Energy management

Energy management

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Posted by: Mystogan.4157

Mystogan.4157

Having trouble knowing how to manage my energy.. im using centaur/dragon. If i use the centaur ult i can use any of my skills or utilities. If i use centaur condi remove skill i can use about 1 weapon skill and thats it. In dragon i do better, but when i get intteruprt when popping my ult. It drains my energy and then it ruins my everything. Drops my energy all the way down pops all my utilities an i cant use any of my weapon skills..

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Energy management

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Posted by: starlinvf.1358

starlinvf.1358

Its a juggling act by design. 2 things to understand off the bat…..
1. 50 energy is your base line entering combat, or upon swap. This is done to put a cap on opening skill bursting, while simultaneously preventing an energy drought if you Legend swap in emergencies.
2. Dragon Stance is currently the only legend that uses an Upkeep management style, and requires a major mental shift compared to the core legends.

Ironically, other then Shiro, each legend is designed to be camped. But due to their narrow situational roles, you need to understand when and how to exit into your other Legend to keep combat momentum. This does NOT synergize the way other classes do, so you have to treat each legend as its own distinct build, with a specific set of functions.

What you’re probably doing wrong is over-using your weapon skills, while simultaneously over-utilizing your utilities. Both Glint and Ventari are meant to monopolize that energy pool on their utilities, while their complimenting weapons were designed to infrequently play off of it.

I run a similar setup using the Marauder’s WvW build in PvE (using Ventari for the blocks), and what I’ve found is to juggle certain facets based on surrounding players. If solo, camp Fury, Swift and Might while traveling to build up might for an opening attack, then unleash facet of strength along side you’re opening attack. You can also pop “one with nature” just before entering combat for the extra boons. This will work for most short fights, and leaves +2 energy for weapon skills in slightly longer fights.

When you have players nearby, use Facet of nature and Facet of Strength to stack might, and boost any incoming boons get from them. If you have a large group around you, then you go into full passive mode (you can overexert your upkeep to reset the facets without swapping) by entering combat with +5 to build to 100, then use Nature, Strength, Darkness (-6 total) and maybe light (-7) to let it drain while you auto attack. You use the active of those skills as needed to protect yourself, then activate another facet to take its place to keep boons flowing (because you get a damage bonus per boon). While in this mode, you avoid using weapon skills (other then AA) unless its highly opportune to do so.

For Ventari, you don’t rely on the Tablet to do cleansing, because its too expensive for that. Thats partly why its paired with Staff 4, which is cheaper on energy, and heals for more. You run Ventari for the Tablet Block, or general Healing if you’re geared for it. If you want condi clear for a group, run Mayllax for Pain Absorption and make sure you have boon uptime (for resistance), transference to off-load the condition, or stick near someone with AOE condi clear (since it’ll eliminate the whole stack on you).

Stabs are a known weakness with Revs, so running Retribution is the only way to gain that without Jalis loaded. Even then, its unreliable. So if your problem is getting interrupted while using Chaos, change the timing of how you use it.

Energy management

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Posted by: Mystogan.4157

Mystogan.4157

I have yet to switch to staff. Im having a hard time juggling the tablet with hammer. I tend to either auto attack and control the tablet, or use hammer skills and lose my focus on the tablet.

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