-# to Maximum Energy Shield on Amulets Not Functioning

As per the title, reflected jewellery with -# to Maximum Energy Shield on amulets does not reduce the total character energy shield value.

It did not in Path of Building, and having tested this ingame, does not in the client either. I do not believe this is intentional as the positive mod does increase ES.

I have not tested rings.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3565864 - This was posted regarding rings recently with the same not functioning (ignore the ward post, not relevant). And a thread inside when it was broken during Kalandra league too.

Explains why a ring I gave to someone they managed to gain ES even with high negative ES they still gained ES wearing it.. we just assumed it was the high INT on it, but it's because the negative ES wasn't working. They had no significant change later swapping to a different Kalandra INT ring that had no negative ES.

Include bug report number, not much else we can do but wait for GGG to address. Most likely similar to negative regen where it counts as a debuff, so negative ES is a debuff that is a separate value outside of normal stats that isn't in the formula. I can't think of a single other item that gives negative ES besides Kalandra jewelry.

Thank you for this information.

Was looking at reflected amulets on trade and now it makes sense why the original crafter sought to benchcraft flat ES. I now see it's another mod like '% physical attack damage leeched by enemy as life' wherein a negative reflection does not devalue the item for any build.

I am surprised at how Path of Building accurately reflects this bug when one imports reflected jewellery and thought I missed an obvious interaction or wording.