Energy Shield Flasks

The point of ES is that it replenishes almost instantly after a few seconds not taking damage. HP does not do that unless you stack regen to the level of an RF build - and then turn off RF. That's why HP has flasks and ES doesn't. Implementing this would once again make ES imbalanced.

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Exile009 написал:

The point of ES is that it replenishes almost instantly after a few seconds not taking damage. HP does not do that unless you stack regen to the level of an RF build - and then turn off RF. That's why HP has flasks and ES doesn't. Implementing this would once again make ES imbalanced.

I think GR and ZO are a much bigger problem than flasks.

Said this before, saying it again.

The problem with GR is that you're trading survivability for survivability. It's the Iron Reflexes of leech nodes; the only difference is IR is even worse, because there is already a set method to get Armour other than turning your nimble sprite into a stalwart tank through some kind of passive tree voodoo.

The solution for GR is to have it take a non-survivability leech, and have no effect on life leech whatsoever. Mana leech sounds great, so it should be "Mana Leech applies to Energy Shield instead of Mana." Want to run hybrid life/ES? Good news for you then. Running pure ES? Well, you can still leech ES, it's just a little harder, because you're not life, and you're kinda infringing on life's natural territory.

I understand that's a pretty big numerical nerf, so some kind of Mana Leech rate increase, perhaps up to instant, should probably exist as nodes behind GR, which only it can access. If instant, probably have to introduce a drawback. This is where it gets tricky, because we don't want to step all over Vaal Pact's toes.

The problem with ZO is very similar; trade one kind of survivability for another. However, I understand why continuous in-combat regeneration is important, and I don't see many other ways of giving it to ES builds.

I believe the solution for ZO is to have life regeneration apply to both ES and life, but to utterly remove energy shield cooldown recovery as a drawback. Again, hybrid life/ES benefits.

I think that's one of the balance considerations they decided on when balancing the different defenses. ES is plenty strong, and you can always get life regeneration via Zealot's Oath. Obviously it doesn't work with flasks, but that might be an interesting change in the future.

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Novalisk написал:

Description of all current flasks starts off with "Right click to drink".

Kind of a moot point... I don't see how ES can prevent bleeding damage to your HP unless it somehow interacted with your body physically, so drinking it should have an effect anyway.

Maby "Right click to use it"?

Im all for it,

Sadly GGG said it will never going to happen



...than again, if people would pledge enough money, we all know that GGG would "make it work"

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AceNightfire написал:

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Novalisk написал:

Why would drinking a potion recharge an external energy shield?

Who said, that the player drinks the potion? :P

Maybe he pours the potion all over his armor. ;)

You can drink potion WHILE frozen. So who cares?

I've never rightclicked on a potion. I always use the keys 1 - 5.

Whoa dat necro-posting though...

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Docbp87 написал:

Whoa dat necro-posting though...

yeahh ... WHY necro that kind of thread ????

Life and ES are different, ES has already too few drawback, and now add potions to it ?
It's even way more ridiculous than it was when the thread started .........