Number inside vigor bar

[Lunia]

In the new update during combat you now have a number inside your vigor bar during combat, I've figured out that the blue bar surrounding your vigor bar is your energy but what is the number? The only idea i've had is your "level" the title you see when gauging someones power level but that only goes up to level 9 and for some reason my number in the vigor bar goes from 3-7

[Dvatrij]

My is always 10...

[haze]

I thought it was related to skills available, and when its more its because of retainers skills (they use them too when assisting), not really confident about this though.

[noname979427]

The number in the vigor meter is a scale of how strong the game think's you or an npc is.

Its weird that its fluctuating, do you have any inner's that increase chi in any way?, chi is the biggest modifier for how strong the game think's you are.

[Lunia]

I think you are right I think it might be your rank, I tried turning off all my inners and it's showing as 7 and my rank is surpassing the peak which is level 7 rank... but for some reason sometimes it shows as 3?? I'm not sure why, I don't seem to be any weaker at those points.