Yup-- I love psymet overall. It will be the first skill I trans. Just a few dud abilities, but the rest are fun.

Wouldn't you love it if psymet had an independant equilibrium. Imagine how much more useful celladjustment would seem, or how you could switch up your three defenses in combat (rather than have everything pre-planned).

Imagine being able to blackout, throatlock, trip and web....

Hmmm I was thinking of doing a Tae'dae Monk.... can it be done?

Um...technically, yes, but it would be pretty frustrating due to the slower-balance and no dexterity.

I had a Tae'dae monk alt (that I don't know what happened to the account) and it was pretty great. Granted this was before the racial changes, but with level 3 sip bonus and psymet I was in the UV tunnels at level 50. It was nuts. And most other things I was able to do totally sipless. Lobishigaru is also fun for sipless bashing.

Edit: Strength also must matter a decent amount because bashing was fairly fast for me despite the balance issue. Also I may be remembering this wrong but I think my two shofa (no kick, I had low kata skill) did 750 damage in spars.

Yes, but fighting, you would be destroyed solely because of raw speed.

Nah, he could use Hyperactive.

Doublepost, but!

Imagine being able to throatlock, psychicpunch jaw, sweat, and phantom

Actually, unless he had max speed weapons, I'd still outpace him.

You're a Faeling. You get that nice little level 3 racial. Besides, right NOW Balance and Equi increase/decrease is worthless.

Not quite. Bwahahahaha! 1.5 second kata ftw.

I want to be able to go mugwump and have super-speed Telekinetics. 6Bursts in under 6 seconds pls.

I don't think the balance/eq bonuses ever affected psionics.

Really? That's some prime quality fail right there.

Psionics doesnt use equilibrium nor does it use balance, why would changes to either effect it?

'cause Psionic Balance is still off equi to everything BUT psionics.

To briefly bring the conversation back around to races and sats... I'm new to the game, and trolling through the forums I have found a lot of contradictory information concerning the races and the applicability of certain racial stats.

I like the idea of a faeling monk, but has the L3 balance really been nerfed, and does their dex really make up for their squashability?

I guess, rather than asking the age old 'what is the best race question,' or at least rather than asking it directly, how relevant are the balance modifiers and damage resists, knowing that between dex/con/str there is usually a trade-off in one department or the other. Cheers!

The discrepancy you are seeing is pre racial rebalance and post racial rebalance. It is certainly not what it used to be and in 99.9% of the cases involved, completely not worth the tradeoff to be any kind of bonus/vulnerable race. This includes Merian, Mugwump, Faeling, Aslaran, etc. Anything with a level 2 fire/lightning/magic vuln is going to get you annihilated and isn't worth the trade-off.

Go with either the spec races (male Kephera, Illithoid), or some of the tanky good-strength, good-dex races (loboshigaru, krokani). Faeling is... very hard.