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perform91

Who wants to help me figure out/explain to me, exactly how life is calculated

Working on optimizing my build in the Passive Skill Tree Planner program, and while im looking at my total attributes, i'm having trouble figuring out exactly how my life is calculated.

Currently I'm sitting at 436 strength, and +1036 maximum life. Then, from health nodes and such I gain 151% increased maximum life.

So the math from that is 2 strength = 1 life. So 436;2 is 218.

Then 218+1036(from gear+nodes) = 1254 times (1.51)= 1893 life.

My question is, what the hell am I missing, because currently I'm sitting in town at exactly 2600.

I can't quite figure out what I'm missing in the equation. halp

edit: I'm level 53 if that helps any :\

MAJOR EDIT 2: OKAY, holy fuck, I went full retard.

It calculates additionally, for instance, if your maximum life is 597 from talents and strength, without the maximum life increase calculation. The math is quite literally 597+597(1.51)=1498 life.

You learn something new everyday.

Posted Feb 18, 2013, 6:34 AM UTC · edited

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CertusAT•

You get 50 at the start 6 per level and 1 per 2 strg

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Zeromatter•

Are you taking into account the life you gain through levels?

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perform91OPslam5lyfe•

Thats what I'm trying to figure out right now, didn't think about that until after I made this post.

I ended up taking all my gear off in town, and I have ended up with 1498 life with 350 strength +skill points and being level 53.

Going to see where working back from there gets me in regards to comparing it to the calculator and figure out where I'm going wrong.

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tyrico•

Take off all your gear and redo the calculation to see if it works, might help.

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phLvisionmasterscrub•

probably missing your +life on gear. you can get more life from the percent health nodes and +life on gear than pure strength by the way.

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perform91OPslam5lyfe•

negatory, the +1036 is from gear+nodes. i'll edit post.

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frvwfr2•

I think the tree calculator already counts the life from strength.

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perform91OPslam5lyfe•

It does, the problem I was having is that I didn't realize it calculated additionally so I was missing the part where I had to add in my maximum life :(

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iBanana32GBHotCakes•

No time to comment specifically but here's the one I have in my spreadsheet it is 100% accurate to my characters:

=(50 + ((Char_level - 1)*6) + STR/2 + Life_on_items + Life_other) * pct_life_nodes)

Life_other: maximum life bonus. 40 from Oak, +30 from Marauder Passive (Heart of the Gladiator), +30 from Templar passive (Discipline and Training).

Life_on_items: flat life bonus on all equipment combined (typically for me its 350-400 endgame, and likely 600+ for people crafting ideal items like Kripp does).

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