Energy Shield - Even Worse?

[Crosar 3]

Energy Shield has been buggy and draining mana way too fast for a while, as well as draining mana even when you weren't taking damage.

I had given up on my mage as it was tedious to try and exp/hunt at 11x as I'd be using a mana pot every spell cast. Last week I reset my skills and left energy shield at level 4. I mixed got a full Infera/Enigma/Bellum mixed 110 set (other than the oracle wand) and was doing just fine in FT1 (level 110?) both in terms of killing and tanking.

After this last patch "•Fixed a bug with Energy Shield absorbing too much MP"... I think it's worse, is this just me? I just tried FT1 before my 'account stopped existing' and at some points 1/4 of my mana bar would drop instantly (5k mana). Which is how it was before when my Energy Shield was level 7-10. My health isn't moving too much but I'm losing 1000+ mana in <1s when my energy shield is only absorbing 9-12% of my damage. Plus my damage seems to be lower and I'm killing mobs slower than my spark mech with both meteor and stone spike (probably because I'm always out of mana).

I was getting excited to play my mage again and now it's un-playable again.

[sotkulaja 4]

sounds like mana shield doesnt take into account the characters abs and def in absorbing the dmg to mana.

[Guest -Linh-]

Are you sure because after 4099, i aksed in game and they told me es is fixed

[Crosar 3]

I'll try again later today, but it sure didn't seem fixed when I tried it. As I said, even with ES at only level 4, I was having to use a mana potion every 2 seconds. When I initially lowered ES to level 4 it was better and only using a reasonable amount of my mana. Yesterday it made my mage unplayable again. Maybe after the bugs and maintenance last night it's working so I'll test it again and see.

[kenibok 1,059]

Last patch fixed exagerated mana suck for me, on ad I was able to do just 1-2 ss x pot, and now easily can do 6+. If the problem perdists it may be the lvl of the skill, upgrade it a bit and see how it works, orher thing could be your build. I'm pretty sure the skill is fixed. Btw zenith helps a LOT on tanking, works for me

U are 110 and since mage skills went on % lower lv mages feel notoriously the difference on the damage (you probably already knew this), use force, go pure, it may be harder to tank but with good equips its possible.

Good luck!!

[Crosar 3]

Yeah I know all this, I'm just saying I feel a change within the past week or so (I think when 4.0.9.8 went live), not since they went % based or anything.

I was 110 and couldn't survive in FT1. I got a full set of mixed 110 gear and could survive fine but my mana was drained instantly. I re-trained and my energy shield is only level 4 (12%), but I was able to train easily in FT1, got to 112 in quite a short time / got the quest done really quickly. Now trying to solo in FT1 my mana is dropping again as if my ES was level 10. I was watching my mana last night and it would be going down quickly then drop by 700-1000+ a couple times and I'd be at 0 in a couple seconds. It's intermittent though, I may be losing 10 mana/s from hits and it's all fine then it will just drop. I haven't changed my build, which forces I'm using, stats or anything (I am pure), and all my spare points in are zenith (up to 6-7 I think). Last night I was in a party for over an hour with a 130 mage and only got 1500 kills on the quest. Went solo at another spawn for another half hour and only got 700 more. Before this I was able to get the quest done in maybe 45 minutes, not only half done in nearly 2 hours.

 

I may try upping ES to see if that fixes it, but I can't see how and don't want to waste another 10kk on doing my skills over twice more.

[QMan 0]

maybe last patch reduce tank ability all char

ms prs ks and mgs too

[bierkist 0]

ES stills drains mana like before. I dont like to play my mage atm too. Got him till 118 with a lot wasted mana.. now im tired of it because it drains soooooo fast. I dont like it when it drains like it does now. Hope they'll change it soon because im already playing to months with this huge drain mana of a mage and i dont like it