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<blockquote data-quote="tiornys" data-source="post: 4504178" data-attributes="member: 17633">If that's its exact wording, it would prevent you from using Healing Strike at all.You're right that it's simpler to treat each keyword as describing the whole power.&nbsp; However, even if you do so, you still have a split between damage keywords and effect keywords, and it's very easy to differentiate between the damage a power does, and the effects it causes.Thing is, they mostly do do this.&nbsp; Typed damage is almost always explicitly noted as such, to the point where it's reasonable to assume that a Fire power that deals &quot;2[W] + Strength damage and 5 ongoing fire damage&quot; deals untyped damage + typed ongoing damage.&nbsp; Effects aren't as clear, but the only powers I'm aware of that have multiple effect keywords are the prismatic powers, which are wonky in any case.Faulty logic.&nbsp; Saying &quot;if a power deals Foo damage it has the Foo keyword&quot; is NOT equivalent to saying &quot;if a power has the Foo keyword it deals Foo damage&quot;.&nbsp; A statement does not imply its logical converse.Your logical progression here is sound, but your first premise is flawed, as demonstrated above.&nbsp; Therefore this argument is invalid.t~</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tiornys, post: 4504178, member: 17633"] If that's its exact wording, it would prevent you from using Healing Strike at all. You're right that it's simpler to treat each keyword as describing the whole power. However, even if you do so, you still have a split between damage keywords and effect keywords, and it's very easy to differentiate between the damage a power does, and the effects it causes. Thing is, they mostly do do this. Typed damage is almost always explicitly noted as such, to the point where it's reasonable to assume that a [b]Fire[/b] power that deals "2[W] + Strength damage and 5 ongoing fire damage" deals untyped damage + typed ongoing damage. Effects aren't as clear, but the only powers I'm aware of that have multiple effect keywords are the prismatic powers, which are wonky in any case. Faulty logic. Saying "if a power deals Foo damage it has the Foo keyword" is NOT equivalent to saying "if a power has the Foo keyword it deals Foo damage". A statement does not imply its logical converse. Your logical progression here is sound, but your first premise is flawed, as demonstrated above. Therefore this argument is invalid. t~ [/QUOTE]

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