Guide:Maintaining low life

Low Life is defined as having 35% or less health remaining. This state can be achieved by reserving 65% (or more) HP.

The problem with maintaining that amount of reserved health is whenever you obtain new gear or spend/adjust skill points, you could be modifying your health pool, bringing yourself out of this Low Life state, or causing more health to be reserved than necessary.

Using gems with a flat percent of reserved mana, one can maintain precisely 65% health reserved by supporting it with a Blood Magic and/or Reduced Mana gem, and/or Reduced Mana Reservation nodes from the Passive Skill Tree, across several permutations.

Below are the permutations for a few reserved mana gem combinations, most of which are Auras. (There is currently only one 30% reserved mana gem, Hatred, and one 25% reserved mana gem, Tempest Shield.)

Note: There are four Reduced Mana Reservation nodes -- each 5%, which is the same as a 95% multiplier. These nodes are not added, but multiplied together.

Permutations with 30% reserved mana gem

Within a single row, multiply all the Multiplier columns together, then multiply that number by 30% to get 65%. (Rounding errors may occur.)

Reduced Mana Gem		Reduced Mana Reservation		Blood Magic Gem
Level	Multiplier	# Nodes	Multiplier	Level	Multiplier
0	1.00	0	1.00	11	2.18
0	1.00	1	0.95	7	2.29
1	0.90	0	1.00	2	2.42
2	0.89	0	1.00	1	2.45

Permutations with 25% & 30% reserved mana gems

Within a single row, multiply all the Multiplier columns together, then multiply that number by 55% to get 65%. (Rounding errors may occur.)

Reduced Mana Gem		Reduced Mana Reservation		Blood Magic Gem
Level	Multiplier	# Nodes	Multiplier	Level	Multiplier
17	0.74	4	0.81	19	1.97
18	0.73	4	0.81	18	2.00
19	0.72	4	0.81	17	2.03
20	0.71	4	0.81	16	2.05

Permutations with 40% reserved mana gem

Within a single row, multiply all the Multiplier columns together, then multiply that number by 40% to get 65%. (Rounding errors may occur.)

Reduced Mana Gem		Reduced Mana Reservation		Blood Magic Gem
Level	Multiplier	# Nodes	Multiplier	Level	Multiplier
0	1.00	4	0.81	18	2.00
1	0.90	3	0.86	14	2.11
2	0.89	2	0.90	17	2.03
2	0.89	3	0.86	13	2.13
3	0.88	2	0.90	16	2.05
3	0.88	3	0.86	12	2.16
4	0.87	1	0.95	19	1.97
4	0.87	2	0.90	15	2.08
4	0.87	3	0.86	11	2.18
5	0.86	1	0.95	18	2.00
5	0.86	3	0.86	10	2.21
5	0.86	4	0.81	6	2.32
6	0.85	2	0.90	13	2.13
6	0.85	3	0.86	9	2.24
7	0.84	1	0.95	16	2.05
7	0.84	2	0.90	12	2.16
7	0.84	3	0.86	8	2.26
7	0.84	4	0.81	3	2.39
8	0.83	0	1.00	19	1.97
8	0.83	0	1.00	20	1.96
8	0.83	2	0.90	11	2.18
8	0.83	3	0.86	7	2.29
8	0.83	4	0.81	2	2.42
9	0.82	2	0.90	10	2.21
9	0.82	3	0.86	6	2.32
9	0.82	4	0.81	1	2.45
10	0.81	2	0.90	9	2.24
10	0.81	3	0.86	5	2.34
11	0.80	2	0.90	8	2.26
11	0.80	3	0.86	4	2.37
12	0.79	1	0.95	11	2.18
12	0.79	2	0.90	7	2.29
13	0.78	2	0.90	6	2.32
14	0.77	2	0.90	5	2.34
15	0.76	1	0.95	8	2.26
15	0.76	2	0.90	4	2.37
16	0.75	0	1.00	11	2.18
16	0.75	1	0.95	7	2.29
17	0.74	0	1.00	10	2.21
17	0.74	1	0.95	6	2.32
17	0.74	2	0.90	1	2.45
18	0.73	0	1.00	9	2.24
19	0.72	0	1.00	8	2.26
19	0.72	1	0.95	3	2.39
20	0.71	0	1.00	7	2.29
20	0.71	1	0.95	2	2.42