Questions on using powers in fights

[Elizabeth]

Since this is coming up....

Elizabeth Naarc VS Hunter Footsoldier

Elizabeth Naarc summoned a Sidhe! (Use whenever possible)
But the spirit ignored orders from its summoner and faded into the wind, cackling.
Elizabeth Naarc attempted to blind the hunter footsoldier with her mystic powers. (Use whenever possible)
The power worked and the hunter footsoldier was partially blinded!
Elizabeth Naarc stayed covered for what must have seemed to the hunter footsoldier like minutes. Finally, she rose out from behind the cover and took a few quick shots at the hunter footsoldier.
The hunter footsoldier was knocked backwards as a bullet hit him in the chest, narrowly missing his heart!
Elizabeth Naarc leaned around the edge of cover, ignoring the danger posed by her enemy, and took her time in lining up a shot.
The hunter footsoldier was knocked backwards as a bullet hit him in the chest, narrowly missing his heart!
Elizabeth Naarc used her telepathic abilities to attempt to overwhelm the hunter footsoldier's mind. (Use sometimes)
The power succeeded and the hunter footsoldier's mind was barraged with a stream of confusing and distracting thoughts.
With superhuman agility, the hunter footsoldier charged up a wall, using it to propel him self into a backflip, all the while firing a volley of bullets at Elizabeth Naarc.
Ducking, Elizabeth Naarc took cover as the storm of bullets rattled around them.
Elizabeth Naarc raised her arms and the shadows came to life!
It materialised out of the shade and formed into black blades of darkness. Without a sound, it skewered the hunter footsoldier through the stomach. (use whenever possible)
Still hiding behind cover, Elizabeth Naarc reached around the edge of it with her gun and fired a series of blind shots in the general direction of her enemy.
The hunter footsoldier was knocked backwards as a bullet hit him in the chest, narrowly missing his heart!
Elizabeth Naarc activated her Hyper Perception power. Instantly, she became aware of the smallest of details, movements and gestures. (use when anima is high)
Elizabeth Naarc roared, anima flowing through her body as she attempted to cast Intimidate.
the hunter footsoldier flinched, suddenly seeming less sure of him self.
Elizabeth Naarc waited just long enough for the hunter footsoldier's concentration to waver, and then stepped out of cover, firing a spread of bullets as she backtracked to the next wall.
The hunter footsoldier was knocked backwards as a bullet hit him in the chest, narrowly missing his heart!
The hunter is dead.
Elizabeth Naarc gains 4 body exp, 22 spirit exp and 22 mind exp!
Elizabeth Naarc also took $100


Okay, my question so far is this, because obviously I don't get how powers work or should be set in NPC battles for tactics....

Liz has 20/21 anima. So she has high anima. Shouldn't powers that say use when anima is high, be used first and foremost, since anima is high at this time, in battle? Why was feral mutation not added in to this at all, when again, use when anima is high is Liz's settings.
Why was something that says, use sometimes, used first before the one with high anima used?

I'd really like to understand NPC pvp better and since I've noticed odd things with both prudence and Liz with using powers and regards to anima, maybe I'm not understanding something? But realistically, the powers Liz used first should have taken her anima to about 11? That hardly seems like a scenario where her anima is high. That's almost half she's alloted. Before she activatedhyper perception. That's not including darkness falls prior to using Hyper perception, which I don't recall what that anima usage is.

Blind=3 anima usage
Summon sidhe=3 anima usage
Overwhelm=3 anima usage so, yeah, realistically if liz started with 20, she should have been down to 11 and then w/e darkness falls uses.

I'm not doing this to complain about the gauntlet, but clearly, I don't understand what the settings mean and would appreciate a break down or w/e of what I'm doing wrong?

D:

Edit: I added what her settings are for those powers in parenthesis)

[Robert Pratt]

Yes.

I would LOVE a 'How to' guide for those battle settings. Because I have read the thing on the wiki about the melee/guns settings and how aggressive/what style - but it's just not working. What I expect to happen with my settings as they are.... isn't.

[Wendigo]

I would LOVE a 'How to' guide for those battle settings. Because I have read the thing on the wiki about the melee/guns settings and how aggressive/what style - but it's just not working. What I expect to happen with my settings as they are.... isn't.

Second.

[Alexandrea]

Yes, please.

[Oria]

David gave us this a while ago, closest thing we have to it right now?

[Alexandrea]

I think that was the 'thing on the wiki' that Jenny was referring to... at least that was what I thought she was referring to...

[Robert Pratt]

Yup yup yup

[Oria]

That's what I figured, but I thought I'd share what we had for certain x.x