Vampire undeath passive explanation?

Jayman1000 · January 2018

The vampire undeath passive gives up to 33% damage mitigation based on missing health when below 50% health. But I am then wondering how much damage mitigation percentage actually is at say 50% health. Does it for example start at 0% damage mitigation at 50% health, and then 16.5% (1/2*33%) dmg mitigations at 25% health?

or... does it give 16.5% dmg mitigation at 50% health ("based on missing health" could be interpreted as when at 50% health half of health is missing, then half of max dmg mitigation from undeath will be appliead = 1/2*33% = 16.5% when at 50% health and 24.75% when at 25% health (3/4*33% = 24.75%)?

Peekachu99 · January 2018

Gives progressively more mitigation as your health decreases under 50%. It’s a bit useless when you’re under 10% (PVP) as any half-witted enemy will be using executes, which have multiplicative bonuses.

Datthaw · January 2018

Yeah the passive sounds awesome but in reality it almost never actually saves you.

starkerealm · January 2018

Yeah, this might sound kinda goofy, but Undeath isn't worth the (almost non-existent) downsides of being in Stage 3. In normal PvE content, it'll soak off some damage and may save you. On Vet or in PvP it does not matter.

EDIT: At full mitigation, if you're a tank, it may be the difference between dying from one light attack or two at full mitigation.

brandonv516 · January 2018

I know I've been saved by this passive many times in PvP. Very noticeable in my opinion. Not sure the mitigation numbers though.

paulsimonps · January 2018

Increases incrementally by 1% per ~1.5% hp lost below 50% hp. Aka you get nothing at 50% and you won't get 33% until you are practically already dead.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/279426/damage-mitigation-explanation-and-list-of-options/p1

Jayman1000 · January 2018

paulsimonps wrote: »

Increases incrementally by 1% per ~1.5% hp lost below 50% hp. Aka you get nothing at 50% and you won't get 33% until you are practically already dead.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/279426/damage-mitigation-explanation-and-list-of-options/p1

Thanks for the confirmation on the mechanic. So 0% mitigation at 100%-50% hp, 16.5% mitigation at 25% hp and 33% mitigation at 0% hp. One would have to have quite a large amount of max HP to really gain something from this then like with 60K max hp you'll get ~11% mitigation at ~20K hp.