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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5731482" data-attributes="member: 71571">WhatBlindness is the only effect of the power that sustain can key off of.  If sustain does not extend the blindness, then sustain has no effect active that allows you to activate it.  Sustain is a definition of duration, not merely a line in powers that lets you do cool things.Moreover, if sustain doesn't extend the blindness, then the power works like this:Use Crown of Stars.Do other things, turn ends.Everyone else does their thing.Your turn starts.Sustain Crown of Stars PEW PEWDo other things, turn ends.  Crown of Stars' ONLY persistant effect ends.Everyone else does more of their thing.Your turn starts.Fail to Sustain Crown of Stars because you cannot sustain any effect that's expired.A daily with the sole effect of allowing you, on the next turn, to spend a minor action to do Charisma mod damage... if you hit with an attack?  And then it does nothing?That'd be a pretty bad power.  Now, with sustainable blindness that also does pew pew laser beams until you're done with the blinded creature's friends and can turn to the real threat?  THAT is a power worth taking.</blockquote>