Combat and combat experience

AP refill at the start of your own turn. Levelling or reconnecting does not refill a running turn. Spells can be repeated without spell cooldown, shared restoration cooldown or one-ward-per-turn limit, while every cast pays its action and equipped Ammo essence costs. Other actions keep their own cooldown rules. An equipped staff reduces a positive spell essence base to max(1, floor(base × 0.75)); off-hand casting applies its 150% rounded-up surcharge afterwards.

Credit uses actual eligible damage, capped to the enemy's life reward pool. The style pool is rounded down once and divided between the attack skill and Defence. Vitality is awarded separately. Contact and Guard have a separate capped credit pool; Guard counts double toward that pool. Rock crab rewards use a 50% multiplier, and The Listener's summoned creatures do not pay ordinary combat XP. Talents and imports apply through the receiving skill's normal reward rules.

A companion's credited offence is redirected to Summoning. A manifested bound weapon redirects 25% of its offence share to Summoning; this is not extra base XP. Companion Guard credit similarly redirects the corresponding Guard reward. Vitality remains a separate owner reward. Combat rewards are saved with enemy-life receipts so retries cannot pay the same life again.