Skill rework: Tempest Shield

I dont find the skill garbage even though I think it's kind of stingy to have lowered the additionnal block chance but so be it.

Now, as I already posted on the skill gem feedback forum, please make it such that we dont have to constantly refresh the skill. It should be activated once and for all like a herald gem and would then proc when there is a successful block. It's a pain in the backside to have to manually cast it all the time.

Still, this is really a much better skill now than in 1.3
unless there are some uniques I am not aware of, TS doesn’t really enable a defensive caster build – it’s not feasible to make a caster build around block (due to the investment that block requires), while block characters are very poor casters… I was really looking forward to make something interesting build caster with high block chance but it looks like tempest shield is only good for on-hit effects and cheap +3% to block buff. Sort of disappointing tbh.
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piotras wrote:
unless there are some uniques I am not aware of, TS doesn’t really enable a defensive caster build – it’s not feasible to make a caster build around block (due to the investment that block requires), while block characters are very poor casters… I was really looking forward to make something interesting build caster with high block chance but it looks like tempest shield is only good for on-hit effects and cheap +3% to block buff. Sort of disappointing tbh.


Look up my "Thunbornee" character. It think this is exactly what you are talking about.

Doon helps a lot in getting all that spell power needed to do some damage. My armor still can improve A LOT, yet I'm able to stand in the middle of the huge mobs of monsters and live. Armor goes up to 28k with granite up.
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Last edited by Perq on Aug 10, 2015, 2:44:08 AM

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