Raise shield - Animation cancel

iooooooo, new to PoE but enjoying it sooooo hard :)

just wanted to share some probable obvious intentional game designs around raise shield

On arrival, the monk skill Vaulting impact makes you locked in animation for like 0,3s
You can cancel that by dodge rolling, but still, you get... i think a little less lock time, but still a lock
You cancel damage obviously, but it's for mobility usage
And i just find out that Raise shield makes animation cancels soooooo much more smooth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9mDunzEMHA


And... an other exemple, even more interesting, found the other night in this thread https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3686518

You can animation cancel the end of the weapon hit on your shield when casting Resonating Shield
It makes you hit it soooooo much faster... Gotta practice it to make it consistent tho

https://youtu.be/2pyBElGfA0o

Enjoy :)

Peace !

hihoo!

You can use shield charge for mobility and cancel by rolling as well if you can use it in your setting. It has kind of longer delay so you might want to use it with ingenuity(increase cooldown recovery rate) or second wind (+1 use but longer reuse delay).

Too bad most of my damaging skills have the hit window to damage at the end of animation :P

I found that raise shield can be interrupted while holding down the key only by specific skills.

Have fun !

Ye, i know right... also addicted to shield charge since i started using it hahaha
And for sure also using that support rune giving 1 more cd, super usefull since you can double charge then fight... crazy mobility
But resonating shield is even more OP... on any physical dmg dealer, with the swing reset to accelerate armor break... it feels like cheating :)

I'm not sure but Magma Spray might be activated "once each consecutive use of Raise Shield".
I mean I can spam spray by spamming Raise Shield while being attacked.

I guess this is how they implement a skill without defining its use/functionality too much, so that we can find its use by ourselves. Sometimes it feels like cheating :P

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finisterre#5659 wrote:

I'm not sure but Magma Spray might be activated "once each consecutive use of Raise Shield".
I mean I can spam spray by spamming Raise Shield while being attacked.

I guess this is how they implement a skill without defining its use/functionality too much, so that we can find its use by ourselves. Sometimes it feels like cheating :P

You cannot spam it, there's a 0,75 cd after magma fade written on tooltip.
Ikr because, i stopped using raise shield when i got resonating shield, since it does raise shield... but i had to figure out that magma spray only triggers on a block when shield is raised, so only at the start of resonating shield. But you can raise shield while casting resonating shield. Still don't need the raise shield keybind tho, pressing shield charge do raise shield :) and that's how i accelerate resonating shield, keeping it pressed, and pressing shield charge at the right timing.

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finisterre#5659 wrote:

I'm not sure but Magma Spray might be activated "once each consecutive use of Raise Shield".
I mean I can spam spray by spamming Raise Shield while being attacked.

I guess this is how they implement a skill without defining its use/functionality too much, so that we can find its use by ourselves. Sometimes it feels like cheating :P

Aaaaah, i think i get what you mean... it keeps proccing but probably on a monster that doesn't have the debuff yet. It cannot proc if the target has the debuff already, that's it

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cedet6d#7437 wrote:

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finisterre#5659 wrote:

I'm not sure but Magma Spray might be activated "once each consecutive use of Raise Shield".
I mean I can spam spray by spamming Raise Shield while being attacked.

I guess this is how they implement a skill without defining its use/functionality too much, so that we can find its use by ourselves. Sometimes it feels like cheating :P

Aaaaah, i think i get what you mean... it keeps proccing but probably on a monster that doesn't have the debuff yet. It cannot proc if the target has the debuff already, that's it

I think you are right about 0.75s part. "once per 0.75s" is "spamable" in my book since I am playing slam build :P
"When you raise your shield it is infused with magma for a short time. Blocking while this time will splay magma at the attacker and grant you an endurance charge" can read that spray happens only while "0.5s" duration on block (shield flashes when it's ready then goes into "0.75s" reuse delay if sprayed).

I will try resonance shield stuff again to understand what we are talking about actually xD
Earthshatter and warcry do the clearing for me in my current setting so I haven't tested closely.

Edit
I recently re-spec'ed to generic "cooldown recovery" from "warcry cooldown recovery" so "0.75s" would have been shortened.