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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3968455" data-attributes="member: 13966">a) Yes, generally speaking.  Boosts require a Swift Action to activate, while Strikes generally require a Standard Action or Full-Round Action to activate.  You can use a Swift Action in the same round as a Standard or Full-Round Action.  But you cannot choose to use a Boost after making your attack roll or the like; if you're going to use a Boost for your attack, then you have to activate that Boost before making the attack.b) Yes.  Counters use an Immediate Action to activate, which counts as a Swift Action if used on your own turn.  But if you use a Counter on someone else's turn, then instead it uses up the one Swift Action allowed on your next turn.c) Yes and no.  Yes if you use the Counter at some time after your own turn, such as when an opponent attacks you.  No if you intend to use the Boost and the Counter both during your own turn, since they both use up a Swift Action when used on your own turn.d) Yes, if you use the Counter at some time after your own turn.  You could Boost at the start of your turn, move up to an opponent with a Move Action, then initiate a Strike that needs a Standard Action (such as Ruby Nightmare Blade), then follow up on an opponent's turn with a Counter.Of course, Warblades don't get much in the way of Boosts or Counters.  I'd suggest taking Martial Study (Inferno Blade) at 15th-level to boost damage sometimes, since Inferno Blade has no prerequisites (other than being a 7th-level maneuver, so you need to be a 13th-level initiator or higher to learn it).e) It depends on when you use the Moment of Perfect Mind.  If you haven't taken your own turn yet in that particular round, then Moment of Perfect Mind will use up the Swift Action that you would be allowed on your own turn that round (so you wouldn't be able to use a Boost in that round, for example).Otherwise, if you already took your turn for that round, and an NPC tries to zap you with Color Spray later in that round, then using Moment of Perfect Mind against that will just expend your Swift Action for the next round (rather than expending your Swift Action for this round).</blockquote>

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