[Whiskeyjack]

EDIT: I am also debating if I should swap out locksmith for binding.

YES.

What I would do is also take 2 from Assensing and have Binding 6. Assensing is versus a static threshold, so you don't need as many dice - you just need to beat the threshold, which will never change, and it's easy enough to add a specialty in Aura Reading to help yourself (but a dice pool of 10 isn't bad for it). Binding is an opposed test against the spirit's (Force x2) so you want to max it to get the most out of it.

[Tarislar]

I would also lower 1 or 2 of Reaction and add it to Body.

I'd also swap Willpower & Intuition

Is my math off?

Astral Perception = 1
Heightened Concern = 0.5
Improved Ability (skill) (Automatics) Rating: 1 = 0.25 due Magician's Way
Improved Physical Attribute (AGI) Rating: 1 = 0.5 due Magician's Way
Improved Physical Attribute (REA) Rating: 1 = 0.5 due Magician's Way
Improved Reflexes 3 = 3.5

Total of 6.25.

I'd assume it should be perception that is getting the discount.

[Tarislar]

I don't subscribe to that interpretation.

Me either.  The CRB didn't deny them so why would the magic book.  And per a quote from the writer that wasn't his intent either.

[Whiskeyjack]

I don't subscribe to that interpretation.

Me either.  The CRB didn't deny them so why would the magic book.  And per a quote from the writer that wasn't his intent either.

On top of it, the magic book is also in the running for the worst editing and mechanics of the entire line.

[Tarislar]

Con                               Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 8
Locksmith                         Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 8

== Qualities ==
Consummate Professional
Focused Concentration (Rating 4)
Superhuman Psychosis
Tough and Targeted
Wanted (1)

Physical Mask              DV: F-1

== Powers ==
Attribute Boost (AGI) Rating: 2
Improved Ability (skill) (Automatics) Rating: 1

EDIT: I am also debating if I should swap out locksmith for binding.

New Suggestions

I'd Drop Con & Locksmith both.  Take Binding at L6 & then add 4 Specializations to other skills.

Drop Physical Mask, You have the Disguise skill & Improved Invisibility already.  Pick up something else like Sterilize or a Increase Intuition.

Assensing does you no good w/o Astral Perception

Drop 1 level of Agility Boost for a 1/4 point elsewhere.

Finally, A mentor Spirit is never a bad option for any caster IMHO.

[Pap Renvela]

I don't subscribe to that interpretation.

Me either.  The CRB didn't deny them so why would the magic book.  And per a quote from the writer that wasn't his intent either.

On top of it, the magic book is also in the running for the worst editing and mechanics of the entire line.

May have bad editing but Magician's Way is rather clear...
and the CRB while not denying them non-adept metamagic also doesn't say they get them.

[Whiskeyjack]

and the CRB while not denying them non-adept metamagic also doesn't say they get them.

This is an exception-based rules system, not a game based on explicit statements of permissiveness.

[Pap Renvela]

You can say whatever you want
However, Magician's Way is very clear:
Unlike their physical counterparts, mystic adepts following
this Way have access to all non-adept metamagic
abilities for which they meet the prerequisites


RAW, mystic adepts without Magician's Way cannot take non-adept metamagics.

You just don't like the rule which isn't the same as it isn't the rule.
Houserule it away all you want- but that's what you're doing.
And if that's how your table plays it I'm cool with it.

[Whiskeyjack]

You can say whatever you want
However, Magician's Way is very clear:
Unlike their physical counterparts, mystic adepts following
this Way have access to all non-adept metamagic
abilities for which they meet the prerequisites


RAW, mystic adepts without Magician's Way cannot take non-adept metamagics.

You just don't like the rule which isn't the same as it isn't the rule.
Houserule it away all you want- but that's what you're doing.
And if that's how your table plays it I'm cool with it.

Look, to be honest, I don't trust this kind of stealth-errata. They could say it more clearly, and chose not to. They could spell it out in the core book, and chose not to. An author came around and was like "that's what is written but was not intended." The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. The RAW itself is heavily suspect. Just being in a book doesn't grant stuff legitimacy, not with how things have been going :\