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1453R wrote:
"Gain a Power Charge after you Spend a total of 200 Mana"
Channels likely screw with the logic of this skill. The way you're describing its behavior, hitting the cap for Forbidden Power sets a flag that grants a power charge on next cast, once you've filled the tank (spent 200 mana). Channels count as one single cast, or rather the act of channeling doesn't seem to count as casting at all if I recall some things Mark has said.
Starting the channel is a cast - maintaining it is not a cast, it's an otherwise unrelated game state that drains your mana to continue an effect. In either case, it doesn't count as casting.
It's a little strange that the trigger is 'next skill use' rather than 'end skill use' or other ways of awarding the charge. Then again, the entire channeling mechanic is a bolted-on function that seems to do weird things to their code in a lot of cases, so hey. At least you know a workaround, I suppose.
Unfortunately it wasn't really a work around because I had to end my lightning tendril ramp up to refresh my power charges, lol the build ripped anyway but it was certainly a frustrating aspect.
