Glyph of Energy vs. Offering of Blood vs. Mantra of Recall?

Well.. if worse comes to worse, you could use Claude. BRit is a nice skill if someone else is using it on you =p That guy rules for that He's the best member of the team if your a Ranger and feel like spamming skills ALOT more than you should be doing.

Soul reaping is more than enough. Seriously. If you play your cards right, soul reaping at 12 gives you 24 per body Not quite. Your level in SR determins how much you get back. SR lvl = nrg gained. 1 = 1, 12=12. Even at 16 SR, you only get 16 per death.

If you can increase your DPS, you can get some serious nrg outta the deal.

Not quite. Your level in SR determins how much you get back. SR lvl = nrg gained. 1 = 1, 12=12. Even at 16 SR, you only get 16 per death. He meant your minion. If someone dies you get energy for that corpse, use it to make a minion. When that minion dies you get the same energy again, so 2x as much as your soul reaping for one corpse.

He meant your minion. If someone dies you get energy for that corpse, use it to make a minion. When that minion dies you get the same energy again, so 2x as much as your soul reaping for one corpse. There's still the energy cost of raising the minion, so it's not really 2x the energy .. think of minions more as energy sinks or stored energy.

Another good trick if you're not running death magic is to carry malign intervention on your bar, throw it on your target when you anticipate the need for energy "real soon now." When your target dies you'll raise a low level masterless horror that triggers SR again when it dies.

Bone Minions + Soul Reaping = Crazy delicious

Seriously, though - I've never, EVER had problems with energy management as a MM. I have 10 in Soul Reaping and that works out just fine. Someone dies, I get 10 energy, use 15 of it to get Bone Minions. Net less of 5 energy so far. Death Nova each Minion, there goes 10 more energy, and then Taste of Death 'em when it's a good time to, which is 10 more energy, but I get 20 back. That 20 lets me raise 2 more Minions and the circle of death continues. :P

Not to mention having a Flesh Golem walking around as a battery on top of that... again, you should NEVER have energy problems, even if you're spamming attack spells in between raise guys. Bone Minions are an absolute waste of space if your an MM. A lvl13 Minion can survive about 2 hits before it dies, the point of the minions is to make a blockade and to hurt things, that and Bone Minions counts as 2 minions, 2 very crap minions. The only place Bone Minions are needed is when your playing SS/BR, 15 energy to cast (and you stop the sodding Beasts jumping around) and your net gain is at least 5 when both of them die very easily.

I'm really dissapointed with the Flesh Golem tbh. I don't have Factions, but i've been on the recieving end of 1 when the MM died. They hit hard you can't deny it, but there attack speed is absolutely awful. Seriously i've seen rangers with Hornbows and Shadow of Fear attack faster! I'd save my elite on keeping the rest of my minions alive over bringing 1 of the slowest hitters in the game. But i guess until i can see the damage it causes first hand (they sure as hell can tank though) i can't let em down entirely...

Edit: Forgot the point of this. Glyph of Lesser Energy does indeed have twice the recharge time. But you SHOULD have plenty of energy until your raising minions after the fight. at which point, standing around for even 15 seconds waiting for a second recharge on GoE is still too long. Lesser Energy is far more flexible, its not elite and you should only really need energy to raise 1 minion after the fight anyway. Specially with things around that can exploit corpses, you should be raising them the instant something dies.

Bone Minions are an absolute waste of space if your an MM. A lvl13 Minion can survive about 2 hits before it dies, the point of the minions is to make a blockade and to hurt things, that and Bone Minions counts as 2 minions, 2 very crap minions. The only place Bone Minions are needed is when your playing SS/BR, 15 energy to cast (and you stop the sodding Beasts jumping around) and your net gain is at least 5 when both of them die very easily.

I'm really dissapointed with the Flesh Golem tbh. I don't have Factions, but i've been on the recieving end of 1 when the MM died. They hit hard you can't deny it, but there attack speed is absolutely awful. Seriously i've seen rangers with Hornbows and Shadow of Fear attack faster! I'd save my elite on keeping the rest of my minions alive over bringing 1 of the slowest hitters in the game. But i guess until i can see the damage it causes first hand (they sure as hell can tank though) i can't let em down entirely...

Edit: Forgot the point of this. Glyph of Lesser Energy does indeed have twice the recharge time. But you SHOULD have plenty of energy until your raising minions after the fight. at which point, standing around for even 15 seconds waiting for a second recharge on GoE is still too long. Lesser Energy is far more flexible, its not elite and you should only really need energy to raise 1 minion after the fight anyway. Specially with things around that can exploit corpses, you should be raising them the instant something dies. I must be playing a MM totally different from how you play it, then. Thank goodness my way of playing works out just fine.

That still doesn't change the fact Bone Minions are shit... unless you intend to spam Death Nova onto them as they WILL be dead within 10 seconds, then why bring em? Last time i checked MMs where used primarily to make a wall between the enemies and Barragers/casters, not to charge in and die. Unless your using the Kamikaze Minion technique anyway Bingo.

I always figure the whole point of being a MM was to make things die. The only time I ever even have BotM equipped, for example, is in PvE... and that's just so I don't have to start from scratch every time I run into a new group of enemies.