Attempting A New Enchantress Build

[Archon_Wing]

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.