Chaos Inoculation still worth it for summoner?

Before the patch I was having a hard time deciding if I should take CI and now that the patch brought a huge buff to life I am torn even more. I am still leaning to taking it but curious what others are doing, especially anyone that had it but spec'd out of it after patch to compare. I also do not completely understand how CI works. Does it mean mobs mobs have there chaos damage reduced to zero, or do they just not bypass the shield? The last thing I am curious about is what level do most pick up CI? I am level 46 with zero health nodes.

thanks for any help.

CI makes you immune to all chaos damage
CI has a really nice node after it: 12% more multiplier to your es

Things you need to be careful about with CI:
You will get frozen easily
shocked
stunned
and ignited

Your going to tank damage purely by stacking as much energy shield as you can.

It is my opinion that a endgame very well geared es based summoner will be more tanky than a equally geared life summoner. Just because you can get some insane es on gear.

Being stunlocked is going to be the biggest threat, honestly. Being frozen/shocked/ignited sucks, but you can get flask mods to fix that. There is a unique ammy that eliminates that, but I cannot recall what its drawback is or if you can use it with CI.

It is quite nice to just stand in poison clouds and such without worry though :p

Anyone else using CI right now and like it? I am still undecided.
thanks for the information so far.

I had a CI summoner that I respecced to life after the patch. The major reason being auras, with higher reserved mana meaning fewer auras switching to life made it easier for me to forego Dicsipline while keeping purity/vitality/damage and the same survivability.

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GoatEatingToilet wrote:

Being stunlocked is going to be the biggest threat, honestly. Being frozen/shocked/ignited sucks, but you can get flask mods to fix that. There is a unique ammy that eliminates that, but I cannot recall what its drawback is or if you can use it with CI.

It is quite nice to just stand in poison clouds and such without worry though :p