Having your health reduced a bit aion kinah is a fair trade off for some valuable power
Mana-stone: (NB! Not a good idea when you're mentored below level 15 or so.) If you pay attention to the trade skill progress, you shouldn't fail the encounters that could because you harm. Having your health reduced a bit aion kinah is a fair trade off for some valuable power.
The Combine: Assuming that you've done your homework on harvesting and prepared as described, you should now be in front of your crafting station, ready to start a combine.
Place your fingers on the number row on your keyboard. Put your left hand little finger on 1, your index finger on 6 and the two fingers in between on 3 and 4 (so that 2 and 5 has no finger on them).
Whenever you've buffed, reset your fingers to this default position. To me - at least - this has proven to help me keep the rhytm of the combine going as well as improving my reflexes towards countering events. You may use your mouse, your nose or whatever if that works better for you.)
Increasing your durability...
- If no event, power is high - hit 1, 5
- If no event, power is low - hit 3, 5
- If event, counter the event and hit either 1 or 5 as secondary buff