Why would anyone go with energy shield?
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I also have tried a few diff ways with ES ... I'm a 77 witch .. I've respeced quite a few times tryin CI trying without CI .. but I did find a good mix I'm liking right now ... Taking GR plus zealots but the biggest part is running vitality aura which isn't cheap but its a steady es regen for me and my minions ... ES is by far the least of the 3 since nerf and I'm hoping the add maybe 20-30 percent back to CI to atleast get it close to Eva and armour .... My next build will def be a pure eb aura templar cause I enjoy all the utility of.where they start
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I like feeling like an archon from starcraft...
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Playing a pure ES witch right now the real issue is that ES relies so much on gear. So much so that if you don't have the gear you are 300% worse than a copy of the build going for health instead of ES.
The fact that the ES points are spread out all across the passive tree from alllll the way on the left of the templar to allll the right side of the shadow is stupid. That and there aren't even that many good ES nodes unless you take the shitty ones in the middle which do nothing (8% es only what a joke). Right now I'm level 62 and because this was my first character my gear is shitty so I only have around 2k es which is terrible. I know that if I was health based I'd have around 3-4k right now with significantly more sustainability. |
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" Health won't give you that much. It would give you the same as ES just about. You would have still around 2.5k hp with junk equips. Only difference is that if you got an HP regen build with a Maru, you just watch your self regen 200 hp+ a second constantly =D. Only problem with energy shield is that the recovery is so darn slow, compared to hp regen. You run around hoping your energy shield goes up, just to watch yourself get hit by something again and it stops. Hp regen is so fast, its not even funny. You get hit by 5 dudes in merciless and your hp globe barely moves. Last edited by FrozenLerk#1758 on Feb 23, 2013, 11:51:15 PM
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me personally, i have buffed 3900 es at level 61. so i simply have more effective hp than most anyone would have at that point with the same gear quality. and my armour is fixed by using molten shell and ironskin granite flasks. i use two of those flasks + armour on a few items + both body and soul clusters. my flasks recharge fast enough that if i'm playing right i have 3900 es (CI) and 80% physical reduction with flask buffs. i do alright with that.
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I dont get it i see chest all over the place with 600-1200 evade or armor yet ES ones have 300 plus use up 2 suffixes for it. I am at 64 right now and have been looking for gear for a week now just to have 3k ES to go CI. However it makes no sense for me to do so with 1200 health and another 1k of es. Sadly i wasted a good bit of nodes on ES, too many to go back. Might be time to take a break or reroll. Seems a bit broken to me atm.
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ES is probably (slightly?) weak in comparison to life right now. It was the other way around in closed beta, and CI ruled.
Could probably use some minor tweaks (mostly so that you don't have to wait until late-game and great gear before speccing CI), but it's not so bad. |
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" This is pretty much my plan, except I'm also going to take the Nullification clusters (+ maybe Arrow Dodging) and run Grace. That way I get a solid ES bonus (hybrid nodes give 8% or more, like most pure ES nodes) but also have double mitigation on top. |
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" I wish CI had special graphics. In fact every keystone could use it. |
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Isn't this complexity just delicious?
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