Battle Wilder

The battle wilder channels her emotions not into her
manifesting ability, but into her combat prowess. While
the battle wilder is still capable of and effective at using
powers, she also gains improved battle capacity, as well
as expanded training in weapons.

### **Weapons and Armor Proficiency**

Battle wilders are
proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with
light armor, and with shields (except tower shields).

### **Combat Surge (Su)**

A battle wilder channels her
emotions into a physical boost of energy that strengthens
her body. A battle wilder can invoke a combat surge in
two possible manners. She can invoke a combat surge
while manifesting a power or by spending 1 power point
as a swift action. In either case, the battle wilder gains
a +2 enhancement bonus to her Strength for one round
after invoking a combat surge.

At 3rd level, the enhancement bonus to Strength
increases to +4. At 7th level, the battle wilder also
gains a +2 enhancement bonus to Constitution during
a combat surge. At 11th level, the enhancement bonus
to Constitution increases by +2. At 15th level, the
enhancement bonus to Strength increases to +6. At 19th
level, the enhancement bonus to Constitution increases
to +6.

This ability replaces wild surge. The battle wilder
does not get to select a surge type.

### **Psychic Enervation (Ex)**

Pushing oneself by invoking
a combat surge is dangerous. Immediately following
each combat surge, a battle wilder may be overcome by
the strain of her effort, causing her to take 2 hit points
of damage per battle wilder level and dazing the battle
wilder for one round. The chance of suffering psychic
enervation is 15%.

### **Surging Assault (Su)**

A battle wilder can expend her
psionic focus as part of a full attack to gain one additional
attack at her highest attack bonus.

This ability replaces
surge blast.

### **Toughness**

The battle wilder gains the Toughness
feat as a bonus feat at 1st level.

This ability replaces
surge bond.

### **Combat Euphoria**

At 4th level. when a battle wilder
uses her combat surge ability, she gains a +1 morale
bonus on attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws
for a number of rounds equal to the battle wilder’s
Charisma modifier (minimum 1).

If a battle wilder is overcome by psychic enervation
following her combat surge, she does not gain the
morale bonus for this use of her combat surge ability.

At 12th level, the morale bonus on a battle wilder’s
attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws increases
to +2. At 20th level, the bonus increases to +3.

This ability replaces surging euphoria.

### **Combat Fortitude**

Starting at 5th level, the battle
wilder gains a +1 bonus to Fortitude saves as long as she
is maintaining psionic focus. Every four levels beyond
5th (9th, 13th, and 17th level), this bonus improves by +1.

Starting at 17th level, whenever the battle wilder is
subject to an effect that allows a Fortitude save, the
battle wilder receives a second Fortitude save to negate
the effect in addition to any save the effect may allow;
if the spell or power already allows a Fortitude save to
negate, the battle wilder makes a second one, and would
need to fail both to be affected.

This ability replaces Improved surge bond.

### **Physical Overload**

A battle wilder of 20th level is
able to push herself and greatly increase her combat
ability. Once per day, the battle wilder can invoke a
combat surge and gain a +8 enhancement bonus to both
Strength and Constitution for a number of rounds equal
to the battle wilder’s Charisma modifier (minimum 1).
In addition, while under the affects of physical overload,
the battle wilder treats her base attack bonus as equal
to her battle wilder level, which may grant additional
iterative attacks. Invoking a physical overload comes
with it a guaranteed psychic enervation that does double
the normal effect when the physical overload ends and
this psychic enervation cannot be modified by feats or
other abilities that would mitigate or otherwise alter it.

This ability replaces perfect surge.