Shield management

[poffpoff]

Hellu!

It would be awesome if there was a talent (or just a general feature) to manage your shields.
I.e. As i understand, the current order of shield-checks is:
1: time shield
2: damage shield (including Barrier and all Runes)
3: displacement shield
4: disruption shield
Meaning, if you have a sustained displacement shield AND a damage shield the displacement shield won't be checked until your damage shield is reduced to nothing.
I don't know if the reason for this is lore-specific, or if it's just something that's not seen as important. But when running around as a fragile archmage it's rather important.

the talent would be a talent like the "communicate with golem" or "command staff" type of talent, OR just a sub-menu somewhere.
This feels like a great addition to all the fragile classes out there !

Also, all credit for what i know is from this "shield managing" article found in the te4 wiki:
http://te4.org/wiki/Goon_Archmage_Guide_1.1.5

[twas Brillig]

Sorry, I'm not totally clear what you're proposing. Do you want something to control the order of how shields are applied, or something like "auto-use when time shield expires"?

[Matanui3]

I think he's asking for a way to have Displacement shield apply first, so if it fails to displace, you can have a regular damage shield take the hit instead of your life.

Because otherwise, you might have a 50% chance to get one-shot (which is why Displacement is bad).

[Dracos]

*chimes in agreement to what Matanui3 said*

It really makes displacement type stuff bad if it isn't almost first (Reflection or Time shield both have positive bonus effects on hit, so reasonably should beat it out).

[Sheila]

I'm not entirely sure what the point of this thread is, but I do think that displacement shield should have the highest priority (or at least number 2) to be more valuable and allow for effective use of it.