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30% of the damage (300) is taken from mana before life. Assuming you have at least 300 mana, you're only losing life from 700 damage, so only 200 life would be lost from the bottom half of life, and 200 * 40% = 80 of that loss is prevented.

You immediately lose 620 life and 300 mana, then lose 80 life over 4 seconds.

agnostic's mana drain when "you are not on full life" actually triggers off having reserved life

No, it cares about having full life, exactly like it says. It is not possible to be on full life while you have reserved life, but you don't need any reserved life for it to work.

If the wording is unchanged and it only specifies bleeding, it will only prevent bleeding affecting you. I don't know if that stat is being changed to also apply to corrupted blood or not.

You took 100 damage. How much life you lost as a result doesn't affect the recouping.

The life loss prevention (petrified blood does not mitigate or modify damage taken in any way) applies all the time, but only prevents losing life from the lower half of your life.

If you are on full life with 1000 max life, and take a hit of 1000 damage with petrified blood up (assuming all the damage goes to life due to no ES/MoM/etc), you will still take 1000 damage (which matters for anything counting damage taken), but instead of that damage taken removing 1000 life, petrified blood prevents some of that.

Only 500 of that life loss would be from the lower half of your life, so the prevention only applies to that half. The other 500 life loss is unaffected.

A level 1 petrified blood prevents 40% of that loss, which is 200 prevented life loss - so in this case you take 1000 damage, but only lose 800 life immediately. Then it makes you lose 100% of the prevented life loss over 4 seconds - so you'd lose 200 life over 4 seconds, or 50 life lost per ...

Corrupted Blood as always thematically been "blood got on you and it hurts" (Corrupting Fever just lets players be on the other side of that). It was introduced for Dominus as the effect of blood falling out of the sky which hurt if it got on you, was added to a nemesis mod that applied it to you when you hit the monster (because some of it's blood splashes on you), then again in a bloodline mod that applies it to you when you kill the monsters - again applying the debuff at a time you'd be exposed to the monster's blood.

since the overall damage taken from the hit is lessened

This is untrue. Petrified blood does not change how much damage you take.

It changes what happens to your life as a result of taking that damage, which fundamentally can't happen until you actually take it and the amount of damage taken is finalised.

If, without petrified blood, something would hit you for 100 damage, and that damage would remove 100 life (because you have no ES and aren't using guard skills/ES/whaterver), the only part of that petrified blood can change is how much life is lost. That hit would still always immediately deal 100 damage, you just might not immediately lose 100 life (and might lose more life over time after the hit).

Low is standardised as 50% or below for all three.

Only while you actually are not at full life - if you use flasks to recover to full, Agnostic will not be draining anything. But just because you stop benefitting from the recovery at 50% won't stop it giving you that recovery.

Corrupting blood is a bleed effect

It is not. It technically never was, but it has been sort of half treated as one for a long time, as a result of a descision a long time ago to let staunching flasks also remove & prevent corrupted blood on the basis that both debuffs had blood-related theming.

Previously, things with corrupted blood on them counted as "bleeding" for most purposes (but not all). The corrupted blood debuff was never the bleeding debuff, and was not an ailment (bleeding is). Anything that removed bleeding also removed corrupted blood, and as a weird result of this, effects that remove a random ailment could remove corrupted blood despite it not being an ailment at all (regardless of whether you were actually bleeding as well). Nothing that specificially scaled damage with bleeding scaled corrupted blood, but some things that modified how damage was taken from bleeding did.

Obviously with giving players (easier) acce...

Exsanguinate is the same as Storm Brand or Orb of Storms in that it's beams can chain, which is the requirement for the chaining tag, but the gem does not inherently have a modifier that causes them to chain.

Adding the chain support, or having +chain modifiers on your character will cause them to chain, just like with those skills.

Until you use a flask, yes.

Bringing up the concept of damage over time on the gem, when it isn't relevant to what that gem does is just as likely to add to confusion as to prevent it, because it brings up that association for players who wouldn't have thought of it.

Skills describe what they do, not what they don't do.

Petrified Blood - 35% Aura

Petrified Blood is definitely not an aura. Letting you apply those downsides to teammates would be a bad idea.

Low life is now defined as 50% life or below.

Losing life from petrified blood is not damage over time. If it was, it would be described as such (and would double-dip with damage taken modifiers, which obviously would be silly)

Nothing removes leech effects on reaching 50% life. Petrified Blood just stops recovery from applying at that point, it does not remove leech.

EDIT: If you reserve 50% of life, that will stop leech at 50%, because leech stops at the effective maximum, rather than the actual maximum. Petrified Blood doesn't change that interaction.

I saw this comment reply in my inbox and for some reason completely misread the quoted part as having the numbers swapped and thought I'd made a crazy error in my post (I wrote a fair bit of it last night before bed while tired, so a distinct possibility), but that's the correct value for the mod, it's from Poet's Pen.

You've clearly put some effort and thought into this, and it defintely touches on some stuff I've put probably too much time into thinking about over the years (I deal with the text of stat descriptions, not so much the rest of the layout). Please bear in mind these are my personal opinions only, and I'm not in charge of UI descisions or anything, but here's some feedback to consider.

I agree with a lot of the feedback I see other players giving regarding too much wasted empty space making your mockup larger than it needs to be (a problem on more complicated items), and feeling a bit sterile - personally I think some of that comes from the sans serif font, which I personally find if anything a little harder to read.

Centre or left alignment is definitely a contentious one, I've heard a lot of opinions both ways. Personally I think the centre alignment fits better in PoE and has a more "classic" look, although I don't love how it looks in some of the cases where a st...