I have a lot less fun when people hit revive on me or "revive all" the moment they die. It's almost always wasted energy - most people will revive themselves if they want to/need to be revived. And yup, drives the energy cost up for you if you ever want to at a later time... I always hit the up arrow on an elevator after that happens or am ready to hit "Return to Haven" immediately if I die again. Or even worse, the people who refuse to give up and keep reviving everyone... like at the end of an arena when there's just the one fight left, or those gunpuppy rooms :( This is the main reason I never do Jelly King in pugs & often "go solo" if someone opens a hard DR.

Talk to people before reviving if everyone's dead plz. Would love a confirmation prompt on that or something, returning the reviver's energy if you say no. Usually only one person has to, and it's better to pick the guy who might be able to rescue everyone else instead of whoever's cost is cheaper.

Good memories of times I was yelled at for not being able to rescue someone after they spend "all their energy" throwing a revive on me that I didn't want, in an impossible situation.

I'm actualy siding with no-thanks. I've been revived with while I was the only one dead, and people had the health to heal me. Now if what nicoya said is true, anf you can still get health split if you stay down from a energy revive, I don't really care about refusing revives. I don't think you can get split like that though, becuase then it wouldn't make sense for the game to take your energy before the person gets up. If you could get health split, most likely it would take the energy as they get up.

Wow, that seems kinda cheap. "That is no loner necessary, someone has already spent money!". More often than not I take OOO's side, but not letting people revive players who are already energy-revived is just mean. I can understand not letting people refuse it, though people should get their energy back by having someone split revived.

A 'decline energy revive button'.

I dunno about the 'split-rev after been paid for' thing, because I've never been able to try it, but if that doesn't work, then +1.

Severage, your description doesn't make sense. There is no "revive self with split-revive" button. As soon as you are revived (by ANY means), the revive buttons disappear and you can right-click to stand up.

I would guess what you're actually remembering is that you tried to revive someone (maybe yourself) with energy, but someone else beat you to it (possibly because you were lagged), and so it wouldn't let you spend energy. Which strikes me as entirely appropriate.

If you try to split-revive someone else who has already been split-revived, the revive icon doesn't appear, and you just end up attacking instead. I would assume the same thing happens if you try to split-revive someone who was already revived by energy, but you know, I don't think it has ever come up.

I suppose I don't have any major objection to refunding an energy revive if someone attempts to sacrifice-revive you between when the energy is paid and when you actually stand up, though I would have a slight concern that players would refuse to get up even when it is genuinely in the party's best interest because they're holding out for a sacrifice-revive.

I realize that sacrifice-revives are often a better plan for the party, strategically speaking, but any kind of revive is still pure charity, and coping with your allies playing less-than-perfectly is a part of playing any co-op game. You don't get do-overs when an ally knocks an enemy into you or traps you by freezing enemies in your way, even if it kills you and forces you to spend extra energy or fail the level. If you fail to complete the gate because an ally used an energy-revive when a sacrifice-revive would have been better, that's just another case of "the group, as a whole, didn't play well enough". I don't see what's so special about this specific instance of that problem.