Energy

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Energy is the main resource used to pay skill costs.

[edit] Maximum energy

All professions, regardless of level, have an innate capacity of 20 energy, and 2 pips of energy regeneration. This can be increased using armor, weapons, or in the case of elementalists, attributes. Nearly all professions' basic armor provides extra energy, and this level can be further increased using Runes of Attunement and Radiant Insignias.

[edit] Basic armor

Profession	Additional regeneration	Additional energy	Total regeneration	Total energy
	+0	0	+2	20
	+1	5	+3	25
	+2		+4
	+0	10	+2	30
	+2		+4

[edit] Weapons

Item	Maximum energy bonus
	Inherent	Prefix	Suffix	Inscription
Martial weapon	-	-	-	+5
Staff	+10	+5	-	+5 (conditional) +15 (-1 energy regeneration)
Wand	-	-	-	+5 (conditional) +15 (-1 energy regeneration)
Focus item	+6 (unconditional) +12 (with attribute requirement)	-	-	+15 (-1 energy regeneration)
Shield	-	-	-	-

Energy Storage, the Elementalist's primary attribute, can also increase maximum Energy by 3 per attribute rank. Maximum energy can also be increased by a Morale Boost and some skills and blessings.

Exhaustion and Death Penalty decrease characters' maximum energy.

[edit] Energy regeneration and degeneration

Energy regeneration, also known as energy recovery, is the rate at which a character regains energy. Each pip of Energy regeneration generates 1 Energy every 3 seconds. All characters have a base Energy regeneration of 2, that may be modified by each profession's armor as described above.

Some weapons and focus items cause energy degeneration as a drawback of their bonuses. Some Enchantments also cause Energy degeneration in the form of an Upkeep cost, which must be paid in order to maintain them.

Anything that changes maximum energy levels will also have an effect on current energy levels - in this way, it is possible for characters to have negative energy, although the UI will still indicate 0 energy. Energy will continue to regenerate at the same rate while it is below 0. This mechanic can be used to avoid energy denial.

Though the conditions are rarely met, there is a regeneration/degeneration cap of 10 for energy. Although there is generally no additional penalty for energy degeneration beyond 10 pips, if you are maintaining enchantments, having 11 or more pre-cap energy degeneration will cause you to lose maintained enchantments until your pre-cap degeneration is brought down to 10.

Some skills also provide additional energy regeneration or degeneration.

[edit] Energy-related skills

[edit] Maximum Energy

• Energy Boon

• Mighty Was Vorizun
• Empowerment

• Avatar of Lyssa

[edit] Regeneration

• Melandru's Resilience

• Succor

• Blood is Power
• Blood Ritual
• Well of Power

• Ether Lord
• Lyssa's Aura

• Ether Prodigy
• Master of Magic

• Spirit Channeling
• Energetic Was Lee Sa

• Song of Power
• "The Power Is Yours!"

[edit] Degeneration

• Malaise
• Wither
• Well of Weariness

• Ether Lord
• Signet of Recall
• Panic
• Power Flux
• Ether Phantom

• Zealous Vow

[edit] Energy gain

• "Victory is Mine!"
• Auspicious Blow
• Bonetti's Defense
• Counterattack
• Flourish
• Knee Cutter
• Steady Stance
• Warrior's Endurance
• Wary Stance

• Body Shot
• Ferocious Strike
• Marksman's Wager
• Prepared Shot
• Scavenger Strike
• Scavenger's Focus
• Storm Chaser

• Balthazar's Spirit
• Blessed Signet
• Castigation Signet
• Defender's Zeal
• Essence Bond
• Healing Light
• Scribe's Insight
• Zealous Benediction

• Angorodon's Gaze
• Consume Corpse
• Foul Feast
• Masochism (PvP)
• Offering of Blood
• Reaper's Mark
• Signet of Corruption
• Signet of Lost Souls
• Star Servant

• Auspicious Incantation
• Channeling
• Drain Delusions
• Drain Enchantment
• Energy Drain
• Energy Tap
• Ether Signet
• Ethereal Burden
• Guilt
• Hex Eater Signet
• Inspired Enchantment
• Inspired Hex
• Kitah's Burden
• Leech Signet
• Mantra of Earth
• Mantra of Flame
• Mantra of Frost
• Mantra of Lightning
• Mantra of Recall
• Power Drain
• Power Leech
• Revealed Enchantment
• Revealed Hex
• Shame
• Signet of Recall
• Spirit of Failure
• Waste Not, Want Not

• Air Attunement
• Aura of Restoration
• Earth Attunement
• Elemental Attunement
• Elemental Lord
• Energy Boon
• Ether Prism
• Ether Renewal
• Fire Attunement
• Glowing Gaze
• Glowing Ice
• Glowstone
• Mind Blast
• Second Wind
• Shock Arrow
• Water Attunement

• Assassin's Promise
• Black Lotus Strike
• Critical Eye
• Critical Strike
• Falling Lotus Strike
• Golden Lotus Strike
• Lotus Strike
• Way of the Lotus

• Boon of Creation
• Caretaker's Charge
• Clamor of Souls
• Energetic Was Lee Sa
• Essence Strike
• Offering of Spirit
• Reclaim Essence
• Signet of Spirits (PvP)
• Soothing Memories
• Spirit Siphon
• Weapon of Fury
• Weapon of Renewal
• Wielder's Zeal

• "Never Give Up!"
• Aria of Zeal
• Energizing Finale
• Glowing Signet
• Leader's Zeal
• Lyric of Zeal
• Zealous Anthem

• Arcane Zeal
• Eremite's Zeal
• Lyssa's Assault
• Lyssa's Haste
• Meditation
• Pious Renewal
• Zealous Renewal
• Zealous Sweep
• Zealous Vow

Asura rank

• Smooth Criminal

[edit] Energy loss

• Quicksand

[edit] on self

• Decapitate

• Marksman's Wager

• Divine Boon
• Protective Bond
• Rebirth
• Holy Wrath
• Zealot's Fire
• Purge Signet

• Shivers of Dread/ Spinal Shivers

• Distortion
• Ether Lord
• Signet of Disenchantment

• Storm Djinn's Haste
• Star Burst
• Glyph of Essence

• Dark Apostasy

[edit] on foe

• "Fear Me!"

• Debilitating Shot

• Depravity

• Chaos Storm
• Energy Burn
• Energy Surge
• Guilt
• Power Leak
• Price of Pride
• Shame
• Signet of Weariness
• Ancestor's Visage/ Sympathetic Visage
• Drain Delusions
• Energy Drain
• Energy Tap
• Ether Feast
• Ether Phantom
• Feedback
• Power Leech
• Spirit Shackles
• Tease

[edit] Cost modifiers

[edit] increasing

• Primal Echoes
• Nature's Renewal
• Quickening Zephyr
• Roaring Winds

[edit] decreasing

• Energizing Wind
• Expert Focus

• Divine Spirit
• Healer's Covenant
• Air of Enchantment
• Selfless Spirit (PvE-only)

• Cultist's Fervor

• Glyph of Energy
• Glyph of Lesser Energy

• Way of the Empty Palm

• Attuned Was Songkai
• Renewing Memories

• Energizing Chorus

• Attacker's Insight

[edit] Upkeep

These skills cause one energy degeneration to the caster while kept active, but can be ended at any time by the caster.

• Blessed Aura
• Divine Boon
• Unyielding Aura
• Watchful Spirit
• Life Attunement
• Life Barrier
• Life Bond
• Protective Bond
• Purifying Veil
• Vital Blessing
• Balthazar's Spirit
• Holy Wrath
• Retribution
• Strength of Honor
• Healer's Covenant
• Live Vicariously
• Mending
• Essence Bond
• Holy Veil
• Succor

• Aura of Displacement
• Recall
• Shadow Meld

[edit] Maximum possible energy

It is possible for an elementalist to reach 143 maximum energy without using any skills, consumables, or title effects; by utilizing every +10 energy consumable and every +1 attribute consumable, it is possible to reach 225 energy.

Maximum Energy Possible
Source	Energy
Base 20 energy 10 class armor energy bonus	+30
Rank 12 Energy Storage Energy Storage Headgear Rune of Superior Energy Storage (Total Rank 16)	+48
5 Radiant Insignias	+8
4 Runes of Attunement	+8
Wand, 15 energy inscription	+15
12 inherent energy Focus w/ 15 energy inscription	+27
Total
Total Possible	136
10% Morale Boost	143
With Energy Boon	186

[edit] Notes

• The "Seize the Day" inscription required for the maximum energy increase on the wand, and the "Live for Today" inscription required for the maximum energy increase on the focus item both incur a -1 energy regeneration, and many spell casters are unwilling to give up half the natural regeneration for these increases.
• A possible alternative is to use a one-handed martial weapon (i.e. spear) in combination with the focus item, and use the "I have the power!" inscription, as this gives the increase of 5 energy with no conditional requirements.