Why do people not see the pure defensive power of Petrified Blood?

[Blind]

Deferred damage is one of the strongest effects in any RPG... and this one even gives you some percentile reduction and you can negate the deferral somewhat with life leech.

The only cost is you run half max hp

[Tenzek]

Because dying from one big hit is the most common way to wipe out in PoE, and although you have more effective hit points against small hits, you have fewer against a single big hit.

[Blind]

I have noticed PB is strong, but since I haven't taken it into OHKO town I don't know if the OHKO kills you before the deferral starts. I thought a OHKO would still, technically, take 4 seconds to kill you

[Altaria]

PB is good but you need more life and life recoup to make it worthwhile.

[Samseng Yik]

Never think PB is bad.
But it does nothing against DOT

[Blind]

Originally posted by Samseng Yik:

Never think PB is bad.
But it does nothing against DOT

aside from one of the pantheons, nothing does anything against dot

[Sidian]

Originally posted by Blind:

aside from one of the pantheons, nothing does anything against dot

He means that you are cutting your Life against DoTs in half without any upsides regarding DoTs.

[Altaria]

Fortify mastery has some synergie 10% reduced DoT DMG.
Pantheon as well as life leech.

I think it goes well with stasis prison.

[Rays of Apollo]

This effect means that damage from an attack is dealt over a set time, right?

That would still make big hits dangerous, as the rate of damage needed to satisfy it may still rinse your health.

[Tenzek]

Originally posted by Blind:

I have noticed PB is strong, but since I haven't taken it into OHKO town I don't know if the OHKO kills you before the deferral starts. I thought a OHKO would still, technically, take 4 seconds to kill you

No, that isn't what I mean.

If I hit you for 90 damage and you have 100 life, you survive with 10 life. If we look at that with the petrified blood effect, you have 50 life and the hit is reduced to 54 + the dot component. You died from a hit that wouldn't have killed you without PB.

[Blind]

what does 'increased effect' do to petrified blood anyways?

[Altaria]

Get life recoup, that solves lots of problems that PB has.

[U DON'T NEED TO KNOW MY NAME]

One hit ko spells kills ez and life recoup does not helps

[Samseng Yik]

IMO Petrified Blood combo best with MOM.
1000 damage coming, assuming you don't have ES.

Mana take 300. 700 to HP.
PB convert to 70 per second for seconds, your life take instant chunk of 420.
This is assuming lv 1 of Petrified Blood for simplicity