Do an Occultist's resonant powers disappear once mental focus is gone?

[LastFootnote]

Two pertinent passages from the Occultist class description:

Occult Adventures; Mental Focus ability wrote:

Once mental focus has been invested inside an implement, the implement gains the resonant power of its implement school, and the occultist can expend the mental focus stored in the implement to activate the associated focus powers he knows. If a resonant power grants a bonus that varies based on the amount of material focus invested in the implement, the bonus is determined when the focus is invested, and it not reduced or altered by expending the mental focus invested in the item. Once all of the mental focus in an implement has been expended, it loses its resonant power until mental focus is once again invested in the implement.

But then…

Occult Adventures; Implement School Resonant Power ability wrote:

Each time the occultist invests mental focus into an [school] implement, the implement grants the following resonant power. The implement's bearer gains the benefit of this power until the occultist refreshes his focus.

So which is it? Does the resonant power disappear once the implement's mental focus runs out, or does it last until the occultist refreshes his focus?

[Daniel Yeatman]

It's a case of Specific trumps general; the resonant power remains until the occultist refreshes his focus, however, if all of his mental focus in an implement has been expended, he loses its resonant power until he invests more mental focus in it again.

[Mighty Squash]

That seems a bit of a contradiction in the rules there, if enough people FAQ it then it might get a correction (which I suspect will go toward their losing the power when the points are fully expended).

Edit: I think the guy who ninja'd in above me is probably right. But some official tidying up still wouldn't be a terrible plan.

[Cranky McDuff]

LastFootnote wrote:

Two pertinent passages from the Occultist class description:

Occult Adventures; Mental Focus ability wrote:

Once mental focus has been invested inside an implement, the implement gains the resonant power of its implement school, and the occultist can expend the mental focus stored in the implement to activate the associated focus powers he knows. If a resonant power grants a bonus that varies based on the amount of material focus invested in the implement, the bonus is determined when the focus is invested, and it not reduced or altered by expending the mental focus invested in the item. Once all of the mental focus in an implement has been expended, it loses its resonant power until mental focus is once again invested in the implement.

But then…

Occult Adventures; Implement School Resonant Power ability wrote:

Each time the occultist invests mental focus into an [school] implement, the implement grants the following resonant power. The implement's bearer gains the benefit of this power until the occultist refreshes his focus.

So which is it? Does the resonant power disappear once the implement's mental focus runs out, or does it last until the occultist refreshes his focus?

It's both. You're 12th level and put 6 focus into your Warding Talisman(Abj), you get a +3 Resistance bonus to saves all day, so long as you have it on you. Spend 5 of that, it stays at +3 because that's where you locked it in at that morning. Use up that last point, boom, it's out of juice and doesn't resonate anymore. When you get a full nights rest(relatively speaking) all of your mental focus refreshes and all of your implements reset to 0. This allows you to rearrange your points, if needed. Hope that helps :D

[LastFootnote]

Thanks, all. In retrospect it was obvious. Just a case of hoping it worked differently. Three levels in, Occultist is still a fun class to play, even with needing to e.g. always save one point of mental focus in my Transmutation implement. Lucky I rolled a 20 Intelligence.