Storm Armor

Storm Armor is a Conjuration Wizard skill unlocked at Level 17, hurting anyone attacking the Wizard.

This is an Armor spell. Only one Armor spell can be active at a time.

Background

Storm Armor in action.

The Wizard weaves herself with electric energies that discharge if an enemy attacks her.

Skillrune Effects

The following is a very quick summary. See the Storm Armor rune effects page for a more thorough description of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.

<skill class="Wizard">Storm Armor</skill>

Skill Design

This spell looks to be under construction, with no duration listed. Also note that lightning critical hits will stun enemies, which would make this a lot more useful as a defensive spell, if the Wizard has a high chance to land a critical hit with spells (specifically lightning spells).

Synergies

Storm Armor benefits from the following Wizard passives:

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Development

Storm Armor was first shown at BlizzCon 2008 when the Wizard debuted. Back then, it was a Tier II skill in the Storm Skill Tree, and playable in the demo. However, it wasn't a popular choice; Flux explained why:[1]

...no one was bothering much with defensive skills at Blizzcon; not in the short time we had to play, and the small dungeon we had to clear out. I didn’t test out this one, but it sounds like a fairly interesting skill. It’s somewhat misleading in name, since the description doesn’t mention any defensive properties; just that it fires out lightning bolts at nearby enemies.

It was seen again at BlizzCon 2009, but as a Tier V skill, so it was too high level to try out. Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Storm Armor became a level 13 skill.

It was moved up to level 12 during the beta, and when the skill system was once again overhauled for the Beta Patch 13 in February 2012, Storm Armor was classified as a Conjuration skill and bumpud up to level 17.

Previous Versions

See the Wizard skill archive for more details on previous versions of Storm Armor and other Wizard skills.

Media

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  Storm Armor activated

References

• BlizzCon 2008 Wizard Gameplay Report
• BlizzCon 2009 Full Wizard Skill Trees
• Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
• Silva's Wizard Runestone Effects -- IncGamers 5th Sep 2011
• Wizard Active Skills -- Diablo III 12th Sep 2011

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