Talk:Ember/@comment-2A02:8108:1840:3608:4543:7633:C1A9:C4C-20191005143615/@comment-25254386-20191006081041

No, it means there's a cost cap. I.e. efficiency can easily exceed 175%, but cost cannot dip below 25% of the original value, that's the difference. And you didn't go into any detail at all, necessary or not, that was (one of) your reply's problems.

And yes, of course I noticed you specify channeled abilities, that's another problem. Like I said, the 25% cost cap is not limited to just channeled abilities like you're implying, hence my "Secondly".

I didn't reply just to fight you on trivialities and semantics, I replied to give OP a proper explanation and correct mistakes you may have provided them in your reply. But if you want me to nitpick I can:
 * 1) DE does not need to explain nuanced mechanics like energy drains.
 * 2) Efficiency does not cap out at 175%, as I said before.
 * 3) "it does something weird and 'substitutes' into the duration factor of the drain over time" is so poorly worded I'm not even sure what you were trying to say, which means OP probably couldn't either.
 * 4) Going back to the 'no detail topic', "And each ability with a drain over time has a different "minimum" drain value, 0.75 is WoF's minimum". You don't even attempt to explain why this is true or how you arrived at the 0.75s-1 value, which is of no help to OP since they specifically asked why changing duration seemed to have no effect on it, and not if 0.75s-1 was the min.