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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 5208228" data-attributes="member: 72317">I think my answer to that would be: Limited Resources. Much as it makes sense to open combat with my most potent attack and work my way down, reality is that I usually cannot afford to sustain this over multiple fights, nor is it always a wise thing to do. Closest analogy might be that in a typical dnd game, the queen represents my dailies, the rook/bishop/knight are my encounter powers while pawns are at-wills. In a fight, I won't always initiate combat with a daily. I may start with an encounter power (or even an at-will, if I think the foes don't seem particularly threatening), to test the waters, so to speak. Only when I am certain the enemies are tough would I consider blowing a daily. In the same vein, while the nature of encounter powers means I should try to use them all within the same encounter, there is still the issue of timing and trying to get maximum mileage out of each power (so I may also hold off using them till I get into a more optimal position), rather than AP-->daily-->encounter.Of course, if I could somehow get to use my most potent daily power as an at-will ability, then I would not hesitate to spam it every chance it get. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />That was actually the case in Kamen Rider: Kiva. Past a certain stage, the protagonist doesn't even bother to engage his foes in his basic form. He just zips straight into emperor mode (sorta like the battlizer form for rangers), whips out his uber-sword-of-doom and proceeds to trounce his foes. The animation even reflects this. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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