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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalanyr" data-source="post: 275880" data-attributes="member: 190">A power that does 1 extra hit, to a very specific group is worth  5 XP (Holy and Unholy Strike demonstrate this) which is why Angel's Touch wasn't done that way, it would be crappier than HS in terms of relative cost if it was 6 XP for +1 damage to Undead. (The essential effect if it was 6 XP and didn't stack with Holy Strike)And with Chi Mastery, using the least costly power (share life) (to maximise the number of times it can be used and hence to get the greatest advantage from Chi Mastery), and having a Holy Battery of Twenty Chi, with the mimimum of 2 Chi cost (which I put in to avoid infinite shoves and heal lifes etc,  there is no difference from the -1 with a minimum of 2 chi. The real difference shows itself with Purity of Focus. Assuming a 20 Chi Battery as a 1 point reduction (3 Chi) you can get off 6 before you run out, a net gain of 6 XP (no advantage so a Waste of a power, could have just put the 6 XP into Chi for the same effect and not have to have bought it as an epic power.)Increasing the cost to 7 xp and the reduction to 2 xp with a minimum of 2 (as I did), results in 10 Purity of Focuses (objectively only 4 more than before) or 20 saved Chi, actually better than the outlay. The original way requires an obscene amount of Chi to be of use.</blockquote>