Actual lori's lantern effectivness

Hello.
Today I'm going to highlight mod-"when on low life, enemies are unlucky when damaging you"

In first call its difficult to predict how much it is useful. According to wiki while lori's is equipped it rolls two damage numbers when hit and a lower one is selected.
With little math I did, I will display probabilities transformation when lori's is equiped:


x axis displays damage rolls from minimum to maximum.
y axis displays probability to roll that damage displayed on x axis.

Without lori's lantern average damage is 50%- middle between minimum and maximum damage, and with loris average damage drops to 33% between minimum and maximum which should be 33% (1-33/50) damage drop, right? Well, no.

33% damage drop only applies to such damage source as lightning which usually deals from 1 to 1000 or more. Considering other damage sources which minimum is higher than 1, damage drop lowers a bit:

left- damage deviation from average damage, right- average damage drop with lori's lantern
+-30% from average damage => 10% less average damage taken
+-60% from average damage => 20% less average damage taken
+-100% from average damage => 33% less average damage taken

+-30% and +-60% is very common damage deviation. Taking average of those two it translates to 15% less damage taken, which can be considered as almost 4 endurance charges when no armor is used, or as arctic armor at full potential, except lori's lantern works on all damage sources (well, except hitless degenerations).
With armor it works a bit better because of the way armor works (damage mitigation goes up in percentage, but becomes less effective in comparison of endurance charges).

Next time Lori's lanter drops, please think twice before considering it as trash :)

I expect the price of these to go up with ziggyD using it.

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SkyCore wrote:

I expect the price of these to go up with ziggyD using it.

Haha.
Perfectly describes how the prices change when a streamer starts using a certain item.

"Lok dut stremur usse a itum, I mast us it oto, becus I kan no tink fo maself."

Just like what happened with consuming dark, after the incinerate balance (it is still quite strong) the prices went down and boom, someone started to use it with binos and they went straight back up to the old price.

I bet if he started to use the veil of the night, the prices would go up on those items too.

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krenderke wrote:

someone started to use it with binos and they went straight back up to the old price.

I predicted bino's jumping to 20 ex for this league as soon as poison changes were released.
I guess there is still time.

Lori's has always been a great ring. Problem is that it requires low-life for the damage reduction, and most low-life builds would rather just use DPS and ES rings instead.