Just for fun, i put 3 ith on grisworld heart armor on my sorc. That means 45% of the damage received goes to mana, + 10% on my boots and 10% on my shield.
That means 65% of the damage normally must go to the mana.
The problem is that my mana doesn’t seems to move a lot but my life taking big shot.
Is there some kind of math i don’t understand here or?
SOLVED The problem came to the translation in french which is stupid.
“45% des dégats subis sont soustrait au mana, which literally translate by 45% of damage taken is subtracted from mana”
Thats not HOW that affix works. It is NOT a mana shield. It just provides mana equal to a % of the damage you took.
So 50% damage to mana on a 150 damage hit would give you 75 mana back when you took the hit. It does not lower the damage taken.
Yeah. If you are expecting that if you put those runes and you expect any dmg would take away from your mana pool first before it hits your life, that is not how that works. It is like Dragonmaster mentioned. It means if you take dmg, that a portion of that is refunded back to your mana pool
It isn’t worded very well, but you have to remember there’s limited space in the item windows (particularly back in the day when 800x600 resolution was the norm). They had to take the shortest phrases that could possibly comvey the intended meaning.
Also: The game wasn’t originally available in other languages to my knowledge, so someone did in fact drop the ball there.
I feel for ya OP. Translations in many games leave allot to be desired. Allot of companies will “translate” terms, but not really “localize” terms in a way that makes sense to people who speak the language.
