Skill rework: Tempest Shield
The Awakening has provided us with a great opportunity to take a look at Path of Exile as a whole, and make improvements to many areas, ensuring all the parts fit together nicely. Part of this has been a game-wide review of skills. One of the skills receiving a rework in the next Beta content update is Tempest Shield.
Tempest Shield was intended to enable a defensive shield-using spellcaster build, but supporting it with most damage increasing support gems increased the reservation cost. This made investment in the skill too expensive. Here are some changes we're making to the skill:
More changes may be coming, based on our continued testing, usage on beta and feedback from players using the skill. Balance & Design
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" Spell Damage. It'll be affected by Heralds, increases to Spell Damage and the new added damage to spells mod found on caster weapons. Balance & Design
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