Tempest Shield

I wish the block chance on this upgraded with level, as I find the damage nigh useless and really use it for the increased block.

Also why in the world does this shut off when ever I exit an area?

Is there any chance that this skill will be allowed to stay active through weapon swap? I curently have a build that needs to make use of 2 different daggers situationally, and I cant really do that if tempest shield turns off every time I weapon swap.

Skill is working good. I think it should have a proc cooldown of .5 seconds though.

that precentage mana reservation has to go %4 block chance cost of %17(lvl 20 reduce mana) mana or life reservation sounds not right.

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Ceykey wrote:

that precentage mana reservation has to go %4 block chance cost of %17(lvl 20 reduce mana) mana or life reservation sounds not right.

Going from 70% block chance to 75% (Inner Force increasing buff to 5% block) means getting hit 30% of the time to 25% of the time, which is a 20% survivability increase -- in other words, for some builds, Tempest Shield is kind of like Elemental Adaptation. Oh, and lightning damage on top of that. It should definitely be a mana reservation.

Im using tempest shield and i want to inflict as much dmg possible to attackers.
so here is my question: am i able to block an attack when im stunned or when im already blocking(stun animation is played)?

if not i think i need immunity to stun in order to get max dmg output from tempest shield

you'll still block (and evade and dodge) while stunned or blocking animation. if you get re-"stunned", then you just get a new animation cycle then and there. players can get stunlocked just as easily as monsters can (with enough of them around and low enough player hp).

Thx for the answer
i think i will safe those 10 passive points to get unweavering stance then^^
i have no problem with being stunned i just want to get maxdmg with tempshield :D

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Ceykey wrote:

that precentage mana reservation has to go %4 block chance cost of %17(lvl 20 reduce mana) mana or life reservation sounds not right.

Going from 70% block chance to 75% (Inner Force increasing buff to 5% block) means getting hit 30% of the time to 25% of the time, which is a 20% survivability increase -- in other words, for some builds, Tempest Shield is kind of like Elemental Adaptation. Oh, and lightning damage on top of that. It should definitely be a mana reservation.

Did u ever build a full block char ? %5 block chance gives nothing if u dont have any block chance by passives or if u going with full block %4-5 block chance means 2 passives in most case.

Lightning dmg only good for fast casters or attackers such as voidbearers or tity machine gunners. So slow-normal hard hitting mobs(which %90 of the mobs) dont kill themselves on ur tempest shield i only found that lightning dmg significant at high level pvp against cı fast caster its insta shock stack them if u have full spell block.

Bottomline precentage mana reservation only cripples possibilties and gives hard time to BM users.