Aikido Prowess Help

            Ok, so I am level 27 and I use mainly Kung Fu at the moment.  I loaded aikido prowess for the extra 8% to my max life, but when I load it my max life is showing no difference.  I have tryed switching to the aikido stance, jumping to another hardline, and reloading all my abilities but am still not seeing any difference.  I am not sure if it is because I am not fully aware of how the game mechanics work or I am bugged. 

             It has me wondering if any of my abilities are working properly.  Does anyone know of anyway I could test this??? Any help would be great thanks.

That bonus to Max Health doesn't do anything until you activate a buff for it to affect. You probably activated Martial Arts Initiate which gives a 70pt buff to Max Health which that 8% bonus can affect making it a 75 point buff. Vitality also gives a bonus to max health. If your Vitality is at 8, as it is with most archtypes (unless you've been putting points into it), that would give another 6% bonus making it a 14% bonus total making that 70 points Max Health buff go up to 79.

You can check all of that in the bonuses tab of the status window (P hotkey).

Bonuses only affect active styles, buffs and upgrades: which show up as icons under your hotbar. That's one of the most important concepts of the combat system to understand. So if you don't have something active under that hotbar giving a buff to Max Health, the bonus has nothing to work on.

The Max Health bonus will affect Health Boosters. Patcher's Health Buffs get stronger from their own Max Health bonus.