Pipeman
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Been a while since I read the first volumes, but as far as I recall when Issei still had to use the regular Boosted Gear he did pretty much use it to fire himself up and then try to destroy his opponent in a handfull of moves, so I would say it kind of fits.cyberswordsmen said:Overall much better but having the boosts last only 3 dv refreshes, followed by a fatique penalty equal to the bonus you got means that unless you can finish the fight in those three actions then using the boosted gear for stat boosts is actively harmful to your strategy. Using a excellency for the same bonuses is both more mote efficient and lacks the long term dice penalty. Also note that using the boosted gear a second time only offsets the fatigue penalty from the first use.
Frankly with this version of the boosted gear he wouldn't have survived canon as he would only be able to fight like a athletic mortal for the time it takes him to throw three punches.
Also, as far as I see it, the Overdrive function is not supposed to replace your excellencies and stuff, but work cumulative with them when you really need to break through your dice cap, especially since any additional dots to your attributes allow you to buy extra dice with your Excellencies.
The very reason why the heavy penalties and high costs are in place is to prevent it being used lightly.
You already have an entirely new dicepool you can use for other situations so there is no real need to be able to spam your stat increases as well.
Also, do not forget that spending a Willpower point negates all fatigue penalties for a single action and reduces the amount of total fatigue penalties by one or that channeling Conviction negates fatigue penalties for an entire minute and removes as many penalties as the character's Conviction rating.
So while suitably debilitating, it is not nearly as bad as it may appear.
Besides, what is more fitting than Issei remaining standing purely on virtue of his Willpower after using his Boosted Gear far more than he should have?
Lastly, yes it does not work really as well as in canon, but quite frankly an artifact that doubles all of your stat ratings every 10 ticks is simply not workable in Exalted so adjustments need to be made while trying to retain the spirit.