How do Chaos Inoculation builds survive?

what is ES? what skill or passive is this?

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MagicalHob0 wrote:

what is ES? what skill or passive is this?

Energy shield

oh ok ty

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skyelar wrote:

Having played a CI Shadow in CB in the last one week hardcore race making it to 62, I'd say it really isn't viable for HC until you have insane gear. Unfortunately there were a lot of broken builds with CI before OB, and it's been nerfed extensively for any early game play.

Unfortunately, this really only leaves going hybrid, investing in HP and ES nodes, saving respec points/orbs of regret, and then after you have collected some badass gear from maps you can look at aiming for CI. This is from a HC perspective though, if you're playing softcore, you can get away with a significantly less defensive build, albeit with a few deaths and grouping often.

This is open beta though, and I'm sure GGG will consider player feedback if it's well constructed.

Well ain't that a b****h.
I added you for the sake of future theorycrafts ^_^

How would Vaal Pact work with CI, granted you would take Zealot's Oath and Ghost Reaver?

Would you lose the regen that would be applied to your ES?

CI works really REALLY well, Some of the beter tanks are CI since u can chain granit flasks preety much for ever , also some skills really work well with CI .. like blood rage for GE. u get all the benifits and non of the disadvantages.

The trick with it is getting the ES to make it viable , it's not easy to do, and most CI characters are hard to level, so u will "probley build your character with life and ES and armour and such then respec to pure ES later on when u take the CI skill.

inveliescos dagger crit shadow build tanks like a monster, iv not been abel to play much since OB hit dew to work but my CB shadow had 12000 ES with 68 % crit chance and a fuck load of life leach ( with ghoast rever this is aplied to ES ) since he ran 5 granit flask that recharge with crits he can be under granet flask almost 100 % of the time. Now with the change im thinking u will not ever see ES numbers like that but TBH it's not needed i was doing just fine in high level maps before i geared him out to the nuts 5-6 k ES was plenty.

U can run CI on HC mode , it's posible however thare are risks to it. The main thing is knowing how the character plays so if u want to do something like this in HC mode then i think u should first play the character in SC mode and test it and also play a diffrent character in HC mode first to get gear/currency to keep your CI character in the right kind of gear 24/7