Arctic Armour

So, 1.60s duration at level 1, 2.20 at level 13, that is 0.05s duration per level. Level 19 would be 2.5 seconds.

It should work with both buff and skill duration nodes, clusters of 45/30% and 45% respectively. Increased duration with high quality can get to about 100%. Taking 90% in duration nodes is quite a stretch, but that would get you to like 7-8 seconds, 0.5s to recast. One 45% cluster and a 15% quality, is about 2.4s * 2.4 = 5.76s for more realistic builds.

That seems pretty tedious to maintain, but I guess negating 200 or more physical damage from every hit is pretty powerful. If the mana loss only goes to about -40/-200, I can see using this, but only on a character with EB.

A friend found a 7% but wouldn't give it to me and the move speed was 2%, so the quality is probably 0.35% per % quality, not 0.2%.

It should work with Cloak of Flame like this...

"20% of physical damage taken as fire" acts like damage conversion a la Cold to Fire. You then reduce that fire damage with resists. After that, you get -XX fire damage taken when hit. This is only when hit, not reducing burning DOTs.

If the skill at level 20 gives about -300 it means you have effectively reduced damage proportional to about 5k armor (tho its minus damage so it works even better than having 10k armor compared to have 5k and this skill on). So if you can stustain the mana cost it is friggin huge and if you use that fire robe its even better since you get 20% of physical as fire damage which gets reduced by resistances and then goes to your arctic armour which will prolly negate all that 20% damage since it goes through fire resistance first?

I see a lot of happy theorycrafting, but to be honest, I'm a bit let down by this. I'm sure it's great for an EB build, but that's about it.

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Mortal321 a écrit :

I see a lot of happy theorycrafting, but to be honest, I'm a bit let down by this. I'm sure it's great for an EB build, but that's about it.

It is not supposed to be turned on all the time and forgotten like and aura. If you think you need to keep this up and run all the time around then just keep it at low levels and mitigate low damage. Keeping this up at lvl 20 and running while its on requires new build specially desigend towards this not some old build just slapped with this skill waiting for it to work out somehow.

Might actually be most useful keeping it at level 1 with low mana requirements just to have a slow when you're kiting.

It'd be great to use it as damage reduction for a dex based eva, acro or block toon but the mana requirements are insane.

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Brussel_Sprout a écrit :

Might actually be most useful keeping it at level 1 with low mana requirements just to have a slow when you're kiting.

It'd be great to use it as damage reduction for a dex based eva, acro or block toon but the mana requirements are insane.

ACtually it brings the most potential for pure armor users. Why? Because smaller hits are better reducd by armor, so i you have the chance to reduce a hit your armor will provide far better protection than against the not reduced hit.

But yeah for things like CI or Acro it can be a chance to get some reduction as well.

Hello , im Blood magic passive build and the Arctic armour doesnt work .
Should i consider it a bug or a fu for BM users from GGG ?

So..would this skill benefit from the buff increase passives?

I have made some calculations on mana regen.
My conclusion - it is almost doable.

So lets say as an end game you have about 600 mana.
You start as templar and go to witch starting area for 120% mana regen.

That would mean:

Mana regen = Base_Mana * BaseManaRegen * ( 1 + PassivesRegen )

Mana regen = 600 * 17.5% * ( 1 + 120% ) = 231 mana per second

With EB and 1500 Mana:
Mana regen = 577.5 mana per second

All this without take into account mana regen on gear.

I use EB, have 1600 mana, 180 mana regen and 600 left to spare after auras. This is a great buff to EB users which was pretty necessary considering the terrible survivability. I love it and can't wait to get ahold of a quality version so I can have free movement speed at all times.