clarify "life gain on block" for me please!

was just thinking about this...is the life gain calculated at the same time as the damage taken, or after?

Say I have an eHP pool of 6500ish and I have 5% life on block. I take glancing blows so 65% of damage gets through.

I block a hit of 10k. Assuming no other defenses I take 6500 damage, and I recover 5% of my life. Do I die from the hit before recovery, or is the life gain calculated into the total damage I take allowing me to survive?

If I recall correctly, life on block was recovered before you take damage, but if you are already at full HP, it does not prevent you from dying if that blocked hit would onehit you.

So in the case of your example, you would die.

Against 9998 damage (-2 to make the example safe against rounding rather than -1), you would survive with 1 life.

If you had 6175/6500 life you could still survive a 9998 damage hit with 1 life.

Life on block is recovery, not mitigation. I don't know for certain if the recovery happens before or after damage is taken, but it definitely doesn't occur at the same time. If the damage received exceeds your maximum health, no amount of recovery will ever be effective.

no matter if it happens before or after, if you take hit at full life that kills you will die and get no recovery.

If it happpens before you are already at full life = no effect
If it happens after = you already dead

It cannot happen at the same time as damage.

cool thanks for verifying. that is how I thought it worked for a few years now lol, just wanted to make sure I wasn't being dumb...