Tempest Shield

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Kabraxis wrote:

Skill is fun. Graphically speaking, effect is great but this "beam" of energy in the middle is not necassary or too big.

NAd i have some idea - maybe Tempest shield should has another effect:

"Change DMG of Shield Charge to Ligtning DMG"

I dont know it will be balanced but it will be nice, cool and immersive thing.

I second that. It giving lightning damage to shield charge would be awesome.

The mana reservation could be lower. 15% - 18% would be appropriate. About the damage, I can't really tell, I never leveled this skill much. The STR/INT requirements are really limiting. About the block chance, it is good imo. The look is indeed awesome, I'm mostly using it for that.

I noticed this skill is dealing damage to archers as well. It is corresponding to the description but it looks a bit odd.

It would be nice to have more shield skills (as well as dual wield exclusive skills). Now we have shield charge and tempest shield. They are both cool but they are int/str and str only. Dexterity characters got once again the short end of the stick.

I don't know If It Is intentional, but support gems (Chance to flee, cold damage, etc) seems to stack with -EVERY- skill and attack available while linked to Tempest Shield.

There are times when activating the skill does not reserve 25% of my mana, so I have a full mana pool and the shield active.

Is there anyone that have tried out Tempest Shield with a build resembling something like this:


and if so, how did you fare with it?

You mean a build that picks up some shield passives? Yea, it works fine, you have a ton of block % chance.

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nathandim wrote:

There are times when activating the skill does not reserve 25% of my mana, so I have a full mana pool and the shield active.

happened to me a couple times tonight too

Hey guys,

Can anyone verify that 'Chance to Flee' works on Tempest Shield? I stacked them up and went on my merry way for a good 30 minutes- didn't see a single creature flee.

Is there a flee graphic or effect? Or do creatures just move away from you?

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PrinceOfTea wrote:

Hey guys,

Can anyone verify that 'Chance to Flee' works on Tempest Shield? I stacked them up and went on my merry way for a good 30 minutes- didn't see a single creature flee.

Is there a flee graphic or effect? Or do creatures just move away from you?

No graphic effect, they just run away for a short time and then run back, the same way as certain monsters do when they are burning. That combo seems to be working for my high block templar.

To cause the flee effect with Tempest Shield, first you would have to block (which, unless you are really going hard on blocking passives, is probably less than a 50% chance). Then Flee has its own chance to apply once you block depending on gem level. In a best-case scenario, with blocking capped at 75% and a 45% chance to flee support, you're going to make monsters run away about 33% of the time. I read somewhere that Rare and Magic monsters have reduced flee chance, so I'm not sure how effective that combo is going to be...