Great need of energy armor?

Trooper024

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2007

POD

W/

ok well, i mostly do pve on my warrior with the occasional pvp, and i have energy armor on atm, but i was thinking that health would be a much better fit especially since i use mostly adrenal based attacks.

So what is the point of the plus 8 energy?

-.-

-.-

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2006

Having an extra 8 points of energy to use...just like extra health or armor...

Div

Div

I like yumy food!

Join Date: Jan 2006

Where I can eat yumy food

Dead Alley [dR]

Mo/R

It helps if you have more energy skills, but if you're all adren based then it doesn't really matter...

Toutatis

Toutatis

Walking Wiki

Join Date: Nov 2006

Isle of Medication

Visitors from Aranna [VFA]

Me/E

The +8 energy can be a huge help. As holymasamune said, if you're using more energy skills it can help a lot - for example, a warrior who wants to work with spellcraft from their secondary profession (I started working on a warrior recently who uses shadow arts spells from his assassin secondary for the majority of healing and defence - the extra 8 energy has proven to be extremely useful with the builds I'm running).

Tyrant sorah

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

gods ravens

N/Mo

in my warriors pve build, sever artery, gash, sun and moon slash, dragon slash, healing breeze, mending, balthazars spirit, [optional]...u passivly grow energy and adrenaline, with a small maintainment of health..im taking damage means im getting hit, means im getting energy, 10 hits =healing breeze, and with the mending already on..i have +9 health regen..not much else to say but u dont really need energy for pve

Tyrant sorah

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

gods ravens

N/Mo

its for swords warrior..the key thing here is that its completly pve with balths spirit, mending and healing breeze..my optional skill is usually a hex remover.

the point is when it comes down to it..it doesnt matter for pve

Stormlord Alex

Stormlord Alex

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Beyond the Forest of Doom, past the Cavern of Agony... on Kitten & Puppy Island

Soul of Melandru [sOm]

W/E

I use 15k glad's on one of my warrs 'cuz it looks good.

Seriously, +energy armour is a good choice for... SHOCK HORROR! energy intensive warrior builds. I'm not talking mending/heal breeze warriors (you'd simple be better off using heal sig for no energy) but builds like ShockAxe are pretty energy intensive, and need to be able to deal with exhaustion.

Actually, few builds come to mind that need the +energy sets... ShockAxe, or any other /Ele build utilizing ele skills for Snares/Disruption (IIRC, the current Grasping Earth's cute and spammable... combined with upkeep on frenzy and other energy skills I'm sure you might need more than 20 energy on occasion).

Other than that though... +hp is generally of more use, if you don't need the energy then why bother having it?

Diddy bow

Diddy bow

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

Jawsome!!!!!!!!!!!

looking for one :p

A/D

its pretty nice on warrior/sin for shadow prison or iron palm which are pretty popluar (mabay not so much for pve) but the + energy really makes it useable.

Age

Age

Hall Hero

Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

STG Administrator

Mo/

Please for those talking about useing healing breeze and mending stop it is ok to use balthazars spirit or strengh of honour but that is about.Don't use breeze or mending.

blue.rellik

blue.rellik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2007

Melbourne, Australia

None

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Age
Please for those talking about useing healing breeze and mending stop it is ok to use balthazars spirit or strengh of honour but that is about.Don't use breeze or mending. Mending makes me invincible. I can rush into a horde of Bladed Aatxe and laugh as their mighty bleeding is reduced to 2 pips of degen

qvtkc

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

+hp armor is kind of useless if you are only going to play PvE. In PvE situations, if you die, you would die anyway. +energy is more useful.

fb2000

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Age
Please for those talking about useing healing breeze and mending stop it is ok to use balthazars spirit or strengh of honour but that is about.Don't use breeze or mending. i still use mending, it is rather good in certain builds. i certainly find it a lot better than strength of honor (if u are maintaining it urself i mean)

ppl saying "omfg nub stop using it", well... ;P

The Mad Man

The Mad Man

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

W/N

before this turns into a thread for proving why mending is useless....

The energy from the armor lets you apply alot more pressure on your target because you can use energy-dependant skills while your adrenaline builds up. It is often better to be able to take down your target than to live a few seconds longer with damage reduction. But of course it depends on your build and your role in the team.