need some tips on building/is temporal manipulation worth fully investing

[Skinnyjeanman]

im new to this game and im trying to make a pistol/psi guy. i looked up other builds to kinda help me out with setting it up here are my base stats

str is 4
dex is 6
agi is 3
con is 3
per is 9
will is 9
and int is 6
im thinking about adding more to strength and dex and int when i level up
im fully investing in guns and psi stuff but not thought control, but all i heard about temporal is that its mainly buffing should i only invest to learn the skills or does putting more points in give the buffs more power?
thanks in advance

[King Fossil]

Temporal is mostly buffs that don't care about your skill level as long as you meet the minimum requirement. You can just go to 55 for contraction and happily leave it at that. Dump will to 3 too if you don't plan on using other psi skills.
Pistols are kinda bad so you may want to try another weapon type. But maybe you can get away with it. But just be warned, they're kinda bad.
You should probably just dump all your level up points into perception. The higher your perception the higher your gun accuracy/damage are. Pretty important.

[Skinnyjeanman]

thanks a bunch, you saved me fully investing in temporal and having to reload an old save, im going for a full psi build with some pistol in there to make sure i have another ranged option when i run out of points

[kaher44 [UN]]

If you gonna use a pistol raise your starting dex to 7 and get the gunslinger feat, reducing AP to shoot pistols by 3 and increase initiative (7) is a must have (I also use paranoia for the increased init). I play a pistol/psi char too and there is a synergy you can use with the two but I use the other disciplines as well. For instance I use Telekinetic punch on a target stunning it then follow up with a aim shot/execute shot enhanced by Opportunist feat and you got a deadly 1-2 combo. Perception is good to have but so is Dexterity to get more shots out of your pistol.

[cypherusuh]

Btw for full psi, I recommend going balls deep.
3 everything, 10 will+, 10 INT, pick either max agi for rest of skill point, or CON for more health
Pick High Technicality so you have high energy pistol damage when your psi ran out. Hell, you won't need any weapon if you managed your skill correctly, just go max all psi except 70 TM

[Tamiore]

Originally posted by cypherusuh:

Btw for full psi, I recommend going balls deep.
3 everything, 10 will+, 10 INT, pick either max agi for rest of skill point, or CON for more health
Pick High Technicality so you have high energy pistol damage when your psi ran out. Hell, you won't need any weapon if you managed your skill correctly, just go max all psi except 70 TM

To be fair, 10 int seems kind of wasteful on pure psi build when instead you can get int 7, plus both agi AND con at 7.

[Skinnyjeanman]

vary helpful and ill keep it in mind thanks again!!

[cypherusuh]

Every bits of psi regen helps. And 10 int works well with High Technicality, you should be able to cast TK proxy + thicc plasma pistol when you have low psi and your blue drug on cool down, implying you're doing Tranquility. Not sure if that much psi regen enough to cover tk proxy

Also, high int means saving lots of crafting skills, which will be very useful since you have to max 3 school, high TM and probably high Stealth, too. I also recommend putting some skill on Social skills. You'll get skill capped with very few base skill, thanks to very high Will

OH and if you run Tranquility, would recommend 6 CON for Fast Metabolism, you'll need that since you need +- higher psi point per turn to kill stuff, compared to Psychosis (although for Psychosis, 9 CON is better for Survival Instinct, thus you could pick FM anyway)
3 CON is still doable, but psi management will be pretty annoying

[Skinnyjeanman]

thanks for the help i think i need to start a new character because junk town is taking me for a ride

[Skinnyjeanman]

this gives me a chance to try out the costume portraits

[cypherusuh]

Btw with the suggestion of 7 dex (gunslinger) feat, keep in mind that it only works with FIREARM pistol, not Energy or Chemical pistol.

[Skinnyjeanman]

noted thanks