Sacred 2:Energy Shield (Sorceress)
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NOTE: The contents of this page are exclusive content found only by installing the player-made mega-mod Diablo 2 Fallen.
This Combat Art is an Energy Shield
Modifications
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Skills and Attributes
The following skills will affect this combat art:
- Energy Shield Lore - increases the "Max. Shield Energy" value (total shield energy points), and increases the out-of-combat Shield Regeneration rate when mastered.
- Lightning Spells Lore - increases the in-combat Shield Regeneration rate, improves the "Energy Shield Mitigation" value (fixed amount of damage blocked by shield), improves casting speed, allows for modification points.
- Lightning Spells Focus - reduces regeneration time penalty and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, allows for modification points.
- Concentration - directly improves regeneration time penalty.
The following attributes will affect this combat art:
- Willpower increases shield energy points.
- Stamina will lower the regeneration time penalty
Usage Strategies
- Much general information for energy shield usage is given in the article Energy Shields. Some of the terminology is changed in D2F for clarification:
- Block Warding Energy = Energy Shield Mitigation (fixed amount of damage blocked by shield)
- Absorption Warding Energy = Energy Shield Absorption (percent of damage diverted to shield)
- Energy Shield Mitigation base property (improved by the Intercept modification) blocks a fixed, absolute amount of damage, not a percent, it is different from and does not give % damage mitigation. Lightning Spells Lore will boost this value by quite a bit, resulting in hundreds or even thousands of damage points blocked completely at max level.
- Energy Shield Absorption is the percent of damage that is taken from the shield points as opposed to the Sorceress's hitpoints. It begins at 40% and gains 0.3% per level. This means that when Energy Shield reaches max combat art level 200, 100% of all incoming damage will be diverted to the shield. It can reach 100% even quicker with item modifiers. This will spare the Sorceress's hitpoints but will of course deplete the shield faster.
- Out-of-Combat Shield Regeneration is displayed under the Sorceress's hitpoints on the character sheet. It can be increased by mastering the Energy Shield Lore skill.
- In-Combat Shield Regeneration is listed under the Σ list of modifiers (bonus overview).
- The value is 1.0 + 0.5/level and is then modified by the +% Damage portion of Lightning Spells Lore.
- No other modifiers seem to have an effect on how much shield energy is regenerated while in combat, though the Replenish modification will boost it.
- The Energy Shield Lore skill is highly recommended as it can more than triple the amount of Max. Shield Energy available.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Major increase to survivability, essentially serves as a second hitpoint pool.
Cons
- Extremely high regeneration penalty to all combat arts.
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