Talk:Growing Power/@comment-195.220.79.237-20190307144900/@comment-617281-20190322215941

@A Lone Tenno two posts above

Again, you should really read. This guy also wasn't asking about triggering the effect with spores, he was obviously asking about how the power strength buff is applied (and when it is applied) to spores. And increased strength is almost mandatory at higher levels, since it would take ages for a low-strength spore to scale up its damage enough to actually do anything. Not to mention that the status chance for spore scales with power strength. Inversely, on lower level you almost want a lower power strength since a high-damage spore will kill enemies too quickly for you to be able to spread them.

On topic though, I'd have to (wildly) guess that the strength is taken into account only on the initial cast (since that's how the lion's share of skills work). Perhaps casting a new spore when you get the buff would start a second set of spores? I couldn't find anything on spores page so it would require some testing.