Guild Wars 2

Suggestion: Shrouding Mists (Grandmaster Major Trait): In addition to current effects, also has “Maintain your current Energy when switching Legends if you have greater than 50 Energy.”

One unique problem I’ve noticed, and admittedly its in rarely an issue for most Revenant builds, is the problem of Energy resetting to 50% after swapping when you already had efficiently saved up a lot of Energy past 50%.

This is most noticeable on a Ventari healing build in hardcore content. There are plenty of times you have a lot of energy stored because you are trying to be efficient and reserve your energy for burst healing situations, but then you need to swap to Glint or another Legend for a mechanical reason for a fight, or just to provide some boons for a lull in a fight.

What sucks is you still get reverted back to 50% Energy on swap.

I really feel like “storing” your energy between swaps (if above 50%) would be a wonderful change (at the cost of having to run Invocation and use that GM trait) and could open up some build combinations and combos. This could, for instance, allow for a Ventari/Jalis combination in which you can heal efficiently as Ventari, save up extra energy, then swap to Jalis with high energy to have good up-time on the elite, have plenty of energy to break bars with the taunt, and energy to maintain the hammers if you really are under pressure (super good for pvp).

Sure, you COULD always just burst away all your energy super fast before swapping, but it just feels … off. I’d love to have that flexibility of bringing in all that stored energy to switch gears when needed. It could really have some fun PvP and WvW implications for builds as well.

Thoughts?

i would love for a trait which regen nrg faster like thief initatives.

most of the time (pvp) i check my nrg before switching to maximize the 50% reset so i would hardly use switch when i am 50% and above

In PvE, you should never be at 100 energy though… Even in your hardcore ventari example, why would you be sitting in Ventari, hoarding your energy, waiting for something to heal? You could be using that energy to dps, block projectiles with your tablet, pulse a few group cleanses, and/or spam alacrity on your group. And that’s if you’re just camping Ventari, you should probably be rotating through Glint to stack boons and dps… I don’t see a real big reason to be just sitting in Ventari since the 50 energy + trait bonus on swap you get jumping into Ventari is more than enough to heal everyone to full.

And if none of that seems like a worthwhile contribution, that shines a light on why people prefer druid healers for 90% of the content… Since in low damage scenarios they are still stacking GotL not just sitting there waiting for someone to take a big hit.

Also, this would be super overpowered in PvP. Imagine being able to roll into a fight with 100 stored up Mallyx energy to swap into and just annihilate everything around you. Or having 100 energy when you swap into Shiro and being able to use phase traversal, surge, precision strike, and then still have enough left over to Impossible Odds cleave or even pop Jade Winds.

It’s an interesting thought, but I think our bigger energy issues come from our skill costs not being scaled correctly to their impact now that they’ve all been nerfed so many times.