How energy shield users defend themselves against physical damage?

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CommanderSauce wrote:
Energy shield has consistently been THE highest EHP available. In terms of mitigating big hits, nothing surpasses ES. Its weakness lies in the fact that flasks do not regenerate ES, and ES doesn't regenerate if say you take many successive hits, regardless of big or small.

The best ways to get around this include making use of equipments, skills, and/or passives.
The following are some of the stronger combinations

CwDT + Increased Duration + Immortal Call + Enduring Cry
Spell Totem + Summon Skeletons + Increased Minion Life
Anbu's Charge + Low Life + Zealot's Oath
Springleaf + Low Life + Zealot's Oath
Shavronne's Revelation + Right Ring Slot
Ghost Reaver + Life Leech

A couple of things to consider;
Springleaf has great synergy with Shavronne's Wrappings and Solaris Lorica.
Anbu's Charge is the weakest of these four due to chaos damage bypassing ES and directly hitting life.

My personal favourite build right now involves a hybrid life/es consisting of 5k life, 6k es, 70% chaos resistance, 5% life regen, life leech and Ghost Reaver.


thanks for the help but i dont know this items, i'll search for them. Also my build have available points for zealot.

my build here
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Augment it with other defenses, mainly Block

Armor and Evasion are great too thanks to the ES/Armor and ES/Evasion hybrid nodes, but good hybrid pieces can get pricey

Example of a good hybrid piece:



Another thing that can be very helpful is running a Vaal discipline gem (add increased duration to it too if you have a slot for it)

Not only does it give you an insane ES pool while it up, it also triggers ES regeneration regardless if you are being hit or not, if you use it in a hairy situation it can save your life.
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emitai wrote:
without armour and evasion how casters survive to physical damage late game?



the benefit of going es in the first place is that it is easy access to hitpoints. which alows you a buffer to use other more potent defensive options over armor or evasion.


such as granite flasks, jade flasks , or combinations like immortal call enduring cry .
believe it or not but armor and evasion arent actually even the best way to mitigate damage.

like es they are more used as a buffer as part of a larger defensive strategy.
ES makes up for a lack of armour and evasion by having a really high ES pool and leeching or regenerating es back before they run out. Also being a caster your main defense is going to be manually dodging things that are going to hurt you. if you really need physical resistance like for the trio at atziri then youll need to manually cast Enduring cry and Immortal Call.
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