Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9304379-20130521083744/@comment-9519540-20130521115803

Don't confuse the energon recharge awarded for first attack with the battle cube recharge for being the finisher. It's the battle cubes that allow you to attack bosses.

If you have no energon, you can't scan for bosses. That forces you to rely on assisting others to gain points. They've thrown a ton of energon recharges at us so that there is a steady stream of assist requests late in the event. Without them, you'd have the bulk of the playerbase looking to assist, but only a few people scanning for bosses.

Also, as you said, people continue to level while scanning and can gain additional cubes that way. While you can one cube the bosses, it's a great way to stockpile additional cube recharges. And if you do one-cube a boss, it's essentially a free kill. Later on in the event, bosses will be impossible for anyone to one-cube and that's when people start burning through their cube recharges.