Petrified BloodSpell Level: (1-20) Reservation: 35% Mana Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 24Applies a buff that protects the lower half of your life, preventing some of the immediate life loss when damaged by hits and applying the loss over time instead. Your life cannot be raised above low life other than by flasks, and while above low life, skills will cost life as well as mana.Life Recovery other than Flasks cannot Recover Life to above Low Life When taking Damage from Hits, 40% of Life loss below half Life is Prevented, then (100-81)% of Life loss prevented this way is lost over 4 seconds Skills gain a Base Life Cost equal to 40% of Base Mana Cost while not on Low Life
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: -(0.25-5)% of Life loss prevented is lost over 4 seconds
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Petrified Blood is a spell that reservesmana to protect the character's lower half of their maximum life by causing a portion of the immediate life loss from hits to be lost over time instead. At higher skill levels, the amount of life loss over time is reduced, even though the percentage of immediate life loss prevented remains constant. As a drawback, the character cannot recover life above low life by any means except with flasks. Skills also gain an additional life cost while the character is above low life.
"Life Recovery other than Flasks cannot Recover Life to above Low Life" is a weird way to say, "Life Recovery other than Flasks cannot Recover Life above the Low Life threshold", which means Coward's LegacyCoward's Legacy Chain BeltRequires Level 52+(9-20) to maximum Energy Shield+(15-20) to all Attributes (5-10)% increased Movement Speed 50% increased Effect of Curses on you You count as on Low Life while you are Cursed with Vulnerability You are Cursed with VulnerabilityDeath is your most important duty. Face it, or curse your bloodline for all eternity. will not allow you to fill your life to the normal maximum, as the threshold is unchanged.
Increasing your low life threshold with the You count as on Low Life while at 55% of maximum Life or belowLife Mastery passive will increase the amount of life you can recover up to without flasks, but not the amount of damage Petrified Blood can mitigate. Petrified Blood will only protect you against damage that takes you below half life.
Petrified Blood will not mitigate damage that's dealt or redirected to energy shields or mana.
Petrified Blood reduces the maximum damage you can take from a single hit without dying. With PB active, a hit needs to deal 83.33% of your maximum life to oneshot you at 50% life.
You cannot directly mitigate the life loss over time from Petrified Blood in any way, not even from sources of damage immunity like a Divine Shrine.
Life leech will attempt to recover life past the low life threshold. Since leech only ends when you are at maximum unreserved life, this effectively gives you an "overleech" effect like Brutal Fervour, as long as you have more unreserved life than your low life threshold.
In the same vein, The Agnostic will continuously drain your mana to recover life, since it can never recover your life to full.
Options - Petrified Blood can be used with different options. For example it can be used while on full life with no life reserved. This allows for characters to be able to survive more damage from one single hit (or multiple hits). Life flasks are the only way to gain life above low life when using Petrified Blood. Other life gain sources will continue to work if temporarily dropping into low life.
Master Surgeon lets the Pathfinder Ascendancy class make use of Petrified Blood while keeping themselves above low life most of the time. Any damage taken that exceeds the low life threshold is reduced, increasing the amount of damage it takes to get oneshot by an attack.
Petrified Blood will not interfere with Cast When Damage Taken setups.[1]
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Path of Exile - Petrified Blood Mechanics Explained
Gem level progression
Level
Life loss taken over time
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
24
58
100%
0
0
2
27
64
99%
118383
118383
3
30
71
98%
175816
294199
4
33
77
97%
254061
548260
5
36
83
96%
359090
907350
6
39
90
95%
498508
1405858
7
42
96
94%
682057
2087915
8
45
102
93%
921777
3009692
9
48
109
92%
1727879
4737571
10
50
113
91%
1138877
5876448
11
52
117
90%
1368233
7244681
12
54
121
89%
1638338
8883019
13
56
125
88%
1956648
10839667
14
58
130
87%
3655184
14494851
15
60
134
86%
3017327
17512178
16
62
138
85%
7793914
25306092
17
64
142
84%
15206031
40512123
18
66
146
83%
26185582
66697705
19
68
151
82%
62755923
129453628
20
70
155
81%
211877683
341331311
21
72
159
80%
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
79%
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
78%
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
77%
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
76%
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
75%
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
74%
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
73%
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
72%
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
71%
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
71%
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
70%
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
70%
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
69%
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
69%
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
68%
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
68%
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
67%
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
67%
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
66%
N/A
N/A
Item acquisition
Petrified Blood can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Petrified Blood can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
13
The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.
Random corruptedlevel 21 Spell gem
A
6
The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb
Random level 20 gem
A
3
Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality:+20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
Random gem with 20% quality
A
1
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Random gem with 1–20% quality
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Random divination card set exchange
A
Quest reward
This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:
Class →
Witch
Shadow
Ranger
Duelist
Marauder
Templar
Scion
Quest ↓
Lost in Love Act 3
✗
✗
✗
✓
✓
✗
✓
Vendor reward
This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:
Class →
Witch
Shadow
Ranger
Duelist
Marauder
Templar
Scion
Quest ↓
Lost in Love Act 3 Clarissa
✗
✗
✗
✓
✓
✓
✓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa
✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth
✓
Ruthless mode
Petrified Blood cannot be obtained from quests or traded for using an Uncarved GemstoneUncarved GemstoneTrade this in to Siosa inside the Library for a Skill Gem through Siosa in Ruthless mode.
Related helmet enchantments
The following helmet enchantments affect Petrified Blood.
Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.
Name
Labyrinth
Stats
Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Petrified Blood Reservation 1
66
Merciless Labyrinth
Petrified Blood has 28% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency
helmet 0
Enchantment Petrified Blood Reservation 2
75
Eternal Labyrinth
Petrified Blood has 40% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency
helmet 0
Enchantment Petrified Blood Reservation 1
66
Merciless Labyrinth
Petrified Blood has 30% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency
helmet 100
Enchantment Petrified Blood Reservation 2
75
Eternal Labyrinth
Petrified Blood has 45% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency
helmet 100
Alternate skill effects
Petrified Blood has the following alternate skill effects:
Item
Effect(s)
Invisible Buff EffectInvisible Buff EffectSkill Gem EffectRemoves the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, withering step, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.
Removes the visual effects on the player from arctic armour, tempest shield, blood rage, molten shell, plague bearer, phase run, petrified blood, withering step, any aura, any blasphemied curse, or any herald gem.
Petrified Blood is a spell that reserves mana to protect the character's life in the low life threshold by causing a portion of the immediate life loss from hits to take effect over time instead.
For example, at 20/20, Petrified Blood will cause the player to take 76% of the 40% of the hit as life loss; a player would theoretically need at least 30.4% Life recoup in this scenario to counteract the loss. Modifiers to life recovery rate will affect the needed Recoup value.
Right click to remove from a socket. Petrified Blood is a spell that reserves mana to protect the character's lower half of their maximum life by causing a portion of the immediate life loss from hits to be lost over time instead.
The exact number is 35,791,394, or (231 - 1) / 60, or the damage cap divided by 60 seconds in a minute (as damage over time is internally calculated per minute instead of per second).
The dot cap in Path of Exile refers to the maximum amount of damage over time that a monster can take. The dot cap is determined by a 32-bit signed integer per minute, resulting in a limit of 2.47 billion damage per minute or 35.7 million damage per second.
Corrupted blood can also be completely avoided by using a jewel with the corrupted implicit modifier Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted on you. A non-jewel Delve mod of the same mod text, can also be found in the Azurite Mine.
The advantages to being low life: Ability to use Pain Attunement passive skill that grants more spell damage when on low life. Ability to use Bloodthirst Support for attack skills on life-based low life builds. Ability to use many more auras by using Life reservation in combination with Mana reservation.
Usually people use auras linked with Blood Magic passive or gem to get into a perm state of low life. Unless you have LOTS of chaos resist or chaos immunity, low life will get you killed. Running aura's via using a Blood Magic gem or attaining a Prism Guardian unique shield to hold your auras.
Petrified can only be removed by waiting out its debuff duration. Petrified is most commonly inflicted through Petrification Statues, a totem-like object depicting a gorgon (a humanoid with snakes as hair).
Energy Shield shown over mana, instead of life. Eldritch Battery (often referred to as EB) is a keystone passive skill that makes energy shield protect mana instead of life.
Mind Over Matter (often referred to as MoM) is a keystone passive skill that allows the character's mana to absorb a portion of the damage dealt to life. It is an essential part of the Mana before Life defensive technique.
Bleeding, or bleed, is an ailment that deals physical damage over time to the affected target. Moving targets suffer increased bleeding damage. Only physical damage hits can inflict bleed.
Damage over time (DoT) is a term used to describe damage from an ability or effect that is dealt over an extended period of time rather than occurring immediately. A DoT will deal damage that occurs at its individually specified intervals.
From Diablo 4 Wiki. Damage over Time (DoT) is damage from an ability or skill that is dealt over a period of time rather than instantly. It will decrease the target's health or barrier protecting its health by a certain amount each second for a set number of seconds.
Impale deals the recorded damage to that target each time it is hit. Impale remains in effect for 8 seconds or until the maximum number of hits is reached. By default, impale lasts for five hits. A target may have multiple impale effects on it at once, all of which deal damage to that target each time it is hit.
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Coward's LegacyCoward's Legacy
The Cataclysm
The Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem
The Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox."
Gemcutter's Promise3Gem
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item
The Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Uncarved GemstoneUncarved GemstoneTrade this in to Siosa inside the Library for a Skill Gem
through Siosa in Ruthless mode.
