Second Wind? Attempt at a Water E/Me Build

Second Wind
Elite Spell. You gain 1 Energy for each point of Energy lost due to Exhaustion. This spell causes Exhaustion.
Energy cost: 5
Activation: 2
Recharge: 5

I've been playing around with the idea of using second wind in conjunction with an echoed Maelstrom. The low energy and recharge make it look quite appealing. With ES 13, I have 90 energy; with 30-40 points exhaustion (which I could easily get by using Second Wind a few times if necessary), I would theoretically be able to gain 25-35 points of energy whenever I felt like it, provided the Exhaustion from SW wasn't stacking terribly. It would probably end up being used for AB, capping especially, but for holding too (Think holding the bridge on The Ancestral Lands map).

Stats:
Water Magic 12+1+3 = 15
Energy Storage 12+1 = 13


Skills:
Ice Spear
Frozen Burst/Ice Spikes/Blurred Vision (unsure of which atm)
Freezing Gust
Arcane Echo
Maelstrom
Second Wind {E}
Water Attunement (may not even be necessary with SW)
Armor of Mist

Thoughts?

what if your exhausion reached below 25? u cant use maelstrom anymore and u cant do anything when u reached 0 with exhausion

Well, given 90 max energy and the fact that I would (theoretically) only use maelstrom on shrines, I'd think the exhaustion would dissipate fast enough. Not sure tho. I've run Mind Freeze/Maelstrom builds before, and only then run out of energy when I start really spamming stuff. This build wouldn't need me to cast Second Wind more than every few minutes. Methinks it could work.

12+1+3=15? I need to go back to school

What's the point of arcane echo? There isn't anything worth wasting an extra 15 energy to copy on that bar.

P.S. Ice spear is bad. Conjure frost+frenzy+wand > ice spear.

Second wind is bad, I don't care for malstorm.

I would rather use the glowing ice combo with shatterstone but thats more of a spike. Could try dual attune ice spikes?

[skill]glyph of energy[/skill] [skill]maelstrom[/skill] works better

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