How does Maximum Life work in D4

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Maximum Life Effect
Stat Effect
Maximum Life
If you lose all your Life, you die.
Equipment that can have Maximum Life
Helm
Chest Armor
Pants
Ring
Shield

Best Builds To Use with Maximum Life Stat

We have a total of (1) builds that make use of the Maximum Life Stat. You can click/tap any Maximum Life build below to view the complete Build.

Best Unique Weapons and Armor That have Maximum Life

The best unique equipment to use with the Maximum Life stat in D4 is Temerity, which is a Unique Pants.

Temerity
AllUnique Pants
B
Best Synergy
  • Your Potion Also Briefly Grants Movement Speed
  • Potion Charges
  • Potion Drop Rate
  • Lucky Hit: Chance to Heal
  • Healing
  • Max Life
Effects that Heal you beyond 100% Life grant you a Barrier up to [X%] of your Maximum Life that lasts for 30 seconds.
Harlequin Crest
AllUnique Helm
S
Strong Synergy
  • Maximum Life
  • Cooldown Reduction
  • Crafting Material Find
Gain [X%] Damage Reduction. In addition, gain +2 Ranks to all Skills.
Doombringer
AllUnique Sword
C
Strong Synergy
  • Critical Strike Damage
  • Core Skill Damage
  • Damage
  • Lucky Hit: Chance to Heal
  • Maximum Life
Lucky Hit: Up to a 0.7% chance to deal Shadow damage to surrounding enemies and reduce their damage done by 20% for 3 seconds.
The Grandfather
AllUnique Sword
D
Strong Synergy
  • Critical Strike Damage
  • Damage
  • Maximum Life
  • All Stats
  • Ignores Durability Loss
Increases your Critical Strike Damage by [60 - 100%] . The other properties of this weapon can roll higher than normal.
Vasily's Prayer
DruidUnique Helm
?
Strong Synergy
  • Damage While Shapeshifted
  • Lightning Resistance
  • Maximum Life
  • Spirit On Kill
Your Earth Skills are now also Werebear Skills and Fortify you for [X] .
Tempest Roar
DruidUnique Helm
A
Average Synergy
  • Damage While Shapeshifted
  • Poison Resistance
  • Maximum Spirit
  • Life On Kill
Lucky Hit: Storm Skills have up to a [15 - 25%] chance to grant 10 Spirit. Your base Storm Skills are now also Werewolf Skills.
Andariel's Visage
AllUnique Helm
C
Average Synergy
  • All Stats
  • Attack Speed
  • Life Steal
  • Poison Resistance
Lucky Hit: Up to a [10 - 20%] chance to trigger a Poison nova that applies [X] Poisoning damage over 5 seconds to enemies in the area.
Black River
NecromancerUnique Scythe
C
Average Synergy
  • Life On Kill
  • Intelligence
  • Damage to Healthy Enemies
  • Ranks to Fueled by Death
  • Ranks to Corpse Explosion
Corpse Explosion consumes up to 4 additonal Corpses around the initial Corpse, dealing [X%] increased damage and with a [X%] larger radius per additional Corpse.
Blood Artisan's Cuirass
NecromancerUnique Chest Armor
C
Average Synergy
  • Damage for X Seconds After Picking Up a Blood Orb (?)
  • Blood Orb Healing
  • Armor
  • Ranks to Bone Spirit
When you pick up [10 - 5] Blood Orbs, a free Bone Spirit is spawned, dealing bonus damage based on your current Life percent.
Bloodless Scream
NecromancerUnique Scythe
?
Average Synergy
  • Life On Kill
  • Darkness Skill Damage,Damage to Chilled Enemies
  • Damage to Frozen Enemies
  • Cold Resistance
Your Darkness Skills Chill enemies for up to 40% . Lucky Hit: Your Darkness Skills have up to a 100% chance to generate [7 - 10] additional Essence against Frozen targets.
Melted Heart of Selig
AllUnique Amulet
?
Average Synergy
  • Resistance to All Elements
  • All Stats
  • Core Skill Damage
  • Damage While Healthy
  • Resource Regeneration
Gain +100% Maximum Resource. In addition, when you take damage, drain [3 - 6] Resource for every 1% of Life you would have lost instead.
Waxing Gibbous
DruidUnique Axe
?
Average Synergy
  • Damage to Healthy Enemies
  • Critical Strike Damage
  • Damage to Injured Enemies
  • Life On Kill
  • Ranks to Shred
Gain Stealth for 2 seconds when killing enemies with Shred. Breaking Stealth with an attack grants Ambush which gaurantees Critical Strikes for [1.0 - 2.5] seconds.

Best Aspects To Use with Maximum Life

The best aspects to use with the Maximum Life Stat in D4 is Dire Wolf's Aspect, which is a Offensive Aspect and can only be used on Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%) Equipment Slots.

Dire Wolf's Aspect
DruidOffensive
B
Strong Synergy
Grizzly Rage now Shapeshifts you into a Dire Werewolf. As a Dire Werewolf you gain [15-25%] Movement Speed instead of Damage Reduction and [30-50%] Spirit cost reduction bonus. In addition, kills Heal you for 10% of your Maximum Life.
Aspect of Untimely Death
NecromancerOffensive
D
Strong Synergy
Each percent of your Maximum Life you Heal beyond 100% grants you 0.5% bonus Overpower damage on your next Overpowering attack, up to a [20.0-60.0%] bonus.
Aspect of Lethal Dusk
RogueDefensive
?
Strong Synergy
Evading through an enemy infected by your Shadow Imbuement grants Stealth for 4 seconds. Breaking Stealth with an attack grants you [1-5%] Maximum Life on Kill for 6 seconds.
Encased Aspect
SorceressDefensive
?
Strong Synergy
While Deep Freeze is active, you restore [20-30%] of your Maximum Life and Mana per second.
Aspect of Shielding Storm
NecromancerDefensive
A
Average Synergy
Each time that Bone Storm damages an enemy, gain a Barrier equal to [2-5%] of your Base Life for 10 seconds.
Aspect of Engulfing Flames
SorceressOffensive
D
Average Synergy
While enemies are affected by more Damage Over Time than their total Life, you deal [60-80%] increased Burning damage to them.
Aspect of Potent Blood
NecromancerResource
Codex
D
Average Synergy
While at full Life, Blood Orbs grant [10-20] Essence.
Aspect of Stolen Vigor
RogueDefensive
D
Average Synergy
Each stack of the Momentum Key Passive Heals you for [.04-.08] Life per second.
Skinwalker's Aspect
DruidDefensive
Codex
D
Average Synergy
When you use a Shapeshifting Skill that changes your form, gain [.07-.12] Life. If you are at full Life, gain the same amount as Fortify.
Starlight Aspect
AllResource
D
Average Synergy
Gain [10-20] of your Primary Resource for every 25% of your Life that you Heal.
Aspect of Cruel Sustenance
RogueDefensive
?
Average Synergy
Explosions from the Victimize Key Passive Heal you for [X] Life for each enemy damaged, up to a maximum of [X] Life.
Aspect of the Crowded Sage
AllDefensive
?
Average Synergy
You Heal for [X] Life per second for each Close enemy, up to [X] Life per second.

Best Paragons To Use with Maximum Life

The best paragon to use with the Maximum Life stat in D4 is Bone Breaker, which is a Legendary Board Node.

Warbringer
BarbarianLegendary Board
A
Strong Synergy
  • For every 75 Fury you spend, gain 20% of your Maximum Life as Fortify.
Bone Breaker
BarbarianLegendary Board
C
Strong Synergy
  • Overpowers with your Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon Stun enemies for 4 seconds and grant you 25% of your Maximum Life as Fortify.
Icefall
SorceressLegendary Board
C
Strong Synergy
  • Killing a Frozen enemy grants you 15% of your Maximum Life as a Barrier for 5 seconds.
Hulking Monstrosity
NecromancerLegendary Board
D
Strong Synergy
  • Your Golem has 30% increased Maximum Life and deals 40% increased damage.
Survival Instincts
DruidLegendary Board
C
Average Synergy
  • While in Werebear form, you deal 1% increased damage, up to 50%, for every 1% difference in current Life percent between you and the enemy.
Poise
DruidRare Glyph
?
Strong Synergy
  • Description:
    Grants +25 - 125% (5% Per Level) bonus to all Rare nodes within range.
  • Radius Bonus:
    You have a 30% chance when Shapeshifting to gain a Barrier that absorbs 5% of your Maximum Life in damage for 4 seconds.
  • Radius Requirement:
    25 Dexterity
Blood-drinker
NecromancerRare Glyph
C
Strong Synergy
  • Description:
    Grants +30 - 150% (6% Per Level) bonus to all Magic nodes within range.
  • Radius Bonus:
    Blood Orbs Fortify you for 6.7% of your Maximum Life.
  • Radius Requirement:
    40 Intelligence
Golem
NecromancerRare Glyph
D
Strong Synergy
  • Description:
    For every 5 Willpower purchased within range, Golems gain +4 - 20% (0.8% Per Level) increased damage.
  • Radius Bonus:
    Golems gain x25% increased Maximum Life.
  • Radius Requirement:
    25 Willpower

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