Arctic Armour

Well ain't that just kosher.

And just did some number crunching. I'll need a mana pool of about 1100, with 100% increase regeneration from nodes, to support Arctic Armor, while standing still that is.
For supporting it while running one would need a whopping ~5100 mana, with a 100% increase, to support the skill.

I think GGG are right to say that this skill is suite to be situational. At best.

However I will begin to work towards finding a use for it. I am a RoA Duelist, using BM Support for my spells, and reserving most of my mana for Auras (like 90%). I will try to employ it in conjunction with mana potions instead of using granite flasks (or as supplement to), since I have fairly high armor as is.

there is 300% mana regen on passive tree, spread between witch and templar towards duelist. then equipment might have mods plus that amulet that has 20-30% mana regen. there isn't as much + max mp (a lot but not easily seen or reached) but int helps a healthy bit. EB is basically required for that "5k" value.

True, you can gain alot of regen through the passive tree, but it excludes a lot of builds.

does all that mana regen give you the defense lost in health nodes?

Well I also considered doing a melee char with AA.
However I think it's not really viable for the endgame since the flat damage reduction doesn't protect you from the huge hits you will receive.

Did I get that right?

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Simonsworld wrote:

Well I also considered doing a melee char with AA.
However I think it's not really viable for the endgame since the flat damage reduction doesn't protect you from the huge hits you will receive.

Did I get that right?

AA comes to it's right against a lot of smaller mobs, og very fast hitting mobs. It won't have much effect on heavy hitters.

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Vipermagi wrote:

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soul4hdwn wrote:

[Regen, Mana, good stuff]. EB is basically required for that "5k" value.

And Clarity would noticably reduce that 5k value depending on %Mana Regen too. :)

i said that a few posts ago but not that one for some reason XD. anyways i was just putting an answer to match the previous person's assumptions.

getting half of what i listed is easy, clarity ends up being 2/3rds your mana regen if you have inner force to pair up with the moderate regen boost.

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Senserazer wrote:

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Simonsworld wrote:

Well I also considered doing a melee char with AA.
However I think it's not really viable for the endgame since the flat damage reduction doesn't protect you from the huge hits you will receive.

Did I get that right?

AA comes to it's right against a lot of smaller mobs, og very fast hitting mobs. It won't have much effect on heavy hitters.

AA reduction is used after armor reduction/endurance charges/resistsances so it is more useful than you think. Try to look at it this way, for every hit taken that damages you, you get a small "heal" of that damage taken. What is important is not how much damage is reduced, but how much of that damage in % to your total HP is "healed" automatically.

At lvl 50, with an HP pool of say 2000HP an AA gem would give you -91 on hit which is 4.55% of your total HP if the damage is greater than 91. That is HUGE ! Just as perspective, compare this to life on hit support gem at a similar level is 30 HP per hit.