WHAT IS A LOT OF ENERGY SHIELDS FOR A WITCH PLAYER?

Hi all,

I was wondering, what is considered good ES for an ES witch? Right now I have 12,403 ES with max res and room to spare and 4k DPS solid excluding curses and fire penetration. I was wondering, what is considered low, good, great and INSANE total ES for this type of witch?

Should I shoot for more? It's become like pulling teeth trying to upgrade my gear. Not much else I can do for more es, so I started focusing on other things.

Thanks for your input!

at the end of nemesis, i had 12K es. I always felt very safe and protected. More ES is, in my opinion, just a waste. At the end of the day, you still need to have some kind of damage. the faster the enemies are dead, the less damage they can deal to you.

So, for a CI user, in my opinion:

low es: 4-6K
medium ES: 6-8K
high ES: 9-11K
too high ES: 12K+


In your case, I would stop putting more currency into ES and focus on damage instead.


Keep in mind that thes numbers reflect my own opinion only. My opinion is based on my following CI characters:
lvl81 softcore witch
lvl78 HC templar
lvl89 nemesis templar

Nice. Well my ES went up to almost 14,000. I got new gloves. My ES is high, and every one of my spell and fire damage nodes are filled in and I use 20-20 gems. My DPS is right at 4k excluding the 35% fire penetration and 50% curse, upped by Empower. So I'm doing 6400 fireball damage with LMP for each fireball. I like to shotgun too like a tank, so that's 6400 x 3 = 19k DPS when I go insane. Only exceptions are when an enemy has res like in the 120%, in which case the flammability curse does nothing but Fire penetration still does it's 35% ignore of fire res.

I'd say I'm doing alright then haha. 14k es and a truckload DPS. I just wanted to know mostly if there was a record. Has anyone hit 20k ES?

Very interested in your build and gear!



I rolled a shotgun FB witch in Ambush, although I'm still underleveled and undergeared, I melt everything <map 68
Rolled based on this http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/458054

Atm I only have 3k ES and 2.5k paper fireball DPS (also linked with LMP and Firepen)

STILL have not made the transition to CI, will do so in about 7 levels.



TLDR: Could you be so kind and share your build and gear?
Also, if you could spare a few mins and look at that guide, what would you change?

ps: please take into consideration that it's a new league and I'm poor as hell :)

cheers

I'm CI, so I filled in all the es nodes for witch, but also for the assassin in the bottom right as well as the armor/es nodes for the templar to the far left so my linked nodes are all over the place on my passives screen haha. And I actually just use almost all 20-20 gems and hi-res ES rare gear as follows:

Chest- 6L robe, 990es, tri-res:
fireball, LMP, increased AoE, mana leech, fire penetration, faster casting

Feet- 4L sorcerer boots, 350es, dual res:
Empower lv2, reduced mana, discipline, flammability

hands- 4L sorcerer gloves, 320es, chaos res:
lightning warp, lightning penetration (haha), faster casting, no 4th gem

left hand- 3L wand, 101% spell damage:
decoy totem, minion and totem res, clarity

right hand- 3L Fossilized spirit shield, 572es, 10% spell damage, 11% increased crit, all res, 60 intelligence:
frost wall, faster casting, increased duration

head- 4L necro hubris circlet, 530es, dual res:
molten shell, increased AoE, concentrated effect, fire penetration

waist- leather belt, 40's tri-res, life and str.

I use the 12% more area of effect damage passive above the starting area for witch as well for my fireballs