Is the prevention calculated after the hit applies its damage to your life pool or before the hit? I am assuming it doesn't help with one shots but would love to know. I'm theorycrafting with hp / regen and this node would work wonders as defense if it also increased max hit. The sacrifice of flesh is a terrible version of this and hurts more than it helps.
It's one of the best DR in the game, if you have regen, recoup or other forms of sustain (flasks, leech etc).
Yes it does.
Increasing max hit is the point of the node
Yes it's basically 25% less dmg taken if you have a lot of regen/leech/potion going to prevent the degen from zeroing your hp after a big hit
TL;DR - this node is functionally identical to having 25% more maximum life from the perspective of max hits. If you look at step 1 in both calcs below you will see a difference of 25% in terms of the damage you need to survive to allow regen to save you.
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Normally if you take a 2000 damage (post mitigation) hit with 500 regen/sec, you:
lose 2000 health, this happens in 1 server tick. On the same tick regen begins.
one second later have regenerated 1/4 of the hit, so you’re now missing 1500hp
3 seconds after that, assuming no more hits or degens or anything, you reach max health again.
With grasping wounds, 2k hit, 500 regen:
lose 1500 health. This happens in 1 server tick. In the same tick you have a degen applied to you equal to 25% of 500 (125 damage/sec degen). Your regen also starts this tick.
one second later, you have taken 125 damage from the degen and regenerated 500hp, for a net gain of 375 hp, so you’re now missing 1125hp.
3 seconds later you have regenerated to full health (375*3=1125).
That first sentence is so weird. How could you understand anything different?
How did you read it could work? Like take the whole hit and potentially die, then regain the % that will degen instantly to now see it degen?! 😂
If a hit would do 124% of your hp, you take around 99.5% hp dmg instantly and then rhe rest. However if you have a way of regain over the damage over time caused by this interaction, you can negate that damage with your recovery and brush it off, surviving a hit thats equal to 124% of your total HP.
Tldr : yes, increases max hit
Can you stack that with the abyssal keystone from the jewel that pretty much does the same thing?
Does anyone have an idea how this mechanic works with damage taken from mana before life?
It kinda sounds like life loss is post-mitigation, so mana will take the full brunt of whatever percent it is at, and then the life loss prevention and degen kicks in. Also sounds like the degen wont get absorbed by mana as it is not damage but life loss. Does that make mana before life less efficient?
You need sustain to make it not feel terrible but yes. Most higher level blood mages will have nutty sustain. I have 10k effective health and my sustain is stacking so can regen that entire health bar and more every second
I got bored at this stage in the league and decided to spend many of my hard earned divines on a small project. Wouldn't it be funny to stack Energy shield for a min-level char? [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027) Tabula rasa has relevant jewel mods noted on it in POB so the math actually works out since it doesn't seem to work properly in POB. second screenshot is with a lvl 29 discipline aura with 36% increased aura magnitude - I didn't wanna spend another several thousand divines on a support character, I just wanted to see how well it would work theoretically >3000 ES without aurabot is possible, however, its basically impossible in practice. As of now, there are \*18\* 2 socket uncorrupted crown of thorns left on trade - on average it takes \~11 to hit a 30% and then another 1 in 3 to get a 3 socket one. Hitting a double corrupt on said 3 socket would be better then my current one, but that's not plausible sadly. Same for the boots. Hitting a better double corrupt on the gloves and focus would likely be plausible, but I couldn't buy more bases from Finn. Grip of Kulemak 59% ES \*should\* be possible, but it already took me over 40 attempts to hit 57% so I think I'll just leave it as is. Belt I didn't find any other way besides the 25% corrupt to get ES without a level requirement - if anyone has any idea tell me. Amulet could sanctify for 19/19 but again, would require silly amounts of currency (each try is \~30 div as is with annoint + sanctify + quality). I \*think\* patient barrier should be best annoint, but correct me if I'm wrong. Total investment into this character so far is about 3000 divines, probably a bit more. further thoughts \- maximum technically possible is 3112 ES at level 2 unless I'm missing something important. POB [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a) \- doubting this but: is it possible to get an ascendency at this low level by skipping straight to geonor with a helper? In which case it might be possible that xp penalties kicking it would allow me to ascend at lvl 2? This would allow +20% +20% (ascendency) +60% (jewel) ES, which would get me to 3218 ES (actual build) / 3732 ES (max technically possible) Did I miss anything?
I made an elemental crossbow varashta sorc this season as my starting build (goal was to exploit yoke of suffering's full potential, you can find poe ninja below, don't be fooled by the dmg tooltip, it kill ubers before they can move) and so since I was in the intel side of the tree I used my weapon swap to maximize exposure (with whispering ice) and curse magnitude. Here with some non-optimized gear I'm reaching a total of -338% res (that's -169% on bosses), meaning it's better than rakiata's. I use cursed ground support to apply the curse and icestorm (which comes with the staff) with prolonged duration and potent exposure to make the exposure last longer. This tech doesn't require much investment apart from your weapon swap and a few sockets at most so it can be plugged into many elemental builds. As it is now, it requires you to cast the spells with your weapon swap, so I use it mostly for bosses, but i might cast icestorm on bulky rares in juiced maps once in a while. If you have a skill dedicated for mapping, it'll propably better to use rakiata on it, and remove it or use another skill for bosses. Here's the poeninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala) I might make a build showcase if people are interested, it's a fun league starter build. With yoke and the electrocution node on the tree, enemies have 120% damage taken, more if they're cursed, on top of the giant res drop, plus you benefit from a lot of the "damage against enemies with ailments nodes" so that's why the tooltip is low (explosive grenades indicate 60k in game but they hit bosses for like 2M) at first I was playing with permafrost bolt with frost nexus + navira's fracture + fragmentation rounds, it was a fun combo and really strong for leveling but I couldn't scale navira's fracture damage in late game (I had command + minion nodes on my second weapon instead of the curse/exposure at the time) Hope this inspires some of you!
The Oracle Death Star is fully operational- only took 30 days of playtime. GGGs https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath