Quote Originally Posted by Noxifer View Post
Except... WHM Stoneskin gives you 18% of HP at casting time as a shield. So if you were at 4600hp before synching, and 1500 after synching (examples only), that would give you an unfair advantage against the unsynched people with Stoneskin on, since you'd have a shield of 828 instead of 270.
This is the reason the system works the way it does. Buffs in this game are all based on your current stats when applied. They don't live update. They would be made to work that way, many other MMOs started that way, or have added that functionality after a time. The question is if or when SE would do so. They would have to before the current status quo would change.