Odinn

I took Manashield, Magi Shielding then Focused Casting.

In hindsight, I would have gone Manashield than Focused Casting first. Seriously sick combo.

keLston

What're the pros and cons going magi shielding vs mana shield first? Seems like it would take a ton more time getting mana shield first which leaves a pretty wide area where you don't have any real defense?

p.s. wholly unrelated but having static shielding put you in pvp combat = pretty annoying!

Gromann

Manashield is a single cast save ass ability, people have to chew through your power until its gone at a 2:1 ratio(i think) before they start eating your health. It gives you time to nuke them down if you are fast enough, but without focused casting its really only good to save you from death. You can be stunned and interrupted a lot. Magi's Shielding is just a ward added to your self armor buff. It scales with level, at 80 its just over 500 points, but at 25 i think its more like 150, so its not going to prevent you from getting a beatdown or anything.

And yes, Static Shield putting you in pvp is fucking retarded, every time SOE fixes something with our class, they fuck up two other things.

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Phineus

I box farm quite a bit and I dropped magi shield to get focused as aa pts allowed. Holy crap did I miss that magi shield. In a regular pve encounter it wasnt uncommon for it to soak up 2 or 3k. Never really parsed it in pvp but I assume it can do about the same. I wish I had some of the raid vs raid parses from t7 to check. He often outheals my healers in easy zones.