Sorcery Ward

Sorcery WardSpell, Buff, Persistent, Lightning, Cold, Fire
Level: (1-20)Skills can be managed in the Skills panel.

Acquisition
Drop disabled
Granted by the Witchhunter ascendancy notable Obsessive RitualsMetadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemAscendancySorceryWard

Sorcery Ward is a spell skill granted by the Witchhunter ascendancy notable Obsessive Rituals.

Mechanics

This skill creates a depletable aegis effect that absorbs all elemental damage from hits before life. mana or energy shield until it is depleted. The aegis can take up to a percentage of your combined armour and evasion rating. The aegis instantly recharges to its full value a short time after it stops taking damage or is fully depleted.

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem tier	Support gems
I	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	Coming Soon
II	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	Coming Soon
III	Cold MasteryCold MasterySupport, Cold Category: Mastery Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Cold skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.+1 to Level of Supported Cold SkillsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Fire MasteryFire MasterySupport, Fire Category: Mastery Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Fire skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.+1 to Level of Supported Fire SkillsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	Lightning MasteryLightning MasterySupport, Lightning Category: Mastery Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Lightning skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.+1 to Level of Supported Lightning SkillsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
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Version history

Version	Changes
0.2.0	The Obsessive Rituals Ascendancy Passive Skill now provides 35% less Armour and Evasion Rating (previously 50%). The Sorcery Ward Barrier recharge delay has also been reduced by 2 seconds at all Gem levels.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.