A Quick Question About Exhaustion

When you use a spell that causes exhaustion, does your current energy go down by 10 as well as your max energy? For example, if a warrior with 20/20 energy uses Shock, then will he end up at 5/10 energy? Thanks in advance.

Energy goes down by whatever the spell cost, max energy goes down by 5-10. Yes, you can go into negative energy :P

Well, say you're a Warrior using Shock at 10 energy with 20 energy max, you'll be using 5 energy on the usage of Shock, and the exhaustion would remove 10 from your max energy.

So it's not like deep wound where the current amount goes down by the same amount as the max amount? If a warrior with 20/20 energy uses shock, how much energy will he have left?

10.
But if the Warrior uses Shock at 10/20 energy (No exhaustion), the Warrior will be at 5 energy.

Um, I'm pretty sure that's not right. Thanks anyways. I got it. I think it goes like this: if you use shock when at 20/20 energy, you will end up at 5/10 energy. If you use it at 10/20 energy, you will end up at -5/10 energy. So shock effectively costs 15 energy. Right?

Edit: I see now. Sorry, I was just being dumb.

no, the quote you did was correct. it costs 5e, and takes off 10e max. so if you have 15/20e, then it removes 5e for energy cost, and makes max at 10e, so the exaustion doesnt matter there. if u cast at full energy, 20/20, then it costs only 5e still, but since it still goes down by 10e max, you are left with 10

Exhaustion doesn't affect current energy, only maximum energy.

...but if the exhaustion would bring your maximum Energy to below your current Energy, your current Energy will go down to your new maximum.

You sure? I found this on GWW: "As an example, using a spell that costs 5 energy and causes exhaustion at full energy, will subtract 5 energy from your pool and then grey out 10 of your maximum energy, effectively costing you 15 energy for the spell."

If exhaustion doesn't affect your current energy, then wouldn't it effectively cost 10 energy in this example?

Exhaustion is -10 maximum energy, not -10 energy. I'm not sure where you found that quote, but it's wrong.

It's on GWW, as in Guild Wars Wiki.

That GWW quote is pretty badly worded. The cost of the skill and the exhaustion caused both work separately from each other. In your example of a warrior using Shock at 20 energy, the warrior would be left with 10 energy after using the skill. The game would take off the cost of the skill taking your energy down to 15/20 then apply exhaustion which will remove 10 energy from your maximum, leaving you with a new possible max of 10/10 energy. You already had 15 after using shock so it just removes the remaining 5 which you can no longer hold since your new max energy is only 10.

In another example, if an Ele were to use Shock at 70/90 energy then they would be left with 65 after using the skill. Their max energy would drop to 80 but their current energy is below that anyway so the skill will still only cost 5 energy, leaving them with 65/80.

It won't take energy away from your current energy pool, it only lowers the maximum energy you can hold. The skill will always cost what it says in it's description. The only exception to exhaustion adding to the cost of a skill is when exhaustion would push your maximum energy lower than what your current energy is...like with your warrior example.

I need a beer.

I see why you made the mistake. An anonymous user decided to edit it recently (14th April) without peer review.

I got it. Thank you very much everyone!

http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Exhaustion