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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 7119595" data-attributes="member: 4936">You don't pay for your Strength twice when calculating your damage rank.However, the Multiattack would have to include your Strength rank if your attack is Strength-based.Penetrating does not HAVE to include it. You have the option of leaving it at 6. Note that the nature of Impervious defenses means that there's very rarely a need to have Penetrating at full damage rank. Someone would have to have an Impervious Toughness of 18 to block a rank 9 damage effect. There's no partial reduction with Impervious Toughness...it's all or nothing.So in this case, I would suggest reducing your Penetrating modifier to pay for the difference in Multiattack cost, leaving the total power cost the same. Sorry I forgot about that wrinkle of strength based damage. The point of doing Strength based is that it makes your attack power into a 'weapon' kind of. It lets you use your Strength AND your power damage in a single attack. But you don't get a free pass on Extras to the damage. Your Strength rank is treated as ranks in Damage for the purpose of those modifiers.You don't have to pay for those ranks AS damage because you already paid for them as Strength.</blockquote>