Wicked Ward interaction.. bug?

Hi, I'm using wicked ward with Xirgil's Crank and it dosen't stop the damage coming from my eye of inocence procs. Is it normal? I have 75/75 block chance.
Ty in advance.

From Wikia:

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Blocking: Fire damage taken also cannot be blocked, and thus cannot activate on block effects such as Aegis Aurora's Energy Shield recovery, or Reckoning.

Also, self-reflect like Eye of Innocence, Scold's Birdle and Hiltless cannot be blocked, dodged or evaded, nor they can self-stun you (They once did, then corrected before an infinite loop was made and server melted). They will however progress CWdT counter and will trigger onHit effect like Vengeance (Reckoning and Riposte requires you to block, Vengeance just to be hit)

That amulet's purpose is to inflict a very little ignition on you in order to proc other self-ignited effects like Bloodboil's, Martyr of Innocence or Hotheaded. Also, ignition works VERY bad with ES if you only use Recharge for recover it.

Anyway, no dice. You'll have to count on your enemies to get a blockable hit.

Ok, maybe i wasn't clear enough. My bad.
I know how CoI works and that the damage from eye of innocence can't be block but when i do block a hit my ES still degen. The degen dosn't stop at any point while i'm casting. But if i just stand there and wait to be hit i can see my ES stop degen a lot. I'm using a cast on ignite build with necromancer to get a lot of cast speed (from the loop with corpses) for my arcanist brand. I have life gain on hit and ES gain on hit from a watcher's eye.

Right now I've noticed that the Energy Shield Recharge on block for Xirgil has a 20% chance of happening. So you'll have to consider, everytime you are hit, that you block 3 attacks every 4, and of those 3 attacks not even an average of 1 (3/5 = 0.6) would actually proc the ES Recharge. As a Gladiator I can see little problem proccing a Recharge-on-block in a mass crowd environment - heck, I've scored 100 hits in less than 10 seconds with 82% block. It can be a bit tricky, however, when going against single boss. What I mean to say is: I'd expect an Enslaver (the Elder Guardian of fire and igniting) to be quite a challenge for you - just like most non-leech non-repleinsh ES build out there that do not make them immune do burning.

The rule is simple, and I'll quote a recent post from Mark_GGG
on an unrelated problem (ES degen during Raging Bersker) for an updated statement on them

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Energy Shield Recharge does not and never has cared about damage. Recharge is inhibited by anything which removes any of the energy shield itself, or the status it's protecting (usually life).

Even with CI, you can lose life from rage (and if you have no regeneration to counter that loss, it will eventually reach a loss of one full life and kill you). Over-time degeneration needs to be able to be fractional to work.

On the matter Xirgil and Wicked Ward, I'd like to point out the two items had a bad episode back until 2.2 (Prophecy league, thus a problem not addressed for 6 months) in which Xirgil didn't made Occultist's Wicked Ward (which back then had the same effect as the Wicked Ward Keystone). It >should< be fixed, at least for those time's standard. Perhaps something changed when Wicked Ward became a Keystone?

Tyvm for your replys, this is quite helpful!
I guess i'll swap staff again and go MoM with Eldrich.
Just for info, i do have leech. With the loop with corpses i get the 200% cast/attack speed from Corpse pact and a bunch of ES and mana regen from Essen glutton. I also have a watcher's eye with 30 ES gain per hit and 2 Ngamahu's ring with 50 Life per hit. Even with the loop of corpses being consumed by VD, Bone offering and Cremation I have enought corpses to use a Devouring Totem to over leech with my Offering to the serpent gloves. I'm trying now to get my ES to be somewhat able to sustain the fire dmg from eye of innocence. Bcs if i go hybrid i get a life pool of 9k+ and if i go just life its hard to get 6k+ and even with all the life leech sometimes i get OS. I can't barely die with ES and the leech but it's crazy hard to get the ES always up. Thats why i though if i could get a 4 sec wihtout getting ES damage from wicked ward ( even if its 1/5 chance on block) it would be easier.

I can understand the predicament, I have here on Harvest a Gladiator with a 6k HP, and I would not try an A8 Sirus without my Standard's 10k ES Blightwell + Soul Strike Legacy EC/Soulrend Occultist. Yes, admittedly it's cool to parry all 5 hits of Sirus' DIE beam (Did a A0 Sirus for challenge and staying safe - was actually a cool battle), but all those oneshot takes is... well, just one in the quick chain of attacks to pass through and kill you. So yeah, permaBlock is indeed really safe but there are those occasional unlucky streak that just don't compare to high life/ES Pool + Regen.

That said, 6K life managed to carry me very far by just adding some extra Less damage layers - CwDT IC, even EC-less, and Fortify can do wonder - couple it with a Solaris pantheon and area attacks are pretty much harmless to you.

... With their hits. The degen they can leave can hurt you quite a lot, though.

Tyvm for feedbacks :D i'll just keep trying :D