Radiant vs. Survivor

Paradon with DP and no extra energy can't cast agressive refrain until DP is lost. I may throw an attunement rune on my pees, or stop dying. Easy: just bring along a high energy staff (+20 or +30/-1), and switch to it if you get too much dp just for the cast of AR.
If you do that and switch your radiants with centurions, you'll die less (they will always be active considering you bring AR) so you'll be less likely to even have needed radiant in the first place

Easy: just bring along a high energy staff (+20 or +30/-1), and switch to it if you get too much dp just for the cast of AR.
If you do that and switch your radiants with centurions, you'll die less (they will always be active considering you bring AR) so you'll be less likely to even have needed radiant in the first place Can't help if that's a hero. Well yeah, you could open his inventory, drag the staff, make him cast the chant, drag the spear. That would be a pita...

By the way, what is a Paradon? A Paragon sorry for not being a necro? J/K

It's not about an extra spell or skill, the larger pool makes e-management more efficient, the larger buffer means you're e-management will waste less energy due to 'overfilling' the buffer. It's the same reason a larger health pool means less over-healing and thus more efficient healing. This isn't true if your energy management is based off energy regen skills like Blood Ritual, Blood is Power, etc. Unlike health regen, which is usually a poor way of healing, energy regen can be a valid way of managing energy, and its generally easy to use. You have a good point, however, when the energy management is done with skills that result in direct energy gain. Still, just as with healing, a skillful player can generally avoid overfilling the buffer, so I don't find the "larger buffer" idea that compelling.

This isn't true if your energy management is based off energy regen skills like Blood Ritual, Blood is Power, etc. Unlike health regen, which is usually a poor way of healing, energy regen can be a valid way of managing energy, and its generally easy to use. You have a good point, however, when the energy management is done with skills that result in direct energy gain. Still, just as with healing, a skillful player can generally avoid overfilling the buffer, so I don't find the "larger buffer" idea that compelling. Yeah but we're talking about heroes here, not skillful players.

Indeed BR is a great skill, and one of my hero always carry it (even if he's not spec'ed in Blood Magic, the skill remains amazing), however heroes can't use it properly. Basically, they're just looking at the energy bar of the other toons, and check if they're casters. If that's the case and if they're low in energy, they're gonna use BR. They don't mind at all using it when the SoS is going to use Spirit Siphon for example. On the other hand, if you're a physical DD, you really have to have 0 energy and everybody else has to be full to get a BR.

Easy: just bring along a high energy staff (+20 or +30/-1), and switch to it if you get too much dp just for the cast of AR.
If you do that and switch your radiants with centurions, you'll die less (they will always be active considering you bring AR) so you'll be less likely to even have needed radiant in the first place I was talking about my heroes. Swapping a staff on them is a pita. This is hero forum.

Generally speaking, I'd rate it like this:

armor > health > energy

Sometimes the armor options via runes and insignias kinda sucks for the profession or build, so in that case I'd go with health. Energy, if you need more at all, is easy enough to get from your weapon set. Why just running a staff, a char can easily get +20 energy and +30 health if they want. Radiants and Attunements do have some niche uses, but mostly on farming builds. A paragon might like to use a radiant or two, but only because of the massive cost of Aggressive Refrain. Also, a derv can benefit from a radiant here and there, since derv armor already has native health buffs. This was more true before the update however, and a zealous scythe usually covered it anyway. This. Go with +armour insignias whenever you can (including for example Blessed Insignias when you can't find Shaman's insignias, but can count on being enchanted), then Survivor. Radiants are pretty pointless on a hero; if I do find I can spare the health loss by using Radiants, I'd use a Major / Superior rune and boost my damage output.