Petrified Blood

Petrified BloodSpell
Level: (1-20)
Reservation: 35% Mana
Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 24Applies a buff that protects the lower half of your life, preventing some of the immediate life loss when damaged by hits and applying the loss over time instead. Your life cannot be raised above low life other than by flasks, and while above low life, skills will cost life as well as mana.Life Recovery other than Flasks cannot Recover Life to above Low Life
When taking Damage from Hits, 40% of Life loss below half Life is Prevented, then (100-81)% of Life loss prevented this way is lost over 4 seconds
Skills gain a Base Life Cost equal to 40% of Base Mana Cost while not on Low Life

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
-(0.25-5)% of Life loss prevented is lost over 4 secondsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 24Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemPetrifiedBlood

Petrified Blood is a spell that reserves mana to protect the character's lower half of their maximum life by causing a portion of the immediate life loss from hits to be lost over time instead. At higher skill levels, the amount of life loss over time is reduced, even though the percentage of immediate life loss prevented remains constant. As a drawback, the character cannot recover life above low life by any means except with flasks and Temporal RiftTemporal RiftSpell
Level: (1-20)
Reservation: 10% Mana
Cooldown Time: 5.00 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Cast Time: 0.25 secRequires Level 34Reserves mana to apply a buff and leave afterimages of your recent past. Cast the spell again to return to the oldest afterimage, teleporting to that location as well as resetting your Life, Mana and Energy Shield to the values they had then.(0-38)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
Buff makes you Unaffected by Temporal Chains
This Spell's Cast Speed cannot be modified

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Buff causes Debuffs on you to expire (1-20)% fasterPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.. Skills also gain an additional life cost while the character is above low life.

Skill functions and interactions

Recovering Life

• "Life Recovery other than Flasks cannot Recover Life to above Low Life" can be interpreted as "Life Recovery other than Flasks cannot Recover Life above the Low Life threshold", meaning counting as on low life with e.g. Coward's LegacyCoward's Legacy
  Chain BeltRequires Level 52+(9-20) to maximum Energy Shield+(15-20) to all Attributes
  (5-10)% increased Movement Speed
  50% increased Effect of Curses on you
  You count as on Low Life while you are Cursed with Vulnerability
  You are Cursed with VulnerabilityDeath is your most important duty.
  Face it, or curse your bloodline for all eternity. will not allow you to fill your life to the normal maximum, as the threshold is unchanged.
  • So, increasing your low life threshold with the You count as on Low Life while at 55% of maximum Life or below Life Mastery passive will increase the amount of life you can recover up to without flasks, but not the amount of damage Petrified Blood can mitigate, as it states it will only protect you against life loss below half life.
• Life leech will attempt to recover life past the low life threshold. Since leech only ends when you are at maximum unreserved life, this effectively gives you an "overleech" effect like Brutal Fervour, as long as you have more unreserved life than your low life threshold.
  • In the same vein, The Agnostic will continuously drain your mana to recover life, since it can never recover your life to full.
• Other life recovery sources will only continue to work if temporarily dropping into low life.

Effect on maximum hit pool

• While on low life, Petrified Blood reduces the maximum damage you can take from a single hit without dying. With PB active, a hit needs to deal 83.33% of your maximum life to oneshot you at 50% life. However, it reduces the total amount of life loss from damage, making it synergize well with characters that have high Life pools.
• Conversely, Petrified Blood can still be used when the character is above low life. This increases the character's ability to withstand oneshots or bursts of damage that bring it below low life. However, most characters will not be able to stay above low life because of the added life costs and non-flask recovery being prevented.
  • At full life with Petrified Blood active, a hit must deal 133.33% of your maximum life to oneshot.
• Petrified Blood does not mitigate damage over time, so characters that remain at low life will be more vulnerable to it.

Miscellaneous

• You cannot directly mitigate the life loss over time from Petrified Blood in any way, not even from sources of damage immunity like a Divine Shrine.
• Petrified Blood does not interact with resources lost before life, such as energy shield or mana.

Synergies

• Pain Attunement's bonus and other such conditional bonuses can be maintained since non-flask recovery will never bring the character above low life.
• As stated above, Petrified Blood can grant an "overleech" effect.
• Master Surgeon lets the Pathfinder Ascendancy class maintain uptime on Life flasks to stay above low life most of the time while using Petrified Blood. Any damage taken that exceeds the low life threshold is reduced, increasing the amount of damage it takes to get oneshot.
• Divination DistillateDivination Distillate
  Large Hybrid FlaskRecovers 140 Mana over 5.00 Seconds
  Recovers 510 Life over 5.00 Seconds
  Consumes 20 of 40 Charges on useRequires Level 30(30-50)% increased Rarity of Items found during Effect
  25% increased Light Radius during Effect
  +10% to Elemental Resistances during EffectKnowledge is fermented in pain and loss
  Distilled with reflection
  To quench the thirst of those
  who dream of enlightenmentRight click to drink. Can only hold charges while in belt. Refills as you kill monsters. can be maintained by using the added life cost to counteract the flask's life recovery.
• Petrified Blood will not interfere with Cast When Damage Taken setups, since it delays life loss and not damage taken.
• Since Petrified Blood's "% of Life loss prevented this way is lost over 4 seconds" is the exact same duration as default Recoup effect, it can be used to directly counter Petrified Blood's Life Lost over Time. For a Level 21/20 Quality Petrified Blood Gem, exactly 30% Damage taken recouped as Life negates The Life lost from Petrified Blood.
• BloodnotchBloodnotch
  Crimson JewelLimited to: 1(40-60)% of Damage taken from Stunning Hits is Recovered as LifeAt the core of the warrior's spirit,
  a fierce determination burns,
  igniting their capacity to endure.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket. and Unfaltering can be used to instantly recover 100% of the immediate life loss if the player was stunned.
• Champion's First to Strike, Last to Fall can be activated by using a life flask to exit low life (provided unreserved life is above the low life threshold), then re-entering low life via taking damage or paying for skill costs.
• The life loss delay is multiplicative with ProgenesisProgenesis
  Amethyst FlaskLasts (4.23-8.78) Seconds
  Consumes (28-31) of 65 Charges on use
  +35% to Chaos ResistanceRequires Level 60(20-10)% reduced Charges per use
  (-35-35)% increased Duration
  When Hit during effect, 25% of Life loss from Damage taken occurs over 4 seconds insteadThey were bred in a cosmic ocean of raw creation.
  Feasting and drinking of the milk of the mother,
  they fought to the death for every last drop.Right click to drink. Can only hold charges while in belt. Refills as you kill monsters..

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Synergy with Dissolution of the Flesh

Gem level progression

Level			Life loss taken over time	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	24	58	100%	0	0
2	27	64	99%	118383	118383
3	30	71	98%	175816	294199
4	33	77	97%	254061	548260
5	36	83	96%	359090	907350
6	39	90	95%	498508	1405858
7	42	96	94%	682057	2087915
8	45	102	93%	921777	3009692
9	48	109	92%	1727879	4737571
10	50	113	91%	1138877	5876448
11	52	117	90%	1368233	7244681
12	54	121	89%	1638338	8883019
13	56	125	88%	1956648	10839667
14	58	130	87%	3655184	14494851
15	60	134	86%	3017327	17512178
16	62	138	85%	7793914	25306092
17	64	142	84%	15206031	40512123
18	66	146	83%	26185582	66697705
19	68	151	82%	62755923	129453628
20	70	155	81%	211877683	341331311
21	72	159	80%	—	—
22	74	—	79%	—	—
23	76	—	78%	—	—
24	78	—	77%	—	—
25	80	—	76%	—	—
26	82	—	75%	—	—
27	84	—	74%	—	—
28	86	—	73%	—	—
29	88	—	72%	—	—
30	90	—	71%	—	—
31	91	—	71%	—	—
32	92	—	70%	—	—
33	93	—	70%	—	—
34	94	—	69%	—	—
35	95	—	69%	—	—
36	96	—	68%	—	—
37	97	—	68%	—	—
38	98	—	67%	—	—
39	99	—	67%	—	—
40	100	—	66%	—	—

Item acquisition

Petrified Blood can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Petrified Blood can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description	Meta
13	The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.	Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem	A
6	The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb	Random level 20 gem	A
3	Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality: +20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter	Random gem with 20% quality	A
1	Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing # monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.	Random gem with 1–20% quality	A
1	The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.	Random divination card set exchange	A

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
Lost in Love Act 3

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
Lost in Love Act 3 Clarissa
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth

Ruthless mode

Petrified Blood cannot be obtained from quests or traded for using an Uncarved GemstoneUncarved GemstoneTrade this in to Siosa inside the Library for a Skill Gem through Siosa in Ruthless mode.

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Petrified Blood.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Petrified Blood Reservation 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Petrified Blood has 28% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 0
Enchantment Petrified Blood Reservation 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Petrified Blood has 40% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 0
Enchantment Petrified Blood Reservation 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Petrified Blood has 30% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 100
Enchantment Petrified Blood Reservation 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Petrified Blood has 45% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency	helmet 100

Alternate skill effects

Petrified Blood has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description
Invisible Buff EffectInvisible Buff EffectSkill Gem EffectRemoves the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, withering step, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.	Removes the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, withering step, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.14.0	Introduced to the game.