These chaos powers served to demonstrate that the mage class needs more mana-based defense options. I hope they expand the skill tree and implement something related to a mana shield. The barrier mechanic is horrible and extremely punishing for this class.
cough energy shield cough
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I agree that mana shield should be a thing going forward - I also like the Necro unique perk of turning ultimates into core skills - make for fun builds.
However, in terms of survivability - when you get your build properly online no class has an issue with tankiness in this game - mana shield just means you don’t have to try (just a pop a blizzard and away you go).
Mana shield has made all the bosses significantly more enjoyable.
Just having a few extra seconds of grace period to dodge out of an instant kill attack makes all the difference in the world.
Before I wouldn’t even bother trying to fight any of the bosses unless I could 100% just oneshot them.
This season I was able to slap on a Tyrael’s Might and solo a 10 minute T4 Lilith fight.
You still need to play along with the mechanics of the boss, but it’s a lot more enjoyable when Lilith’s dinky spikes only do 30% of your manabar instead instant killing you from full through your barrier.
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If you have manashield:
- no boss attack can 1shot you anymore
- you can bath in burning rain
- port to town and not be interrupted when monsters hit you
- you can activate the corpses to summon the hellcommander in helltides while monsters hit you without getting interrupted. Destroys the purpose of this event mechanic to clear the enemies first.
The last two mentioned above things are uber convenient and a bug erm big advantage over any other class not having access to manashield.
Try one of this with marred guard and cornered beast. You = 
You can also use the aspect that says gain a massive bonus to damage with no defense skill on your bar.
Mana shield is way too op. They will never let this be a permanent thing.
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Yesterday evening after my bossruns i build a rogue with good amount of damage reduction the oldschool way without using marred guard and cornered beast and nothing besides lair bosses 1shot mechanics could kill me.
With marred guard and cornered beast every tiny explosion killed me instantly.
told you already Duriel’s claw will clamp you into its stomach and devour you 1-shot.
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Nooooo not me. Im not tasty enough. I tried and stood in her “nomnom”-field and got myself nomnommed 
. I waited for the “Thou artst dead” symbol 
but she spat me out and i grew infuriated because im not tasty. So i bathed more than 2 seconds in on of the poisonpools and killed myself. 