Energy Shield

[Gaza0469]

Morning everyone!

I just started a new 2H Sword Enchantress, with the standard 60 in Enchant and synergies, and 20 in Tele, 15 in ES.

My ES is currently absorbing 70% damage.

My HP and mana are about the same, around 800 or so I think.


When ever I melee, my ES seems to be not working correctly, when I get hit, my life goes down about 10x faster than my mana.

However if elemental damage is done to me then my mana gets thumped pretty hard.

Is this normal? I guess I was just expecting my mana to go down faster in both instances.

I mean, I was expecting that the ES would absorb 70% of the physical damge, then my life would get hit with 30%.

It kinda looks like my life is taking about 70% of the blow... is this normal? or would my fast mana regeneration just make it appear this way?

(1) Does anyone else have this problem?

(2) Should I go for something like Tals belt to divert more damage to mana?

(3) If I increase my ES from 70% to 78% will I notice a huge difference, i.e. will my mana consumption balance out a bit more with my life consumption.

I guess my goal would be to make my mana go down faster than my life.

If anyone could suggest how to tweak it a bit more this way that would be appreciated.

[Sartok]

Hey Gaza... I remember someone talking about that alot... the way it has always been to me is.. if the dmg is big your life feels it alot, otherwise it goes mana. No idea how it works... try pumping it a little more though, 78 seems like a nice number.

8 - 7 = 1
8 + 7 = 15
78 + 1 + 15 = 94
How can you go wrong with that?

[Salo]

Hey Gaza... I remember someone talking about that alot... the way it has always been to me is.. if the dmg is big your life feels it alot, otherwise it goes mana. No idea how it works... try pumping it a little more though, 78 seems like a nice number.

8 - 7 = 1
8 + 7 = 15
78 + 1 + 15 = 94
How can you go wrong with that?

try putting on a -20 dr gladiator's bane with a Sol rune in it and 80% reduction. boom, youll see a big drop in damage, stormshield, even more so or a sol'd gerkes sanc. really odd stuff to see it work when it hits 92+ on the ES.

[Miladys-Knight]

Morning everyone!

I just started a new 2H Sword Enchantress, with the standard 60 in Enchant and synergies, and 20 in Tele, 15 in ES.

My ES is currently absorbing 70% damage.

My HP and mana are about the same, around 800 or so I think.


When ever I melee, my ES seems to be not working correctly, when I get hit, my life goes down about 10x faster than my mana.

However if elemental damage is done to me then my mana gets thumped pretty hard.

Is this normal? I guess I was just expecting my mana to go down faster in both instances.

I mean, I was expecting that the ES would absorb 70% of the physical damge, then my life would get hit with 30%.

It kinda looks like my life is taking about 70% of the blow... is this normal? or would my fast mana regeneration just make it appear this way?

(1) Does anyone else have this problem?

(2) Should I go for something like Tals belt to divert more damage to mana?

(3) If I increase my ES from 70% to 78% will I notice a huge difference, i.e. will my mana consumption balance out a bit more with my life consumption.

I guess my goal would be to make my mana go down faster than my life.

If anyone could suggest how to tweak it a bit more this way that would be appreciated.


Try this it works pretty well....

Miladys-Knight's Guide to damage taken goes to mana (http://www.rpgforums.net/showthread.php?t=245089)

And you will find this helpful

Rikstaker's - Damage to mana, what goes and what doesn't (http://www.rpgforums.net/showthread.php?t=238739)

[Gaza0469]

Thanks everyone :)

Those guides were very useful :)

[Miladys-Knight]

Thanks everyone :)

Those guides were very useful :)

Glad you found them so. My enchantress is using the DTM guide and so far works well. I need to get my end game gear together though....

[Gaza0469]

Glad you found them so. My enchantress is using the DTM guide and so far works well. I need to get my end game gear together though....


Would that work better than ES?

arrgghhh back to character generation for me!

I guess u r going for tals belt, plus socketing a few runes?

What Ideal gear would u go for?

I find that my ES seems to be working ok so far, and figured that when it was fine tuned it should work like a dream.

[Miladys-Knight]

Would that work better than ES?

arrgghhh back to character generation for me!

I guess u r going for tals belt, plus socketing a few runes?

What Ideal gear would u go for?

I find that my ES seems to be working ok so far, and figured that when it was fine tuned it should work like a dream.

It works differently from Full ES. Designed to replace all mana lost from the physical hit. Which works out to be a bit over 70% damage reduction. With a merc using an insight pole arm you could even go a couple skills higher on the ES.

My end game gear will look like this...

Helm: Ithed Harlequin Crest.
Amulet: Crafted caster / rare that adds +10 – 12 % Damage goes to mana / Crescent Moon
Weapon: Spirit Phase Blade (35 FCR)
Armor: Ithed Naj Light plate
Shield: Dual Ithed Mosers
Gloves: Mage fists (25) FCR (plus skill added to fire tree)
Ring 1: rare/crafted caster ring with (10) FCR
Belt: Upgraded Nightsmoke
Ring 2: High AR raven frost.
Boots: Aldur’s Advance