Sacred 2:Energy Shield (Sorceress)

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This Combat Art is a (Buff) Sheathing herself in pure energy, the Sorceress walks fearlessly into the fray. So long as she can maintain her concentration over this magical buffer, she diverts harmful magical energies and absorbs physical harm into her store of Mana. This Combat Art is an Energy Shield Aspect - Lightning Spells Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) From Tooltip: Shield Energy Points: 29 Energy Shield Mitigation: 5 + 1 per level Energy Shield Absorption : 40% + 0.3% per level. Regeneration Time of All Combat Arts: +65.0% From Bonus Overview: Max. Shield Energy: +20.5% Shield Regeneration: +1.5/s (this is the in-combat value). Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Mana - Increases the maximum shield energy by 10% + 0.1% per level. Spellshield - Adds a chance to reflect enemy spells (11% + 1% per level). Silver Replenish - Increases the shield regeneration rate (1.0 + 0.5/s per level). Intercept - Increases the energy shield mitigation (4 + 1 damage blocked per level). Gold Mana - Increases the maximum shield energy by 10% + 0.1% per level. Spellshield - Adds a chance to reflect enemy spells (11% + 1% per level).

Energy Shield

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.

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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