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<blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4345893" data-attributes="member: 71571">Now, granted, -most- powers that do typed damage have that type as a power keyword, that's good design after all.&nbsp; And if you use a power that allows you to select the kind of damage it does, the power gains that damage type.&nbsp; That's a game rule, and that makes sense as well.But, to say that the Class Power changes types based on the Item used with it, even tho the -paragraph- used as precident is refering to damage types is stretching.Here's another interpretation.If you do two or more things to accomplish something, that something gets the keywords given to it by all the things used to accomplish it.If you got a power that says it deals radiant damage, and a power that says that it'll now do fire damage.... &quot;...they all apply.&quot;That's not hard to figure out.&nbsp; You do radiant and fire damage... because -all- powers affecting the effect apply.That -makes- sense.But to say 'That power is now a Fire power and all those fire feats make it better just because the item you -happened- to use it with can be used to make some fire once a day' is -reaching- and inventing definitions that don't exist.&nbsp; &quot;...they all apply&quot; is refering to the powers going into creating the gestalt effect.&nbsp; It doesn't mean, nor even mention powers that the item might have that aren't being used, nor does it say that it changes the powers contributing to the effect, merely, that all the powers used APPLY to the effect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DracoSuave, post: 4345893, member: 71571"] Now, granted, -most- powers that do typed damage have that type as a power keyword, that's good design after all. And if you use a power that allows you to select the kind of damage it does, the power gains that damage type. That's a game rule, and that makes sense as well. But, to say that the Class Power changes types based on the Item used with it, even tho the -paragraph- used as precident is refering to [I]damage types[/I] is stretching. Here's another interpretation. If you do two or more things to accomplish something, that something gets the keywords given to it by all the things used to accomplish it. If you got a power that says it deals radiant damage, and a power that says that it'll now do fire damage.... "...they all apply." That's not hard to figure out. You do radiant and fire damage... because -all- powers affecting the effect apply. That -makes- sense. But to say 'That power is now a Fire power and all those fire feats make it better just because the item you -happened- to use it with can be used to make some fire once a day' is -reaching- and inventing definitions that don't exist. "...they all apply" is refering to the powers going into creating the gestalt effect. It doesn't mean, nor even mention powers that the item might have that aren't being used, nor does it say that it changes the powers contributing to the effect, merely, that all the powers used APPLY to the effect. [/QUOTE]

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