Can I use multiple shields concurrently?

Adventurer

Or to put it in other words, do shields stack? I thought it would be fun to try running around in Kyne as a tank with Sun Shield, Healing Ward and Annulment on.

Dk_needs_a_buff

Yeah they do

Biro123

But that would probably be a bad mix.

annulment scales with max mag. As does healing ward - but it is a weak shield unless your health is low.
Sun shield scales with max health.

Worth an experiment, but you will probably get more 'shieldage' for your money by just stacking one stat and only using the shields that are based off it. You also have to take into account their cast-times and duration.. bigger shields = refreshing them less often giving you more time for other stuff.

WillhelmBlack

Yes. Weird isn't it!

Adventurer

Biro123 wrote: »

But that would probably be a bad mix.

I thought that healing ward goes for 6k damage reduction on my build and mitigates even more damage based on how much of your health is missing (is there anywhere a explanation how does it scale?), but I could be mistaking that with the Annulment, I'll have to check.

If I manage to get my health up to 20k, the Sun Shield would do 6k too, right now it probably does around 2-3k which isn't much indeed.

Biro123

Adventurer wrote: »

Biro123 wrote: »

But that would probably be a bad mix.

I thought that healing ward goes for 6k damage reduction on my build and mitigates even more damage based on how much of your health is missing (is there anywhere a explanation how does it scale?), but I could be mistaking that with the Annulment, I'll have to check.

If I manage to get my health up to 20k, the Sun Shield would do 6k too, right now it probably does around 2-3k which isn't much indeed.

Is that in cyro or out?

For comparison, my hardened ward on a 50k mag build is (iirc)around 14k in cyro (28k out). My harness is around 10k(ish) in cyro(the other morph would be bigger). Obviously to get that much magica, I have very little health.

I'm pretty sure healing ward scales first based on your magica stats, then gets a % boost based on your missing health. (could be wrong though) - so you'd want higher stats first so that % boost gives you more.

20k health isn't particularly high, tbf. I understand the old PVP sunshield builds would often stack over 50k health, sometimes more.

So I guess what I'm getting at is (and I'm guessing with the figures here - you'd have to try to be sure).. If you can get a 20k dampen magica by boosting your mag.. but by splitting between health and mag, you get , say a 14k dampen and a 6k sunshield...(the same total amount) you're obviously better off with the single 20k dampen - it will cost less to cast and take less time than it would to cast both it and sunshield..

But as I say, this is just gut feel.. you'd have to test it out (I can't I don't have a magplar).

Crom_CCCXVI

Lol, this is all people do..
Stack shields and wait for their ultimate, welcome to the meta

Biro123

Crom_CCCXVI wrote: »

Lol, this is all people do..
Stack shields and wait for their ultimate, welcome to the meta

^
Rabid sorc-hater.

Adventurer

Biro123 wrote: »

Is that in cyro or out?

For comparison, my hardened ward on a 50k mag build is (iirc)around 14k in cyro (28k out). My harness is around 10k(ish) in cyro(the other morph would be bigger). Obviously to get that much magica, I have very little health.

I'm pretty sure healing ward scales first based on your magica stats, then gets a % boost based on your missing health. (could be wrong though) - so you'd want higher stats first so that % boost gives you more.

20k health isn't particularly high, tbf. I understand the old PVP sunshield builds would often stack over 50k health, sometimes more.

So I guess what I'm getting at is (and I'm guessing with the figures here - you'd have to try to be sure).. If you can get a 20k dampen magica by boosting your mag.. but by splitting between health and mag, you get , say a 14k dampen and a 6k sunshield...(the same total amount) you're obviously better off with the single 20k dampen - it will cost less to cast and take less time than it would to cast both it and sunshield..

But as I say, this is just gut feel.. you'd have to test it out (I can't I don't have a magplar).

This was in Cyro. And yes, that's right! I'm still levelling Annulment, but 6s is so short, haha! It's actually easier to just pop healing spells instead and stack those.

leepalmer95

Crom_CCCXVI wrote: »

Lol, this is all people do..
Stack shields and wait for their ultimate, welcome to the meta

Only people that still complain about sorc shields are usually bad players with tanky builds who cry that they don't have enough dmg.