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Message: <blockquote data-quote="P1NBACK" data-source="post: 5303969" data-attributes="member: 83768">Because it's not just physical stamina and energy. It also has to do with timing, flow of combat, techniques your opponents are using, precise openings that occur only once in a while, tricks you can use in a battle maybe once (fool me once...), etc... etc... There's a MILLION reasons you can fictionally justify Encounter and Daily powers. If you’re a martial character, they are exploits you’ve practiced extensively but can pull off only once in a while.This is it. This is the explanation for Encounter Powers. You've practiced these advanced maneuvers, but there's only so many times you can pull them off in a fight due to a million different variables that can change every fight. This time I strained a muscle, this time the enemy is keen to my trick after doing it once, this time I can't find the right opening to use it multiple times, etc... etc... If you’re a martial character, you’re reaching into your deepest reserves of energy to pull off an amazing exploit.Dailies are even more so. You're not just getting fatigued physically, it also takes a mental toll. It takes timing. It takes patience. It takes focus. Someone with multiple dailies can call on those reserves multiple times per day, but when they do so it drains them and pushes them to their limit. I can't push any farther, I can only maintain by using At-Wills - I might be able to pull off an Encounter power if this guy lets down his guard, etc... etc... Why can a guy use Daily 5 and then use his Daily 9? Because that character can perform "two dailies" now. His reserves have increased - he's more focused, experienced, can push himself mentally, etc... But, why can't he do Daily 5 twice? ... I'd say he COULD. But, why would he? Daily 5 is not going to be as good as Daily 9, so it makes more sense to use Daily 5 + Daily 9. Have you ever been in a real fight? You know how you keep trying to get that damn armbar on someone but you just can't get it until that certain moment when the timing is right and the opening is there? That's what I'm talking about here. You know when that opponent escapes the armbar and then all of a sudden you don't even go for that particular armbar anymore because you know they've figured out how you got it on them? Yeah. Watch UFC and tell me they don't have particular moves they pull out at specific times. You know how they're fatigued as <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> all through the fight and then all of a sudden they leap at them and do a flying kick to the face and knock their opponent out? WTF?!!?!? He was FATIGUED!?! He looked <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ing tired. How did he pull that flying knee off? (I'm literally recalling a UFC fight I saw and was stunned by...). Well, he went into his "deepest reserves" and pulled out a badass move that he could probably not do again. That's the fictional justification for Martial powers. And, it makes WAY more sense to me than a Wizard not being able to cast fireball over and over.</blockquote>

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