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So I am trying to wrap my head around this before spending the points actually to test it...

Currently, in Blight League, I am running a Necro Build, but I am trying to alter it to further increase my potential late game and the math and details are very limited.

So just searching the internet, It states that Mistress of Sacrifice when combined with Spirit Offering, takes your BASE MAX HP times the amount of corpse, then it adds any passive bonuses and reductions...

In this example:

~1467 base life (always first)

~145% increased Max Energy Shield (passives + int)

~191% increased life

264 * (1 + 1.45 + 1.91) = 1151 (~1154 is the amount actually given, but off due to not using decimals)

Basically everything i have read states the spell looks at the base max life, before even looking at the passive tree... So since Chaos Innoculation is a passive, would it come before the first look, or afterwards in 2nd look?

~1467 base life (1 due to CI)

~145% increased Max Energy Shield (passives + int)

~191% increased life

Would it be...

264 * (1 + 1.45 + 1.91) = 1151 Energy Shield

or

1 * (1 + 1.45 + 1.91) = 4.36 Energy Shield

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There is no distinction at all based on where you get certain bonuses from, nor a sequence which this can interrupt to get a value.

Conversion (gain x as extra y is a special case of conversion) applies all modifiers that would apply to either x or y (in this case life or energy shield). The "increased" and "reduced" modifiers stack additively with each other, because that's how those modifiers work. But increases are not the only kind of modifiers.

CI's "value is exactly 1, no exceptions" is also considered a modifier to life. As such, it also applies to the ES which is being converted from life, and sets the value to 1.