It shows your inner fire level - how much inner fire is "powering" your abilities. Its similar to how, if you've played a magic user, their harness level fuels their spells.

Its sort of like a mana bar. <just don't tell agonar>


<<The real thing DR needs is to get out there to the kids who actually read books.>>

I understand that; what I don't understand is what the |>>>>>>>>>|>>>

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>>The line in the middle is the point where IF will passively regen or decline to (33%). If there is > past the line then it will decline if you are not killing anything.

This.

Also, remember that forms reduce the passive regen cap. So as an example, by having up a couple forms your regen cap might be at 20% instead of 33%.

This is significant when you're trying to strategize on which combination of abilities to use, as you don't want to throw away Inner Fire beforing activating other abilities.

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Individuals, families, countries, continents are destroyed at the heavy hand of Vinjince.

-GM Abasha

>>Do forms, berserks and meditations all reduce the min regen level in addition to periodically sapping IF?

Nope. If I'm not mistaken, forms don't sap IF at all. They just lower the regen cap. Every form works like this so the more you use the more the cap will be lowered.

Berserks cost a small to moderate amount of Inner Fire to activate depending on the berserk. They also sap IF during the duration each time they pulse.

Meditations cost the most Inner Fire upon activation, and of course this varies for each one. From my testing, Prediction costed the most Inner Fire out of any other meditation, including Serenity (which was the 2nd most). I'm not sure if meditations actively sap IF, but I can easily test it.

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Individuals, families, countries, continents are destroyed at the heavy hand of Vinjince.

-GM Abasha

>>Nope. If I'm not mistaken, forms don't sap IF at all.

I am relatively certain that Forms also have a small maintenance cost when they pulse, just like Berserks. I KNOW they did when they were first released in Plat, and the original documentation reflects this.

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<<If they do, I find the maintenance cost of one basic berserk to be more noticeable than three intro/basic forms.>>

I find this to be pretty much true as well.

- Buuwl

>>It is one of the ways we limit folks from using 5 forms before they are ready skill-wise.

Probably why it was only ever a noticeable factor on my 10th circle Barb, not the bigger one. Guess the system works.

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