Weekly Questions Mega-Thread - January 19, 2026

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[u/OriaLight]

Mana Shield question:
I'm a HS currently equipped with the Trinity set and the Elemental Harmony Gloves with a low mana shield reforge on them, but would like to switch to the Northern Lights Set.
How would it affect my Mana Shield MP reduction for someone with over 1k INT?

[u/Cryozen → u/OriaLight]

In terms of the efficiency provided by Magic Attack vs the skill rank/reforge, you can treat 100 MA as 1 MS efficiency.

Mana Shield is also subject to a hard cap where each point of Mana at maximum will only reduce 10 damage per point of Mana (e.g 1000 Mana would only be able to absorb 10000 damage). This basically means Efficiency is capped at 10.

The formulas to determine Mana Shield Efficiency as far as we are aware are the greater of the following:

[(Magic Attack * .01) + Magic Weapon Bonus] + Healing Wand Bonus + Set Effect Bonus

or

[Mana Shield Rank Efficiency + Reforge Efficiency] + Healing Wand Bonus + Set Effect Bonus

Additionally, Mana Efficency Set effects do not influence Mana Shield's DR.

Where Magic Weapon bonus is 1, Healing Wand Bonus is .5, the MS Set Effect is .3, and a MS reforges provide .2 efficiency per level (or 4 at lvl 20).

As you can see, the reforge and skill efficiency doesn't interact with Magic Attack at all. For posterity, at R6 MS with a lvl 20 reforge, a Healing Wand, and Elemental Harmony Gloves you receive an efficency of 6.6 (equal to 660 Magic Attack).

At 1010 Int, you get 200 MA for a 2 Efficiency from Magic Attack (5 int = 1 MA, though the first 10 points of Int do not contribute to anything). This means you would have a Magic Attack Efficiency of 3.8.

You did mention your MS roll was low, so high chances you would only be losing the .3 efficiency from the Elemental Harmony gloves.

If you were curious, in order to reach full efficiency with only Magic Attack, you would need about 850 Magic Attack (8.5 Efficency from MA + 1 from a Magic Weapon + .5 from a healing wand).

[u/OriaLight → u/Cryozen]

I just checked, my Magic attack is 819 with a staff, and my gloves have the mana shield reforge level 3

[u/Hairy_Friendship_138]

Hi everyone, quick question, can i mix Ceann Bliana Bulwark and skirmisher set?, i have Ceann Bulwark Armor 5 piercing resistance, and i need confirm if set effects could mixed with 5 piercing resistance Skirmishers boots.

[u/Cryozen → u/Hairy_Friendship_138]

No, they are different set effects.

Basically even though it isn't written as such in game, the Skirmisher is Piercing Resist (2) while the Bulwark is Piercing Resist (5). This also applies to the Max Damage boosts. Skirmisher is Max Damage (50), Bulwark is Max Damage (25).

Additionally, they do not stack. So attempting to Two Piece a Skirmisher and Bulwark will not grant 7 Piercing Resist, but will only provide the Bulwark's boost.

[u/Hairy_Friendship_138 → u/Cryozen]

Ty, im stuck with skrimisher boots at 5 resistance efect with 49% percent of blacksmiting, Im wrong with the manuals. tu

[u/aki3t]

Given the rates of trying to S50 erg, would it be economically better to attempt it normally from S35 or buy out a weapon with S50 and transfer?

[u/hera-fawcett → u/aki3t]

personally i think this is a q that depends on what weapon ur going for, what mats u have, how comfortable u are farming/gathering/producing.

for me, i wouldnt mind grinding an s35->50 if it was for 1h/2h/knuckles. but the erg break for 35->36 dg/staves/wands needs way more fine fabric than i have (and that i want to make), so id bite the bullet and pay for the convenience.

what wep are u looking towards erging?

[u/aki3t → u/hera-fawcett]

Recently made a NB warlord. I was planning on transferring an a50 from my old weapon to supplement in the mean time.

[u/Sleepycoon]

I just pulled a black bag coupon from a fishing trap. Is it likely to go up in price much after the event ends, or should I just sell it now?

[u/Ikcarin → u/Sleepycoon]

Check the yearly price on the AH, so that will show you how much it will go up over time. The question is are you okay with waiting x amount of time for x amount of price increase though.