Mana Shield Info

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BearCares wrote:

You can get a whole lot tankier a whole lot cheaper now.

But, if location will stay the same, it will be virtually not or at least hardly available to classes most in needed of this keystone, it means witches and templars. It's probably to counteract usage EB with MS and promote Scion class, which class probably will have the best access to both EB and MS. And almost for sure my Scion will be EB/MS...

But my EB Infernal Mantle witch with it's 1,3K free mana will not be able to use it... pity... and shame.

if you have 1 mana and 10 000 life and you get by an attack that does 10 001 damage, will you survive and with how much hp?

im going to assume the mana shield will not prevent damage overflow right otherwise mana leech + high cast or attack speed will render you semi invincible ala aegis.

No statement towards my question? I'd really like to know if the mentioned mechanic will be working as intended.
I'm really not certain if hits should be able to turn off Arctic Armour this way, it doesn't feel right. You could simply mitigate this by only getting hit to 1 Mana instead of 0..

What Im interested in is if it'll mitigate dots too, since a lot of skills and effects only work on hits.

I don't suspect this will be as good as it seems. 30% of damage taken removed from mana instead? Why not just use a good mana reserve defensive aura and not have to worry about your mana pool refilling or losing the defense once it drops?

I'm sure it will be useful for some builds, don't get me wrong, but it's not going to be a must-have for people nearby.

this will synergise well with ondars flight and that helm with % dmg taken regained as mana etc

which were useless uniques before so thats a plus

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DutchRudder wrote:

this will synergise well with ondars flight and that helm with % dmg taken regained as mana etc

which were useless uniques before so thats a plus

I agree that it'll work good with the helmet:

At least if you don't plan to leech mana...

I disagree however that it was useless before (my witch needed some mana and this made equipping er a lot easir, thanks to the huge +mana)...

I would say that "cannot leech mana" won´t work well with mana shield. Just saying.

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Spysong192 wrote:

I would say that "cannot leech mana" won´t work well with mana shield. Just saying.

I guess the helmet would open an alternative option instead of mana leech. Mana regen + the mana gain on beeing damaged could provide enough defenses. I would say we'll need to wait and see it in action ;)

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RondaRousey wrote:

I don't suspect this will be as good as it seems. 30% of damage taken removed from mana instead? Why not just use a good mana reserve defensive aura and not have to worry about your mana pool refilling or losing the defense once it drops?

I'm sure it will be useful for some builds, don't get me wrong, but it's not going to be a must-have for people nearby.

Evasion builds mostly, since they don't use Determination.