To absorb energy, you need to have an Energy Collector. Energy Collectors can be bought from Merchant Geres (in Juno) or Merchant Tino (in Dratan) for 1,000gold each. While all Energy Collectors look the same, they are actually class-specific. Make sure that you buy an Energy Collector for your class, or else you will not be able to equip it!

Once you have your Energy Collector you need to find an energy circle. There are two energy circles--one outside each city gate--in Juno and many, many small ones in Dratan. To see exactly where the energy circles are, please look at the maps on the Gathering page.

There are two kinds of resources in an energy circle. One is called an Energy Stone and the other is called an Energy Rock. If you ask someone about the difference between them, you will most likely be told that they produce different kinds of energy waves. This is not true. Both resources produce the same energy waves. So if they both produce the same thing, why do they have different names? To help you differentiate between the type of resources that they are. Energy Stones are temporary resources. They will wear out and disappear after about 10 minutes of being gathered from. Energy Rocks, on the other hand, are permanent resources. These stay forever. Since Energy Stone are temporary resources, they will produce energy waves for you faster than Energy Rocks will. Because of this, Energy Stones are the best to absorb from if you are active at the computer. If you are going to go AFK for more than 10 minutes, then Energy Rocks are best.	Energy Stone
	Energy Rock
There are three different energy waves you can get:

Zeta Wave Energy (Low-grade energy)

Epsilon Wave Energy (Medium-grade energy)

Gamma Wave Energy (High-grade energy)

	To absorb from an Energy Stone (or Energy Rock), click on it. The window on the left should pop up. As you can see, it is asking you to choose between random absorbing and selective absorbing. If you choose to absorb randomly, you will have a chance of receiving any of the three different kinds of energy waves in any order.
	If you choose to absorb selectively, then you will have to specify which energy wave type you want. Many people absorb selectively because they say that they do not want or have no need for the other two types of energy waves. However, what they don't realize is that selective absorption is quite a bit slower than random absorption.

Absorption skills allow you to absorb energy waves faster. You may learn these skills from the Master Energy Builder NPC. To learn the skills or raise your skill level, talk to the Master Energy Builder and select option 1, "Learn skills." Here's a table showing the amount of SP needed to learn each level of the Absorption skill.

Absorption skill division			Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Basic Absorption			Free	4 SP Req: Level 4 char	14 SP Req: Level 5 char
Advanced Absorption			36 SP Req: Level 5 char	71 SP Req: Level 5 char	126 SP Req: Level 5 char

Total absorption cost: 251

The higher your skill level, the more energy waves you will absorb in a set amount of time. Here's a chart of the approximate amount you can absorb (Selectively) from an Energy Stone before the stone vanishes with each level of the Absorption skill.

	Basic Absorption			Advanced Absorption
	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
	4	6	9
	3	3	7
	2	2	5

**Note** on Sat, March 8, 2008 I tested the gathering on each "Energy Stone" The results for level 1, 2, and 3 of Basic Absorption are what I recieved, uninterrupted, per stone. ALSO - it varies, your not guranteed the same harvest each time.~Kissker

Please thank Kissker for his help with this page!