Gameplay Help and Discussion - Mitigating damage from "Blood Rage" - Forum

Life regen is key for non-CI Blood Rage. Pre 1.2 I had a build that used Blood Rage for basically free because I had 3% life regen, but ended up with no regen after the patch and Blood Rage is now too dangerous. I went from 30-10 chaos res as well but had been using BR at -20 beforehand anyway. BreakingHearts/RhoaHood/BackAndVeryLate (Standard) \| HushtailSweep/HushtailWeeps (Ancestor)	Posted by SilentOppressor on Sep 7, 2014, 2:50:00 PM Quote this Post
Also buddy you can put the Blood Rage gem in your weapon/shield socket. Then if there are no enemies nearby you can just hit "X" to weapon swap and it will turn off Blood Rage! :)	Posted by Shmez on Sep 7, 2014, 5:12:32 PM Quote this Post
" tackle70 wrote: Zealot's Oath + life regen will mitigate the degen. You want as little life as possible and as much ES as possible (since degen rate is proportional to life but regen rate is proportional to ES when using ZO). ^this does not make any sense. ZO makes you regen ES instead of life. Chaos damage does bypass ES on topic: CI, or chaos resist and/or life regen IGN: Eric_Lindros CET: Timezone Last edited by Ludvator on Sep 7, 2014, 6:53:24 PM	Posted by Ludvator on Sep 7, 2014, 6:53:07 PM Quote this Post
" Ludvator wrote: " tackle70 wrote: Zealot's Oath + life regen will mitigate the degen. You want as little life as possible and as much ES as possible (since degen rate is proportional to life but regen rate is proportional to ES when using ZO). ^this does not make any sense. ZO makes you regen ES instead of life. Chaos damage does bypass ES on topic: CI, or chaos resist and/or life regen haha oops; got used to thinking about Shavs correct, my post is not relevant here The 352nd character to hit Level 100 in Standard The 82nd character to hit Delve 1000 in Standard	Posted by tackle70 on Sep 7, 2014, 8:14:13 PM Quote this Post
Does the x% less damage modifier from Cast When Damage Taken apply to the chaos DoT dealt by Blood Rage if it is cast by the trigger support?	Posted by Oneiric4 on Nov 13, 2014, 9:31:00 PM Quote this Post
" VixTrader wrote: Oh I meant until I actually spec into CI which will be late game. In the meantime, I'm kind of looking for solutions because early mapping I'm definitely noticing the drain. But if no items or temp skill nodes can help, I guess I'm just going to have to kill fast to keep the leech up. Or you you could simply not use Blood Rage until you're ready?	Posted by PitzerMike on Nov 14, 2014, 2:58:51 AM Quote this Post
" PitzerMike wrote: Or you you could simply not use Blood Rage until you're ready? I'm wondering too. @OP the only benefit you'll get from BR when you take CI is the Life Leech, which you won't really profit from when life stays at 1 (the one life remaining when CI was taken counts as full life, not low life. Low life would be 0,35 and below life, which isn't possible). For a low life build on the other hand it would make sense, but it's not a CI build. More a Blood Magic one. For life leech better skill some nodes, get items or use the Warlord's Mark curse. Edit: If for the Frenzy Charge, Frenzy or Poacher's Mark would be an alternative too. Last edited by Salumba on Nov 14, 2014, 11:08:49 AM	Posted by Salumba on Nov 14, 2014, 10:54:17 AM Quote this Post
" Salumba wrote: " PitzerMike wrote: Or you you could simply not use Blood Rage until you're ready? I'm wondering too. @OP the only benefit you'll get from BR when you take CI is the Life Leech, which you won't really profit from when life stays at 1 (the one life remaining when CI was taken counts as full life, not low life. Low life would be 0,35 and below life, which isn't possible). For a low life build on the other hand it would make sense, but it's not a CI build. More a Blood Magic one. For life leech better skill some nodes, get items or use the Warlord's Mark curse. Edit: If for the Frenzy Charge, Frenzy or Poacher's Mark would be an alternative too. CI = no drawback free physical life leech free frenzy charge on kill	Posted by Langhun on Nov 14, 2014, 11:48:03 AM Quote this Post
Positive Chaos Res + 2% life regen from anywhere on the tree = you won't even notice it. IGN: Chundaziri 8/8 Ambush/Invasion Complete - 21/06/2014 8/8 Warbands/Tempest Complete - 10/08/2015	Posted by Chundadragon on Nov 14, 2014, 11:59:23 AM Quote this Post
" Langhun wrote: CI = no drawback free physical life leech free frenzy charge on kill CI = loose everything but life leech free physical life leech = purpose? free frenzy charge on kill - take Frenzy and get free frenzy charge on hit instead? Last edited by Salumba on Nov 14, 2014, 3:08:14 PM	Posted by Salumba on Nov 14, 2014, 3:07:25 PM Quote this Post