What does "Inner Silence" actually do?

[Q1]

It's a Acolyte of Chayula tree skill "50% Reduced Darkness Reservation Duration"

One searches google in vain for what that means or more in depth information. I think, but I am not sure, that this means the "darkness pool" charges back up more quickly, but I'm not sure.

[Dwane Dibbley]

It does exactly what it says... Check the darknes skill before and halve the reservation duration in its tooltip.

[Mr.America]

A previous node removes spirit and gives darkness in turn. Damage temporarily takes from darkness instead of life or ES and preserved for 10 seconds. Inner sulence reduces that to 5 seconds.

In short, makes you more tanky and possibly improves your damage.

[Dwane Dibbley]

Originally posted by Mr.America:

A previous node removes spirit and gives darkness in turn. Damage temporarily takes from darkness instead of life or ES and preserved for 10 seconds. Inner sulence reduces that to 5 seconds.

In short, makes you more tanky and possibly improves your damage.

Darkness wont make you tanky. Its terrible at current state as you cant scale it in any way and you get like 700? At lvl 100. While ES can easily stack to 10k+. Supertiny ES traded for spirit is just bad, 4 points in "breach" skills are 100x better than 6 points in darkness.

[Q1]

Originally posted by Mr.America:

A previous node removes spirit and gives darkness in turn. Damage temporarily takes from darkness instead of life or ES and preserved for 10 seconds. Inner sulence reduces that to 5 seconds.

In short, makes you more tanky and possibly improves your damage.

I see, I see, does what I thought it did but there just wasn't a lot of information out there.

It should work fine and dandy as a hold over to get to better gear.

[Dwane Dibbley]

Originally posted by Berksgorh:

Originally posted by Dwane Dibbley:

Darkness wont make you tanky. Its terrible at current state as you cant scale it in any way and you get like 700? At lvl 100. While ES can easily stack to 10k+. Supertiny ES traded for spirit is just bad, 4 points in "breach" skills are 100x better than 6 points in darkness.

Totaly agree half of the ascension tree doesnt make any sense to me , only good thing i heard about darkness is its one of the best ways to do "max honour locked to 1 " unique relic challange and im not even sure thats even true.

If the hit get fully consumed by darkness, you are not losing honor cuz you are not losing hp/es. It just reserver resource that is not chained to honor. Its similar to block or evade, but its more consistent cuz it works on everything, even on ground dots like burning ground.

But for general use, its too small and unscalable. And "no spirit" is huge downside, you cant even use blink in that trial, so its rly just 1trick pony that opens you room for some tiny mistake as mobs could still bypass that tiny darkness pool in one hit.