Energy Epic is useful but you will need to carry 100 cooked meat stack when going mining or exploring. However if you have energy regen epic , you will need less food to fill your max energy and regen will be so much that you will instantly fill your energy if u stay still 2 seconds. There is also a topic about the big downside of energy epic skill which you can check out.
You’ll see that everyone agrees energy regen epic is better than energy epic if you don’t have massive food supplies.