Author Topic: Can i have Two Psionic Focus, at all times? help needed + pp regeneration  (Read 4275 times)

Offline Dr.Manhattan

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Is there a way to have two psionic focuses active at all time
Having Psicrystal Containment and Psionic Meditation lets you have one focus and one allways avalible, untill you spend it, at wich point you have to spend another move action to refill it. This also allows you to u aply two metamagic feats to the power.
I want to aply twin power and empower power, at all times. Is this possible? I know that with this focus i can do it once every 2 turns, 1 turn casting it, one turn taking 2 move actions to focus me and the Psicrystal.

EDIT: Is there also a way to increse the speed as where i get the powerpoints back?
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Re: Can i have Two Psionic Focus, at all times? help needed
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2015, 12:29:48 PM »
Yes, it is possible. You'll need Hustle to be able to refocus with your Swift action as well as your move. You'll probably have to pick that up via the Expanded Knowledge feat (unless you're an Egoist... but then it will cost you more power points).
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Re: Can i have Two Psionic Focus, at all times? help needed + pp regeneration
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2015, 01:33:08 PM »
Theoretically, giving your Psicrystal Wild Talent and having it Focus each round would give you that second Focus without you having to spend an action.

If you can get your DM to agree, then godspeed.
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Re: Can i have Two Psionic Focus, at all times? help needed + pp regeneration
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2015, 05:45:03 PM »
Are you an erudite? There's some fun stuff from 3.0 that only works with erudite.

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Re: Can i have Two Psionic Focus, at all times? help needed + pp regeneration
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2015, 06:11:05 PM »
Instant Clarity doesn't work like that.  Neither does Haste, for that matter. 
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Re: Can i have Two Psionic Focus, at all times? help needed + pp regeneration
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2015, 02:12:47 AM »
Theoretically, giving your Psicrystal Wild Talent and having it Focus each round would give you that second Focus without you having to spend an action.

If you can get your DM to agree, then godspeed.

I have had it pointed out to me that the focus you store within your psicrystal, and the focus your psicrystal might posses by virtue of being [psionic] itself, are two quite different things and there's no reason to treat them the same way, so by RAW this probably doesn't work.

Shame though.
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Re: Can i have Two Psionic Focus, at all times? help needed + pp regeneration
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2015, 02:54:27 AM »
Theoretically, giving your Psicrystal Wild Talent and having it Focus each round would give you that second Focus without you having to spend an action.

If you can get your DM to agree, then godspeed.

I have had it pointed out to me that the focus you store within your psicrystal, and the focus your psicrystal might posses by virtue of being [psionic] itself, are two quite different things and there's no reason to treat them the same way, so by RAW this probably doesn't work.

Shame though.

This was my first reaction too, but based on the actual text of Psicrystal Containment I don't think that point holds up.  "At any time when you need to expend your psionic focus, you can expend your psicrystal’s psionic focus instead, as long as the crystal is within 5 feet of you."  Pretty cut and dry - it definitely refers to using your Psicrystal's focus instead of your own, regardless of how your Psicrystal became focused. 

If you wanted to attack this method, your best RAW argument would be claiming that the specific line in the feat that says "your psicrystal cannot focus itself - only the owner can spend time to focus the psicrystal" overrides the general rule that things with a power point reserve can become psionically focused.  However, this opens up a different can of worms in that it means it always takes a full-round action to focus the psicrystal, even with Psionic Meditation; not to mention the difficulty one would face in proving that the feat is more specific than the rules for becoming psionically focused (since they don't generally apply to psicrystals in the first place). 
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