Deciding between these 2 options for how the TOB soulborn works:

1) You shape normal soulmelds. Each one you shape grants you a number of maneuvers that are variations on its effect. Using one of the maneuvers denies you the benefit of the soulmeld until the maneuver is recovered. Their strength is based on how much essentia you have invested in the parent soulmeld at the time of use. Example here.

2) There's a separate incarnum discipline with maneuvers that can have essentia invested in them. Essentia invested in a maneuver isn't returned to your pool until the maneuver is recovered, so you have to be careful about spending your points (meaning you might want to spread them out, instead of spending all at once).

Interested to know, which do people think is better?