I don't do savage raids, but I figured this change happened because of a couple of reasons that coincide with each other. Going into a fight with 3 stacks plus aetherflow off of CD basically allowed SCHs to open with excog and two energy drains, and then immediately refresh their stacks. Because of this, I can definitely understand wanting the SCH to go into the fight with all six chambers loaded, so-to-speak. Thing is, for max level content a SCH can queue loaded up and would not lose their stacks, so I honestly don't even know why this in itself was an issue.

Without energy drain though, then the change isn't even necessary. I suppose there's slapping an excog on the tank pre-fight that they might have wanted us to get away from, but again, I don't really understand the reasoning behind the change. I can still resort to an excog before an adlo to save GCDs for damage.

In short, it's just a nuisance. I am willing to compromise though for the return on Energy Drain.