Maximum energy is not energy management

Just a beginner's guide (and by beginner, I mean 99% of the GW population).

As the title implies, maximum energy is not the same as emanagement. Once you've burned through all your energy in the midst of battle, you simply can't output more pressure until your energy recovers. On the other hand, if you have adequate energy management, you can keep going despite having a lower maximum energy.

Say two players have the same damage output. After natural regen and any emanagement skills they have, Player A uses an average of 20 energy every 4 seconds, and Player B uses 10 energy every 4 seconds. Before the battle, Player A repeatedly pings his energy as "I have 105 of 105 energy!", thinking that he's good or something. He sustains his damage output for about 20 seconds before burning out (if he even survives that long with his sup estorage and attunement runes). Player B, on the other hand, only has 70 energy. However, his superior emanagement allows him to keep going for almost 50% longer than Player A.

So kids, the lesson here is that emanagement is better than maximum energy, at least in most cases as a caster unless you really need the quick burst of damage to finish something off without sustainability.

Addendum: I see a lot of discussion goes towards the MB ele, but remember, monks sitting in a 15/-1 set and attunement runes with 70 energy are bad. It's just sad when people offer advice such as "use a 15/-1 weapon for this build so you can cast more." You cast more in the long run by having good energy management, not maximum energy.

i agree while you might have more energy if you don't manage it well there is not reason to have any energy at all, or halfway into each battle they will want a battery or after the battle they say i need regen while if you have energy management you can go and still have enough damage to kill the enemy this does mean you have to pick your skills more carefully then the other builds but in the long run you will find the skills that will work for you

there is absolutley no reason whatsoever to have 100+ energy

Nice 'guide' btw ^^

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Have the best of both worlds, carry an extra weapon set with +energy -1energy regen. Equip the + energy weapon set, call your energy then switch back to your regular weapons. My Monk has 90+ energy with my energy set equiped.

I know that's not the point of the thread, but it's usually only new eles that I see calling such high energy pools.

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Mind Blas is energy management.

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For an ele (pretty much the only profession sporting such high energy) max energy is pretty much good e-management as said before with mind blast.

Max energy "is" "part" of e-management... They're not different things...

If you have high energy and your e-management comes through using an active skill like Energy Drain, then you'll be able to cast more spells before you have to use your energy regain spells. Sometimes, you won't even need to use your energy regain spells if the fight ends short enough. In addition, by having a higher energy pool, you may get more energy gain from active energy regain spells. If your max energy is too low you may not gain all the energy regain benefits. True for skills that give you a lot of energy in return. An example is Auspicious Incantation combined with a 15+ energy skill. At Inspiration rank 12, you would gain 27 energy. If you are at 40 max energy and use AI at 20 energy (since you'd need 20 base energy to use this combo), you lose out on 7 extra energy. If you're using it on a 25 energy skill, your total possible gain would be 46. Since you'd have to start with 30 energy, you lose out on 36 energy.

The higher energy you have, the less times you have to spend with active energy regain spells and may gain more benefit from active energy regain spells.

It's the same with passive gains. Any spells like Attunes or N's Soul Reaping. If you're N is at 30/40 when two enemies die, you'd lose out on some good energy. But if you have 30/50 when an enemy dies, you'd gain a lot more. Also, though there are builds that will never run out of energy, there are plenty of situations and builds where you will slowly lose energy even with good e-management. Since you'll slowly lose energy, who will fight longer? A player with higher energy pool? Or a player with low energy pool?

The higher energy you have, you may benefit more from passive energy regains and last longer in battle.

In the end, a good energy management is the right balance between good enough energy regain for the build you're running AND high enough energy pool for the build that you're running. Not one or the other.

On a side note, I seriously recommend trying out different skill combinations so that you don't lose out on the 1 extra energy regen by using a 15/-1 "most" of the time. 15 extra energy for trading off 1 energy regen is not a good balance. It's a rip off. I'm sure there are builds that will make good use of that focus, but for the most part, it's a complete rip off.

I find energy-management in places like AB, highly overated. Your gonna respawn with max energy, might as well just leeroy in , sides, if you ever see on my warrior, your gonna see a dude with about 70-80 energy.

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