I should be dead. Funny bug

[Argarath]

Afterward I popped a heal and continued on my merry way

 

[Daybreak]

Interesting,but how????

 

[Zalvarez0627]

It's an Intervention mechanic. The game doesn't want you to be able to have 1 health and a bunch of mana, then take massive damage and end up fully healed. So, any excess health past "death" is subtracted from your Intervention health. But you also shouldn't die from a single hit with mana remaining, so you end up with this.

Basically, you will ALWAYS survive damage as long as you have Intervention, but if you take too much damage you'll end up here.

I learned this the hard way at level 23 on Iron Man. If you have 0 health but still have mana remaining, intervention won't activate, so you die permanently.

 

[VDX_360]

Is this an aspect of intervention, taking multiple hits with intervention triggering, or another buff wearing off?

 

[Argarath]

I was low on health and mana and got hit hard once by the trap. I guess it was Intervention but the heal was not enough to cover the damage, so I ended up with 0 health 0 mana, but since Intervention occurred I did not die, even though the text said I did (guessing from the explanation of the first reply)

 

[Xen]

That's literally a near-death experience lol

 

[Dalvin Mallory]

Intervention is an awesome skill, sometimes better than Arbenos