Crafting Guide: High ES Non-Caster Shield - Genesis Tree

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Updated on Nov 10, 2025

Nov 10, 2025

Overview

This guide will explain the setup for crafting an Energy Shield Shield with the Genesis Tree, useful for KB and Kinetic Fusillade builds. This Shield isn't targeted for Caster-based builds and attempts to cut out as many Caster Modifiers as possible

This requires most of the Points on the Tree to be unlocked, but some can be left out in case you haven't unlocked them all.

Optional Points will be marked with an asterisk (*) to note that they can be left out in case you don't have enough Points

Guide

Notable	Minor Point	Result
Guardian Flesh	Shield Chance	500% increased chance for Shields
More Intelligence Items		Increases the odds we get Energy Shield gear
Less Strength/Dexterity Items*	Optional	Reduces the chance we get Evasion or Armour gear
Forsaken Technique	Reduced Physical Modifier Chance	Lowers the chance to get the Reflect and Physical Spells prefixes, increasing our odds to hit Energy Shield prefixes
Forsaken Zeal	Caster Modifiers	Reducing the chance for Caster modifier lowers the odds we end up with increased Level of Spell Skill Gems Prefixes and Spell Crit Suffix
Forsaken Soul	Mana Modifiers	Reduces the chance to hit Mana prefixes that can take up space for our ES modifiers. One could instead block Life, which has a slightly lower total weight than Mana and also doesn't cut out the ES/Mana hybrid prefix
Devoted Technique	Optional	You can select a higher chance for Fire/Cold/Lightning/Chaos modifiers to appear, in case you need a specific Resistance. This will increase the chance you get modifiers such as #% increased Fire/Cold/Lightning Damage Prefixes which can interfere with rolling ES
Devoted Zeal	None
Devoted Soul	Defence	Increases the chance we get Energy Shield prefixes
Solid Cysts*	Optional	33% chance for an item to have a Fractured modifier. The reason you might want to avoid taking this is if you plan to add an Influence to your Shield. Fractured items cannot be Influenced
Arterial Mesh	Not Needed	You can put these points in to save a couple of Jewellers and Fusings, and in case the Tree rolls a Body Armour instead of Shield
Basic Nurturing*	Optional	Random amount of Quality. Optional
Severing	Useful	The Birthed item will have its lowest Level Modifier Removed, which can free up space for useful bench crafts such as hybrid, % and Flat ES, as well as making space for adding Influence with an Influenced Orb
Additional Item Chance*	Optional	Take the small hanging Points to have a higher chance of birthing additional Items

Example Outcome

Here's another example and the reason why you might want to remove the chance for having a Fractured modifier on the birthed Shield

This Shield was created from an outcome from the Tree and had an open Prefix and open Suffix. In order to complete the craft, the following steps were taken:

Bench-craft any Prefix to fill up the Prefixes
Use a Shaper Exalted Orb to add a Shaper Suffix modifier. There is a 1/10 chance to hit the 30% increased Reservation Efficiency (Tier 1) modifier. Other builds may prefer something like Gain #% ES on Block, which is another useful Shaper Suffix

Having these empty modifiers is also why Severing is useful in these crafts if you intend to complete the craft with separate methods after the birthed item has been created.

1. Overview 2. Guide 3. Example Outcome