Forum:What is the true strength of Haoshoku Haki?

Besides being able to knock out enimies with weaker wills,Haoshoku haki semms to be completly uses less against stronger enimes.Luffy's ability to use this haki semms to be futile if he is to fight great pirates such as the yonko.I mean you could probably debate by saying that luffy hasn't fully mastered his haoshoku haki but have a look at shanks.When he visited whitebeard on the moby dick,yes he was able to destroy the ship to some degree but was unable to knock out stronger members like marco,jouzu etc even though he has mastered this.just some of my thoughts it could have a way stronger form

It's the ability to knock out third rate characters

Shanks didn't damage the Moby Dick. He just knocked out a bunch of background characters. 22:50, April 15, 2012 (UTC)

read da chapter again you can see the moby dick getting cracked a little, it is heavily implied that it was done by shanks since he had just got on the shipZevinmartin 23:09, April 15, 2012 (UTC)

There are actually not that many people with haki. SH crew is now so powerful that they are going up against many of the people who have haki, etc. I find it likely that all members will at some time gain the reg 2 hakis. And yes it is the plot device used to get rid of lots of insignificant characters and streamline the plot(like when luffy nocked out half of the fishmen).