I’ve leveled my Battlemage to 54 so far and I’ve had 1 point in both Overguard and Mirror of Ereoctes. I want to improve one of those (and maybe get rid of the other one), but can’t decide which one. Mirror is damn expensive energy-wise. I’m at +1 energy/second at the moment.
This is my current build: http ://grimcalc.com/build/wBrzMc (can’t post links yet so I put in that space)
Other suggestions are welcome, too.
I should add that I play this character only in multiplayer with my brother’s damage dealing Elementalist, so my damage output isn’t much of an issue.
You don’t really need mirror of ereoctes at more than one point.
It’s always 3 sec and 100% damage absorption, more level only reduces cooldown.
So I’d suggest keeping mirror at 1 pt and putting your points in Overguard if that’s what you want (there might be better ideas though).
For more energy regen you could get one or two caster armor pieces, but I’ve never had energy problem with mirror of ereoctes it’s not that energy consuming (36 energy at level 1 ain’t that much) and it got a pretty huge cooldown.
Since you are tanking for the team and very soldier heavy gear, keep mirror at 1 point as a last resort emergency button. I’d also recommend taking all points out of the callidors and cadence line since spamming force wave is a better tanking tool than the others. I’d put at least 1 point into the flash freeze line,bed pending on what type of damage your bro’s elementalist does, max core skill if fire, max the passive if physical. I’d also recommend maxing out the field command and squad tactics lines for more team buffs. For survivability, you can invest more into overguard and I would also recommend to put some points into menhirs will for a free heals. to solve your mama issues, put some points into arcane will, it should be active most of the time since your tanking, you can also equip some ectoplasm components into your gear for some massive mana pool boost. If you still have issues I’d take some points out of maivens, at lvl 12 it’s costing you over 10 mana/s.
I’ll leave Mirror at 1 and level Overguard instead. That should also solve any energy problems as Overguard is much cheaper than Mirror when leveled up.
I’ll look into Menhir’s and Field Command - maybe I level that up when Overguard is maxed. Callidor’s and Cadence are important though, to maintain aggro. Tanking is difficult if everyone just runs past you.
