Dear GGG: Too much of players' total life is from gear and not enough is from leveling up.

The pressure to get maximum life on gear for survival is WAY to high compared to all other stats. If an item doesn't have a high tier maximum life prefix then it's useless, excluding pure ES items of course. This also means that way less items that drop are useful since they NEED to have maximum life to be worth considering.

I'd recommend taking off about 15-20% of the total maximum life from item affixes and giving a similar total to players naturally as they level up instead.