Second Wind

Skill details

Second Wind

Campaign Factions Profession Elementalist Attribute Unlinked Type Elite Spell

5 5 1 5

Full: You gain 1 Energy and 5 Health for each point of Overcast. You lose all enchantments.

Concise: You gain 1 Energy and 5 Health for each point of Overcast. You lose all enchantments.

Acquisition

Signet of Capture:

• Snapjaw Windshell (Archipelagos)

Notes

• Although not requiring an investment in an attribute, Second Wind is much more powerful when used on primary Elementalists with high Energy Storage, because you can afford a relatively large amount of exhaustion without it being debilitating.
• When Second Wind is cast without any exhaustion, it provides only nine energy, due to exhaustion recovery during the two second activation time (netting +4 total).
• Increasing exhaustion to more than half of total energy is fairly wasteful, as more energy is gained than the character's maximum energy (and the excess energy is lost). It is generally best to aim at keeping your exhaustion between 1/3 and 1/2 of your total energy.
• In order to use Second Wind efficiently, it is best to have at least 70 maximum energy.
• A major disadvantage of Second Wind is how much exhaustion is required to really benefit from it. Recovering from 35 exhaustion takes 105 seconds. This may require entering future battles with lower than maximum energy, or long waits between battles.
• You can quickly build your desired amount of exhaustion by using the skill and interrupting the cast right away (with the Escape key, or moving during the cast (movement buttons or mouse clicking, both work)), several times on end.

Energy gain

This presumes Exhaustion is maintained at the level shown (and Second Wind is cast once every thirty seconds).

Maintained Exhaustion	10	20	30	40	50	60
Energy	10	20	30	40	50	60
Net Energy Gain	5	15	25	35	45	55
Energy Gain/Second	0.17	0.5	0.83	1.17	1.5	1.83

Trivia

There is a card from the Magic: The Gathering trading card game called "Second Wind" which bears resemblance to this skill.

Related skills

• Energy Boon (elite)
• Ether Prism (elite)

Related articles

• Gain/Lose energy skills quick reference