A potential change I'm keen to hear your thoughts on

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

sry youre just talking nonsense.

you say this is trying to balance between eb and non eb, I explain a very easy way to close the gap between eb and non eb then you turn around and say eb is either 100% you take it or not so if you balance between them then no one will take it? Wearing all that es gear to get extra mana and mana regen is what eb does, if theres effectiveness on it or not is completely irrelevant if it does what you need it to do, if its giving too much compared to not having it then you buff the base amount non users have and cut down the extra buff taking it gives you which makes it more balanced. That is so painfully obvious.

youre not even talking on a level someone can have a conversation with, theres no logic in what you are saying.

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GDSLICK wrote:

and for the record.
anyone who says this mechanic is

so complex and ridiculously confusing.
without even trying it.
or spending 5 minutes learning it.

good riddance, this game is not for you.
this will not be the last change,
and certainly not the most complex component to the game.

"omg 2 different blue mana's. so confuse. I cry."

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CantripN wrote:

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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Aziraphale wrote:

The EB/AA/MoM meta is too tanky compared to everything else

it really isnt at all, ~I worry about people who say this tbh.

This x1000. Sure, you might have a huge Life pool for one hit, but your other defenses are sorely lacking, and you're losing at least 1-2 auras. In reality, that means you die far more often than if you had Acrobatics, for example.

And as I said before, that "max effective life" might get actually HIGHER now, making it even more quirky.

This may or may not harm MoM users, but it WILL harm Mana-based Casters, BADLY. Or make us skip EB altogether, and hope the re-balanced mana costs will be enough... Certainly won't often see things like my EB+Acro chars.

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Splift wrote:

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

sry youre just talking nonsense.

you say this is trying to balance between eb and non eb, I explain a very easy way to close the gap between eb and non eb then you turn around and say eb is either 100% you take it or not so if you balance between them then no one will take it? Wearing all that es gear to get extra mana and mana regen is what eb does, if theres effectiveness on it or not is completely irrelevant if it does what you need it to do, if its giving too much compared to not having it then you buff the base amount non users have and cut down the extra buff taking it gives you which makes it more balanced. That is so painfully obvious.

youre not even talking on a level someone can have a conversation with, theres no logic in what you are saying.

My point was if you close the gap like that and make mana viable then why run EB? You could just take acrobatics and run evade and not bother with all that es gear or do the same with armor etc.

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

The new Eldritch Battery currently being tested has two stats (wording not final):
Energy Shield protects Mana instead of Life and
Spend Energy Shield before Mana for Skill Costs

Energy Shield protects Mana instead of Life means that your ES is over your mana, and not over your life, as seen in the screenshot. Since it's not over your life, damage that's doing to your life isn't intercepted by ES. Since it's over mana, damage going to mana (Mind over Matter, etc) will hit ES first, except in the case of Chaos Damage, which bypasses ES and would go straight through to mana.
You will no longer have the 50% chance to ignore stuns for having ES, as that's a property of ES protecting life and doesn't apply when it's over mana instead.
Life being lost will no longer impede the ES refresh, but Mana being lost for any reason will, as of course will losing ES as it always does.
Effects which just make you lose mana, such as Arctic Armour or Sapping flasks, will not be affected, just as ES doesn't stop Caustic Flasks from removing life.
If you take the Blood Magic Keystone, you'll have no mana, and ES will be protecting your empty mana globe. Mind over Matter will still try to divert some damage to mana, and this will be able to be absorbed by ES, but once ES is depleted of course, no damage can be taken from mana and will will all go to life.

Spend Energy Shield before Mana for Skill Costs means that for skill mana costs (not reservations) you pay with ES until you run out, then start paying with mana. Mana reservations are not costs, and will still be paid directly with mana.
Blood Magic still switches you to spending life "instead", so you won't be able to pay with ES if you have blood magic and this stat.

In all other respects, ES behaves exactly the same - it still has the refresh mechanic, and anything that references ES still applies to ES.

Why is this not in the very first post asking for feedback? I mean feedback was asked for a skill that was never actually explained, what are we supposed to do to provide feedback on this unexplainable thing? It wasn't until this post of yours that the keystone, the very thing you want feedback on, was explained.

The very first post rambles on about stuff to do with the keystone, but never explains the keystone it self, it's dumbfounding.

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CantripN wrote:

"Investing in more life and defenses based around that pool are far more effective on a melee."

This is just as true for ranged/casters. Sure, it's less often that you take damage, but you still get surrounded and have to tank sometimes. And when that happens and MoM dies, you're dead. Acro, meanwhile, keeps working.
And for EK, you also use Hatred and Haste instead of one of the Heralds.
If you base your defenses around only surviving Spike Damage, you will end up dead at some point.

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SunnanåGnomen wrote:

Will Zealot's Oath still work?

What about Blood Magic + EB?