1 Life Energy Shield

[King of Heroes]

I know that its possible to somehow increase the energy shield but reseting your life to 1. How do i do that?

[RoyBaty]

Chaos Inoculation

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Chaos_Inoculation

[ルー]

Also it's unwise to do Chaos Inoculation until you have a good 4k+ energy shield built up.

[Ͽ҈҉Ͼ]

And you should never mix CI with blood magic, no matter how appealing it might sound to have auras that only reserve 1.

[mss73055]

Chaos Inoculation is turd polish. Energy Shield doesn't work when you need it most.

While CI handsomely deals with poison it does not remove the single one drawback of energy shield.

[Ͽ҈҉Ͼ]

Originally posted by mss73055:

Chaos Inoculation is turd polish. Energy Shield doesn't work when you need it most.

While CI handsomely deals with poison it does not remove the single one drawback of energy shield.

Which is why you usually also have to tie in with the life leach to energy shield keystone and a few others. A CI build is not for new players, people who are unfamiliar with balancing, or those who have any difficulty obtaining exactly the equipment they need at any point of time. Generally, if you cannot get to level 80+ without taking a single node of health, you should not aim for a CI build.

[Rafein]

Ghost Reaver (lifeleech applies to energy shield)

And Zealot's Oath (Life Regen applies to Energy shield

are 2 good ways to keep energy shield up. And since Energy shield can get over 5k pretty easily, and over 10 k not out of the question (seen multiple peope with over 14k) it's fairly popular. Life cannot get that high, ever. The items to trade for are expensive, though

[Ravenous RedBeard]

Originally posted by Rafein:

Ghost Reaver (lifeleech applies to energy shield)

And Zealot's Oath (Life Regen applies to Energy shield

are 2 good ways to keep energy shield up. And since Energy shield can get over 5k pretty easily, and over 10 k not out of the question (seen multiple peope with over 14k) it's fairly popular. Life cannot get that high, ever. The items to trade for are expensive, though

Like Incandescent Heart[pathofexile.gamepedia.com] and Prism Guardian[pathofexile.gamepedia.com] -trollface-? Lame joking aside what uniques (if any) would you recommend for a Chaos Inoculation build defensivly speaking?

[Ͽ҈҉Ͼ]

Originally posted by Ravenous RedBeard:

what uniques (if any) would you recommend for a Chaos Inoculation build defensivly speaking?

Incandescent Heart would not necessarily be a horrible item for CI since you're effectively nullifying a portion of your elemental damage taken due to being immune to chaos. but probably hard to fit into or sub-optimal.

Generally for a CI build, atleats as I understand it, you are pretty much dependent on ranged damage (spells) and evasion, with the premise being that you clear through enemies quicker than they can chip away at your energy shield. Building defensively in this case is not a good idea... You'll want to be building offensively so that fights are quick and the chances of being hit are fairly limited.

[Ravenous RedBeard]

Originally posted by Ͽ҈҉Ͼ:

Originally posted by Ravenous RedBeard:

what uniques (if any) would you recommend for a Chaos Inoculation build defensivly speaking?

Incandescent Heart would not necessarily be a horrible item for CI since you're effectively nullifying a portion of your elemental damage taken due to being immune to chaos. but probably hard to fit into or sub-optimal.

Generally for a CI build, atleats as I understand it, you are pretty much dependent on ranged damage (spells) and evasion, with the premise being that you clear through enemies quicker than they can chip away at your energy shield. Building defensively in this case is not a good idea... You'll want to be building offensively so that fights are quick and the chances of being hit are fairly limited.

So best defense is a good offense then, I think I can make that work :)

[mss73055]

Actually Chaos Inocculation is required for starters, in combination with Ghost Reaver. Bleed effects and poisons are klllers for characters with poor gear and low level craftsmen.

[Loligo Vulgaris]

I have a CI build in the current league, just a little over 10K Energy shield, my only defenses are Enfeeble and Temporal Chains curses.

[Master Bernd]

Originally posted by mss73055:

Actually Chaos Inocculation is required for starters, in combination with Ghost Reaver. Bleed effects and poisons are klllers for characters with poor gear and low level craftsmen.

This is wrong in so many ways.

[mss73055]

It's not just the 10k shield. By the time a starter witch got a 2k shield this character got about 1k health. Running around at -60% chaos resistance looses its charm quickly. Off-screen monsters tagging with puncture are very bad for a keyboard.

[Prometheus]

chaos inoculation is the most effective way to get tanky, you become immune to chaos damage, which is very hard to get resist for. The energy shield nodes directly behind it are incredibly efficient, you can get vaal pact without sacrificing regen, and it only costs 2 points to divert from the CI keystone to the ghost reaver keystone for instant leech with regen and easily over 8k ES. It is a wonderful build for starters as CI can be injected into most builds, discounting builds that use the lower left side of the tree. CI builds can get extremely tanky with little gear investment. a 500-600 ES chestpiece is extremly easy to aquire only costing a few chaos orbs using poe.trade, and with the automatic 5 link using the jewellers touch prophecy only costing about 25 chaos orbs you can get very good dps and very good tankiness with about 40 chaos orbs.