Why would anyone go with energy shield?
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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.
Avatar Posted by Mandena on 20 февраля 2013 г. 3:21 QuotePrivate Message " Mandena wrote: 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. 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. -long list of links removed- Last edited by peachii#3920 on Feb 24, 2013, 4:52:40 AM
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energy shield rapidly regenerate,with certain passives u get immune to Chaos dmg,u can build it looooot more then health,u dont need hp pots atall so u can spend more for mana and auras.energy shield is 1 of best deffences out there
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ES provides a handful of advantages(and disavantages) over health.
In my opinion the biggest pro of ES is that you can get higher quanitites with the same investment compared to health. Reason: ES items can have truckloads of ES while every health item can have at most 109(compared to a vaal regalia with ~800) This means that ES is better suitable to survive BURST. My summoner goes this route just because of this reason. The goal of my defensie mechanic is not to facetank enemies and SUSTAIN the damage but to survive burst like several charging/jumping enemies. And this is easier and cheaper achievable with ES. And of course the chaos immunity is a big point. Just think about how many affixes you save for getting CI? -40 resist -> 100 = 18 skillpoints or 5,33 Item affixes. In addition you get 5x5% maximal chaos resistance! If you see it like this, you will understand that "chaos immunity" is worth a lot in terms of passive skillpoints and affixes. I think for caster/summoner/ranger ES is in a pretty good spot. |
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Why would anyone want Energy Shield? Melee damage on full life or the unique gloves that increase attack speed on full life.
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All the bitches love energy shield!.. i mean.. Witches :)
I am the light of the morning and the shadow on the wall, I am nothing and I am all.
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Necroing a topic out of context =/ Devs have addressed CI builds since this topic was made. Extra nodes were added including a multiplicative 20% ES modifier.
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" 1) CI 2) Aurora Aegis 3) 50% def from stun, when you have ES 4) Kaomi Heart cost too much 5) don't want to spend points to defend at all 6) Max ES ~14k, max hp ~8k, what I sow @hasyou 1-80lvl solo game Witch Last edited by Wakeupneo#3806 on Apr 16, 2013, 10:18:37 AM
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Neo? Wake up. pls :D
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" This thread was before shavronne's as well I think. |
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" Cute, he thinks armor matters |
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