Eldritch Battery

"Converts all Energy Shield to Mana"

Is there some trick i'm missing with this skill, lets say i'm a witch using ES chest/helm etc I pick up EB.
Now I have no defence, my gear effectively now gives me no survival.
What about a templar using hybrid armor, pick up EB, now 1/2 of your armor gives you no defence, so why not just wear full armor gear instead of hybrid.

Whats the purpose, what builds does it fit in with?

It's mostly used for having tons of auras on. With no ES, you will have to go full life defense, so it's a little tough, but the auras and the constant skill spam makes up for it. You can also free up mana flask slot for utility flasks.

It's very good if you combo it with the inner force cluster and use the disc aura. (among other aura's since you will likely use since your mana pool is so large). In the end it just turns disc into an aura that gives ES, to an aura that gives mana and mana regen. This way you can make use of battery without any ES gear.

Not only that but you have to keep in mind that the odd ES mod on rings / belt / ect for builds that don't use ES at all are for the most part wasted. This turns those mods into useful +mana.

Another great use is for summoners. If you support your summon gems a lot they will cost tons of mana to spam. EB lets you spam away with those 120 mana skeletons without worry. And of course with all those minions you don't need much survive-ability at all.

you're supposed to use EB with some kind of hybrid defense, and focus mostly on the "other" defense type. So if you're ES/ev, and have EB - then you can be an evasion/life caster and get some summons to fix up your weakened defenses.

EB is by very nature a glass cannon talent - it unlocks the mana you need for all the most insane DPS link combos. But you won't actually be wearing pure ES gear with it, nobody actually needs that much mana.

EB makes more sense to me for close combat characters with heavy mana requirements, ie a stereotypical Templar build. ES is not good for tanks because you're getting hit too often for it to regenerate, and a mix of high HP + high ES is very inefficient because of the incompatible recovery mechanisms. (Chaos Inoculation tanks are possible, but that's definitely an 'alternative'/'advanced' playstyle.) So you focus on HP for survivability and use the extra mana to stack more auras and so on.

Considering this games current heavy reliance on energy shield, I think its safe to say that it doesn't fit in with any builds really. No effective ones anyway.

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Imbalanxd wrote:

Considering this games current heavy reliance on energy shield, I think its safe to say that it doesn't fit in with any builds really. No effective ones anyway.

Some of the really aura heavy buids seemed quite effective IMHO (i've seen 8+ auras). You just have to plan carefully to have enough life...

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Sony_Black wrote:

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Imbalanxd wrote:

Considering this games current heavy reliance on energy shield, I think its safe to say that it doesn't fit in with any builds really. No effective ones anyway.

Some of the really aura heavy buids seemed quite effective IMHO (i've seen 8+ auras). You just have to plan carefully to have enough life...

In my limited experience and knowledge, I cannot conceive a common scenario where even through the use of multiple auras, eldritch battery would result in more defense, rather than less.

Considering how important energy shield seems to be at the moment, I think the multiple aura approach would work great, up until the point where you are instantly killed.

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Imbalanxd wrote:

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Sony_Black wrote:

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Imbalanxd wrote:

Considering this games current heavy reliance on energy shield, I think its safe to say that it doesn't fit in with any builds really. No effective ones anyway.

Some of the really aura heavy buids seemed quite effective IMHO (i've seen 8+ auras). You just have to plan carefully to have enough life...

In my limited experience and knowledge, I cannot conceive a common scenario where even through the use of multiple auras, eldritch battery would result in more defense, rather than less.

Considering how important energy shield seems to be at the moment, I think the multiple aura approach would work great, up until the point where you are instantly killed.

I have a lvl 65 templar using mostly ES+armor hybrid gear (except shield and boots)- i have 2k life and 200ES, if my build would be near EB i would take it (it isn't, but it is stiill an example of a build wich could get better with EB) -> i could put on even more auras (currently i have 3), one could be Determination, resulting in a quite nice armor buff, which would at least partly (if not fully) get me back my lost defense and i think (i haven't done the math) that i would still end with more mana than before (which might not be bad for my char at all - currently i have enough mana, but barely)

EDIT: also IMHO no keystone should be a no brainer for everyone, and also no keystone should bring builds both offensiev and defensive advantages -> EB is clearly one which can take a lot of your defense, but it can bring also a huge DSP boost (also what about for eaxample a build which would prioritise another sort of def and than take EB and e.g. starts using a ES shield as a somewhat bigger mana boost)