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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tiornys" data-source="post: 5560450" data-attributes="member: 17633">Not really.  In fact, each Battlemind trigger has a distinctly different timing, and two of them can potentially not happen until very late in the combat.Speed of Thought occurs simultaneous with the beginning of combat, always.  Wild Focus must occur during the first round of combat*, but its trigger will go off for each enemy in the encounter during that round, so it's easy to wait until your preferred enemy starts their turn rather than firing it at the first enemy to act.  Battle Resilience doesn't trigger until you get attacked, which will usually happen early but need not happen until very late (or possibly not at all).  Persistent Harrier is similar (you have to be attacked, which might not happen early or at all), and its trigger is ambiguously worded, as AbdulAlhazred pointed out.There's no way to give an official answer to the question; RAW is ambiguous.  Great fodder for a FAQ entry.t~*technically, if you didn't fire Wild Focus on the first round, and an enemy were introduced into the combat later on, it too could be used well after the beginning of combat</blockquote>