Talk:Sinking Talon/@comment-73.46.151.20-20150115003931/@comment-50.101.56.248-20150115190329

Stances add mod capacity instead of consuming it, so maxing out your stance can give you a bit more room for other mods.

Also, I think most stances require you to rank them up to use combos besides the first one, with the nth real combo (as in not the slide attack, air attack, etc.) becoming available at rank n-1. Sinking Talon in particular has two real combos, Lashing Panther and Rising Lion in that order, so I assume that Lashing Panther can be used with the stance at any rank but Rising Lion only works with the stance ranked up to rank 1 or higher.

As a comparison, Cleaving Whirlwind (a stance that I actually use, for the Galatine) has four real combos: Crowd Fall, Broken Bull, Sundered Tusk, and Drifting Stampede. Crowd Fall is available at Cleaving Whirlwind rank 0 or higher, Broken Bull needs stance rank 1 or higher, Sundered Tusk needs stance rank 2 or higher, and Drifting Stampede needs stance rank 3. That example and others lead me to assume that this stance works the same way.