How to best get energy field on Ranger (no trading)?

[Space Cowboy]

Almost all items feature evasion and I only get very little energy shield. Should I put more points into INT and then try going for mage armor instead of Ranger armor? Trading is not in the cards right now, obviously.

[donny.hresko]

Atziri's Disdain Unique Helm (either get one to drop or chance gold circlets). Use Grim Feast passive buff and then get some int and use evasion energy shield hybrid gear. You also need to grab some of the ES nodes to the north of the Ranger Tree starting point. Everything is kinda a pain without trading, though.

[Farsha]

STR armour has armour.
DEX armour has evasion.
INT armour has shields.
Plus there are hybrids of each.

So yes if you want pure energy shield armour you need armour that requires INT.

It’s not complicated system, what is your issue exactly?

[Space Cowboy]

Originally posted by Farsha:

STR armour has armour.
DEX armour has evasion.
INT armour has shields.
Plus there are hybrids of each.

So yes if you want pure energy shield armour you need armour that requires INT.

It’s not complicated system, what is your issue exactly?

The problem is that the INT requirements are too much most of the time since I mostly have to invest into DEX to keep my skill gems working.

[Farsha]

Go for dex/int hybrid gear in early game and switch full int gear later.
Or look for other solutions on items and skill tree.
Look into dex/int part of skill tree where monks starts, if there are any notables that might help to solve tour problems.

[Yukkipedia]

That's why for normal build you don't go hybrid or another stats