Endurance and low life builds

[Buell]

does endurance stay perma engaged if you have a low life build under the threshold or does it count ward as health before its activated

[Neokortex]

Neither.

However, the last bit of life will probably fall completely below your Endurance Threshold.

[Llama8]

Endurance only affects damage taken to life below the threshold regardless of whether your hp was above the threshold when you took the hit. It has no effect on damage applied to ward.

[Buell]

so its completely useless for low life builds

[Llama8]

Pretty much.

[Heavy]

For Low Health ward builds yes.

But Low Health builds that do not rely on ward, like a Death Seal Lich with Deadlock Node in Death Seal, can utilize Enudrance very well.

Anotehr thing to note: Endurance affects all incoming damage below your endurance threshold, even if you take damage while you are above your endurance threshold and this damage does bring you below your endurance threshold.

Then the damage will be partially be reduced by endurance.

[Tree]

@Heavy

Anotehr thing to note: Endurance affects all incoming damage below your endurance threshold, even if you take damage while you are above your endurance threshold and this damage does bring you below your endurance threshold.

Then the damage will be partially be reduced by endurance.

That’s a very confusing statement, so let’s see if I can put some numbers to this:

Let’s say a build has 50% endurance and a 500 HP threshold. If you have 1,000 HP and take a hit for 1,000 damage, are you saying that you take 500 HP of damage + 500 * 50% = 250 HP for a total of 750 HP? As opposed you not investing in Endurance, and using the default stats of 20% and 200 HP, you’d take 800 HP + 200 * 80% = 160 for a total of 960 HP?

So investing in Endurance helps as a one-shot avoidance mechanism?

[Heavy]

@Tree

That’s a very confusing statement, so let’s see if I can put some numbers to this:

Not sure what’s confusing, but in the following paragraphs you got everything right

@Tree

Let’s say a build has 50% endurance and a 500 HP threshold. If you have 1,000 HP and take a hit for 1,000 damage, are you saying that you take 500 HP of damage + 500 * 50% = 250 HP for a total of 750 HP? As opposed you not investing in Endurance, and using the default stats of 20% and 200 HP, you’d take 800 HP + 200 * 80% = 160 for a total of 960 HP?

All the calculations here are correct.

@Tree

So investing in Endurance helps as a one-shot avoidance mechanism?

Yes it does.

[Think0028]

Yeah, Endurance is secretly actually just a great stat for every class, it’s just mandatory for low life non-ward builds.

[Tree]

@Heavy

Not sure what’s confusing

Mathematically, it makes sense, it’s confusing in the way that it applies to the character. Your character is only being hit once, but the damage is calculated as if there are two hits: the first hit that takes you directly to your threshold, and then the reduced damage past that threshold.

Of course, the numbers are all that matter, so I’ll take this new knowledge to the bank. It’ll be a pain optimizing for all these numbers, but optimization is half the fun of it.