[Poruku]

I am pretty sure rank 4 painproof does not provide a stronger buff

Proof I'm wrong

Wow, thank you!! I appreciate the field work. I think I had this impression because the buff lvl was the same but I'm not sure. Either way, now we know

That being said, yeah. The HP cost being too steep is what holds this skill back. This is a problem with ghost as a whole, especially because they want to have a bunch of HP but then they don't really do anything with it.

There should be a way that ghost actually benefits from paying a ton of HP for their skills, because as it stands things like afflicted spectre just punish the ghost unless you're doing some kind of SAN instinct build and you REALLY wanna be at 50% quick.

Maybe there could be a buff you gain when spending HP with a stacking LVL equal to half of your spent hp, and when you deal ghost/basic attack damage you lifesteal for like 20% of damage done and reduce the buff by that number. So you kinda regain the lost hp by attacking like in bloodborne. Can't go beyond the buff amount of course. Just an idea. Could even give you a small buff based on how much of that "paid" blood you gave. Like +1 SWA per 10 lvl or something.