spaghettification and event horizon passive nodes prevents energy shield from recharging

spaghettification and event horizon passive nodes prevents energy shield from recharging when chaos spells are cast

is this an expected interaction? it's not obvious

It says on the Energy Shield info pop up that it: Rapidly recharges if you don't lose energy shield for a short time.

So unfortunately I think the interaction is intented.

sigh, i missed that. thanks for the heads up.

I don't think this is an intended interaction. There are plenty of examples where you can lose health from an ability (ie demon form, bloodmage, blood magic node, etc) where casting at the cost of health or an ability that costs health does not impact energy shield recovery. Health recovery is supposed to offest health costs

The game is treating the 3% health cost as a damage source, rather than a cost, which is what is meant to impact energy shield recovery.

edit: Upon further looking, I think the fact that it takes 3% off of energy shield as well is what is stopping the recovery. I guess they want you to offset this by decreasing the time that it takes to start charging energy shield....