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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5731509" data-attributes="member: 71571">Sustaining an effect once to do cha mod damage, just to have an extra chance to deal warlock curse damage... once... is REALLY bad.  Even for a warlock power.  Sustaining an effect as long as you want, keeping a hard target blind while you kill off his henchmen with your regular shot AND the pew pew from Crown of Stars?  Actually pretty good.'Warlock powers should be bad' is not reasonable justification for not following the power's rules, when the CORRECT interpretation actually makes it a good power.Then the sustain action can never be taken.  You cannot sustain when there's no effect to sustain.The sustain action is used to extend the duration of a Until End of Next Turn effect.  Sustain may have OTHER effects as well, but sustain ALWAYS extends the duration of a non-instant effect.  The only non-instant effect of Crown of Stars is the blindness, so the sustain ability will sustain it, as per:"If a power has a “Sustain” entry, you can keep that power active by taking a specified type of action(minor, move, or standard) during your turn. The “Sustain” entry tells you if a power has an effect that occurs when you take the action to sustain it. See “Durations,” page 278, for more about sustaining a power."You cannot have a power with sustain that doesn't sustain an effect.</blockquote>