Psycasts levels

[BladeofSharpness]

How do I get more psycasters and increase levels for existing ones? Are the only solutions to occasionally get a neuroformer from a special quest or to have some pawns with a tribal background?
I’m asking because it seems people often manage to have multiple high-level psycasters, but given how rarely I find a neuroformer, this doesn’t seem likely and has never happened in any of my playthroughs.
Then there’s the expanded psycast mod—if psycasts were so rare, would this mod even exist? Unless people are playing with settings that add a lot of neuroformers somewhere?

[Mati_Lublin]

Advance in royal ladder, new titles = new psycasting levels.

There's also blinding ritual that has chance to give psycast level, but it's highly unreliable.

[Wasted]

its better to save the neuroformers until you already have a higher lvl psylink, then you can use them to increase it above your title. note when you upgrade your title it wont go higher than the link lvl for the title unless your use a neuroformer (after getting title). max lvl is 6.

[BladeofSharpness]

So outside of ranking in the royal ladder, not much?

[Garatgh Deloi]

Haven't tested, but if you disable the other types of rewards (goodwill/honor rewards) and purposely aims for neuroformers you should feasible be able to get quite a few of them with a tad of luck.

[apud.harald]

Some, but not much. I came across two in 5 years.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by apud.harald:

Some, but not much. I came across two in 5 years.

Fairly certain i have gotten 3 from a single quest before (as far as i know it wasn't effected by any mods, but i do admittedly often play with some mods).

[MadArtillery]

Tribal background pawns (usually says it gives natural meditation type) can meditate around the anima tree to build up grass for increasing psilink level. These pawns do not need to be the actual psicaster recieveing the level up nor able to psicast themselves. Tribals are the fastest way to get lots of high level psicasters.

lvl 3 is the most important level for psi caster imo because of vertigo pulse, always want one user at base. Mostly get multiple royal casters for permits as more shuttles is good, can build up a fleet of backups over time as they never despawn.

[XelNigma]

If your open to mods you have more options.
One I liked when making a psycaster heavy cult was party hard -psycast rituals.
It adds the option to have a ideology ritual that can grant people psycaster levels.

If you add it mid game you'll have to either be a fluid ideology or use dev mode to add it to your ideology.

There's also a mod that lets biosculpter pods grant paylevels.
Mods that let you craft them, but that's boring.
If your fine with just buying them there's a mod to make them more common in traders.

If you have dryads there's a mod for a special dryad type that drops psyfruit that can be turned into neuroformers.

I think one of the Better loot mods for ancient complexes also add neuroformers to the loot pool. But I would have to double check that claim.

[BladeofSharpness]

I'm def open to mods, if they are not OP (which is a relative concept!). The Psycast ideology comes from VE Ideology I guess?

Very good advice about natural types not making themselves the psycaster!

[MadArtillery]

Originally posted by BladeofSharpness:

I'm def open to mods, if they are not OP (which is a relative concept!). The Psycast ideology comes from VE Ideology I guess?

Very good advice about natural types not making themselves the psycaster!

Ya it's a big difference noticing that. Having like 10-20 tribals meditating on a tree an hour or 2 a day and you'll drown in psicasters really really fast