Hiding energy and energy denial.

I have been trying to get a grasp at monking lately. While running a typical WoH and prot build, I was yielding -5 energy weapon for set 1, 40/40 healing set for set 2, 20% enc prot staff for set 3, and +30/-2 set for set 4.

I encountered some Mesmer spamming energy denial spells earlier. I tried to counter it by switching to set 1 whenever I'm not casting anything so I wouldn't lose energy. I noticed, however, that even if my energy was at 0/25 with set 1, I would still lose energy whenever the Mesmer casted Energy Burn on me. That is to say, purple -8 text still popped up, and when I switched to weapon set 4, I noticed I was much lower in energy than when I last had weapon set 4 on.

So, I guess my question basically is: Will energy denial skills reduce my energy below 0?

According to this page, it doesn't. However, I have a question of my own: Do you still get hit with the actual, full damage of Energy Burn, or do you take partial damage?

Ummm it really shouldn't... you get -8 because you have energy regen so even that 1 energy you get back from draining gets drained again

It shouldn't go past weaponsets. If you have 25/25 energy, and are not switching sets you can't go past 25 energy lost on other sets.

@Jupiter: No, it deals it's damage per energy point it removes.

I tried recreating what I thought happened with Master of Energy Denial but seems like I was merely imagining it. I guess I was just hit with energy denial spells while the lag prevented me switching from weapon set 4. Sorry for the trouble.

Or maybe it was just a bug