I know in PoE 1 you can reserve enough life to count as low life at all times, with persistent buffs being tied to spirit rather than life I'm unsure of how one would go about being permanently counted as low life and my google searches are coming up empty handed, any help is much appreciated.
I saw this build the other day where you reserve 25% if your max life and then there's a node which counts you as low life when you don't have full health (I think) lemme see if I can find it somewhere
You can reserve 25% life with infernalist ascendancy and use the unique belt which considers you low life while at 75% life. That belt can be corrupted to raise the low life threshold to 90 as well. The other way is using lich and allocate Chaos innoculation, save then deallocate. Or you can use the helmet with eldritch battery and use either bersek and eternal rage combined or use the death articulated gauntlets to gradually lower you ho and once it's below the low life threshold just take off the eldritch battery helmet.
You can play lich and lock your hp to a set amount with the ascendancy note
Yes but it's a bit complicated, Coward's Legacy belt sets your low life threshold to 75%. You could use infernalist to reserve 25% life this would be permanent.
Other solutions would be some sort of life loss.
Bursting decay, unique Ring Death Articulated, unique gloves Berserk, spirit gem.
I'm currently playing a low life bleed Ritualist.
You can stack life loss from berserk / bursting decay etc. and then use the shield that gives extra life regen at low life. You can get it so your life is locked in at 29-30%
Infernalist with 25% Life Reservation + Coward's Legacy belt.
The other one is Lich, by draining your Life with some sort of degen + no ES temporarily (ie. Eldritch Battery), then unspeccing EB once you get to a desired Life value to lock it, as Eternal Life makes your life unable to change (so it is completely unchangable, even from wells or any recovery)
That's the 2 i know of atm, we'll probably get some more sources in the future.
Reserve 25% of your life as infernalist ... Then wear the belt that raises low life to 75%
i am going to try cowards legacy. soul offering plus guatelitzis ablation with brutus brain.
not sure how the offering works if you move away from it but in theory this drops me to 75 percent and the offering cant die... then use ES and use the gloves to leech es instead if life and we are in business.
Infernalist with belt that makes you count as low life at 75% Max hp, even better corrupt it and get up to count as low life at 96% Max hp or lower
there's a helmet with eldrich battery Visage of Ayah and a chest to stop hp regen if you have any. then just use a channel spell with life tap to put you at low life then put back on regular armor. it's kinda annoying but that's what we got
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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