Why get Chaos Inoculation, Energy Shields, and Ghost Reaver instead of using just health?

I see a popular build is getting Chaos Inoculation (CI), a lot of Energy Shield (ES) passive skills, and then getting Ghost Reaver (GR).

My question is, why? All the energy shield does is grant 50% stun immunity and you are going to need to get Unwavering Stance or Eye of Chayula regardless.

So what it comes down to is spending around 10 points just to become immune to chaos damage at the cost of losing all health?

Why not just have both hp and energy shields to survive burst and leech health and spend those 10+ (also need to spend points to get to the passive) points elsewhere?

How many mobs actually do chaos damage? Is it that important? I'm level 30 on my first character.

There's no limit to how much you can leech to energy shield with Ghost reaver. While there IS a limit of 20% max health when running health.

Wait, is energy leeched directly and not over time like with health? I thought you might need Vaal Pact. Is that not the case?

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Fromethius wrote:

Wait, is energy leeched directly and not over time like with health? I thought you might need Vaal Pact. Is that not the case?

The leech/s is a factor of your total HP or ES, ES can get much higher than HP.

The problem of behing hybrid is that you have to chose between normal life leech or ES leech. The real advantage of CI build is the ability to use Vaal Pact to be able to bypass the leech cap while keeping the natural ES regen. HP users can't use Vaal pact because it's to dangerous to not have an ability to regen without leeching.

ES user can also have a bigger pool of effective life than HP user except with Kaom's Heart.

Even if there is not that much mobs that deal Chaos, having chaos immunity limit the number of weakness of a build, also most physical CI use blood rage.

If you have 50% LIFE/ES and use leech on health your ES become useless after mobs break it.

And because of chayula and dream fragments CI build can counter there weakness pretty easely.

Sorry for my english.

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ES user can also have a bigger pool of effective life than HP user except with Kaom's Heart.

And even if you have Kaom's Heart, you have no sockets from chestpiece, forcing you to use 2-handers to get 5-6 links for your main skill. And what if you want to use one-handers (with shield or dual-wield)? Then CI/GR/VP are inevitable, if you want to gave both good DPS and survivability.

Also, if you use a shield, i think you can get more ES than any HP-user can ever have (even with Kaom's heart).

Shavaronnes is what your looking for OP

No chaos damage, means free blood rage and no more problems with chaos mobs or viper strike in pvp.

Vaal pact can be used with GR, giving you no cap on LL this makes you incredibly tanky.

ES can get higher than life, and if you are making a build aorund the areas around CI and ES you are probably going to take these nodes becaue there is not much life there.

You can get pretty massive maximum ES numbers without losing stats or links like life builds do with kaoms.

etc

In addition there is the Melee Damage on full Life gem. :)