I think that maxing out Reflect Shield will actually bump your survivability by quite a bit.
I mean you should have around 50 SPR by the time you are 100, more or less and with maxed 15 shield you would be blocking 125 damage per hit for a lot of hits and basically have the shield on all the time.
A maxed shield compared to a non maxed one, absorbs 50 more damage and lasts 9 hits for 95 seconds.
That boss in the video seems to hit you for 150-200 and the maxed shield could realistically reduce that damage down to under 100, no?
EDIT: Seems like the pet was getting that damage instead of you actually, hah. Either way it should lower the damage on each hit by quite a bit, as i see that the boss hit you several times with 300 damage spells.
People have said that a maxed shield with decent SPR will be good into the 150ties.
Also people seem to suggest you drop points out of maxed spells and put 1 points into the others.
Thats good if you don’t mind the SP drain and also do note that 4>5 9>10 14>15 skill ups provide the most damage boost for spells.
Yes you could realistically run a 1 pointer isntead of 5 points in a certain spell, but they usually tend to do twice less damage and the higher you go into the circles of a class, the less useful those spells become compared to the ones you actually put points into.