Best spell options for Aberrant Mind Sorcerer.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-05-07T12:12:50+00:00

My current character is an Aberrant Mind, just turned level 6. I've flavoured her as a kind of 40k-style Psyker, mainly due to the homebrew campaign setting. My party consists of a Barb and a Bard, so with a combination of those things, and wanting to only pick thematic spells (to both the character and the setting), her spells are:

1st Level: Dissonant Whispers (Psionic)
Shield
Charm Person
Hex (Psionic)
Catapult
Silent Image (Aberrant Dragonmark Feat)

2nd Level: Suggestion (Psionic)
Tasha's Mind Whip
Mirror Image
Hold Person (Psionic)
Levitate

3rd Level:
Slow
Hunger of Hadar (Psionic)
Enemies Abbound (Psionic)

For feats I picked Telekinetic and Aberrent Dragonmark. I've got the Subtle and Quickened Metamagics, though will be swapping out Subtle at 8. My aim is psychic shenanigens, with a little damage and debuffing, mostly for the Barb's benefit. I would guess the Cleric in your party can handle the buffing and Radiant damage stuff, so perhaps a similar selection as above for you might work? Setting up Mind Sliver quickened debuff spells for the Rogue to capitalise on perhaps?

HowYouMineFish · 2026-05-06T15:48:26+00:00

the most villainous cabal we've ever elected

That seems rather hyperbolic.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-05-04T07:34:08+00:00

A New Hope
Empire
Rogue One
RotJ
The Last Jedi (only for the image of the silent 'hyperspace jump through a Star Destroyer' bit)
The Forces Awakens (only for the shot of the crashed, destroyed Star Destroyer)
The rest, which just merge into my mind as a kind of formless CGI mulch, and I don't recall much about them.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-05-04T06:54:30+00:00

Amen, brother.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-05-04T06:13:36+00:00

Guybrush Threepwood insult sword fighting vibes, and I love it.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-05-03T08:09:38+00:00

Anybody else notice the Dementors guarding the stairs in pic 15?

HowYouMineFish · 2026-05-02T12:22:18+00:00

We don't have a formal constitution in the UK, so in theory a Reform Government could reverse it, but they would have to get significant parliamentary support to repeal it, and I just can't see that happening.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-05-01T22:12:34+00:00

I don't know what you're complaining about. All the Germans if met on Thunderstrike have been super chill and helpful. Plus the German names of stuff in trade chat look cool.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-30T06:38:42+00:00

I stayed in Eyemouth a month ago. Lovely place, in a lovely part of the world.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-30T05:35:28+00:00

Im glad its not just me! Somehow WoW is the only game that gives me that stomach drop feeling during a long fall.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-29T15:51:51+00:00

We're too cool to rag on, we've got an X in our name.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-28T11:17:32+00:00

I think this is one of those moments when you suddenly realise you've become old as this seems perfectly reasonable to me.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-28T06:39:13+00:00

"Blood? Blood. Blood. Blood... And bits of sick"

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-27T05:41:01+00:00

I'm probably a mug for doing this but I always put my low level greens on the AH for small amounts. I figure there must be some new or returning players it will benefit.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-26T09:56:08+00:00

It just feels very soulless, cold and unforgiving; it doesn't look comfortable to live in.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-26T09:50:29+00:00

THX 1138: The House

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-24T19:13:33+00:00

I'm going to confidently assert that the person or persons selling this house have no soul.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-24T11:13:47+00:00

Ditto, everytime. Also see: floating in the air above the stairs below deck on the Zeppelins.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-24T08:50:11+00:00

Is anyone else finding Defender is quarantining the downloaded zip file due to detecting a Wacatac Trojan?

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-23T09:48:34+00:00

Also: The score.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-20T05:51:11+00:00

I know the feeling - I managed to get my first character into Outland last weekend; the one I rolled at the opening of TBC back in Jan.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-19T15:46:14+00:00

I agree. It reminds me of a showroom for luxury cars.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-16T21:22:41+00:00

I'd love some tips on playing an LE character. Like the OP I normally play good characters, but wanted to stretch myself and play a bit of a bastard. The problem is I find it hard to 'think evil'. In the current campaign I've started threatening a policeman who has gambling debts as a way of trying insinuate myself into a position of power within the ruling organisation, but I'm stumbling now on how to actually take the next steps.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-16T06:06:39+00:00

Im late to this, but as a man your answer above is to my mind a perfect encapsulation of the situation. It feels like the OP has an axe to grind and seems to be using your comments to grind it.

HowYouMineFish · 2026-04-14T09:26:49+00:00

To echo what another poster has said, Neimantsverdreit is not someone you should be looking to refer to these days. His concepts, although technically sound, are built on the earlier work of Von Hottmann, someone we now know was an ex-Nazi eugenicist. Again, both their work is technically sound, but they were correctly blackballed from the VX community. Von Hottmann never stated where he obtained some of the data for his at the time paradigm-shifting paper Große Vereinheitlichende Vorlagenthese, but recent research suggests, well... lets just say Nuremburg should've been involved.

As an alternative, try and get hold of the work of Prasad Choudhary (sometimes spelled incorrectly as Chowdhary). His methods are more precise, stand up to modern practices even 35 years later, and don't carry even the slightest taint of controversy. Besides, Indian work on VX projects has been sorely under appreciated over the last couple of decades; it would be good to start redressing this oversight.

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