Reactive Barrier
vitality · Tier 2 · 1,600 souls passive VerifiedWhat it does
Automatically grants a barrier the moment you are stunned, chained, immobilised, slept or silenced — it turns a CC chain into a survivable one.
Numbers: 325 Barrier (+1.8 spirit scaling) for 10s, 55s cooldown; +1 out-of-combat regen
Buy it when
Buy when enemy crowd control is followed by burst damage — it buys you the seconds you need to live through the combo.
Skip it when
Does nothing against damage that is not preceded by crowd control.
Gotchas
The mechanics people most often get wrong about this item.
- Triggers only on Stun, Chain, Immobilize, Sleep or Silence — not on plain damage
Problems it answers
- Stuns and hard CC — “I get locked down and deleted.”
- Burst damage — “I die before I can react.”
- Dive onto the backline — “They jump straight past the frontline onto me.”
Heroes that make this worth a slot
Heroes whose kit creates the problems Reactive Barrier answers. This is derived from kit properties, not from measured build results.