Eshield Sorceress Effective Hit Points Calculator

[Zharous]

Eshield Sorceress Effective Hit Points Calculator

http://69.93.48.226/~wirsz/EHPcalc.xls

After entering your basic statistical information, this spreadsheet will calculate your total effective hit points for all six primary types of damage and also calculate how much damage you can take over long period of time, assuming that your energy shield never drops.

It is based on information and formulas for 1.09 located here: http://home2.pacific.net.sg/~xinhuan/hcsorc/hpmana.html and adapted to patch 1.11.

Comments, suggestions, and corrections are more than welcome.

[Retribution]

You have contributed alot of great information and I for one appreciatted the hell out of it, when I still played d2.
definite + rep.

[hippo]

oh my god hi zharous

quick question.

is there anyway to derive how much mana is needed to compensate for excessive ES levels?

i.e., if my ideal es% is 51% for fire, while my actual es% is say, 75%, is there any way for me to determine what the 24% es overshoot represents in mana?

[Zharous]

Very simple, already modified if you want to try to download it again. Make sure you clear your browser cache if you get the old file again.

I went ahead and simply made it calculate your total mana pool size needed instead of simply saying how much of additional mana. And of course it is for one hit kills only, obviously most duels fall between both points, between the effective hit points and the "slow damage" level, so in my opinion it's useless to try to reach quite that level of mana.

[Xombie]

Zharous for sorceress guru.

[hippo]

I AGREE

btw gimme 2/18/102 lolx

[TienJe]

hey, another mathemagician!

i have a comment though. I think the finding the right energy shield and mana/hp balance to have both reach 0 at the same time is kind of leading es sorcs in the wrong direction.

In the current diablo setups, there is no way a sorc can have enough mana to support a high level es such that the the mana and life run out at the same time. This leads to a lower es build, which to me, defeats the real benefit of the ES sorc build. To me, the benefit, besides just reducing the damage taken, is that the energy shield can reduce the damage to such a point that the sorceress does not get stunned anymore. Thats part of the power of the es/orb sorcs, who have 95% es. the 95% es is enough to keep the sorc from being stunned by taking too much damage, making the sorc very hard to catch.

Trying to optimize es/hp/mana levels naturally leads us to a lower es, which just prolongs the sorcs life, rather than aiming for the real hidden benefit of using energy shield. Like.. if a high ES fb sorc and low ES fb sorc go shot for shot rapid fire, although the lower es sorc can take more hits before dying, the high es will win because as soon as they exchange the first shots, the low ES sorc will still get stunned while the high es won't, allowing the high es sorc to continue shooting fb without halting, preventing stunlock and achieving stunlock on the low es sorc

just my thoughs.

btw, welcome back.

[hippo]

naw, i disagree.

i actually take my sojs off, my ammy off, my hellfire off when s v sing so to "underbuff" my es, in my experience, high es fails because shot for shot isnt applicable in actual svs.

in actual s v s, you wont pull off a successive string of hits, so the char with the more overall EHP will win.

[Zharous]

Same, it comes down to actual dueling experience. I built first a high energy shield cold sorceress and then had clearly much more success with the base energy shield version later.

It's funny, I played with both of you so long back in the day. Going to rewrite most of my guides again, and I'll post them here for comments since just about all the other places have died.

Still having the most fun with my lightning sorc, but I need to try a conviction/redemption fire sorceress build one of these days.

hippo - still going block or non-block for some dueling sorc builds?

[TienJe]

yea but if you're going not shot for shot, then the higher es sorc will have a higher EHP if you allow the mana to regen between hits.

Just different play style i guess.. i like going offensive and going for the stun even in svs.

[hippo]

block with es, nonblock with vita.

[TienJe]

hope to see you back on the realms soon

[Zharous]

Should this be in the guide forum?

Tried the realms, pvp is useless in my condition, ubers are easy, leveling in uber tristrim is too fast, and I can't release my best guide or try out my final character until the ladder season ends...