Sorcery Ward vs Darkness

Let's compare these two.

Sorc Ward:
35% Less Arm/EV
with 0.4 changes you will get around 2,5 - 3k shield that absorbs everything.


Darkness:
No Spirit
Scales up to almost 2k shield.

Sorcery Ward has higher Shield value while also having not that bad drawback.
Why do you hate Darkness?

Bump. Sorcery Ward definitely seems superior on most things.

Darkness has one advantage: it will even recharge while being hit - while Sorcery Ward is a bit more like energy shield in the sense that it wants to be left alone for a while before recharging.

The innate differences/trade-offs between Darkness and Sorcery Ward should be sufficient - the added drawback of no spirit for Darkness is entirely unnecessary.

Darkness is very powerfull since they fixed it tbh.
Sad spirit are kinda of a must in this game so it make the choice very difficult.

When using darkness in end game i hardly see my ES starting to deplete because darkness is back to full very fast. So i'm not sure it's worst than sorcery ward.

It's just a massive choice between spirit and tankyness.