KM and Power Siphon Questions

In the midst of all the Incarnate hype I've decided to try a Kinetic Melee Brute. I was looking at Mids and the Power Siphon ability in the KM set has me a bit confused. As described the power "...modifies your other Kinetic Attack Powers so they are now capable of draining the strength of your enemies and adding that strength to you. This effect can stack up to five times."

Firstly, the Recharge/Duration cycle prevents PS from stacking at all so I'm a bit lost there.

Secondly, how exactly does the 'draining the strength of your enemies' thing work?

I like the look of the set and I'll be coupling it with SR because I have few SR toons and they seem to fit well. Just trying to understand the new stuff.

Thanks in advance for the help.

The description on Power Siphon is a little misleading. 'Draining the strength of your enemies' means the -dmg secondary effect on your attacks, but your attacks will apply the debuff without Siphon also. As to the stacking, it means that each attack you land during the duration will provide a stacking damage buff, up to 5 stacks.

Power Siphon grants your character a 20 second +tohit. It also activates "Power Siphon Mode" where attacks made will each grant the character +damage, which stacks up to five times, and debuffs the enemy's damage (which also stack).

[whoo, too slow because I couldn't remember if the debuff stacked and had to go ingame to check]

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Dont forget you CAN stack the power siphon itself, not just the 'siphons.' With some decent rech from sets, and hasten, you can. As well as....every critical from Concentrated Strike will recharge the PS power, instantly. So the more you use CS in that 20 sec duration of the power siphon, the more chances you have on it getting a crit, and springing back to full rech.

Thanks very much everyone. It sounds like a nice set with some different mechanics. Now if I can just come up with a good theme lol.

If I remember right, the +Damage amount is 20% so you can get up to +100% Damage from each activation of the Power.