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 one of the Aura 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 both a 30% & 40% reserved mana gem. (There is currently only one 30% reserved mana gem, Hatred.)

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 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