Magic weapon deflect is a very good way to create a shield but how does it work with signature spells and non channeling spells.
I haven’t been able to understand if I have it active or not.
Can someone clarify this please?
Each time you attack, you get a stack of Deflection equal to 4% of your max HP (or up to 8% with Blood Bracers) that lasts for 3 seconds.
If you attack 6 times in 3 seconds (so you’re attacking at 2 attacks per second), you’ll have up to 6 “stacks” of Deflection shields active, so you could have up to 24% (or 48% with Blood Bracers) in shields.
The stack rate of Deflection scales with your attack speed, but not with skill-specific attack speed bonuses like Shame of Delsere and Fragment of Destiny, unfortunately. Barrier Blades works with those items, but Deflection doesn’t.
EDIT: Also, if you hover over your health globe, it will display a number with how big your shield is. You can use this to figure out how many stacks you have active. At one point on a PTR they tested having an overlay over your health globe so you could see how much shields you had active without hovering, but they scrapped it
Thank you TinneOnnMuin, that would had been welcome.
Edit
A follow up question, is it better to increase vitality and gem chest and pants with amethysts in the case of a shield creating build. The other option is to use emeralds and or rubies to increase armor.