I play mostly on my Warlock, and was actually super excited to get our own version of the shard aspect this season. I can keep grenades up pretty easily, but melee energy is hard to come by. However, I've noticed while running my standard PvE loadout that if you're holding a sword while picking up Stasis shards, you don't get the melee energy back. I have not confirmed whether you get energy back for the heavy attack on the sword instead, but was curious if this was a bug?
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Edit: Shortly after posting this I did check. Shards do not seem to affect sword energy when picked up. Not sure if it depends on the sword or class, but it didn't work for a Warlock using Lament.