06-09-2012, 10:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-06-2012, 02:44 AM by MongoJerry.)
(06-09-2012, 03:10 AM)Roland Wrote: Are you sure about that? Do we know if Diamond Skin is affected by things like Armor, Resistances, etc.? If it is, that makes it much more viable and doesn't require it to scale as a percentage of your life instead (which would probably be OP). With my current gear on my Demon Hunter, adding 21k life (essentially 620 Vitality) would give me an additional 82.4k Effective Health, which is quite a huge sum. Now, if Diamon Skin does not take damage mitigation into effect I could see it being less useful, but still - 21.7k life is a big bonus, even in Inferno. That could easily mean the difference between life and death in all sorts of situations, especially if I'm pinned down and can't move.
It, of course, takes into consideration your armor, resistances, etc. I mean that it doesn't scale with your maximum health, which would not be overpowered. Instead, it would make it consistent with most other skills in the game -- just as offensive skills are based on your weapon damage and many defensive skills (like say Mirror Image) are based on a fraction of your health and use your current armor, resistances, block, etc.
To understand my point, let's take an extreme but not really absurd case. Let's say Blizzard releases some new gear in an upcoming content patch, and we start walking around with 200k health. Diamond Skin will seem like absolutely nothing. As it is, Diamond Skin/Crystal Shell has gone from being equal to 100% to 50% to 30% of my maximum health as I've leveled up and geared up over time.