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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Visigani" data-source="post: 5559068" data-attributes="member: 6676235">And that's the slipup. Because once you get to significantly high levels an Elan could entirely negate a massive alpha strike... especially once you hit epic levels and the elan invests in bonus power points.. he could negate damage into the hundreds or thousands.The only racial ability I can think of that would entirely negate the full effects of the 60d12 of a force dragons breath weapon is... The Elan's. And vigor wouldn't do diddly.This is what I mean by "scales with level". The Halfling is ideally paired with the Rogue...but the halflings racial abilities don't get significantly better as he levels. The Elan's does.To put it in perspective, a level 15 Elan with enhanced resilience could withstand the MAXMIMIZED breath weapon of a CR 59 Epic Force Dragon.Granted, they couldn't be able to withstand much else but all you crazy kids forgot to take into account what makes Resilience superior to Vigor in one important way.. it's not tied to Manifester Level.This means the greater the pool of power points, the more significant damage you can deflect.This means, for example, critical hits become less of an issue. Power failure from damage becomes less of an issue, etc etc.</blockquote>