Note: it’s 50% now!

Yep, + that, I had to wait until he hovers the item and pause the video to figure out why it is good Just highlighting a stat that makes unique great instead of name-dropping it would make so much difference

Yeah, like lightning coil for its 50% phys to lightning damage taken

That would significantly slow the pace of the video and cause him to lose engagement among people not super new. As a generalisation it's likely fair to suggest PoE players typically know how to use a search engine.

​@intdoublecharbool no it wouldn't

The two methods I've used have been life stacking (9k+ life, then you have 5k to spare) or with pathfinder you can maintain a life flask, which keeps you full hp while allowing petrified blood to still save you if you get bonked a bit hard.

they are super squishy to degens, and petrified blood itself does lower your eHP against single big hits. Personally I don't like it at all, and it's more of a "I want to go low life for pain attunment, but don't want to lose half my life" sort of thing, rather than a defensive layer.

Main thing with petrified blood is that certain interactions fundamentally break the balance of the skill. Three main interactions come to mind to explain why builds want it. First is lowlife scalings. Some builds want to stay on low life for pain attunement or various other reasons, and petrified blood is a huge defensive layer for them. Other interaction is leech. Leech will not be removed until you reach full life, and you're never reaching full life with petrified blood. Third is defensive layers that either ignore the downside of petrified blood, or actually benefit from capping your life at a certain value. Pathfinder is a good example because all their sustain is from flasks, so they get an additional life buffer from petrified blood. Also consider items like defiance of destiny, which has the line, "Gain #% of Missing Unreserved Life before being hit by an Enemy". This interaction benefits from being capped at half life. Petrified blood is mainly utility, on a lot of builds it doesn't increase your theoretical max hit. But it's worth for the other things it provides, and for some builds it absolutely does increase your tankiness considerably

Another big interaction is with Defiance of Destiny and regaining 42% of missing unreserved life before you get hit, which is actually boosted by Petrified Blood making recovery 67% more effective. Stack it with a heap of Damage Recouped as Life and with Viridi’s Veil making you immune to crits and rolling all damage as unlucky and your EHP skyrocket, since you effectively heal off anything that isn’t one-shotting you. Run it on Chieftain with Cloak of Flame + Dawnbreaker for 60% of Phys taken as Fire as well as easy 90% max ele res, and allocate Juggernaut’s Unbreakable with Forbidden Flesh and Forbidden Flame. And then ofc run Vaal Breach with 100% ignite chance and some sort of prolif on your main skill so you can get fat Hinekora explosions on bosses. Throw a Progenesis and some chaos res + Soul of Shakari in there, snag corrupted blood immunity from a notable or a GG jewel, and then run a bleed immunity flask (or steelskin, but Molten Shell is better since you want lots of armour) - the only thing left to screw you is ground degen. Congrats! You’ve successfully created a character with 100k EHP that can take a max ele hit of roughly 120k, while still pumping out 200-300k consistent DPS from corpse explodes and inconsistent 10mil+ ignites on bosses thanks to Vaal Breach. Have fun.

The biggest is progenesis, especially if you can scale the flask effect. Progenesis gives you one shot protection above what your max hp would be without petrified blood. The other largest factors are having huge life recovery and more defensive layers.

That was FIRE!

way back he made a poe academy video with nugi on this topic, maybe u can find it

​@@oxylpoe Thanks a lot. I will check it out.

I still dont understand it xD

Armor does not equal less physical damage taken %. Thats why it says estimated. Things like Endurance Charges, say, 4% less physical damage taken. Armor, does not. The armor formula is a bit weird to explain, so I will just put it kind of like Ziz does. Armor has a hard cap to how much dmg it can prevent, based on the armor you have. So if you have lets say 75k armor, you might be preventing 90% of damage from white mobs, 85% from magic mobs (who probably do slightly more damage), and then probably only 40% of the big rares. Then, you probably only prevent 10% of the damage uber/pinnacles. Endurance charges, prevent 4% each. That is not armor (And they do stack together). So we will say the 3 endurance charges reduce the damage by 12%, and then the armor reduces the amount by X. So if you take 100k damage, youll take (88k - ArmorFormulaShitHere) so long as the damage you take is at least 10k. Obviously 100k is a big hit, but I believe endurance charges and armor combined still can't combine past 90% DR in the phys mitigation calculation (AKA before dmg conversions) @@sillakilla8674

too broken with CI

Would need to be a prefix.

@@deathwrow9652 IMO it should be a suffix so you have the option to also get damage taken as elemental as a prefix.

@@Siegram999 that's why it is a hot take. 25% phys damage taken deleted it's quite a substantial amount. But then we have Fortify, so fortify that needs investment just for phys.

@@Siegram999 Incadescant heart exists

True, but that's mostly bleeds/corrupting blood which is solved with a flask.

It won't count delays between hits because there are so many different monsters that have different attack speeds. Think of it more like "A pack of this mob just surrounded me and I can tank this many hitting me at the same time before I get sent to the void"

Bro, use helmet enchant and unveil on body armour. Don't need to rely on lightning coil or cloak of flames. When you get a delve helmet, you can get 10% phys to ele from it, and then you can also use eldritch currency for more

@@m.h.4907 I think you're missing my point. I don't want it on armor period. I want to use other unique body armors besides one that is only used for defense.

​@@sadomoreno5829Yeah, you can do that too. Then run taste of hate and progenisis and you'll never die. I'll do that too on my Maw of Mischief build because I'm tied to unique body and helmet

​@@m.h.4907 "only a Progenesis" just casual 60 divines lol the dudes criticism is fair, you're pushing it.

@@ghgfjfgkghdfh Flask is 30 div, but you can use Atziri alternative, leathe shade keystone..there are many ways to build defenses. Phys mitigation isn't the only viable option and Degen is anyway more of a problem in endgame for most builds

This thing alone what make Juggernaut so brokenly tanky.

I also bought a plethora of PCs.

Howw you can get there in like 4 days lok

100% damage shift and transcendence poggers

I agree. I think armor needs to be reworked a bit, especially when it comes to the data it shows the player vs what it actually does.

It really feels weird that the bottleneck for making a character somewhat tanky is in the chest piece. It basically renders any more unique choice moot because you will reach a certain point where your character just cannot handle any physical damage

Phys taken as fire and lightning do stack, because they don't really interact with the other, they just shift more damage. What he's saying is that if you had phys taken as fire, and then divine flesh to take 50% of elemental damage as chaos, the fire damage that was converted from physical wouldn't be converted again to chaos.

You can convert 100% lightning to chaos and fire, but you cant convert 100% to say fire, and then convert fire to chaos. Say a hit of 100 lightning damage, taken as fire would be 100 fire damage taken. But since there is no fire damage on the original hit, nothing would be converted to chaos.

Open pob and do the math

​@@killed_bya_bot7775this is not a good answer

@@avalokiteshvara113 tell me which games actually give you a full run down of all your stats and how they work correctly. At least PoE community has PoB to fall back onto. In every game there’s hidden mechs that you can’t see that drastically affect your gameplay. Educate yourself.

Wrong

elemental is way worse, even the most degenerate tornado shot 2k life players have spell suppression, i would say it goes elemental -> chaos -> phys

​@@cykablyat6348yeah cus ur way more likely to die to spells playing ts than melee hits, and spell suppress is pretty easy on ranger whereas phys mitigation is impossible lol

​@@cykablyat6348go fight the chicken on the canyon map and tell me ele is scarier than physical lmao. The other responder is right, you just arent being hit by physical

Most damage in POE is elemental so it's easier to shift Phys to ele since we're already capping our resistances. You can either use crafts on armour or use flasks or petrified blood. If you're not a Pathfinder you can have uptime on flasks through the Babala keystone from the unique jewel and a cluster jewel that increases flask effect and duration. There are ways to mitigate the Phys reduction without solely depending on lightning coil, cloak of flames or fourth vow. You just have to figure out what you want to equip that is synergistic with your build and your style of game play alongside your budget.

@@TheModdedwarfare3 go have fun trying to complete the fucking acts without ele resistance, theres no way at this day and age of poe people are so unaware of what is going on in their builds, if you want to actually play the game you need atleast 75% capped resistances, spell suppression and/or fourth vow + divine flesh and something like grace, even then you arent unkillable to ele damage and if you are hardcore you might need even more, for phys damage determ+grace+defiance banner and phys damage as crafts on body and helmet IS ENOUGH FOR HARDCORE AND THERES MORE WAYS TO DO IT TOO YOU CAN GET TO LVL 96 FREE WITHOUT ANY PHYS MITIGATION ON SOFTCORE

There is easy way, if you don't have something amulet-based. Willowgift.

You can farm the divination card "The Coming Storm" which needs 8 cards and gives a lightning coil. I'm not sure which maps drop it but you can check the wiki for the full list.

Check in poewiki where's the cards get dropped

flask effect works with the phys to ele part of the Taste of Hate flask

Taste of hate is a unique flask that gives a portion of physical damage from hits taken as cold damage, which can be called with flask effect. Pathfinder can have permanent uptime on it and likes to stack flask effect as well.

Taste of hate, helmet implicit and Temple mod and if you are feeling spicy dawnbringer shield

you know those vids who claimed hey have 50-100m dps? tried it.its not even as good as the good ol EA ballista who supposedly only have 8-10m dps. its sooooooo weird. wasted 50 div on a subpar build that loses completely to a 3 div build.

@@ssllsg9439 yep it’s all bait from people who just don’t understand the game/pob

​@@ssllsg9439a lot of it is pob warriors finding the perfect scenario where everything is up at all times. The build I'm working on can hit 200m dps... if I have been fighting the boss for like 12 seconds

You can get physical damage reduction some other ways like with endurance charge stacking. But yeah for most builds lightning coil is just the absolute best 1 piece become tankier item.

I’m guessing you mean the quad tab

@@ki11em59 the extra inventory connected to his inventory actual inventory the quad is for your loot chest.

@@oOGamaRayOoit’s not an mtx, it’s from the Primalist ascendancy.

@@ethanlarge3572 thank you! I might have to look into that!

Would be interested as well. I googled it and cant find anyone talking about it

So: first of all we can use Lightning coil for the first 50%. Next, we can use the Dawnbreaker shield for (on max roll that is) another 20%, 70% in total. We can also use a helmet with 8% on a prefix and 6% on an eldritch implicit, so that's another 14%. The last 16% are covered if we take the unique taste of hate flask. While active, it gives as another up to 15% phys taken as cold dmg. With the increased flask effect that you get from the pathfinder ascendancy, this will make us shift 100% phys dmg. Lastly we can equip a ruby and a topaz flask alongside our taste of hate (which is a sapphire flask) to push our resistance against elemental damage. Now we only need to sustain our flasks infinitely after we press them once. For this, we take the crafting bench enchant for 'flask reapplies after its duration' (something like that, can't remember the exact name rn). Together with some inc flask charges gained and inc flask duration this should be easy, otherwise there's the timeless jewel keystone The Traitor (which you get from Balbala).

Excellent thank you, I thought I was missing something with the ascendencies.

The only thing strong enough to kill him is himself. (Smite reflect XDDDDDD)

Helmet Temple mod and exarch or eater implicit for like 20%, 20% from taste of hate, lightning coil 50%, watchers eye I think 10% or so per purity mod.

Yup or just take dawnbreaker for the last 20%

@@TheModdedwarfare3 how it is connected with pathfinder

@@EnderElohim taste of haste perma up time + flask effect makes it easier to get the 100%, on top of that, they use it most conisitently because Petrified Blood, Progenesis, and Transendence with perma life flasks makes Pathfinders practically impossible to kill, so they benefit the most from shifting damage taken as

@@jmanredbull1 so source is flask and pathfinder make flask better interesting