Energy Blade thoughts

Energy Blade: Grants a buff which significantly lowers your maximum Energy Shield to transform your equipped weapons into Swords formed from that energy. Casting the spell again removes the buff. Requires a Non-Bow weapon.

level 1 gem
Cost: 136 energy shield
Energy blade have minimum lightning damage equal to 5% of maximum energy shield, plus 2
Energy blade have maximum lightning damage equal to 100% of maximum energy shield, plus 40
Buff grants 80% less maximum energy shield


I have been planning lots of builds for this gem, the one item i wish it can work is mask of the stitched demon
Strength provides no bonus to Maximum Life
Intelligence provides no bonus to Maximum Mana
+1 to Maximum Life per 2 Intelligence
Your Energy Shield starts at zero
Cannot gain Energy Shield
Regenerate 1% of Life per second per 500 Maximum Energy Shield

Problem is the energy shield cost for activation of energy blade, on level 1 is 136 ES. And with mask my ES starts at 0 and cannot gain ES.
-Maybe i can turn that ES cost to life with blood magic?
-Maybe i just remove my helmet, use energy blade, and put it back again?
-Any other solutions?

What other build or unique interactions you guys planning for this gem?

maybe you can cast the blades with the helmet put off.
cast blades.
Put helmet on.
Who knows, might work

i didnt see any duration for the energy blade buff. so removing helmet maybe work.

what im afraid is that the damage from the buff is what u actually have when using the skill, or it checks your total energy shield for calculations for every attack

I was thinking about energy blades aswell and I'm kinda curious how the energy shield costs for activation will scale.

If it's not overly crazy I think it will be very good for a hybrid life/evasion build with some eva/es gear slapped on.
U can get ~50% increased ES pretty easy and should be able to get around 1000ES without too much investment.

That'll be 52-1040 flat added damage, which is just nuts for ele attack builds. (more than double of what added lightning support gives)

for ur example I think it snapshots the ES when u activate the Buff. I don't think it will update it for every attack, but I could be wrong of course.

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Sadaukar wrote:

I was thinking about energy blades aswell and I'm kinda curious how the energy shield costs for activation will scale.

If it's not overly crazy I think it will be very good for a hybrid life/evasion build with some eva/es gear slapped on.
U can get ~50% increased ES pretty easy and should be able to get around 1000ES without too much investment.

That'll be 52-1040 flat added damage, which is just nuts for ele attack builds. (more than double of what added lightning support gives)

Did u count for the 80% less total energy shield "buff"?

Well, its not clear, but I thought the 80% less is calculated after the Buffs damage is added?
If not, well then it's pretty bad tbh. It would mean u would need to really heavy invest into Es to get an aceptable buff... but lose almost all ES in the process. I really can't think that's how it works.

Well unless they add more good hybrid es notes to the right side of the tree. I mean they already said they are adding more, so keeping my hopes up.

Someone also mentioned that Energy Blades works with Batlemage, adding that buff to spells damage.

more builds to plan...

What if we can use Lifetap to the skill for life instead ES activation cost?
Also, if with 1,000 ES we get 52 to 240 flat lightning damage from skill, then we should be able to hit x2 or x3 that amount with more investment on top of flat ele dmg on gears and jewels. But the question i got is: can we stack that skill dmg with our weapon dps? Because if transformation of weapon to Energy Blade means we lose bonuses from our weapon as someone suggested, then skill gotta have its own AS and tags not just "Spell,Lightning" and eventually "sword". Also, what skill do you plan to use with Energy Blade skill? Can we use Slams that work with swords or just badass Lacerate? Damn, just for the awesome visuals i am hyped to try it at some point, hope it will work fine and let me use the Force. :)

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canilaz_ wrote:

if transformation of weapon to Energy Blade means we lose bonuses from our weapon as someone suggested, then skill gotta have its own AS and tags not just "Spell,Lightning" and eventually "sword".

That would be pretty bad and kill any plans i got for using Hands of wisdon and action and stacking int

I thought about using it with spectral helix since it has very high damage effectiveness.


I agree, that my first thought with 100% ES as added damage might be too OP with further investment and scaling.
Well alot of stuff to PoB I guess :P

HoWA is definitely an interesting thougt.