Arctic armor - Constantly on? Is it possible

my new best skill gem

i could tank oak mercyless with a lvl 17 aa and enfeeble with 2k life and 300 armor i was pretty suprised and sceptical to go into the fight no enducharge or IC bullshit

that skill is amazing

you need round about 275 manareg/sec to run a lvl 20 AA + inner force iam sitting at 245 manareg now aiming for the 275 of course

+ it eats reflected fire dmg which is awesome

I currently play on my Ice Nova Witch at lvl 76 and she has AA constantly running on lvl 15. Manapool of 2300 or so and manaregen of 200 something. So it's very possible, though I doubt it would work without Eldritch Battery.

Shouldnt it be a piece of cake with the atziris Amulett?

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Atziri%27s_Foible

Some thoughts I have:

a high-level AA can't be held active without losing mana shield (due to converting manashield ot mana). Thus, the question for me then raises

1) Is high level AA > mana shield
2) Will AA trigger before hitting or consuming mana shield in case it would still exist.

If the real problem with AA are not small or even medium level hits, but the bigger ones, wouldnt it be better to have mana shield + medium level AA to avoid being one hitted and getting RIP (specifically on Hardcore modes)

You could probably get away with it if you can get your attack speed high enough that Leap Slam becomes a reasonable primary movement method. Then you would just need enough mana regen to be able to keep it up while idle.

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NlmmortalC a écrit :

Some thoughts I have:

a high-level AA can't be held active without losing mana shield (due to converting manashield ot mana). Thus, the question for me then raises

1) Is high level AA > mana shield
2) Will AA trigger before hitting or consuming mana shield in case it would still exist.

If the real problem with AA are not small or even medium level hits, but the bigger ones, wouldnt it be better to have mana shield + medium level AA to avoid being one hitted and getting RIP (specifically on Hardcore modes)

its a really good question
AA is an amazing armor supplement, but not total replacement (ideally, something like 4-5k armor + max or even 22 lvl AA is great)
but losing your ES is a big deal when you go EB

however, people either go CI (full ES) or full life most of the time, leaving only a tiny bit of ES for stun reduction.
why is that ? because hybrid is in general bad for bunch of reason unless you have shavronnes

1)chaos damage goes through ES anyway
2) you regen and leech life but do not regen or leech ES. therefore for packs you cant one shoot, your ES doesnt go back up till later.

so if you're life based character with 3k hp and 1-1.5k es, personally I think its totally worth it to go EB and get AA.
yes you lose your 'pool' and big physical and ele hits will hurt more. it's the reason why mostly everyone goes CI on hardcore/onslaught

AA+a bit of armor + a bit of evasion + enfeeble +blind usually is quite an amazing combo. but ocassionally you will get hit with big hits only endurance charges can really mitigate (in case of physical)
and huge ele hits that can near or one shoot you. for hardcore, EB is not recommended unless you go summon/dual totem spark or something relatively safe.