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) (Maishang Hills)

Usage Notes

• This skill is obviously 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.
• The first time this is activated, if the caster doesn't have any exhaustion from other skills, this skill will only provide nine energy, due to recovery from exhaustion during the two second activation time (which only nets +4 total). Repeated castings increase this amount.
• Increasing exhaustion to more than half of total energy ends is fairly wasteful, as more energy is gained than the maximum energy. In general, it is often best to aim at keeping your exhaustion between 1/3 and 1/2 of your total energy.
• Second Wind has a two second activation time, longer (and notably more interruptable) than similar skills such as Energy Boon, Ether Prodigy, Mantra of Recall, or Offering of Blood.
• Comparing only energy gained to other energy management skills, Second Wind starts outperforming them at about 35 exhaustion (where it provides exactly +1 energy per second when cast every thirty seconds). In order to use Second Wind efficiently, it is best to have at least 70 maximum energy.
• A major advantage of Second Wind is its flexibility. You can continually adjust how much exhaustion is tolerable against current energy needs.
• A major disadvantage of Second Wind is how much exhaustion is required to really benefit from it. Recovering from 35 exhaustion takes 115 seconds. This may require entering future battles with lower than maximum energy, or long waits between battles.
• Another tactic used to increase Second Wind's effectiveness is to use a weapon set with two +15/-1 mods, for example the Flame Artifact from Jung Zeng, or Chung's Focus. This weapon set will greatly increase the maximum energy pool of the user, the downside is that the user's natural energy regeneration is reduced. This will be counteracted, however, by Second Wind's greatly increased effectiveness.

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

Related Skills

• Energy Boon
• Ether Prodigy
• Offering of Blood
• Mantra of Recall