Quote:By default, for each point of damage absorbed by Energy Shield, 2 mana points are deducted - a 200% ratio.

Quote:Each hard skill point in Telekinesis makes Energy Shield 6.25% more effective. For example, with 8 points in Telekinesis, 1.5 mana points are deducted for each point of damage absorbed - a 150% ratio. With 16 points in Telekinesis, one point of damage absorbed equals one point of mana loss - a 100% ratio.

Quote:4. Application Order

4.1 Damage Modification Effects

There is a well-defined order in which the damage modification effects are applied to the damage:

1. XvX
2. Energy Shield
3. Bone Armor and Cyclone Armor
4. DR and MDR
5. Resistances
6. % Absorb
7. Direct Absorb

In each of these phases, damage cannot be reduced below zero. The result is what I call Damage Taken.

4.2 Special effects

There are some special effects that take place before damage resolution: Thorns, Iron Maiden, Spirit of the Barbs, and Vulpine items (X% Damage Goes To Mana). They all use the physical damage after all damage modification effects, i.e. Physical Damage Taken, as their source damage. For example, Vulpine items add X / 100 x Physical Damage Taken mana to the defender's mana pool in the damage resolution.

4.3 Damage Resolution

Damage and Life Gain
Life gain and damage taken get applied to the target's current life amount in the following order:

1. Add the life gained from absorb effects
2. Reduce life equal to Damage Taken

Mana Damage and Mana Gain
Some effects, such as energy shield and attacks of mana burn bosses, cause you to lose mana instead of life. This is called Mana Damage. Other effects, such as X% Damage Goes To Mana (Vulpine items), cause you to gain mana. These function similarly as life gain and life damage, i.e. the are applied to the target's current mana amount in the following order:

1. Add the mana gained from Vulpine items (and other possible sources)
2. Reduce mana equal to Mana Damage Taken

There are no effects that modify mana damage, and therefore Mana Damage Taken is always equal to Mana Damage dealt by the attacker plus mana damage caused by Energy Shield. Energy Shield causes mana damage equal to (32 - unmodified Telekinesis skill level) / 16 x Damage Absorbed by Energy Shield.

Quote:With 12 points into Telekinesis, I have a 75% effectiveness in my damage to mana ratio, making ES only shave off 1.25 mana per point of damage absorbed. To put it into context, I have a 1 : 1.25 Ratio of damage absorbed going to mana.

With 135% damage goes to mana, this would effectively make the ratio 1 : -0.10. To put that into context, I should be gaining 0.1% of the damage I take into mana.

Here is my problem: I'm loosing mana at a rate consistent with not having either Telekinesis or Damage Goes to Mana. I haven't done extensive testing to figure out which is the culprit, but I have tested this phenomenon in normal cows by putting up Energy Shield then letting the cows hit me. I saw my mana go down! Hell Bovines in normal do 27-43 damage, or 35 average damage. I lost approximately 21.75 average mana per hit from a cow over 20 consecutive hits (the least was 14, the most was 42). If the most was 42, that means I’m getting almost 100% damage goes to mana, or 1:1. This doesn’t make any sense!

Quote:No. The % damage taken goes to mana works on the amount of damage you take, while the mana loss is based on the amount of damage absorbed.

Quote: It says in 4.2 "Special Effects" that DtM is calculated on the total Physical Damage Taken, which is the modified amount, which is after all effects including Energy Shield (and PDR, etc).

Quote:Mana Lost: I will loose 75 mana