Energy shield question

I have been using an armor with 151 energy shield on it. With it equiped I have a total ES of 755 with all my bonuses.

I just traded for an armor that has 570 energy shield on it. When I equip it my energy shield is 720.

What is going on? I spent a decent amount on this armor and it's somehow worse than an armor that has 1/4 the base energy shield.

The first armor might boost all your eshield from any sources and the second doesn't.

You might have lost stats with the second armor which is preventing something else with eshield being applied.

The base eshield on the first armor may be higher than the second armor and you get something like 100% more eshield from your body armor node...which means you get alot more from the first one.

There can be alot of reasons sadly.

Ok unless someone has something I think my character is just bugged. I took off all my gear and have 0/0 energy shield. Putting any gear back on does nothing. I stay at 0/0. The only gear that adds anything is a corrupted atxiris disdain and it takes me up to 605.

not meeting stat requirements? Something in your passive tree having to do with ES like Eldritch battery that moves all ES to mana. Maybe that's not moving some kind of ES for some reason. There's way to many interactions between skills and items, It's got to be something like that your char isn't just bugged.

Eldritch battery. I didn't realize I had it because my helm was still giving me energy shield which is apparently a bug itself. Thanks.