Energy Shield

Energy is a resource generated and spent by certain Meta skills. Each Energy-generating skill keeps its own counter, separate from other Meta skills and completely separate from Energy Shield.

Bleeding is a damaging Ailment that deals Physical damage over time and bypasses Energy Shield. It lasts five seconds by default and requires an explicit chance or effect that can inflict Bleeding.

Poison is a damaging Ailment that deals Chaos damage over time and bypasses Energy Shield. It lasts two seconds by default and requires an explicit chance or effect that can inflict Poison.

Runic Ward protects the final point of Life. When damage would reduce Life to 0, Life stops at 1 and current Runic Ward absorbs the remainder. The character still dies if the remaining damage is greater than the Ward available.

Stun Threshold is the target-side reference used to determine Light Stun chance and Heavy Stun buildup. Raising your own threshold makes incoming Stuns less likely, while lowering an enemy's threshold makes that enemy easier to Stun.

Chaos is one of the five damage types. Chaos Resistance reduces it, and ordinary Chaos damage removes twice its damage value from Energy Shield instead of bypassing Energy Shield by default.

Intelligence is a primary Attribute used for equipment and gem requirements, especially Energy Shield and spell-aligned equipment. Each point of Intelligence inherently grants 2 maximum Mana.

Chaos Resistance reduces Chaos damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence are the three primary Attributes. They provide inherent bonuses and are used to meet Equipment, Skill Gem, and Support Gem requirements.

Energy Shield Recharge is a recovery process that normally starts after a four-second delay and restores 12.5% of maximum Energy Shield per second. Losing Energy Shield or Life ordinarily interrupts it and restarts the delay. Recharge is Recovery, not Regeneration.

Energy Shield Recharge Rate changes how quickly Recharge restores Energy Shield after it has begun. The base recovery is 12.5% of maximum Energy Shield per second. Applicable increased and reduced Recharge Rate modifiers share an additive pool, while more and less modifiers apply as separate multipliers.

Deflection Rating gives a chance to Deflect damage from Hits. A normal Deflection prevents 40% of the Hit damage, while the chance depends on your Deflection Rating and the attacker's Accuracy Rating.

Life Leech recovers Life from a percentage of damage dealt by a Hit. A normal Life Leech instance delivers its recovery over one second, subject to the source's eligible damage type and the monster's Leech Resistance.

Guard is a temporary buffer that takes damage from Hits before Life or Energy Shield. It ends when its amount is depleted or its duration expires.

Eldritch Battery converts all maximum Energy Shield into maximum Mana, then doubles Mana Costs. The converted Energy Shield becomes a Mana base value and no longer functions as a defensive Energy Shield pool.

Zealot's Oath applies excess Life recovery from regeneration to Energy Shield and disables Energy Shield Recharge. It does not redirect all Life regeneration while Life still needs that recovery.

Divinity is a regenerating resource that can pay skill costs in place of Mana or Life. For players, Immaculate Adherence creates a maximum Divinity pool from maximum Energy Shield and makes skills cost Divinity.

Shrines are Precursor Artifacts surrounded by worshipping monsters. Defeat every Shrine Worshipper, click the Shrine, and its effect becomes your buff for a base duration of 45 seconds.

Sacrifice removes a stated amount of Life, Mana, Energy Shield, Runic Ward, or another named resource to produce an effect. The loss is not damage and the sacrificed amount is not part of a skill's cost.

Item Armour is the Armour value printed on an individual item after that item's Quality and local Armour modifiers are applied. It is a value that other effects can read. It is not the character's total Armour and does not itself describe how much Physical damage a Hit will lose.

Unbound Potential is a stacking buff created by The Unleashed body armour. It converts the Runic Bindings built by Spell Hits in Human form into increased Damage, Armour, and Energy Shield for a shapeshifted character.

Equipped means a usable weapon, off-hand, armour piece, belt, amulet, or ring placed in the character's equipment slots. Flasks, Charms, Skill Gems, and Jewels are not Equipped, even when they occupy another character interface slot.