Why would anyone go with energy shield?

I'm honestly wondering why anyone would?
It's regen mechanic seems worse then health, sure you can fix that with Zealot's oath (life regen applies to ES instead of life)

But why spend the extra point if you could just focus on life?

If i where to focus on ES gear for example, I'd barely have armor, how could i possibly get through end game ( mapping ) without that?

Evasion has an actual use, or can be turned into armor, armor well.. Is armor, It's great.
But energy shield just seems tacky and pointless.

Apologies If I'm completely missing whatever point, I'm hoping to find out a positive side to Energy shield besides getting rid of it with Eldritch battery or having at least "1" for the 50% chance not to get stunned ;x

CI

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Prolixitasty wrote:

CI

Still doesn't seem worth it at all, you still won't have armor and get one shot by everything end game, okay, except for chaos mobs, but you'll have everything else to worry about then.

I never played back when CI had a 50% ES buff, but without it it seems rather pointless to pick it, ES seems to have too many disadvantages over life armor, and evasion

The short reason for going with energy shield is that you can get more es than life, and that it recovers very quickly without investment into regeneration nodes and gear.

That being said, ES is in a rough place right now until the sources are increased in value.

1. It regens quite rapidly, much faster than health,
2. 50% chance to avoid stuns.

Having "just 1 ES to avoid stuns", which you mentioned in the first post will only work for the first hit which will reduce your ES to zero.

ES used to be really strong when CI was really strong (ie. pre-nerf), but in all honesty all 3 defensive stats are in a quite terrible state, with perhaps armor being the least bad of the bunch.

What makes you think Armor is so great? Energy Shield can be pretty decent and is a good way to deal with crits. Armor on the other hand is bad vs crits and 2 crits in a row can kill you easily, which will most likely never happen if you have a decent amount of Energy Shield added to your HP.

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Disrespecting wrote:

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Prolixitasty wrote:

CI

Still doesn't seem worth it at all, you still won't have armor and get one shot by everything end game, okay, except for chaos mobs, but you'll have everything else to worry about then.

I never played back when CI had a 50% ES buff, but without it it seems rather pointless to pick it, ES seems to have too many disadvantages over life armor, and evasion

Sounds like you've never tried ES and are making a lot of assumptions.

Fact is: It's not that bad.

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mfwahwah wrote:

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Disrespecting wrote:

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Prolixitasty wrote:

CI

Still doesn't seem worth it at all, you still won't have armor and get one shot by everything end game, okay, except for chaos mobs, but you'll have everything else to worry about then.

I never played back when CI had a 50% ES buff, but without it it seems rather pointless to pick it, ES seems to have too many disadvantages over life armor, and evasion

Sounds like you've never tried ES and are making a lot of assumptions.

Fact is: It's not that bad.

I would agree to the degree that it's also not that good. As in, not as good as it used to be, and I sense that it will probably be soft-buffed within a bit.

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pneuma wrote:

The short reason for going with energy shield is that you can get more es than life, and that it recovers very quickly without investment into regeneration nodes and gear.

That being said, ES is in a rough place right now until the sources are increased in value.

This seems fair, freeing up prefix and suffix slots on your items for other things then life and life regen, acceptable answer right here :)

I still doubt that the energy shield you get more over a health build would not compare to having armor/life, i suppose it is open beta, anything could happen still.

Thanks for explaining, i see it has it's own advantage now.

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mfwahwah wrote:

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Disrespecting wrote:

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Prolixitasty wrote:

CI

Still doesn't seem worth it at all, you still won't have armor and get one shot by everything end game, okay, except for chaos mobs, but you'll have everything else to worry about then.

I never played back when CI had a 50% ES buff, but without it it seems rather pointless to pick it, ES seems to have too many disadvantages over life armor, and evasion

Sounds like you've never tried ES and are making a lot of assumptions.

Fact is: It's not that bad.

I was making assumptions, i tend to before diving into new builds that in theory don't seem that viable, sorry if i offended anyone.

Curiosity gets the best of me and i tend to sound a little hostile.