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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beefermatic" data-source="post: 8677538" data-attributes="member: 6670757">Because effect powers should have always been combined. Unless you specifically don't want to use a power.Like the opposite of Virtual Size Categories J curve of infinite power, effect powers become almost entirely underpowered and useless, even combined. Effects powers do abysmally small amounts of damage at any point in time compared to any other ability tree you go down.Even things like Ultima Effect, Transcendental Effect, etc at the appropriate level are basically pointless, if you ever wanted to focus on them, you're character would just die.Here's an example, look at saelunes melee damage now look at her ranged damage. Do you see a difference there?She could, quite literally, hit for about 50 rounds, with her oh so overpowered combined effect and it would about make the damage of a single melee hit. Furthermore she gets 3 times the attacks in melee.So you know, there's that. Even for timelords, the effect is weak, beyond weak in fact. Even with expression of power dealing trival amounts of damage to something like metamagic freedom and repeat spell Doomsday spell combos..Only cheap shot things like Astro Effect or Annihilating effect ever stay relevant but literally you have to go all in with that, but that uses up all your abilities and without the other abilities (Evil Eye, Sophism, Transilient [save], etc) you'll never land a hit.So it just doesn't make sense not to combine them. They stay somewhat more relevant at that point..So I've always combined them. Otherwise damage wise they're utterly pointless.All the effect powers are multiplied, do the math yourself if you feel so inclined. I typed these powers out by hand so there's going to be mild inconsistencies like slight differences with formatting.She also has taken the Living Construct  Div ability instead of Ersatz. You can find that on my "Current Campaign Setting" thread under Lord Capricus</blockquote>

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