Translations:Transformations/32/en
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- Which resource. Most forms drain Ki (energy); a few drain stamina or health instead (Kaioken drains health). A negative value counts as zero: the form costs nothing to hold (the Frost Demon Metal forms).
- Power Release. The drain scales directly with your current Power Release (the percentage you charge with C). Fighting at 100% release costs the most; powering down lowers the upkeep.
- Your offensive power. Once your base STR, SKP and PWR (your stats, class scalings and Power Release, not the form's own multipliers) pass 5 times your max Ki, the form costs proportionally more to hold. Forms that drain stamina or health compare against 1.5 times that pool instead. A stronger form doesn't cost more just for being stronger: its own drain value sets the price. A percentage of your max Ki is also added on top, so bigger pools pay bigger upkeep.
- Mastery. This is the discount. As a form's mastery climbs, its cost multiplier drops toward ×0.75 at 100% mastery, and it discounts the whole upkeep, including the percentage of your max Ki (or stamina or health). With a stack form on top, each form's own mastery discounts its share of the drain.
- Stacking. Layering a stack form multiplies the drain of both your form and the stack form (×2 with the default forms), which is why stacked transformations burn resources fast.
- Server baseline. A global form drain setting and the load of equipped weights scale everything further.