Celestial Resources (Anorithil & Sun Paladin)

[Doctornull]

I don't think this premise is correct. Having full bars lets a celestial deal with fights that should be trivial trivially. This is not a bad thing. In longer fights energy use is enough to drain the bar before the fight ends unless actions are spent replenishing, and may even bottleneck an anorthil so the resources aren't made completely trivial by autocasts.

If that were true, then the obvious solution would be to just make Ano resources auto-regenerate out of combat -- make them work just like Mana and Stamina and Psi (etc.).

Since that's not the case, clearly something is incorrect about either your assumption ("full bars at fight start were intended") or the implementation is flawed.

There are also individual things that indicate that starting empty is not intended. Moonlight Ray as a sniping spell is not much use if you start empty.

It can shoot through a lot of dudes, so shooting a single range 10 dude might not be its intended use.

I think reworking celestials from based on the above premise will mostly serve to make them more tedious. If you can't maintain energy with autocast you have to lead with an energy producer against mooks you could previously handle with two keystrokes.

The energy producer is also two keystrokes, and ought to be enough to kill the mook.

As an aside, I think the existence of lone mooks in the first place is kind of dumb, and if they didn't exist then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I can't really disagree with this, but even a better setup which had e.g. a pack of mooks around one or two dangerous Uniques would be vulnerable to pack reduction by sniping attacks.

That said, I agree with your objection and would like to discuss it elsewhere.