Attempting A New Enchantress Build

[Taem]

It's actually true for very high levels of energy shield because resists go after energy shield.

So if you get hit by 100 lightning damage and have 95% energy shield the damage gets reduced to 5 before resists are counted. Also - magic damage is counted before resists. Thus with some MDR, you wouldn't take any damage to health at all regardless of resistances. But of course, you aren't a dedicated energy shield build and there's always those mana burn monsters. And poison doesn't get blocked by energy shield at all.

Your talking about an Energy Shield build here, but I don't plan on getting to level 99; that's unrealistic the way I play - maybe 80. I was using ES mainly just to absorb some serious damage so my enchantress could survive the greater difficulties of hardcore. This ladder season however, I'm thinking of maxing the elemental masteries instead of ES for increased damage and see how that goes. I'll have to be much more cautious and place more points into Vitality and less into Dexterity; basically instead of having the aim of 75% block, I'll have to settle for the old teleport in, attack, teleport out technique.