 Mystic Adept / Magician functional differences, If you add Astral Perception and stir vigorously, what's different |
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  Dec 20 2009, 06:24 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 20-December 09 Member No.: 17,980  |
Hey all,
I'm currently pouring through making my first SR4 character, so I've been going over the sample Magician builds and such in the forums here and elsewhere. A thought struck me last night: If you spend the BP to add Astral Perception to a Mystic Adept, is he functionally any different from a Magician now? Figure a Magic 6 character; the Mystic Adept is 75BP; with a 5/1 Magic/Power Point split, you end up with Magic 5 and Astral Perception as your 1-point Power. He'll have less raw magical/spell-slinging ability (obviously) as you're going to dedicate 1 or more points of your Magic rating to Adept powers; but you can then go forth and purchase additional Adept powers down the road using karma, while casting Force 5 - Force 10 spells. Very Karma intensive, but could be interesting. Is there anything a Magician can do that a high-magic Mystic Adept with Astral Perception can't do? Are there any Adept powers that would be really nice for a combat mage to have? |
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Dec 20 2009, 06:37 PM
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Prime Runner Ascendant Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 |
QUOTE (ForumFerret @ Dec 20 2009, 11:24 AM)  Hey all, I'm currently pouring through making my first SR4 character, so I've been going over the sample Magician builds and such in the forums here and elsewhere. A thought struck me last night: If you spend the BP to add Astral Perception to a Mystic Adept, is he functionally any different from a Magician now? Figure a Magic 6 character; the Mystic Adept is 75BP; with a 5/1 Magic/Power Point split, you end up with Magic 5 and Astral Perception as your 1-point Power. He'll have less raw magical/spell-slinging ability (obviously) as you're going to dedicate 1 or more points of your Magic rating to Adept powers; but you can then go forth and purchase additional Adept powers down the road using karma, while casting Force 5 - Force 10 spells. Very Karma intensive, but could be interesting. Is there anything a Magician can do that a high-magic Mystic Adept with Astral Perception can't do? Are there any Adept powers that would be really nice for a combat mage to have? Mystic Adepts cannot Astrally Project... Ever... Keep the Faith EDIT... OOPS, there are 2 identical Topics and Ancient History Ninja'd Me in the other... |
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