Questions regarding the ki pool of Perfect Style


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Perfect Style:
Perfect Style (Combat, Style)
Benefit(s): When you take this feat, choose one of the following houses of combat styles; once this decision has been made it cannot be changed. While using this style, you gain a type of energy resistance based on the house you have chosen.
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If you have energy resistance from a racial trait or class feature, the energy resistance gained from this style stacks. Additionally, you gain a ki pool that you can use to activate abilities of your chosen House of Perfection style. Your pool contains 1 ki point at 1st level and increases by 1 point every 4 levels thereafter. If you have a ki pool from another source, you do not gain additional ki points from this feat.

Special: You may select Perfect Style multiple times. Each time you do so, you must select a different house to belong to.

1.If I select Perfect Style multiple times, how many ki pools will I gain?(In other words, when selecting Perfect Style repeatedly, does the ki pool from Perfect Style count as another source?)
2.Can the ki from the Perfect Style ki pool be used to fuel other abilities?
3.Does the phrase "do not gain additional ki points from this feat" mean that among ki pools gained from multiple sources, only the largest one is used? Or does having another ki pool cause me to lose the Perfect Style ki pool entirely?
4.Although I cannot gain additional ki points, can a negative-value ki pool from another source affect the Perfect Style ki pool?

For example: I am a Monk (Master of Many Styles) with a Wis modifier -2.
At 1st level, I take Perfect Style, giving me ki pool of 1.
At 4th level, the Monk gains ki pool (1/2 monk level = 2, modifier -2, total 0).
What is my total ki pool capacity at this point?
If it is 1, and my Wis is permanently reduced due to injury, causing the monk ki pool to become -1, what will my total ki pool capacity be?
At 5th level, I become a Sin Monk and thus lose the Monk ki pool, so my ki pool becomes 2 from Perfect Style.
Considering that the Sin Monk still has the high jump ability, can the ki from Perfect Style be used for high jump?

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Now I am a 9th-level Rogue with a Wis modifier of +4.I take the Perfect Style feat and gain a ki pool (capacity 3).At 10th level, I choose ki pool as a Rogue Talent. How will my ki pool change?
Guess 1: According to Rogue rules, since I already have a ki pool, the ki from Rogue is "as bonus ki". Half the Wis modifier is 2, while the ki from Perfect Style is 3. Total: 3 + 2 = 5.
Guess 2: Since I cannot gain additional ki from Perfect Style, it becomes 0 + 2 = 2.
Guess 3: Compare the two ki pools and take the higher value: max(3, 2) = 3.
Guess 4: Perfect Style no longer provides ki, so I use the full Wis modifier from Rogue, which is 4.

Ki Pool:
Ki Pool (Ex)
Benefit: A rogue with this talent gains a small ki pool. This ki pool is similar to a ninja’s ki pool, but the rogue’s ki pool does not grant any extra attacks. The rogue gains a number of ki points equal to her Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). These ki points replenish at the start of each day. If she already has a ki pool, or gains a ki pool later, she gains half her Wisdom bonus (minimum 1) as bonus ki points to her ki pool. She can spend a ki point to gain a +10-foot bonus to movement until the end of her turn.


You only gain a single Ki pool no matter how many sources.

The feat is very specific that if you have a Ki Pool for another source, you gain no Ki from the feat. That means the only time you gain Ki from the feat is if you do not have a KI pool from any other source. That means a monk (with a Ki pool), or a rouge with the talent Ki Pool gains no Ki from the feat.

The rouge talent does specify you gain half your WIS bonus as extra Ki, but it would not work with the feat. It also specifies that if you have a ki pool or latter gain on you gain half your wis bonus to that ki pool instead of gaining another ki pool.

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