Shield block question
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And this is actually why it's good to keep some orbs of regret handy. If you happen to find a shield that puts your total block % chance over 75 (given Skilldrasil investment), you can buy those excess points back and spend them elsewhere (more life!).
And should you change shields, you can reverse the process. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between.
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Perandus is very nice for leveling but the shield nodes which give +X% "to defenses" seem to fall short using it, especially if you are not evasion or needing life leech. "Defenses" means Armor/Evasion/ES as far as I know.
I feel like 40-50% block will be decent as long as I have 6/7 endurance charges going and somewhat of an ability to avoid stun and keep leeching life by doing damage. Watch out for the 2 +15% resistances while wearing a shield node to the top left of the tree. They are hidden looking like normal nodes but so good as long as you have a shield on. I hate hitting level 60 because you start to finish the game and skill points slow down. My tree is all stretched out close to a bunch of things I want to hit but it will be a grind and I think I have to blow my respecs if not some regrets to optimize the paths I took. |
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" yeah im level 42 and waiting on my ambu's charge at 43. but i already took the +15% all ele resists while wearing a shield (both of them) :), i know im going to have to take the +5% max resist eventually because my fire and lightning are over capped in cruel but cold is still 55% so im going to wait to get more. interesting thought: i was thinking of getting the 'Stone of Lazhwar' ammy for the 50% of block chance applied to spells. i already have the 12% node from the same node that gives the 15% all res nodes. ^ i was also wondering if i over capped my block chance to say 80%; even though its capped for physical block, would it (with the above amulet) apply a 40% block chance to spells? Or is that 50% capped due to the hard cap of 75% block chance? "They... Eats... The Mens..."
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i made a witch - lightning - with arc + shock nove + tempest shield + most available nodes for block. it sucks badly. im eaten alive most of the time. the problem is - you do shit dmg with lightning (the range starts with very ow dmg , like 2-100). it was working in diablo 2 where you had very high cast speed and most skills were shooting a lot of "projectiles". but in poe arc totally suck.
tempest shield works only when you block and hits only the one enemy. actually a very bad skill as going for now. its like a single target dmg. doesnt scale pretty well to be useful. the 4% block chance it adds is a joke. i was runnning with 60 - 70 % block chance on my witch and it was really bad. but its still the way armor works - missed mechanic. and actually any other option doesnt work for this build since using ES shields and counting for block work like evasion right now - when you dont block you gonna be badly beaten in 2 seconds. again in diablo 2 with 75% block chance you were actually blocking a lot. here with 70% chance you are dead. its really wierd the numbers arent accurate ingame. i dont really know why its like that but i smell some big mistake somewhere in coding or something. anyway personally i dont recommend the tempest shield + max block builds (espacially with not armor native classes). you dont have anything to cover when you dont block (same problem with evasion). i got my beta key from Icoblablubb - vielen danke !!!
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" 4% block is not a joke, thats huge when the cap is 75% and you want to save a couple extra passives. arc works fine. i dont know what your build is like but i have seen many arc witches tearing stuff up with 5 others in the zone. and, at 63% block chance i notice a great deal more survive-ability than if i switch to my 2hander for more damage in groups that dont need a tank. "They... Eats... The Mens..."
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I was still wondering if i over capped my block chance and used Stone of Lazhwar if the +50% would be based on capped block% or my over capped rate?
for example my block chance is total of 90%, but is capped at 75% Will my spell block chance be +45% or +37.5%(due to +50% block applied to spells from the ammy) "They... Eats... The Mens..."
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^ anyone know?
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" Based on your overcapped rate. Both regular and spell block do cap at 75% after calculations. |
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sweet thanks!
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