PATCH 1.2.0 --Life Nerf-- Explained with math

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StrangeCloud wrote:

IV. Your wearing end game gear that revolves around getting high Life.
*numbers rounded for easier comprehension.
1. +500 from a Kaom's Heart(body)
2. +100 from helm
3. +100 from gloves
4. +100 from boot
5. +100 from belt
6. +70 from left ring
7. +70 from right ring
8. +70 from amulet

##Total base(flat) life after level, Strength bonus, and Gear : 2464

That's absolutely ridiculous. So life-based builds are now balanced on Kaom's Heart + max HP on all armor pieces?

What a travesty.

Maybe %life is nerfed to balance CraftingBench max life?

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Ivogil wrote:

Maybe %life is nerfed to balance CraftingBench max life?

No crafting bench will never roll T1 stats. I think at most you can roll a T3. So mid-game and lower geared people might see an increase in their life on gear, end game is not affected.

The difference is 1% life every 3 life regular lifenodes and the full life every missing life node.

Characters still having all life nodes will lose 15% other characters losing life nodes will lose more.

And the Taiwan notes didn't show any note damage of all mobs has been reduced by 15%.

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Ivogil wrote:

Maybe %life is nerfed to balance CraftingBench max life?

The devs idea is to create another timesink so players craft items to make up for that 15%+ HP loss.
Mainly in cruel! It's an oppressive way to force the expansion on the players.

my god people. somebody call......


I'm honestly stoked about changes to the game. It keeps it fresh and makes me try out new build ideas. Nothing is permanent, if a mistake was made, it can still be changed again.

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Madloot wrote:

I'm honestly stoked about changes to the game. It keeps it fresh and makes me try out new build ideas. Nothing is permanent, if a mistake was made, it can still be changed again.

You do realise that some people don't want to start a new character every major patch? The nerf for life was totally unjustified and I can understand everybody who is upset about it.
GGG promised that the reduced life nodes will be balanced out by increasing life/level. However they also reduced the life node effectiveness on top of that. Now we have less life nodes who are also less effective resulting in an overall significant loss in total life while still being forced to get every small 4% and 5% node that are now really scattered.

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StrangeCloud wrote:

yea, after fixing the calculation it's not too bad.

Yep, and the subreddit figured this out about 30 minutes after the new tree was released.

People keep saying, "Oh it's not too bad".

With the proper calculations isn't it a ~10% life nerf?

A nerf is a nerf, and life didn't need one.

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StrangeCloud wrote:

yea, after fixing the calculation it's not too bad.

It's a 10% nerf only if you manage to pick up the correct amount of life nodes, and depending on where you start on the tree and your build and where you're headed, it's actually kind of difficult to reach the % life that is equivalent of a 200-220% life build from before.