Energy Shield

Engineer skill · Plating Line · tier 3

Beta 0.7.2

Energy plates spin around her nonstop and soak up every blow.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 12 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Energy Shield scales with Absorption. Its value at each rank is 5 + 3 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	8	11	14	17	20	23	26	29	32	35

The value is the game's internal number for this skill.

in combat = round(value × skill power × 5 × max(0.35, hero damage ÷ 600))
hero damage = Attack + all elemental damage
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Plating Line skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

The damage factor has a minimum of 0.35 and no maximum. A hero with 600 damage and no line mastery or synergies gets the listed value × 5; how it becomes damage or healing per hit depends on the skill's type and timing.

How to unlock it

1
Rank 5 in Barrier Tier 1 of the Plating Line.
2
Hero level 12 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
3
One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Energy Shield opens Auto-Repair.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Plating Line skills makes Energy Shield 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Energy Shield has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.

Plating Line

Skill	Tier	Type	Cooldown	Scales with
Barrier	1	Shield	12 s	Absorption
Steel Plating	2	Buff	14 s	Defense
Energy Shield	3	Shield	12 s	Absorption
Auto-Repair	4	Heal over time	10 s	Regen
Mobile Fortress	5	Ultimate	16 s	Health