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 and/or Reduced Mana Reservation nodes from the Passive Skill Tree, and across several permutations.

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

Note: There are eight Reduced Mana Reservation nodes -- two of 4%, four of 5%, one of 8% and one of 10%. These nodes are additive. Combined, they give a 54% multiplier.

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 Reservation
Level	Multiplier	# Nodes	Multiplier	Level	Multiplier
0	1.00	0	1.00	11	2.18
0	1.00	1	0.95	7	2.29
0	1.00	2	0.90	2	2.42
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 Reservation
Level	Multiplier	# Nodes	Multiplier	Level	Multiplier
16	0.75	4	0.80	19	1.97
17	0.74	4	0.80	18	2.00
18	0.73	4	0.80	17	2.03
20	0.71	3	0.85	19	1.97
20	0.71	3	0.85	20	1.96

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