Talk:Streamline/@comment-94.195.19.1-20130427014720/@comment-94.195.19.1-20130427161508

That's a worthwhile compromise, Zelklen. Noting that it should be expressed as a decimal should suffice in hindsight, and the main reason I commented instead of editing was to get it fixed as whilst it was a small ommission, it also had large consequences mathematically for those who don't fully understand pre-set expectations. [Also, the page is locked and I cannot. Heh.]

The best way to look at what streamline does is that it is not an ability cost reduction, but an energy stored amplification. It makes every unit of energy you have stored worth a certain percentage more. If you have 25 energy and 30% streamline, you can consider that as 32.5 energy instead. If you have 100 energy stored with streamline, it is equal to having 130 energy stored without streamline.

This is why it does not, as most people expect initially, reduce the cost of a 100 base power ability to 70 at maximum rank, and instead effectively reduces it to 70 energy with streamline at maximum is only worth 91 energy.

Also, it's simply Laevatein, or Laevateinn. The UJ was put there after I posted by what seems to be a consistent bug with Wiki comments and my browser. argh.