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So not only are you cutting your eHP (or your Recovery), but on top of that you're losing out on the opportunity cost of reserving something better.īut wait, you aren't technically giving up 35% of your mana, because it's opening up the possibility to use 50% of your life for aura reservations instead right? So you're actually 'gaining' 15% reservation resource? Well. You still need to give up 35% of your mana for the reservation, which could be spent on better auras, whether they be offensive or defensive, which come with no downside. The defensive layer is worth it to you, or you want to use Pain Attunement or other unique gear that benefits from this. Lets say you're totally fine giving up 20% of your eHP for the buff, because you need to be at low-life for whatever reason. That alone is kinda questionable, but then add to that the need for constant life flasks, and you're more open to one shots, and you need to reserve 35% of your mana? Nah chief, this aint it. Sure health potions can take you back up to full, but even then, you're giving up 50% of your recovery for 5% dmg reduction and a 15% stagger. The downside is your leech and regen averages out to being cut in half, AND leaves you more vulnerable to one shots due to your recovery mechanics capping out at half health. So what's the upside here? It averages out to 5% pure damage reduction, and 15% of hit damage being staggered into 3.75% dmg/sec.

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Essentially, this way you still have access to your full health pool, so you aren't giving up the 20%+ eHP. Some people have theory crafted the idea of not being at 'permanent low-life', by not reserving their life, and just using Petrified Blood as a situational defensive layer that helps them out in dangerous situations. So you've halved your health for no defensive benefit. Oh, and other DoTs against you have double effectiveness now, because the stagger buff does nothing against normal DoTs. While the staggering effect is a cool defensive layer on paper, it's still a net negative in your tankiness. If we're being realistic, your life recovery won't be that high without heavy investment (which could be spent on other defenses or dmg), so you're probably going to be losing 20%+ eHP. This is a net negative of 10% eHP Edit: 17% eHP (Effective HP) against hits. Assuming you have ludicrously high life recovery which is such insane overkill that the 7.5% hit dmg/sec is negligible to you. The petrified blood 'buff' is only active while you're below half health. There are a lot of costs associated with using this skill, and we'll go over each of them in detail. This seems like a no-brainer buff right? It's not. So you gain 10% pure damage reduction, and 30% of damage is converted into a DoT over 4 seconds.

This means 10% of the hit damage you took essentially disappears. What we learnt from the gem info at lvl20/20 is that out of the 40% hit damage converted into a DoT, you only take back 30% damage as the DoT (At a rate of 7.5% of the hit/sec). Your life recovery can no longer heal you above low-life (Leech & Regen), with potions being the exception. This defensive layer staggers hits against you, turning 40% of the hit damage you take into a DoT applied over 4 seconds. Once you're at low-life (below 50% life), you gain a defensive layer. Here's the quick/simple summary of what the skill does: It's certainly true that it's more disappointing than people were expecting it to be (since we expected it to scale in a more meaningful way at gem lvl20), but it's still not that bad. The gem info was released and the general consensus seems to be that the new Petrified Blood skill looks like a disappointment which simply isn't worth the cost.

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