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I was definitely looking forward to power boost. But when i got it, i ate food, muon gold, and made my mind 2154, when it was originally 1000. So i thought, this should raise my healtha nd action 1000 points ! NO! NOT TRUE! It will only raise your original mind status. Which for me is 1000. So i have 900/900/1000. So i powerboost and i only get 1400/1400/1500. This is NOT enough to "tank"

I was definitely looking forward to the powerboost. I am very dissapointed. I had the assumption that is if ate food and muon gold and raised my mind from 1000 to 2100, i would boost my health and action about 500. Wrong! The powerboost will only boost your health and action half of your ORIGINAL mind value, so it will only raise my health and action 500, rather tahn the amazing 1000, almost replaces a bad buff . How are we supposed to be the tanks of the game when we can only get a max of about 1500/1500/1500 HAM? Maybe the DEV's messed up, maybe they didn't, but i for one want an answer...I don't think i heard anything about the starting mind points, in fact, in a dev post, i saw Thunderheart say that it will boost half of the CURRENT mind value. DEV's, if your out there, just answer this one question...

Shifted

be glad u can do it! selfish **edit**!

haha sry for that but wth, if u dont like it dont be a tk. be another class cuz all their special abilities are SO much better, oh wait, THEY DONT EXIST.

*gives shifted the finger and tells him to shove it*

ehh tank what? That's more than enough for me to tank missions on Dathomir.

If you can't tank with those stats, maybe you should pick your fights more carefully. Personally, I feel power boost is a godsend.

Powerboost, increases you HAM pools by Half of you current (- wounds) mind pool. The increase in Health and Action is useful, but the increase in Mind pool is the real bonus.

Fenris

Careful now! Power boost only buffs you for half of your STANDARD mind pool, that is pre-food, pre-buff,and pre-spice, not half of your current mind pool.

So if you get a mind buff and take a hit of muon and raise your normal 700 mind to 2100, then power boost; you are only going to boost by 350.

Actually I've noticed that if you get buffed by an entertainer before you use power boost you actually get a better buff from power boost. Also, I'm not sure if this is totally accurate, but it looks like power boost takes your secondary mind stats first before adding your primary.

I've been buffed to 1300 mind watching a dancer and increased it to 1700 after using power boost. I got a better boost after listening to a musician and watching a dancer and then using power boost. I'll have to test it again to be sure.

I think power boost works awsome... the only thing that i can think of that sucks about it is you have to be in a meditive state to use it, so that basicly prevents you from using when you get agroed on. Which isn't that bad but when you set up your statsfor more gain from power boost, you can be very vunriable due to low action and heath bars if you get agroed on.

But other than that power boost KICKS ARSE.

You wouldn't WANT to use it if you got aggrod on. It halves your mind pool when you activate it and then slowly powers up. When your mind pool gets back up to having no minus then you suddenly get a jump and your mind gets boosted by 50%

I think this usually takes about 60 seconds to happen though.

And yes the mind boost at the end is the primary benefit. The health and action boosts are nice as they mean that if you can use them then Stim Pack C's are more effective because you can wait longer before using them.

Yea true....kind of forgot about the 50% mind drian with 60 second recovery.... /emote slaps himself upside the head

don't get me wrong here, i am extremely happy with powerboost. i think it's one of the best skills in the game, for any profession. but, wouldn't it be cool IF powerboost buffed your secondary stats by 1/2 your foc/will too?

hehe, i know i know that is too much and there are less fortunate melee professions out there that need some TLC i know i know. but it's still a *cool* idea if you ask me!

otherwise, i personally feel that powerboost needs to have some negative side to it. in it's current iteration, it is a *free* buff to health action and mind. there are no side effects. there is no cost to use it. it's absolutely free, and carries no risk to use it. there is no tradeoff! i feel that using powerboost should be draining to the artist. the rationale is that you are pumping your body up to super natural strength, and when you return to your *normal* state, you are winded and need to rest. that just makes sense to me, that when you over exert yourself you become tired and need a break. maybe have a 1 minute temporary reduction in ham of 150 points (totally arbitrary) that takes place after you are returned to normal ham.

now, obviously this is going to be a wildly unpopular idea, and i'm sure if soemthing like this was implemented then ''omg noone will use this suxxor skill'' just like *noone* uses fow now oh well, it's an idea for balancing the huge benefit of powerboost with some appropriate cost. sue me

"Noone uses force of will"

Liar.

Every good TKA I know uses it. And believe me there are a LOT of TKA's around now. Whats so bad about FoW? It's saved me from death and having to run back 6000m to a mission many, many, many, times.

Oh no! I have a health reduction for a minute!

Big deal, at least you didn't decay.

Oh my god! I have 100 b/f!

Look if you're to cheap to /tip 1000 to the poor musician then shame on you. I'm more than glad for an excuse to help them out and spend some time talking the cantina.

I do kinda agree that PB should have a temp 100 ham lowering when its done. But only for like a few minutes, and not if you die will boosted. Ever tried to defend a town with no PB? Its not doable with stopping shots 800 pvp damage and more with eyeshot.