I have two (I think) related grumbles I'd like to share with the community:
1. It's a "known issue" that some of us lose energy when grinding with a Flaming Humbada. It has been a known issue for several weeks. But c'mon! I'm grinding 400 chunks at a go and losing 480 energy on a typical grind despite the FH. To re-fill my elemental pouch, I'm going to wind up burning through somewhere around 2000 energy. And I can't just avoid grinding since I need it for powders and metals and such. This doesn't seem like it ought to be that hard of a bug to squash, but maybe there's some vagary I don't understand. I've been led to believe that this bug only infests those with enlarged energy tanks, which takes me to grumble #2.
2. Is there anything else in Glitch that is irreversible? We can change our names and our appearances. We can come back from the dead over and over and over. We can even unlearn things. But once we have upgraded our energy tank, we seem eternally stuck with the good and the bad aspects of it. (If you're not aware of the bad, it is that periodic energy/mood decreases are a percentage of your capacity while all replenishment except new day is still a fixed number.) How about some energy tank REDUCTION cards? I'd love to go back to where I started after the IMG restart. It would be nice to have all that IMG I spent on extra energy, but I'd go back without it.
Couple these two together and I'm finding myself working far harder to maintain energy and mood than I used to. Yeah, it's nice to have 4600 at the top of the day, but that depletes quickly. A backpack slot of meat doesn't go as far as it used to and drinking doesn't have the same zip it used to. I have hardly meditated in weeks. <Sigh>
I guess my birch candy rush wore off.