Question about Blood Rage in a hybrid build, please help

Guys, my reaver has 6103 armor, which is 62% physical damage reduction. I have 3k life 2K ES and 3.6% life regeneration from the tree.

When I activate Blood Rage, if I understand it right, the life or ES loss 4%*(1-0.62) is 1.52%. Since I have 3.6% life regen on the tree, it would be more than enough to offset the loss. However, when I cast the spell, my ES was drained pretty fast and even life was draining even faster than when I almost do not have armor at all after taking down the shield.

Someone pls tell me where i got this wrong. Thanks!

-Blood Rage and other physical degens (e.g. bleed) are not mitigated by armour. Armour only blocks damage from hits.

-Blood Rage deals damage equal to 4% of your life PLUS 4% of your ES at all times, not just 4% of whichever it's damaging at the time.

-As a side note, the physical damage reduction shown in your character screen is an estimate and is pretty worthless because of how armour works. The maths can be a bit annoying but basically, the more damage a single hit deals relative to the armour you have, the less effective the armour is at blocking it. Pay no attention to that number whatsoever, just look at your raw armour amount.

Per Wiki:

Physical damage reduction: Damage dealt by Blood Rage is lowered by physical damage reduction.


Can you further explain the mechanics?

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XiaoXiaoZhu wrote:

Per Wiki:

Physical damage reduction: Damage dealt by Blood Rage is lowered by physical damage reduction.


Can you further explain the mechanics?

That refers to things that actually grant percentage damage reduction, such as endurance charges or fortify. Yet another reason the "% DR from armour" stat is misleading.

how about lightning coil?

Do you have the Zealot's Oath keystone?

Anyway, the degen is based on life + ES so it is a bit more difficult to sustain with a hybrid build.