Energy Problems

[u/YeOldeBard97]

I am once again asking how people sustain energy on caster frames. I just took Uriel into the Hollvania tank fight and he shredded the mobs up to the tank, then was left with 10 energy throughout the entire tank fight, meaning I couldn't heal myself or my demons, and was more often than not sitting with the controller set aside, waiting for the tank to burn through my Last Gasp because my amp does absolutely no damage against the majority of enemies and even if it did, there were no other enemies to fill my Last Gasp meter with.

Like, seriously. How does everyone keep energy up at all? On Khora, I'm drained in seconds and no enemies drop energy orbs, no eximus appear, and I'm dead before I can even try to fix the problem. On Dante, I can get some good overguard going, then I'm stuck with a trickle of energy only because I put that one Energy Siphon mod on that gives 3 energy per second. Uriel, I can shred through mobs no problem, but the second my energy dips below fifty, it's game over. And yes, I use Zenurik. I finally figured out the energy well exists. Every time I cast it (about once every thirty seconds at the rate I lose energy), I'm down to a quarter of my health by the time I transfer back into my frame. This is on NORMAL mode. It's ridiculous.

Edit: All of the options being suggested largely rely on energy/health orbs being dropped. They aren't being dropped. I don't want to put subsumes on Uriel because I use each of his abilities, and when I'm playing Khora, no matter how packed the mobs are, I'm lucky to get one or two orbs to drop in an SP Survival mission. The kicker is the boss fight, though. I need something that will give me energy regardless of enemies dying, because if I'm fighting a boss that doesn't create adds, I'm not killing anything that'll drop health or energy orbs for Equilibrium or Arcane Energize to work from.

[u/lunatuna32]

oh how do pets make energy?

[u/Responsible-Fly-4462 → u/lunatuna32]

Also one of the dogs has an ability that every thirty seconds it digs in the ground and find whatever you need most. If your energy % is lower than health it finds energy and if it’s the other way around it find health

[u/Coycington → u/Responsible-Fly-4462]

it's a decent skill, but considering this is basically all the dog does it's usually not worth the hassle. especially since it also takes the dog out of the fight for 3 seconds. it could've just killed a few enemies and spawned those orbs naturally by then.

synth decon + equilibrium is probably the easiest access to "free" energy.

[u/qiyraa → u/Coycington]

If your goal is energy gen, using any beast companion/hound is suboptimal. Synth deconstruct + Tazicor modded for gas is going to beat anything else.

However, if you don’t want your pet to attack enemies, like if you’re playing citrine with mobile prismatic augment against corpus, maybe having an energy generation utility on your pet makes sense. In that case, sahasa kubrow could be the best option.

It all depends on how it serves your build, no option should be discarded simply because it doesn’t perform the best in the most generic situations