Fixing Low Life Builds

Low mana isn't really much of a downside since most people play with huge mana regeration or leech and spam auras. "While not on low mana" would be more interesting of an effect.

I would love for low life builds to become viable. I would start making them right now but I am just not interested because of Chaos damage. I won't speak for other players but personally I am sure that I woudl die ALOT if I used one of those builds right now.

Your keystone is awesome. GGG please implement something like this right away!

I stumbled on this thread while searching for a way they could fix low life builds as I feel chaos damage is almost too dangerous for low life builds to function.

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3. This keystone, towards the middle of the tree:
Dark Ritual: While on Low Life you have +30% chaos resistance. While not on low life, you take 30% more chaos damage.

This would be an amazing keystone to add to the game, stopping CI builds and HP tank builds using it. You could even put the keystone on the other side of the passive tree to make it hard to get.

+ 1 idea

It's a nice keystone, agreed.

It's just a shame that we need a keystone to make something work.

Edit: It's also a keystone with no real downside though. If you pick it, it's because you intend to stay in perpetual low life. You'll never experience the downside. It doesn't make the keystone bad, just saying.

Decent idea.

I have tried to theorycraft low life builds as so much of the game is set up to accommodate them but IMO they are made nonviable by Chaos Damage. I don't see how anyone is supposed to run them as a permanent build. Which makes me wonder what GGG had in mind when they made all the passives & uniques that support it. Redundant much?

I guess you could do something like:

"While on Low Life you have +30% chaos resistance but have -30% elemental resistance"


It could have nodes after the keystone allowing you to trade even more elemental resistance for chaos resistance at low life.

Thoughts?

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Archescent wrote:

"While on Low Life you have +30% chaos resistance but have -30% elemental resistance"

You gonna literally kill yourself while staying on low life and -% resistances. You don't wanna do that! ;)

I really like to see a keystone like this in the game.

wouldnt be enough, still get 1shot by 1/2 the mobs in act 2. Good idea though.

I guess that plus the helm would give a reasonable 45% res, dont know where any more is obtainable. Still, you get punctured by a snake while being shot at by multi-proj vaal chaos damage and ur gone.

Give it a try?