaster is better than the Wizard blaster.

(Which might be true, but if you were planning on blasting with your Wizard, you're already behind.)

[Keld Denar]

That really depends on which Energy Stun you use. The one in the SRD, I'm pretty sure, was a typo. CPsionic, which came out after, reprinted the power (which counts as Errata due to "most recent source") dropped it down to +1d6 damage per extra PP with +1 DC per 2 PP spent in this way.

Its still pretty good, just not DC30 at 10th level good.

[Ranos]

You can have so much fun with Quintessence. I'd post examples, but anyone who can't come up with some themselves is beyond hope.

-Cryogenic pods
-Deadly poison
-Along with Forced dream for a lesser version of the save game trick

That's the only three uses I can come up with. If you've got more, do tell.

Edit : Oh yeah, and the delayed fireball thing.