Celtic Heroes

This becomes a problem once you get past lvl 100. Mobs dmg continues to scale but our shield does not scale with focus nor ice skill. Mine has stalled at 1054.

This spell must be tied to focus to keep it valuable. Being forced to buy resto pots to solo mobs at my lvl is not appropriate IMO.

Your abilitys effect how much mobs hit you for you need to level those up aswell

This becomes a problem once you get past lvl 100. Mobs dmg continues to scale but our shield does not scale with focus nor ice skill. Mine has stalled at 1054.

This spell must be tied to focus to keep it valuable. Being forced to buy resto pots to solo mobs at my lvl is not appropriate IMO.

If it doesn't it should just like every other skill. My suggestion is that Max skill and max ability should get the shield to 1/4 your total energy.

Would be better to base the increase on focus. Possibly have the value equal to cast cost plus skill level as a % of focus. I.e. skill at 20/25 equals a plus 20% of focus. This would be at max ability level of course. At least then there would be some scaling with focus but still give a decent base for mages that don't max our their focus/energy.

Would be better to base the increase on focus. Possibly have the value equal to cast cost plus skill level as a % of focus. I.e. skill at 20/25 equals a plus 20% of focus. This would be at max ability level of course. At least then there would be some scaling with focus but still give a decent base for mages that don't max our their focus/energy.

I dont think that would work either.
Lets start from scratch. We want a skill that turns energy into a force field of hit points to absorb damage.
I do like using percentages because it does not matter what level you are you can always calculate a %.
I would make it based on total energy instead of focus because items and spells like energy well give extra energy.

How much? This depends on our design constraints. There appears to be a theme with the update that the devs want us avoid just maxing out our favorite abilities. They want us to be more thoughtful about choosing our levels. So lets make the max shield something that would off balance our character, say it was like before the update of full energy. If someone wants to be a mage tank and max it out, why not.
And to do that you would need to max out everything to get there, skill points, and ice ability.
So lets just go with pure percentages and see what it looks like.

Shield Str = Max Energy * (Ice Ability/ice abilty max) * (skill points / Skill Points max)


so how does this work, assume 95% of ability is trained
Low level with 5/10 875 E = 415 shield
Med level with 2/15 1800 E = 228 shield
Med level with 15/15 1800 E = 1710 shield
High level with 20/25 3000 E = 2280 shield
High level with 5/25 3000 E = 570 shield

So how much energy should it cost?
If we are using up our energy 1-1 then you might as well make it a fast refresh since our energy is the limiting factor like it was before the update.
If they are going to keep the very long recharge then we should get 2 to 1 to make it more comparable to heals.

Honestly, i don't care how they fix it, they just need to do it. Having it not scale is inappropriate.
-Sertain

I am disapointed in the refresh/cooldown time.

Yes, energy can be the limiting factor... To me, it is not always like that. Ill be done with the shield, yet my maximum energy just means that i can cast other spells, and not the shield again.

They say mages get a buff, they say we will be wanted in long fights. HOW THE HELL IS LIMITING WHEN WE USE SPELLS EVEN MORE AND MAKING SHARDS JUST AS STRONG AS GIANT SWING MAKING US BETTER?!?!

Anyone hear anything about them fixing thing.

it needs to scale with ability and focus.

It needs a shorter recharge time. I have plenty of energy left but cant cast the stupid shield fast enough. Bosses hit hard. The fairie behind the farm kills me with 3 hits and that is with my shield on.